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04 Friday Dec 2020

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with everyone learning how to connect with family and friends over the last six months or so, my daughter reminded me that we have been doing this for years…

just today, a Facebook memory was of a gathering we had eight years ago… my daughter was in BC, my son-in-law was in northern Alberta, and the rest of us were here…

technology has come a long way since then and there are many ways to connect… the main ones I currently use are Skype, Google Duo and FaceTime… I’ve been using Skype Organize a Conference Call without going through my Skype account, but over the last few weeks going through my account is working much better… I think I need to learn a bit about Zoom…

still, always happy when it works fine…

blackcurrant…

18 Friday Sep 2020

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months ago I ran out of my favourite tea – Twinning Blackcurrant… I was very sad… I went online to see if I could order it direct from the company, but they no longer carried it…

about a month ago my Ottawa son-in-law came across a site in Europe that appeared to have it… I went online and ordered one package as the photo looked slightly different and I didn’t want to get a ton of tea I might not like…

Tuesday a very sad package arrived in the mail in a ginormous plastic bag…

the big plastic bag was an apology from Canada Post regarding the state of the parcel…

thankfully the plastic covering the box of tea was still intact and the tea bags were fine…

I made a pot of tea and it is the right kind;-)…

so happy… I then went back online and ordered 12 boxes… yay…

online…

12 Saturday Oct 2019

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the snow fell for two days… my driveway is covered and I wasn’t sure that I could get out, and then back in…

I needed groceries for Thanksgiving dinner with my grandsons on Monday so yesterday I shopped online at Save-On-Foods…

you pick your items, many from the list of previous items you’ve purchased in the store, choose a delivery time (usually the next day), pay with your credit card and you are done;-)… it costs $10 for this service…

they call you in the two-hour window when they are nearly at your house, bring in the groceries and advise if there have been any substitutions…

then off the driver goes and you get to put away your groceries…

although, I need to work on figuring out how much things like mushrooms and Brussels sprouts weigh in kilograms, lol…

vote…

06 Tuesday Oct 2015

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took this picture first thing of one of the cannas which was blooming… had cut the two spent blooms off when it came into the house on Sunday…

  
stuck the stalks into another pot to let them finish drying so I might be able to plant some seeds in the spring… then I spotted this…

our election is coming up and everyone was supposed to receive a voting card in the mail…

I haven’t received one…

have lived in this house for over forty years… have voted in every election since I was old enough… always had the appropriate documentation for each of those elections…

went online to see if I could figure out what to do in this situation… checked the voters list and I am on it… but couldn’t find a phone number to speak with a live person, or an answer to my question about what to take to the polls to be sure I can vote…

tonight I found this in my mailbox…

  
hope I have read it correctly… planning to vote at the Advance Poll on Friday as I am off, and it is at the Community Club which is just a few blocks from the house… 

will take my ID and go early in case there are any problems…

tonight I took another picture of the same flower…

  
beautiful with the light shining on it…

looking forward to voting and making my voice heard… hope everyone else who is eligible makes use of this right…

souper…

18 Wednesday Feb 2015

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spent the evening gathering the bits and pieces to make tomorrow’s Souper Thursday offering…

saw this recipe on Pinterest and thought it looked like a good possibility…

first time making it and the first time I will do all the cooking at the office in the crockpot…

will be an interesting experiment…

cut up and packaged the various components… had to go online to figure out how to do some of the cutting of ingredients I haven’t used before…

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all ready:-)…