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fields…

16 Wednesday Jul 2025

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this morning we drove to Miss Millie’s Flower Farm and had a lovely time in the fields…

my adventure buddy gathered flowers, and I gathered photographs with my Nikon… great fun for both of us…

of the 125 photos I took, I was very pleased with about 75…

the weather was perfect, overcast and cool, and there were few bugs… we had been there in August of 2022 and the mosquitoes had been voracious at that time…

the fields were not as far along due to the weather but it is a beautiful place to spend time in… so happy I remembered that taking pictures was more fun for me than gathering flowers;-)… and nice to get the camera out for a change;-)…

I also brought home some fresh eggs and a new tea mug (Sugar & Spice Pottery);-)…

mug…

31 Friday Jan 2025

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had a bit of a giggle the other day…

as I pulled out my newest mug in the morning – the chickadees – I looked up at the kitchen display and saw that it was showing a photo of the first time I took a photo of the mug;-)…

I particularly enjoy the fact that this mug shows two chickadees, one on each side so that I can see the bird, even as a leftie;-)…

seemed a bit serendipitous…

McIntosh…

25 Friday Oct 2024

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a few weeks ago one of my McIntosh mugs was broken as we met in the garden for our weekly gathering… I’m sure it had nothing to do with the table I had put on a slant, lol…

we really enjoyed the opportunity to be outside, as nice warm days are getting few and far between…

after much searching online, I ordered a chickadee mug in my favourite shape…

it arrived today and I was pleased to see that it will look nice when I hold it…

most mugs only have the design visible for right handed people…

labelled…

03 Sunday Dec 2023

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I was happy to have my first cup of tea in one of the Christmas mugs last Friday…

for a few years I couldn’t find them as they had been put away carefully in a closet that was packed overly full…

when I found them a while back, I was careful to put them in a location which I labelled so I couldn’t miss them, lol…

the holiday season has clearly arrived…

thermos…

15 Friday Nov 2019

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the other day I took the lid off the thermos, after the tea had steeped, to take out the tea bag…

I accidentally dropped the lid into the mug, waiting to be filled, that was beside it…

fell right into it and I wasn’t worried…

when I tried to extricate it from the mug it would not release…

I worked away at it for fifteen minutes before it finally came out…

phew…

bowl…

12 Monday Aug 2019

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picked up the cutest bowl a few days ago to use at work…

it will replace one that I had previously, but which got chipped…

today I took it to the office and had a salad in it… I think it is going to be the perfect size…

we’ve talked about how coffee or tea always tastes best from a particular mug or cup… I have a little pottery cup for water and a special mug that I have for my tea…

silly, but true, things do taste better out of certain containers…

purple-y…

08 Tuesday Jan 2019

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purple-y kind of day…

a few days ago I had a nice pedicure with my daughter and most of the cost was covered by a points program so that was a treat…

later on we stopped at Polo Park and I was able to get my cute Purdys mug replaced…

the one I had before said “I believe in chocolate for breakfast” (which is something my eldest daughter says often) but this new one has less gold on it and the purple paint feels a bit thicker, so maybe it won’t flake off like the first one did… the salesperson said she had this particular mug and hadn’t had any problems with it…

pretty purple-y day…

coleslaw…

19 Saturday May 2018

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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…

reflect…

10 Wednesday Jan 2018

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on Monday my BS buddies were over and we were catching up on our recent activities…

everyone drinks decaf coffee while I have tea…

I had my new mugs out and one friend was using the snowflake one…

it looks cool in the light and when it is full you can see the liquid through it…

I took this photo the other day of the light reflected in my tea…

made me reflect on how blessed I am with wonderful friends and so many treasures in my life;-)…

lefties…

26 Sunday Nov 2017

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on Saturday I bought a cream and sugar bowl set at the craft show we went to…

they are exactly what I’ve been looking for… a couple of years ago I broke a piece off the one I’ve had for years, and have been looking ever since…

I also picked up a mug and asked the woman selling the pottery if they had any mugs for lefties…

she laughed because her husband, the potter, is also left-handed… she does the glazing and the colours were excellent, particularly as purple is very difficult to produce…

they do make them, but didn’t have this particular mug with them…

top left shows what I see when holding the mug… top right shows what others see… and the bottom shows how I’ve had to turn the lid around on the sugar bowl so that I can open it easily, as the little knob is also designed for a right handed person to open…

the funny thing is that George and I were left-handed but both of the girls are right-handed and all of my grandkids are right-handed as well… we had really hoped for someone we could share some of the things we have learned over time…

oh well, much simpler for them…