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stirring…

25 Sunday Oct 2015

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spent some time in the hot tub this morning…

  
had to put on my water boots and my touque… starting to be cold on the feet and the ears…

 

a dozen geese flew just over the house in total silence… wonderful view of them…  what a special moment…

as I was sitting there I was thinking of my new spoon…

  
reminded me of going to a family member’s cottage for weekends a number of years ago… George and I were both early risers and he would make coffee with two spoonfuls of sugar and a good dollop of milk… took a while to stir that sugar in, and the sound of the stirring would drive our host, who was trying to sleep in, crazy… got to be a bit of a private joke for us…

hadn’t thought of that for years, lol…

got my pictures printed and put them into two of the squares in the coffee table…

  
asked one of my grandsons to help me and he had a hard time because he thought they should line up exactly… eventually he gave up on the job and asked his mom to finish… we did have some fun looking at them and remembering the events…

hoping that visitors will also enjoy looking through them…

Saturdays…

24 Saturday Oct 2015

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spent the day around the house…

Saturdays are my usual rest day where I do very little…

today I cleaned out two cupboards in the kitchen… put some of the items in the pass-along pile and added some to a different spot…

  
packed up all the shells in the living room coffee table and put they away upstairs in the bedroom closet… now, don’t forget where they are, in case I do, lol… still haven’t found my originals which I packed up about a year ago…

  
had some fun choosing and printing pictures… until I ran out of photo paper… tomorrow going to make a run to Stapes…

watched a number of my PVRed shows in between the bits of work…

  
finally, spent a bit of time making some soup with pumpkin and acorn squashes… came out pretty good considering I didn’t use any type of recipe…

  
interesting coloured sky this afternoon…

  
good day…

beauty…

01 Friday May 2015

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spent the day enjoying the beauty around me…

first thing, I took pictures of all the flowers in the house…

  
between the two purple orchids, the purple mums and the vase of spring flowers, the coffee table looks amazing… 

  
there are tulips on the dining room table as well…

at the office, we had more vases filled with beautiful flowers… shared them amongst the staff who were in…

spent the lunch hour at a wonderful restorative yoga class…

had time throughout the day to reflect on the amazing people I work with, and how lucky I am…

walked from the end of the street tonight and had to stop and take a picture of one of the trees, a Russian olive, I think… it is quite a lovely colour and the leaves are out now…

 

sat on the deck enjoying the sounds of the pond and reading for a while… 

looking forward to a wonderful three day weekend…

I am surrounded by beauty everywhere I look… 

art…

31 Saturday Jan 2015

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had a wonderful day with a friend who came over and hung 15 framed water lily pictures on the stairway wall… we had a great time…

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makes me a bit proud to have my art up on a wall… a bit odd to think of my photos as art, lol…

part way through the process we had a lovely snack/lunch…

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happily there was no broken glass… a few close calls when the frames were on the hallway floor, lol…

but we realized that we needed more pictures… I have to find thirteen more photos and we have to pick up more frames…

we have already put in the nails so that piece is done… going to get sticky stuff to make sure the pictures stay square on the wall…

we also got the orchid to sit in the pot better… it was a bit tippy…

after she left I had a good nap… silly me, woke up at 7:15 this morning and didn’t go back to sleep…

it’s very cold outside so I have a yoga jacket on to stay comfy, rather than turning up the heat and being too hot at bedtime… I have always liked it to be cool in the bedroom and have the windows open at night… used to make George crazy…

there’s one good thing about being on my own, no one complains when I leave a window open, lol…

damn big girl pants…

frames…

25 Sunday Jan 2015

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mostly a quiet day…

watched tv and then worked on the picture frames to go on the staircase wall…

been planning and thinking about these frames for a number of months…

purchased the frames from IKEA and they have been sitting on a shelf waiting…

while the kids were here at Christmas, we decided to use water lily pictures which I have taken over the years… took quite a while to come to that decision because I have taken many flower pictures and couldn’t decide which ones to choose…

in the end the water lilies called to me as they are in water – one of my favourite things, and have beautiful flowers…

then I had to choose fifteen… well I think I ended up with about twenty five, lol…

was going to have them printed at Staples but decided a few days ago to print a few at home and see how they looked…

this morning I finally dug out the pliers so that I could open the back of the frames and put a couple in…

slow process, as I had to move each picture around to see the best view… then I had to print them a few at a time…

eventually I chose five pink, five white and five purple…

finished them just before the kids arrived…

next step will be to hang them…

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hope that doesn’t take as long as the previous part of the process…

