spirit…

30 Sunday Nov 2025

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waited till late in the day to fill the stairs with trees and Advent boxes…

should have started earlier because it took a while to get into the spirit, although I did enjoy the Christmas music I put on…

all of the lights worked right off the bat and eventually each box found a home…

the last few ended up by the front door…

the remainder of the forest found its way into the bathroom, the kitchen and onto the dining room table…

starting to feel like the season;-)…

quartet…

21 Friday Jul 2023

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the other night we went to a Candlelight Concert at the Planetarium… fun to get out…

a string quartet played music from Queen as well as a few opera pieces…

it was lovely and we enjoyed it…

we also decided we’d like to attend one of the actual planetarium shows, lol…

earbuds…

13 Friday Aug 2021

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received my new earbuds…

two or three weeks ago my pretty Samsung Earbuds just stopped working… all of a sudden they wouldn’t pair with my phone… of course they were not under warranty… the service department suggested I have them repaired locally but the local people advised they would have to send them away… it was going to cost $55 if they sent them away and I decided not to have them repaired… and it wasn’t clear how much the repair might cost…

I thought about it for quite a while and did a ton of research before deciding on these ones…

I want them mainly for phone calls which meant there weren’t that many options and ones that would be comfortable in my ears…

I finally ordered them on Wednesday, and they were delivered on Friday;-)…

they were easy to pair with my iPhone and music sounds good…

will have to see how they are on phone calls…

wish me luck;-)…

dining…

08 Friday Jan 2021

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spent a lovely hour in the dining room garden recently…

trimmed up, and cut back, the mandevilla and fuchsia… they have both lost most of their leaves but are still alive…

I am hopeful that they will both perk up… the mandevilla looks lovely now…

listened to music and felt such happiness… before you know it, spring will be here…

today I took some photos of the garden, including the blooming orchid…

forty-seven…

24 Thursday Dec 2020

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tonight, as I sit in the living room listening to Christmas music and enjoying the lights, flowers, and tree, I am remembering many Christmas Eve’s that have taken place in this house over the last forty-seven years…

once the girls arrived, our parents came here to celebrate the season…

when the kids were on their own and some had their own children, they came here for years… there were family members sleeping everywhere… had to be careful where you walked to be sure not to tread on anyone…

only in the last few years have we gone to the kids’ place which made it easier for everyone…

so many wonderful memories and fun times…

lift…

10 Thursday Dec 2020

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I’ve been spending a bit more time in the living room, enjoying the lights, reading and listening to music…

sometimes the fish are very noisy… when they are searching for food they toss around the rocks in the bottom of the tank…

these are river rocks, not fish tank gravel, so when they knock them over it produces quite the sound, lol…

it amazes me that they can lift them at all and of course, when I tried to catch them at it, they stopped, lol…

playlist…

07 Monday Dec 2020

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one of my advent treats was an email (31 Days of Gifts) that comes every day with different things in it…

the second day included a Spotify playlist…

I spent a lovely evening sitting in the living room, enjoying the tree lights and listening to the playlist, as I read a novel on my tablet…

the best thing about the list is that it showed me the option of where to play it… previously, I was only able to play on the device in the room where I was… now I can play it anywhere or everywhere…

sounds lovely when it is playing all through the main floor…

technology;-)…