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burner…

25 Tuesday Feb 2025

Posted by sulis303 in business, food, life, moments, retirement, technology, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, burner, cooking, element, family, moments, mother-in-law, repair, stove, Technology, widow

my favourite, and most used, burner on the stove stopped working all of a sudden…

I called Hameed Appliances, was sent a form to complete, and got an appointment the next day…

Ron, who has been here previously, arrived and had a look… to replace the piece with a new element was going to cost $500, so I am waiting to see if they might have access to a used element…

otherwise, I am going to leave it, thinking of my mother-in-law, who used to cook on a little stove that only had two usable burners… she could produce a meal with 3 vegetables, potatoes, and a roast, without any problem, lol…

we will see what I can do;-)…

lesson…

27 Sunday Jan 2019

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this afternoon I made coleslaw… I used a recipe from a lovely church lady who is long gone… we used to make this recipe when feeding large crowds of people…

since then I have written down the measurements for half and a quarter of the recipe… sometimes I would mess up, using an amount from the full recipe for one ingredient and then maybe half for the next, lol… learned my lesson…

this always reminds me of my mother-in-law... she would make coleslaw and just know the correct combination of dressing ingredients needed to go in for the amount she was making… and it always tasted perfect;-)…

I do sometimes wing it now… and it usually works out, but today I went back to the recipe and put the extra aside for another time…

memories…

filled a large bowl as my grandson was coming for dinner… only to learn he likes the creamy kind, lol…

going to have some every day this week…

geraniums…

16 Saturday Jun 2018

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basket, beloved, big girl pants, flowers, garden, geraniums, mother-in-law, poppies, purple, red, widow

still thinking about those poppies…

when we were walking around the English Garden yesterday these poppies popped out at me…

a few weeks ago, one of the baskets we picked up had geraniums in it amongst the purple and white flowers…

I wasn’t sure I wanted to buy it because I am not fond of the scent of geraniums… my daughter suggested I remove them, but I decided to leave them in the container… a few died, but some have survived…

I’m finding now that the pop of red reminds me of the poppies, which remind me of my beloved… it also reminds me of my mother-in-law who planted geraniums alongside her driveway and overwintered them in the basement each year…

each time I walk by the window I see them from a distance and think of my beloved…

coleslaw…

19 Saturday May 2018

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big girl pants, chocolate, coleslaw, elder, mother-in-law, mug, nap, reading, recipe, Tea, treat, wedding, widow

set the alarm for 4 this morning to watch the Royal Wedding…

got some shortbread cookies from the freezer, almonds and Morden’s dark chocolate wafers… made tea and had it in a mug that had a bunch of birds perched on a branch, looking at something… lovely little treat as I watched…

had a nap later in the day and then spent some time reading in the sunshine…

baked some chicken, mashed cauliflower and coleslaw… it was very tasty…

reminded me of my mother-in-law who made delicious coleslaw, and a lovely elder who taught me to make coleslaw for large groups… I still use the recipe that has to be divided by four to make a reasonable amount for a family, lol…

turn…

03 Sunday Dec 2017

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big girl pants, calendar, Chihuly, December, mother-in-law, superstition, turn, widow

this morning I turned my Chihuly calendar to the last page…

so happy to have next year’s all ready to go… and I know exactly where it is…

can’t hang it yet as my mother-in-law always said that it was bad luck to put up a new calendar before the actual start of the year, lol…

funny how some things stick with you…

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