09 Thursday Apr 2026
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this is how the day went yesterday…
woke up, looked out the bedroom window, and went back to bed…
took this photo at 8:17 am…
took this one at 12:03 pm…
and finally, this one at 2:48 pm…
happily most of the snow vanished by the end of the day…
20 Thursday Nov 2025
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art, big girl pants, birthdays, blessed, buddies, food, friends, moments, pictures, WAG/Qaumajuq, walk, White Star Diner, widow
had a lovely day with my buddies…
we spent time at WAG/Qaumajuq checking out the various galleries;-)… so much to see…
this piece of art was the only one I took a photo of, and apparently a bit crooked, lol…
from there we walked over to the White Star Diner for lunch… fun time and tasty food…
we do love celebrating birthdays😊…
16 Sunday Nov 2025
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28 Tuesday Oct 2025
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bed, big girl pants, blessed, covers, foot, moments, pictures, sheets, sleeping, Technology, widow
had a conversation the other day about often putting my foot outside of the blankets to sleep…
I’d seen something on social media saying it can help a person go to sleep…
one person agreed they did it all the time, but another said they’d never heard of that, or done it…
so, I went online and found the following:
early this morning I tried to get a photo of my foot outside the sheet and blankets…
it was entertaining to get the photo in the dark, lol…
13 Monday Oct 2025
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begonia, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, moments, nature, pictures, shocked, spider, widow
I was a bit shocked when looking at the photographs that I’d taken this morning…
I had taken a few nice pictures of one of the fancy begonias that had come in from outside, which had surprised me with a lovely flower…
and when looking at the picture of the flower, I discovered a spider, yikes…
wonder if it is still there😱…
16 Tuesday Sep 2025
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bee, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, fun, garden, moments, morning glories, morning glory, nature, pictures, shrivelled, Technology, weather, western honey bee, widow
fun with morning glories today…
as I was taking photos of this blue morning glory, a cute little western honey bee showed up looking for a snack…
happily, I got a few nice pics…
then, later in the day, the morning glories shrivelled up into themselves in a very interesting way, so took a few cool photos…
25 Friday Jul 2025
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albums, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, designed, fun, lawn signs, memories, moments, party, pictures, remembering, searching, widow
spent time with old photos today as I was searching for some particular pictures…
a neighbour was having a party and had signs on the lawn which made me think of the business we had for a number of years…
we designed and produced (well my beloved did the making, lol) different signs and words and snuck into yards to set them up for special occasions…
it was fun and at the time no one else was doing that…
going through photos to find a few of the ones we’d set up was enjoyable and a reminder of some amazing times in our lives;-)… some of those albums were kind of dusty…
06 Thursday Mar 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, family, flowers, framed, friends, fun, installation, matting, memories, moments, nature, photos, pictures, project, remembering, slipped, water lilies, widow
had a fun time remembering the “installation” which a friend helped me install a number of years ago as I was making adjustments to them…
the installation consists of twenty-nine photos of water lilies which I had taken…
over the years a number of the pictures had slipped in the frames and I finally got around to removing them one by one and taping the photos to the matting before reinstalling them on the wall…
there had been wine and a lot of laughter as we worked away to get all the pictures up on the wall, lol…
this time my housemate was able to help with the pieces I couldn’t reach, lol…
happy to have this project completed…
10 Monday Feb 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, cold, daytime, garden, hot tub, lens, moments, nature, pictures, shovelling, snow, Toque, weather, widow
went out for a hot tub on Sunday afternoon… and tested out my new toque…
can’t even remember the last time I was out in the daytime… it has been too cold at night and when it wasn’t the deck hadn’t been shovelled, lol…
I went out a few days ago and got the space cleared off so it was ready…
it was only -21°C and I had a lovely time, although the mitten that I had put the phone into got wet while I was taking pictures, lol…
sometimes the lens gets a bit foggy when taking pictures from the tub…
the mountain of snow is quite high and I am hoping we can move some of it because it is getting difficult to throw the snow over the top of it;-)…
02 Sunday Feb 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, family, moments, offline, orientation, photo frame, photos, pictures, Technology, vertical, widow
was having some trouble with the new photo frame…
for some reason it stopped accepting photos that were sent to it…
after some investigation I discovered that it was offline… wasn’t sure why or how to fix that…
then all of a sudden it was working again…
I’ve also decided to turn it to vertical rather than horizontal… the majority of pictures I take use that orientation…
and was able to change the piece on the back so that the frame stands up the way I want, lol…
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