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blessed…

18 Friday Aug 2017

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yay, it’s Friday… seemed like a long week… too funny because I only worked three days, lol…

blessed today with help from my grandson who ran some errands for me and did a few jobs around the house… and he took the car in to be washed… she looked stunning when I got into the parking lot after work…

went out for dim sum for lunch and enjoyed every bite and the great company…

came home to a nearly completed new roof… sadly there aren’t purple shingles available…

supper, made up of last night’s leftovers, was basically ready…

now enjoying some tv…

pretty fine day…

kids…

16 Wednesday Aug 2017

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really impressed with the teenagers we spent time with over the last week…

they were polite, helpful, kind and caring…

not what one always thinks of seventeen year olds…

they had such fun together and with our younger boys… clearly most have younger siblings…

they played with the younger kids, had real conversations with the adults, did dishes, cleaned up, ran errands, paid for supplies, and took turns with the fun activities…

the most impressive thing for me was how they encouraged one another, rather than tease or make fun of… jumping off the rocks was quite stressful for some, as was learning some of the water sports, but they only ever encouraged…

what a lovely group of young people and what a treat to spend time with them…

Nutimik, day five…

15 Tuesday Aug 2017

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our final day of camping…

we woke up at 5 am to the sound of a critter under the camper trying to eat something… it was a skunk and it was trying to devour the chocolate cookies which we had missed putting away along with the marshmallows last night… not sure if we breathed for the thirty minutes it wandered around the campsite…


I got up around 7:30 and spent a quiet time enjoying my tea, reading and thinking of all the great moments over these five days…


once everyone was up, the last meal we cooked on the campfire was chicken and bannock…


packed up the camper, dropped the boat at a friend’s seasonal site and headed home in three vehicles filled with very worn out individuals…

back in the house by 3:30 and busy unpacking and organizing supper and tomorrow’s lunch for work…

had an awesome time and made lots of wonderful memories…

sweetie…

08 Tuesday Aug 2017

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seven years ago today I had surgery to remove my gallbladder… I had already been in the hospital for five weeks with pancreatitis but they had to wait till I was a bit stronger… I do believe that was the most serious illness I’ve dealt with, and the sickest I have ever been…

we had been scheduled to go to BC but had to cancel that trip…

George would come to the hospital every day and he would take a picture of the morning glories which were blooming that day before he left home…

today’s picture reminds me of that sweet gift that he brought me each day…


we only had one pot filled with the morning glories and they had just started to bloom around that time…

every morning, as I hunt for the newest blooms, I think back to those days and how my beloved took those pictures for me…

he was a sweetie…

gardens…

03 Thursday Aug 2017

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had a lovely early morning walk to and around the Gardens at the Park…


first time the pelicans have been around this year when I’ve been on my walks…

the Gardens are lovely right now…


the gardeners were everywhere and the sprinklers were rather a danger… took quite different paths so I didn’t get drenched…


last week I got a shot of this bench with a woman seated on it from the other side of the garden… looks different from this point of view…


the view from our bench… and here’s the bench…


as I left the Gardens the path was beautiful with the dappled light…


great start to the day…

dragonflies…

25 Tuesday Jul 2017

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every morning I am so eager to go out and see which morning glories are blooming…

when I looked out today I couldn’t see any and wondered if the huge thunderstorm in the night had beaten them down, as they are rather delicate… seems if something touches them they will mark very easily…

but, when I headed out on the way to the garage, I found lots…


I can’t get enough of the light that glows from deep within them…

my son-in-law in Cold Lake sent me some shots of a dragonfly tonight after supper… added one I’d taken a few days ago, lol…


dragonflies are so cool and beautiful… and wonderful how they eat the mosquitoes…

so important to take the time to savour the moments in life…

raceday…

23 Sunday Jul 2017

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as we drove out to Rabbit Lake for the Regatta we stopped so I could get a shot of the runway, lol…


reminded me of driving along Ness by the airport…

it was a lovely sunny day, until it wasn’t… all of a sudden these huge dark clouds appeared and the thunder started rolling… 


our guy was at the start line for his first race ever when they announced that everyone had to come off the water…

then we waited to see if the downpour was going to stop… in the club, along with all the boats they had sandwiches, fruit, treats and souvenirs, which we might never have seen without the rain, lol…


all the grandparents stood around under the awning with the mother and son and had a snack…

there was one lighting strike right across the lake which had everyone jump about a foot off the ground… we could smell the ozone… after about 45 minutes the rain stopped and clouds broke up… 

the sky cleared and the races were back on… our boy did very well… he finished his singles… it was a long way… 


then he had to come back to the dock and jump into the boat with his doubles partner and off they went… they got a third place in that race… all in all it was an excellent start to his rowing career…

lots of fun to watch but we did learn that we are going to need binoculars for this sport, lol…

rowing…

22 Saturday Jul 2017

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yesterday, started our morning at the campsite… quick breakfast and my daughter, oldest grandson and I headed to Rabbit Lake, on the outskirts of Kenora… 

it is a lovely little lake that is going to be the site for rowing at the Canada Games over the next few weeks…

we spent a good portion of our day here… waiting for the boats to arrive, watching the kids get them offloaded, and then various practices as they prepared for today’s Tops and Bottoms Regatta…

we headed into town for a bit of the time where we had lunch at the Boathouse, which seemed fitting, lol… while we were there it started to pour… there was thunder, and lightning was flashing… we had to go back and get our boy, but did stop for some chips from the Ye Old Chip truck… I mean, we were in Kenora, lol…

picked up our boy, came back into town and checked into the hotel… our room had a great view of the harbour…

back at Rabbit Lake the sun came out and we actually got to see some rowing… very proud of my grandson as he prepares for his first races…

after practice it was back to town for supper and an early evening…

he went out with his teammates and we had dinner in the Waterside Restaurant which is high above the water and offered stunning views… the food was very tasty…

not sure how many pictures I took, lol…

memory-filled day…

chopping…

21 Friday Jul 2017

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yesterday my grandson picked me up at work and we drove to the lake to meet up with the rest of the kids…

a lovely drive and time to catch up with the oldest…

when we arrived at the campsite folks were starting to prepare dinner… perogies, garlic sausage, onions, mushrooms, corn on the cob, French beans and yellow wax beans…


and, as they nearly always do, cooked over the fire… takes a while, but was delicious…

not sure if the slightly murky looking skies are due to the wildfires in BC… have noticed that the sun is often behind a haze…


it was entertaining to watch the two men in the group as they had fun chopping wood for the fire… 


they are brothers and worked so well together to get the job done, but were clearly enjoying every minute…

family time…

recovery…

19 Wednesday Jul 2017

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some lovely pictures this morning…


flowers make me happy…

yesterday marked five years since my cancer/hernia surgery… I hadn’t been able to lift anything for weeks as the hernia was causing a lot of trouble… for the next six weeks as I was in recovery mode I still wasn’t able to lift anything over two pounds… I spent the summer having friends and family coming over to look after the garden and take care of me…

things are much better now and I am so blessed…

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