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15 Sunday Dec 2024

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my goodness, we went to Costco on Friday morning…

the parking seemed fairly full but we got a spot after only a few minutes…

when we got into the store it seemed busy, but just a little more than usual…

then we went down the first few rows and had a bit of trouble getting around the middle section as carts were lined up, but that is fairly usual that close to the checkout lines…

but then we discovered that the line to the checkout area went all the way to the very back of the store, and there were two lines!

it became easier to return to where we had begun in each row rather than attempt to make it through and around the line, lol…

what was most amazing was that not a single person – staff or shopper, grumbled or made negative comments…

once we were in the line, it moved along quickly and efficiently… we were out of the store in a short time…

and I did manage to get the two items which my housemate had requested, lol…

allée…

30 Wednesday Aug 2023

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allée, Assiniboine Park, benches, big girl pants, blessed, family, flowers, grandson, happy, hot, long walk, moments, nature, path, people, plants, Pokémon, pond, sunny, Technology, water lilies, weather, widow

on Sunday we went for a walk around Assiniboine Park to catch Pokémon… apparently it was a special event around the world… it was hot and sunny…

there were people everywhere… many of them with their heads down, focussed on their phones, with cords connecting to power packs in their pockets, lol…

we walked around the allée that circles the Diversity Gardens… it was fully shaded and there were many people along the way…

from there we walked across the Park to the English and Leo Mol Gardens… it was a long way, lol… we stopped now and then for a rest and sip of our water, and got to walk down one of my favourite paths…

it has been months since I’ve been to the Gardens, so it was a treat… besides all the people, there were lots of flowers in bloom with beautiful water lilies, and frogs, in the English Garden…

the cricket fields had some good items as we headed back to the car…

nice to enjoy a walk, although my feet were a little tired;-)…

people…

10 Monday Dec 2018

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had some fun on the stairway yesterday…

took a few pictures of the snow people;-)…

great reminder of each special piece…

behind…

03 Saturday Nov 2018

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went shopping this afternoon…

the stores were all very full… apparently I should have left home sooner, lol…

first one I went into, I walked right out of because there were people lined up all the way down the aisle waiting for a cashier… as it happened I didn’t really need anything from there today…

then I walked around a home repair store where it seemed like everyone needed to stop in the middle of the aisle to chat with the person they were shopping with… and nearly everyone had a buddy…

finally, at the grocery store, I continued to end up behind people who needed to look at every item on the shelves to decide which one they wanted… and of course they stopped in the middle of the aisle… must have seen at least six staff people gathering groceries to be picked up… maybe I will give that a try one of these days…

can’t believe that five bags of groceries cost two hundred dollars, sigh… times, they certainly have changed…

conspicuous…

07 Monday May 2018

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tonight after work I met up with my kids downtown and we had dinner together before they attended the #wpgwhiteout party and I headed home…

on the way there they had stopped in at the Jets store to pick up some white Jets t-shirts and I think a hoodie or two, lol…

I did feel conspicuous walking to the restaurant without wearing some piece of Jets clothing, lol… good thing I had white capris on and a black and white top…

the youngest asked his mom if I’d be going to the #whiteoutparty as well and she advised there were “way too many people for grandma to go” and she was absolutely correct…

just getting from the restaurant back to the office and the car had me sweating and people were just starting to arrive… thankfully my son-in-law walked with me…

my daughter sent me this shot of the crowd around them…

too many people for me;-)…

crowds…

12 Friday Aug 2016

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today, if I’ve seen one bunny, I’ve seen twenty-five…

this was the first one on my first walk to the Park…

saw at least two more on the way and then spotted this one in the English Garden…

there were crowds of squirrels as well…

on my way home spotted this one and its partner…

at nine in the morning the Lyric Theatre looked like this…

at nine at night it looked like this…

and that doesn’t show the other two-thirds of the people that crowded in behind us…

in the Leo Mol Garden, early, there were a handful of people and the water lilies were still closed…

bit early for them to bloom… 

but by five pm they were all open…

and the Gardens were jam packed with Pokemon Go players…

what a difference ten hours can make…

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