07 Tuesday Dec 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, cold, friends, moments, moon, nature, night sky, photos, sky, Venus, weather, widow
last night a friend called and suggested I check out the moon…
it was a sliver in the sky with a very bright Venus above it…
I dug out the tripod, which was deep in a closet, and headed to the front step… even though it was cold, I took a few minutes and got some good photos…
so happy to have received that call;-)…
25 Thursday Nov 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, hot tub, moments, moon, moonrise, nature, relaxing, trees, weather, widow
last night I went out for a hot tub… I hadn’t had one for quite a while…
although cold, it was still, quiet, the sky was clear, a few stars were visible and for the first time ever, I watched the moon rise behind the cedar trees at the back of the garden… not sure if it was the time or the place the moon was in the sky…
the light moved from area to area so all I ever saw was a tiny spot through the branches… it was amazing…
and then I had the greatest sleep…
I had forgotten how relaxing my time in the tub is;-)…
20 Wednesday Oct 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, hills, moments, moon, nature, text, toboggan hill, trees, view, walk, widow
got a call yesterday to check out the moon…
checked from every place in the house and garden, but it was too low for me to see…
by the end of the call I could see it above the trees, but it had returned to a normal view…
tonight I got a text suggesting I check it out again…
I put on my jacket and walked down to the toboggan hills at the end of the street, but still couldn’t see it, lol…
there is just no way to see the moon from here when it is on the horizon…
but, I had a nice little walk and got in the last of my steps… even though the current temperature is -2° Celsius…
12 Saturday Jun 2021
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big girl pants, functioning, Geeni, moments, moon, pictures, router, SnapBridge, Technology, widow
Thursday was a disaster technology wise…
I was wondering if the power had gone off during the night, but the dishwasher, which usually tells me with a big PF, didn’t display that…
my Nikon wouldn’t connect to my phone… no matter what I did, sigh…
my Geeni cameras, on the garage and in two rooms to look out the front and into the garden, would not work… I tried the usual unplug and replug technique, which had no effect…
my smart home plugs weren’t functioning either and none of the usual solutions worked…
someone suggested the new moon was the issue…
so I gave up on technology for the day, hoping a miracle would happen and everything would work on Friday;-)…
of course that didn’t happen… I went downstairs and unplugged the router, waited a bit and plugged it back in…
then there is the patience factor as it takes a while for all the little lights to light up and get happily blinking….
that didn’t fix everything, so I went upstairs and did the same with the second router…
and… finally everything was working… shhhh…
04 Monday May 2020
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, feeder, garden, moments, moon, number, take the time, widow
saw a lovely view of the moon the other day while I was bird watching in the garden…
saw a number of birds… juncos, white throated sparrows, flickers and nuthatches…
09 Thursday Jan 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, Christmas, family, happy, hot tub, memories, moments, moon, nature, pictures, spa, treat, vacation, widow
for my last full day in Ottawa, we went to Nordik Spa in Chelsea… it is the parent of Thermea, where I was, just days ago…
but it is so much bigger… there are whole sections for quiet activities, as well as silent ones… every time I go they have added something new… this time it was Quonset hut saunas… the light reflecting on the ceiling was gorgeous…
we started in one of the warm glass beds and moved to warm pools, saunas, hot pools, had scrubs, and sat around fires in huts…
we drank tons of water and had a delicious lunch… we chatted with strangers, just ourselves, and we spent time in silence…
they don’t allow photos on site so these are a few I took: leaving home as the snow fell, the view as we stood in line to get our bracelets, and a picture my daughter took as we were leaving…
it was a wonderful relaxing and rejuvenating day, and a great way to end my visit…
we drove home in the dark, after watching the moon rise from various pools, and had a simple supper before all three of us watched a movie…
we didn’t want to go to bed because she had to work the next day and I would be packing and flying home;-(…
16 Tuesday Jul 2019
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big girl pants, camera, crisp, feeder, finch, friends, full moon, garden, moon, photos, purple, purple finch, shutter, widow
last night met with my friends on the deck… although the temperature was in the 30s, there was a gentle breeze blowing which made us very comfortable…
the purple finch family were back at the bird feeder, and chased off a squirrel…
we watched a huge yellow moon rising while we visited;-)… I didn’t get any photos, just enjoyed the view…
later in the evening I spent some time back on the deck with my camera and tripod getting some pictures of the nearly full moon…
I am always amazed at how quickly the moon moves when you are taking pictures…
after all was said and done, this is my favourite photo…
my new camera is supposed to let me use my phone to click the shutter, but for some reason it just won’t work… hoping to find a way to get that option working and maybe take crisper pics…
20 Wednesday Mar 2019
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beloved, big girl pants, footwork, halfway, hose, hot tub, moments, moon, splash, warm, water, widow
hadn’t been in the hot tub for weeks… Sunday it was warm and I headed out… when I opened the cover I discovered that the water was only about halfway up the side… it was at the correct temperature so I got in and sat on the floor so that I was mostly under water…
then the jets came on and I got splashed… a lot… didn’t stay in too long after that…
dried off and figured out how to get water into it… had to do some fancy footwork to get the vent open so I could run the hose through it…
last night I was out for a hot tub under the nearly full moon… so nice… might have heard some geese…
what a treat to be back there…
01 Friday Mar 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, light, moments, moon, pillar, pink sky, sky-watching, spectacular, sunrise, weather, widow
woke up early this morning and enjoyed some lovely sky-watching…
saw the most interesting light pillar… not long ago many photographers in the province had noted multiple columns in the sky, so I was excited to have spotted it…
the moon was visible out my bedroom window… and then there was a lovely sunrise…
spectacular way to start the day…
21 Thursday Feb 2019
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big girl pants, camera, full moon, headphones, jiggle, moon, photos, treadmill, widow
this morning, rather than spend fifteen minutes on the treadmill, I had a lovely time taking photos of the moon…
although I used my tripod, next time I will use my headphones to take the photos so that the camera doesn’t jiggle…
still learning what this camera can do;-)…
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