24 Saturday Aug 2024
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I have had the cushions for my outdoor chairs for over a year and I love them…
last Sunday I discovered a much simpler way to put them on the chairs, lol…
previously I would open them up and push down the bottom cushion and then make sure to raise the top cushion above it…
the new method puts both cushions on the chair and push it to the back, then raise the top (back) cushion…
so much easier;-)…
too funny, lol…
25 Wednesday Oct 2023
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14 years, bathroom, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, broken, family, fit, grandson, handwritten, Home Depot, medicine cabinet, moments, new, plastic, Rona, search, stock, widow
been having trouble keeping one of the medicine cabinet doors closed for the last few weeks…
I thought it was because the magnet on the mirror was separating from the plastic behind it…
the other morning I looked at it and thought it was no longer level…
at which point I discovered that the plastic where the door attached to the cabinet had broken… it took two of us to remove the broken cabinet…
what a treat to discover my beloved’s handwritten measurements inside the hole🤗…
after measuring the space, it was off to Home Depot to see if we could find something that would fit into the hole in the wall… and of course I needed two, sigh…
we found a cabinet that should work, but the store we were at didn’t have any in stock, so it meant another trip… after trying two other stores it was off to Rona, where we found two of the same cabinet at an even better price;-)…
it has been fourteen years since my beloved installed these cabinets when we redid the bathroom, so I guess it did pretty well, being opened more than ten thousand times, lol… that wasn’t a bad run…
and, just like that we have two new cabinets, although the space inside them is smaller, but they will work fine;-)…
18 Wednesday Jan 2023
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Audubon, big girl pants, birds, blessed, calendar, checking, garden, learning, moments, nature, new, pictures, remember, widow
I’ve had fun checking out the birds on my Audubon calendar each day…
it has been interesting to see birds I don’t know and I also enjoy thinking about when I’ve seen those I already know…
21 Friday Oct 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, camera, data, family, grandson, iPhone, moments, new, photos, purple, Technology, transfer, widow
a few days ago my new iPhone arrived…
my grandson arranged the whole thing and brought over the new phone…
he transferred all the data, made sure everything was working and added a protective screen…
transferring from one phone to another is certainly much easier than the last time I upgraded my phone…
I’ve taken a few pictures and am very impressed with the results…
now I will have to learn what is new and different…
wish me luck🤪
25 Thursday Mar 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, crackers, eggs, food, Instant Pot, moments, new, Oh She Glows, shopping, steamer, widow
been busy in the kitchen…
I finally used the new steamer basket that I ordered from IKEA… it worked beautifully in the Instant Pot to hard boil some eggs…
it is an easy way to cook them and they always turn out great…
also made crackers from the Oh She Glows app on my phone… they are very tasty and do not have any flour in them…
this is the second time I’ve made them and they came out crisper as I thinned them out more than the first time…
01 Wednesday Jan 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, family, Manitoba plumber, memories, moments, nap, new, New Year's Eve, Newfoundland, Ottawa, photo shoot, snow, widow
had a very eventful last day with my son-in-law’s mom, lol…
started with a 7 am call to have the plumber come out to fix an issue in the bathroom… this also meant we were up early…
meanwhile my son-in-law was outside shovelling snow while the neighbour snowblowed both driveways…
then we got dressed in our finery for a photo shoot by one of my daughter’s friends…
we worked from a list to be sure that we covered every combination we could think of… wore two different outfits, had pictures of various combinations of people taken outside and inside and had lots of laughs throughout…
a visit with the photographer, breakfast for lunch, and then I built a tiny snow person before enjoying a wonderful walk around the block in the falling snow…
many pictures later I returned, just in time to join the nap club;-)…
we had appies, homemade and store bought crackers and toasted the new year – at 10:30, which was New Year’s in Newfoundland, where my son-in-law’s mom is from…
we watched a movie, recognized the New Year in Ottawa and went to bed… we did not stay up for the Manitoba time, lol…
29 Friday Nov 2019
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planning to “do” Advent differently this year…
have decided to spend time each morning choosing something to be grateful for…
and will put aside money to donate to an organization, not sure which one just yet…
I did get a parcel in the mail that I can open on December 1st…
lots of new things…
21 Thursday Mar 2019
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tonight I am trying out a different tea…
not really loving the one that I’m drinking at work…
this is Twinings Chai… enjoyable but not sure if I will enjoy drinking it all day long…
but I am certainly liking it right now;-)…
will keep you posted…
30 Monday Apr 2018
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beauty, big girl pants, car, dealership, learn, lease, neighbour, new, now, process, safety, Shadow, stuff, tires, widow
today I got my new car…
Shadow was traded in and I got a 2018 model tonight… this time I bought the car rather than lease it… I am most excited about the heated steering wheel although when my grandson takes it over, down the road, he will likely appreciate the various safety features… the car will keep you inside the lines on the road and match the speed of the car ahead of you on the highway… pretty cool…
was a bit of a process to get the tires into the car to take with me, lol… happily my neighbour was out and about and was able to come over and help me get them loaded…
I haven’t decided on a name for this new vehicle just yet…
took everything out of the various storage places and even remembered to remove the garage door opener, lol…
took a final picture of Shadow as she sat outside the doors of the dealership… it was very cold as I walked to and from the insurance company… wasn’t thinking I’d be outside for so long… eventually got the keys and met the new vehicle in my life… they even put a big bow on her…
she’s a beauty… now I just have to learn all the new stuff…
09 Monday Apr 2018
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a few weeks ago I picked up some new knives… they are a bit heavier that the old ones… put them up onto the IKEA magnet beside the stove…
the first day I cut myself as one slid down the magnet and I caught it…
and a few days ago, the same one slid down and landed on the stove…
I was so happy to see that the glass top of the stove didn’t crack…
but then I realized that the end of the knife put two chips in the porcelain…
every time I look at the stove I wonder what is on it, before remembering that these are the chips, lol…
going to have to have someone come and fill them up…
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