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maybe one day I will put this one up on the wall…

new year…

01 Thursday Jan 2015

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sitting in the living room listening to Whitney Houston and writing my blog… haven’t been using the laptop but the kids helped me put my music on it tonight… Whitney was one of my Christmas presents…

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downloading music…

this morning I spent quite some time upstairs on the desktop finding water lily pictures for the frames I bought the other day… happily I was able to find some that had gone missing, lol…

looking forward to getting them printed, framed and hung on the stairwell wall…

also need to choose a few for the upstairs hallway as Cyndi took a few pictures home with her for the new house…

had a hot tub, but didn’t stay out too long because one of the squirrels was in the neighbour’s tree and kept making the strangest sounds, almost like it had a cold, or was feeling sick… didn’t like the sound, so I came in, but I did enjoy the sunshine…

just before the kids arrived for our New Year’s dinner of steak and lobster, I took the decorations off the tree and put it away… the living room is back to normal although I haven’t taken the coloured balls out of the coffee table just yet…

pictures…

19 Friday Dec 2014

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I am now taking pictures of everything I eat…

people tease me on a regular basis as I am taking the pictures…

that’s okay, because taking the pictures helps me remember what I have eaten…

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for the next few months I have to write down what I am eating and using the pictures helps me remember… I don’t always have time to write it down as I prepare/sit down to a meal…

besides recording what I eat, I have to take blood sugars at breakfast, lunch and bedtime… and record them as well… taking them means poking one of my fingers, sigh..

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I am getting used to it and am doing well… the doctor was impressed with how the numbers have come down and how well I am eating…

missing sugar in my tea, but getting used to drinking it with milk… so far, leaving chocolate alone hasn’t been difficult… my biggest craving is chips and they are on the not to eat list…

I am supposed to experiment and see what happens when I eat different things… maybe chips might make it to that testing list, lol…

I’m very lucky that they made the diabetes diagnosis early, and that diet and exercise should be all I need to do to take care of it…

energy level is come back…

halloween…

31 Friday Oct 2014

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barely slept last night and my cold seems to be a bit worse so I decided to stay home… slept for most of the day…

put up the last few decorations in between and took a few pictures…

IMG_9100.JPGpicked this up at the dollar store and put it on the front door… looks pretty good…

IMG_9109.JPGfinally got dressed around 4:30… put on my new velour cape and my witch hat from a few years ago… kids started coming about 5:45… by 6:30 there weren’t any more… most of them commented on the candies being in the hand:-)…

the little boys came about 7:30 and we got a picture together, thanks to daddy…

IMG_9108.JPGmy total was 18, counting my boys… too funny, because when they started coming I was worried I was going to run out…

smile…

19 Sunday Oct 2014

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early this morning I went out for a hot tub… the sun was brilliant… made me smile…

IMG_8913-0.JPGhard to tell, but there is a bit of frost in this picture so I wore sandals…

IMG_8914-2.JPGlater I headed over to the kids’ place… we were spending some time having family pictures done… we went to a number of places and walked a long way, and there were many smiles…

IMG_8917.JPGlooking forward to seeing the finished pics…

here’s one of Crystal and I on a warehouse ledge…

IMG_8915.JPGJeff may have broken something getting me up and then down from the spot…

watched a soccer practice for one of the boys and then headed home… drove over the Disraeli both ways… a big girl pants moment for me as I really dislike that bridge…

IMG_8918-1.JPGvery excited when I walked into the yard and saw the water falling beautifully… this is strange because usually within a few hours of my pond guy being here the water starts to get clumpy, with algae obstructing the flow…maybe it is too cold for algae, lol…

pictures…

25 Wednesday Jun 2014

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a couple of days ago my iPhone wouldn’t let me take a picture, because it said it was full… at the time I just deleted a few pictures and forgot about it…

earlier today a message flashed across my screen about memory being full…

tonight I spent about an hour copying and then deleting pictures…

I took this one as I was heading toward the car after dropping off our mail…

this sculpture is called Emptyful and has water coming down as well as mist floating through the air… at night the lights on it rotate through three or four colours…

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emptyful…

you have to be careful which side you walk through so that you don’t get misted on… always seems to be misting on overcast cool days and it never mists on you on the hot days as you walk past…

the weather has been a bit odd, mainly cloudy and cool, and the blue sky was just starting to emerge  as I was leaving work… rain has been threatening for a few days but keeps holding off… tomorrow morning I am going to have to water the plants in the garden… that will probably bring the rain, lol…