06 Thursday Apr 2023
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aquasize, big girl pants, blessed, boots, feet, moments, nature, sandals, shovelling, snow, Spring, weather, widow, wore
this week we went to aquasize on Tuesday…
this is what I wore on my feet…
first time this year;-)… when I worked I wore sandals year round, but now they come out in the Spring and are around until the first snow…
on Wednesday, I stepped outside into this…
but it was back to my boots as I shovelled the sidewalk…
04 Tuesday Apr 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, box, camera, found, Freebird, garden, lost, moments, nature, Technology, widow, wifi, wifi camera, window
been laughing for a few days… not long ago I was searching for the box that the Freebird camera came in as we were having trouble reconnecting it to the wifi…
I always keep the boxes of any technology in the Computer Room, even though I get teased about it… so, it was really frustrating when I couldn’t find the box…
so, looked out the window in the den, which I have done every day, and realized the box was under the camera that looks into the garden, lol…
I knew I hadn’t thrown it out…
02 Sunday Apr 2023
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Assiniboine Park, big girl pants, blessed, breakfast, canopy, Diversity Gardens, exercise, food, frozen, garden, glove-free, ice, moments, nature, Park Cafe, photos, snow, trees, walk, weather, widow
on Thursday we walked instead of going to aquasize…
we had breakfast at the Park Cafe where we waited a few moments before getting our table…
I had falafel eggs Benedict without the English muffin and it was very tasty…
after that, we drove over and walked around the outside of the Diversity Gardens on the road which was clear of snow and ice… we went through the Gardens as well where most of the paths were snow free… it was cold, but basically the only frozen things were our fingers, lol… particularly when I was glove-free taking photos…
we enjoyed our half hour walk and are looking forward to more such walks as the weather improves;-)…
29 Wednesday Mar 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, grow-light, growing, light, moments, nature, planting, plants, seedlings, shopping, Spring, widow
been working on the seedling project… this is interesting because I had decided not to start any this year, lol…
not long ago I picked up a grow-light and finally got it up in the den…
for the last few weeks I’ve been collecting toilet paper rolls and cutting them down to be seed containers…
spent time putting them in the bins to keep them together, and filling them with soil…
next will be wetting them down so they will be ready for seeds in a week or so…
getting excited for spring and time in the garden…
28 Tuesday Mar 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, climbing, mandevilla, moments, nature, plant, widow, winding
noticed the other day that the mandevilla has been sprouting new leaves at the top… must be sensing spring…
and they have started winding up the line that the pictures hang from…
took some time on Sunday to climb up and unravel the pieces and get them wound around the obelisk…
going to have to keep a closer eye on it to be sure it doesn’t do that again…
would have been a disaster if I had turned it within noticing, lol…
24 Friday Mar 2023
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abalone, big girl pants, blessed, collection, lost, memories, Mexico, moments, nature, pictures, remembering, seashells, shells, store, widow
came across this picture from a trip to Mexico in 2017…
I have loved and collected seashells since I was given an abalone shell when I was young…
this store was amazing;-)…
I have lost the main part of my collection… this is a very old picture from when I was a teenager…
I think these shells may have ended up in the garbage years ago;-(…
now I fill the drawers with a collection of more recently purchased pieces…
it was fun to remember the store and my collection…
23 Thursday Mar 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, computer, deleting, flowers, garden, moments, Mylio, nature, photos, pictures, remembering, Technology, widow
after some issues with the computer upstairs, it finally connected to the internet so I was able to work on the Mylio photo program I’d purchased a few months ago…
at last, after trying for a long time, it was able to delete duplicates pictures in my computer and laptop… I knew there were a lot and of the 192,000 images, it deleted 98,543…
it took hours, but the process has now been completed…
although, it found a whole bunch more photos… yikes…
going to need to spend some time deleting some of the multiples of various shots…
I am getting better at deleting excess shots right after I take them;-)…
21 Tuesday Mar 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, deck, garden, layers, melting, moments, nature, path, shovelled, snow, solar motion sensor, weather, widow
shovelled a path across the upper deck on Sunday morning… that way I was able to adjust the solar motion sensor… the squirrels had tipped it down on their trips back and forth…
it has been many, many, weeks since the deck had been shovelled… and in that time, the sun has frozen a number of layers so it was a bit difficult to get it cleared…
later in the afternoon I noticed that a lot of the remaining snow where I shovelled had melted away… so I made another pass…
this time I left a bit of snow to melt there…
my photos suggest that it looked like this in March of 2021… hard to believe, lol…
20 Monday Mar 2023
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big girl pants, bins, bird feeder, blessed, fill, garden, hot tub, lane, moments, nature, Spring, suet, top up, water, weather, widow
on Saturday I went out to top up the hot tub…
the weather app was suggesting it was -21 out, but the sun was shining and there wasn’t any wind in the garden…
was able to slide the one side open without taking it right off… worked fine…
while the water was running, I brought in the recycling bin from the lane…
and I found a suet feeder in the garage and put a frozen block of homemade suet out in the front yard…
nice to be outdoors for a little while… Spring is coming…
19 Sunday Mar 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, Blue Morpho, butterflies, elusive, garden, happy, moments, nature, orange, photos, Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden, sun, The Leaf, treat, walk, widow
had a fun time in the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden at The Leaf on Thursday… it wasn’t too cold outside and bright so there was lots of activity…
a fair number of people were in the space and there were many butterflies…
apparently I was enamoured with the orange ones, lol…
this little one sat and offered different poses;-)…
and, of course, I tried to catch the elusive Blue Morpho… there were quite a few of them, but what makes it elusive is that you need to catch it in flight to capture the blue colour, lol… but I did get a partial shot;-)…
at least you can see some of the blue…
spending time in this space sure does make me happy;-)…
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