04 Thursday Jul 2019
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big girl pants, blooming, flowers, garden, growing, mandevilla, open, waiting, widow
the mandevilla is getting close to blooming although it always surprises me how long it takes to actually open…
the photos below start around June 24th and end tonight…
will be interesting to see just when it opens…
06 Thursday Sep 2018
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haven’t had any morning glories bloom for the last week…
so this morning I was happy to see two buds, although they weren’t open… I love how they unfurl from a tightly twisted centre…
I figured that they would open and then close before I got home after work…
was very pleased to discover eight blooms in the garden that were still open…
what a lovely surprise…
13 Monday Nov 2017
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a while ago my oldest asked why I left the cupboard door to the garbage open…
I think it is so I can have access all the time, but it did make me think back to years ago when one of my best friends always had her drawers and cupboard doors open when she was cooking…
seemed dangerous and made me crazy…
so it was a bit humorous that apparently I have started to leave this one door open…
this morning there was a tiny rainbow in the kitchen as I was taking the picture…
have to think about this a bit more and maybe start closing it …
30 Wednesday Nov 2016
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Advent, Advent Elf, big girl pants, boxes, empty, lost, open, suitcase, widow
last night this box of empty Advent boxes left the house to be filled…
my daughter finds things throughout the year and then arranges for the items to get here… this year her good friend was there last week and when she came home she brought all the stuff to fill the boxes… they were in her suitcase, which was lost for two days… thankfully it arrived in town night before last;-)…
tonight the Advent Elf came by with a box of filled boxes…
they look wonderful… it is always such fun to open one each morning…
but box number one is missing;-(… too funny considering the suitcase had been lost too…
the Elf came back and now all of the boxes are here and I have one to open tomorrow morning…
so exciting…
15 Thursday Sep 2016
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big girl pants, different, expectations, open, reminder, steeple, stuck, view, widow
been thinking about different points of view… and how important it is to be open to looking at things from another perspective…
had a few opportunities lately to think about, and look at, things from another angle… it is good to be reminded that there are many ways to see things…
sometimes I can get stuck on one idea, and not be able to see some of the other ways of looking at it…
at lunch today was looking at the steeple from a different view…
same steeple, but different…
a great reminder not to expect others to be a certain way…
nice view…
07 Monday Dec 2015
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big girl pants, change, cleaners, leftovers, open, Shadow, snowflakes, women
had to make two trips out to the car this morning so that I could get everything changed over and in the proper places… now the trunk has the grocery boxes and bags as well as the safety equipment, and the glove compartment contains the registration and maps, and most importantly, there is change available for grocery carts, lol…
Shadow looked pretty good in the parking spot at work…
tonight when I arrived home and came out of the garage I saw this…
the back door was open…
the cleaners had been in the morning and likely took out garbage, but I was a bit nervous to enter… what if someone had actually broken in… yikes…
I called the owner of the business as I went into the house and she stayed on the line while I walked through all three floors to be sure there was no one besides me there…
luckily it was a warm day so nothing froze… basement was fairly cool, though…
had a visit with my amazing friends, and treats…
these are the leftovers that I am going to have to eat over the next little while… yum… only had a small handful of nuts and bolts and stopped at two shortbread cookies…
got a lovely picture of snowflakes on my way up the stairs…
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