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longtime…

20 Tuesday Dec 2022

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Monday afternoons our longtime group meets…

we used to meet in the evening when we all worked, lol… since we are all retired now, we’ve moved to the afternoon… for some of the pandemic we met online and since the spring we’ve been meeting in the garden… then we moved into the garage for a while…

we moved into the house in the fall… for a number of weeks, I left the front and back doors slightly open and we wore our masks until everyone was sitting down…

now, the doors are closed and we no longer wear masks, but I still bring the coffee into the living room, where we gather;-)…

everyone drinks decaf, except me and my tea…

we often have pistachios and sometimes folks bring other treats… a great time of conversation and sharing…

what a gift these women have been for me…

taxi…

24 Monday Oct 2022

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took my first taxi since before the pandemic…

arranged ahead of time for a pickup to go downtown, and then walked to the Delta to get another one to come home…

had to go in and ask the concierge to call for one… I guess with less people downtown the taxis don’t sit outside the hotels all the time…

wore my mask for both trips and so did they…

macarons…

17 Monday Oct 2022

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today, my BS group gathered in the living room…

we’ve been meeting in the garden but it was only going to 2 degrees Celsius so we decided it was time to come inside…

one person joined via Zoom and had dropped off a lovely treat for us beforehand… boob (for breast cancer awareness month) and regular macarons from Jenna Rae Cakes…

I left the front and back doors open to move fresh air… everyone wore masks until we were all seated…

it was the first time we’ve met in the house since the pandemic began…

felt lovely and odd at the same time, lol…

soon we will all have had the fifth shot which will make us feel a bit more confident about being in a closed space together…

so happy to be getting back to more ‘normal’ times…

oldest…

17 Wednesday Mar 2021

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I’ve been thinking of how much harder this pandemic would be for me without my oldest grandson…

very early on I lent him my car with the agreement that he would do any errands that I needed…

since then, he has fetched and carried numerous items for me… he finds groceries that I can’t get from Save-On-Foods… he collects items I need to keep the fish happy… plants and bird seed have been delivered… and mail sent… he has also brought his brother over to mow and shovel…

on the few occasions that I needed to drive somewhere, he has brought the car for me and then picked it up when I was done…

today he came by with a few hard-to-find items including flowers, and then moved some planters for me…

he collected the summer tires, we visited for a while, planned a time when he will bring the shoveler over, and off he went…

I am blessed;-)…