27 Sunday Jun 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, book, flowers, garden, moments, moving, nature, pond, purple, retirement, shade, sun, widow
I’ve spent most of the last week in the garden…
I have watered the grass and the plants and even done a bit of deadheading and weeding…
watched birds, bunnies, baby squirrels, and the goldfish…
and I have read at least one novel a day as I move around the garden to find shade…
retirement is quite a lovely thing;-)…
15 Sunday Nov 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, fireplace channel, memories, moments, moving, pictures, reindeer, sleighs, trees, widow
today I decided to reorganize the den and put out a few Christmas decorations…
I don’t think we have ever had any decorations there, so it was a clean slate and I had to decide which pieces to use…
I started by moving the couch forward and putting the massage table behind it… this sounds simple, but it involved climbing under counters, unplugging cords and cables, rolling up the rug, moving furniture into the hall and then returning it all…
this has helped keep the cold air from reaching the spot where I sit, lol… and given me a spot to add a tree…
then I brought up some of the trees, sleighs and reindeer… as I find other reindeer I will add a few more into the space…
once I was done (for now) I decided to take a few photos… spent a bit of time finding the Fireplace channel on the tv… I could almost smell the smoke as I listened to the crackling;-)…
certainly missing my decorating buddies…
10 Friday Jul 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, caterpillars, chrysalis, eggs, garden, grandson, moments, monarch, moving, nature, searching, widow
my caterpillars are on the move…
there is only one small sized one left on the milkweed… and I have found two new eggs so that is exciting…
my grandson spotted a caterpillar crawling in the lily of the valley, so I am going to lay down on the deck and see if I can find some in their chrysalis stage…
spent quite some time this morning laying on a lounge cushion and lifting leaves in the lily of the valley searching…
eventually I found one chrysalis… I also marked the leaf so I can spot it again…
will need to keep looking…
16 Tuesday Apr 2019
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beach, big girl pants, flowers, garden, Maui day six, moving, pictures, rocks, turtles, widow
today was moving day…
we moved from the Maui Beach Hotel to the Gingerbread House Airbnb…
and we went to Ho’okipa Beach Park and saw green sea turtles… we were at this park a few days back but didn’t notice the turtles…
it is easy to think they are rocks on the beach, lol… they are protected and the area around them is blocked off so you can’t get too close, but I got a few good shots with my camera… they move very slowly but leave a serious trail in the sand… watching them move when they are on the beach is quite different from their arrival as they surf onto the sand…
06 Monday Mar 2017
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bedroom, big girl pants, box, enjoyment, flowers, living room, moving, office, widow
so I’ve been moving the flowers around a lot…
when I first opened them, I had them on the dining room table…
then they moved to the living room… I spent time there reading…
when I went upstairs to the bedroom they went along with me… I’ve really enjoyed them wherever I’ve been…
this morning I boxed them up and took them to the office… they smelled delicious and looked wonderful all day long… my colleagues enjoyed them too…
then at the end of the day, I put them back in the box and brought them home again…
they were in the living room for a while but are now here with me in the bedroom…
wanting to get as much enjoyment out of them as possible…
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