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Amaluna…

29 Sunday Sep 2019

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last night I had dinner with a trio of special women, two of whom I just met, lol…

I had soup and five mini crab cakes with roasted garlic mayo, apple salad and mixed greens… very tasty… everyone else had scallops…

after a relaxing meal we travelled to the Cirque du Soleil tent on Kenaston to see Amaluna…

it was excellent… I’m always amazed at the flexibility of the performers and what they can make their bodies do… it was also fun to see a performance under the big top, which reminded me again of my first time at Cirque du Soleil in Montreal many years ago;-)…

a wonderful treat…

cane…

21 Saturday Sep 2019

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been thinking a lot of our dear friend Margaret…

she was my parents’ neighbour and our good friend since I was about fifteen…

I remember our Chinese food parties on payday Fridays… my beloved and I would go over and mom and dad would come from next door and we would have a delicious dinner…

she enjoyed the girls when they came along and loved spending time with them…

the cane I am using belonged to her…

I can remember saying to her later in her life “you have to put the cane on the ground, not just carry it”…

lovely memories…

2500…

19 Thursday Sep 2019

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today marks my 2,500th blog post…

seems like an amazing accomplishment for me…

hard to believe that on December 1st, 2012, I started writing this blog so that I could share about the changes to my life and the things I’ve had to do following the death of my beloved…

there was such a learning curve about all the issues I have had to deal with as a widow…

it has morphed into more of a daily journal of my life and what I see around me…

it is also hard to realize that my beloved has been gone for 7 1/2 years – that’s 90 months – 2,751 days… an instant… forever…

although I am truly blessed, I sure do miss him…

riding…

08 Sunday Sep 2019

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been enjoying some show jumping on TV from Spruce Meadows…

beautiful horses and quite amazing riding…

reminded me of my wonderful sister-in-law who came for a visit last weekend… she’s been recovering from a riding accident in June…

it was lovely to have her in the garden…

glories…

07 Saturday Sep 2019

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I am over-the-moon with excitement…

some time ago I realized that I hadn’t planted any morning glories and was very sad because I really love the flowers… the inner light is mesmerizing…

recently I realized that some seeds from last summer had sprouted in a large container of soil that was sitting under the deck… they hadn’t had any water or sunlight but were growing…

I moved the pot out into the sun and made sure to put water in it… and watched it every day…

a week ago I saw what looked to be buds and I’ve examined them each day to see what would happen… since then we’ve had quite a bit of rain, overcast skies, and cooler temperatures, so I’ve been worried they wouldn’t bloom…

but… this is what happened…

I spent extra time in the garden today sitting and enjoying the purple flowers…

I am in my happy place… flowers really do make me happy;-)…

portions…

06 Friday Sep 2019

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yesterday we got our weekly portions of our CSA box…

four of us share one and it works perfectly as a couple of us only feed ourselves, lol…

my pile, after a colleague and I divvied it up, included a leek, an ear of corn, a large tomato, potatoes and a bulb of garlic…

for supper I had the corn and tomato… when I was a kid this would often be a supper once harvest season arrived, although I think we also had bread and butter…

reminds me of my mom and dad;-)…

I did add some beautiful shrimp (and some of the garlic) to the menu…

yum…

sparse…

03 Tuesday Sep 2019

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got some shots of flowers and birds in the garden…

sadly it seems that the flowers are getting a bit more sparse… temperatures are falling and the light is receding bit by bit…

also got a few photos of the chickadees as they were flitting back and forth to the feeder… they move so fast that I am always thrilled when I get a shot…

took these with my actual camera…

wondering when I need to bring in the Japanese Maple and the hibiscus… if I wait too long they get rather grumpy and lose all their leaves, lol…

hands-on…

30 Friday Aug 2019

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our last day of camping was sunny but windy…

after a hike along the beach the decision was made not to take the boat out… the whitecaps were big…

got some great photos along the way…

so, we packed up and headed toward home… we stopped at Seven Sisters Falls on the way and had a lovely wander along the river…

beautiful scenery… a reminder of lovely visits that my beloved and I took to this spot… it was fun for the boys to see it for the first time…

while we were there the boys spotted many frogs… made me giggle because I often take photos of frogs… they use a much more hands-on approach…

fawn…

26 Monday Aug 2019

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so far we’ve seen a fawn, frogs, geese and a pileated woodpecker… and we’ve only been here since noon;-)…

we’ve hiked around the campground and taken a few photos from the bridge that is usually in my pictures…

we’ve fished, or more precisely, practised casting, lol…

and are currently sitting around a campfire waiting for it to die down so we can cook hotdogs for our supper…

why is it that hotdogs taste so delicious when cooked over a fire…

pretty fine day considering we were led to believe it was going to rain all day…

tenacity…

24 Saturday Aug 2019

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rather thrilled when I realized that my container filled with extra soil was growing morning glories;-)…

this pot was under the deck and wasn’t getting any water, so they have really toughed it out…

I pulled it out and gave it some water… might even move it up onto the deck so it gets more sunlight…

not sure if they will end up blooming, but I am hopeful…

just a couple of days ago I had a memory on Facebook showing one of my previous year’s blooms…

tenacity…