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walking…

14 Sunday Apr 2024

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Friday morning I put on my runners and went for a walk… first time in months as I’ve been worried about snow and ice…

I also took a book to drop at the Little Library on the next street…

I didn’t take my usual path as I wanted to collect Poké balls while I was out… went up to Portage, down the next street and then detoured past an area that had lots of Pokéstops and collected various items along the way… finished along another main drag until I was back at my street…

might do that again as I continue to walk further each time I go out…

interesting that I didn’t take a single photo, lol…

nice to be checking out the neighbourhood again and looking forward to getting to the Park soon;-)…

cronies…

01 Monday Apr 2024

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what a lovely springish day…

this morning I spent time reading on the deck, in the sunshine… had a blanket and jacket on, but didn’t need gloves…

then a gathering with my cronies… even got a photo of the group with all the snacks… besides the mini eggs, pistachios, almonds, candy hearts, and chocolate mango pieces, hot cross buns and chocolate vanilla pinwheel cookies arrived with the crew;-)…

after everyone left, I enjoyed more time in the sunshine reading in the living room…

sunlight and warm temperatures… and it is supposed to be warm and sunny all week;-)… woohoo…

skeins…

12 Tuesday Mar 2024

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what a delightful time I had yesterday…

spent an hour and a half on the deck, reading in the glorious sunshine…

started out with a blanket and my winter jacket, but eventually put away the blanket and changed to my spring jacket… woohoo…

while I was out there I heard at least two skeins of geese fly by, although I never did see any of them, lol…

spent a few hours with my Monday buddies, read in the living room, and napped;-)…

acclimatize…

31 Wednesday May 2023

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so far the fuchsia, mandevilla, Japanese Maple and most recently, the hibiscus, have made it outside…

the Maple went behind the waterfall and the others have moved into the shade for a few days to acclimatize to the heat and sun;-)… the mandevilla kept getting blown over so it is currently being propped up with chairs…

there is a lot more space in the living and dining rooms, lol…

plastic…

19 Saturday Nov 2022

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was out for the first full sidewalk shovel of the year on Thursday…

last week I did the very front portion of the sidewalk closest to the road, lol… but the shovel I used was not good… it was heavy and the snow clung to the metal…

we went to Canadian Tire and checked out all the options… finally I chose this plastic one…

it worked well and as there wasn’t much snow on the ground it didn’t take too long…

a bit later in the day, I shovelled to the back lane so that the garbage bin could go out;-)…

and then the snow started again, lol…

big quiet flakes;-)…

drove…

30 Friday Apr 2021

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cannot remember the last time I walked outside…

I drove to my appointment and giggled as I realized I hadn’t driven since September or October… haven’t forgotten how to drive, lol…

I always park the car a good distance from the clinic so I can get steps in… today I came across a bunny on my walk…

after I got home my grandson rode his bike over to pick the car back up… while he was here he played with the dog next door for a few minutes…

it has been close to a year since he has had the car… crazy…

avocado…

28 Saturday Mar 2020

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had a wonderful day outside yesterday…

topped up the hot tub and added chemicals to it…

found my gardening gloves and planted an avocado…

although it is still messy on the deck, I sat in the sun and read for a while…

noticed that there is actually water in the pond;-)…

Spring is really coming, yay…

shells…

19 Thursday Jul 2018

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this morning I put all the shells that my kids brought home from their trip to the East coast on the table outside to dry in the sun…

they have been soaking in soapy water for a few days to clean them and get rid of the fishy smell…

when I arrived home they were rather wet from the afternoon rainfall…

I was thinking they would have dried out and been cleansed by the sun…

right now it is pouring out and I am hoping that the shells don’t blow away in the storm…

wish me luck;-)…

trees…

06 Thursday Jul 2017

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tonight I enjoyed a delightful bit of chocolate… Brookside Dark Chocolate Tart Cherry Crisp with pomegranate flavour… might just take longer to say the name than it did to eat it, lol… 
it has a very cool tree on it…

just minutes after that my daughter sent me a picture of some screen printing she did at a class tonight…

another tree… how cool is that…

the really funny thing is that this was the picture I had already prepared to post tonight…

it is of two of my colleagues sitting in the sun for a few minutes over lunch yesterday… we try to get outside for at least a few minutes on sunny days…

the whole serendipitous thing is amazing… great way to start my weekend;-)…

branta…

02 Sunday Apr 2017

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so, today it was all about the geese… and a few ducks… found the Latin name for them – branta – as I was doing some research…

wrote about my mom’s drawing of a goose a while back…

early this morning I was out in the hot tub and watched hundreds of them flying overhead…

took my first walk since the fall to Assiniboine Park and wandered around the English and Leo Mol Gardens…

lovely day although a bit windy, and I was very happy to be outside walking… the sidewalks were all clear and dry…as I was crossing the walking bridge by the Park I caught these geese along the riverbank… 

as I looked from the Boy with the Boot to the flag on the Pavilion, a few more were walking on the ice at the Riley Family Duck Pond…

there was open water as well as ice, lol…

on the tour of the Gardens I could hear the geese honking as they flew over and talking to one another in the river…

before crossing the bridge to come home took this picture of a pair… one was guarding while the other was eating…

they are so majestic and beautiful… and their honking still makes me stop and look up, wherever I am… 

too bad about all the fertilizer they leave behind…