22 Tuesday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, card, health, moments, plastic, Technology, wallet, widow
I received a letter from Manitoba Health the other day…
in it was my new health card, woohoo…
I’d been planning to give them a call as I had gone online and filled out the application what seemed like many weeks ago, lol…
it looks great and I was quick to pull the old paper one out of my wallet and put in the new plastic one…
15 Friday Nov 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, cheese slice, food, grilled cheese, moments, onion, plastic, sandwich, sourdough, widow
made a grilled cheese sandwich for supper…
I like to use packaged sliced cheese and put two on the first piece of bread to see if I needed three… the two were perfect, so I put the other one away…
next I got an onion, peeled and sliced it on top of the cheese… I added butter to the second slice of sourdough, topped the first and buttered the outside…
put the sandwich in the frying pan and cooked it slowly before turning it over…
came out beautifully…
because the bread was large I proceeded to cut it into four and was irritated that it wasn’t cutting well…
at which point I realized the plastic was still on the cheese, omg…
took a while to squeeze the cheese out of the plastic and add another piece of cheese (without the plastic) to make up for the cheese that didn’t make it out, lol…
too funny…
23 Saturday Dec 2023
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Assiniboine Park, big girl pants, biomes, blessed, dinner, evening, family, Gather Kraft Kitchen and Bar, grandson, koi, lush, moments, nature, night, plants, plastic, pond, The Leaf, walkways, widow
nearly a year to the day, we went back to The Leaf in the evening…
we ate dinner at Gather Craft Kitchen and Bar and then wandered through the biomes…
the restaurant was very busy, but we were seated by the window at a two-person table, so were quite a distance from the other diners…
we shared chorizo spiced seitan tacos, I had pork and veal meatballs, and my grandson had a fancy hamburger and everything was tasty… we decided to skip dessert and go for blizzards after our visit to the biomes…
as we wandered through the Tropical biome it was quite amazing to see how the plants have grown… the place is absolutely lush;-)… leaves fell over the walkways in a number of spots, lol…
looking down from the bridge on the third floor it was striking to see how much everything has grown…
it was the first time since that inaugural visit that I’ve been at night… unfortunately it was too dark for my Nikon so all my photos were with my iPhone… got to see some bananas, a pineapple, coffee beans and cacao pods…
it looks like the inside of the biomes have been wrapped with plastic, and the fans in the Tropical biome were blowing rather vigorously…
it was exciting to see that there were a great number of various-sized smaller koi in the pond… babies, maybe;-)…
the next post will be about the Mediterranean biome;-)…
25 Wednesday Oct 2023
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14 years, bathroom, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, broken, family, fit, grandson, handwritten, Home Depot, medicine cabinet, moments, new, plastic, Rona, search, stock, widow
been having trouble keeping one of the medicine cabinet doors closed for the last few weeks…
I thought it was because the magnet on the mirror was separating from the plastic behind it…
the other morning I looked at it and thought it was no longer level…
at which point I discovered that the plastic where the door attached to the cabinet had broken… it took two of us to remove the broken cabinet…
what a treat to discover my beloved’s handwritten measurements inside the hole🤗…
after measuring the space, it was off to Home Depot to see if we could find something that would fit into the hole in the wall… and of course I needed two, sigh…
we found a cabinet that should work, but the store we were at didn’t have any in stock, so it meant another trip… after trying two other stores it was off to Rona, where we found two of the same cabinet at an even better price;-)…
it has been fourteen years since my beloved installed these cabinets when we redid the bathroom, so I guess it did pretty well, being opened more than ten thousand times, lol… that wasn’t a bad run…
and, just like that we have two new cabinets, although the space inside them is smaller, but they will work fine;-)…
10 Monday Apr 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, datura, garden, glass, happy, light, moments, morning glories, nature, planted, plastic, seeds, sprouts, time, widow
finally got the seeds into the soil…
so far, there are morning glories as well as purple and white daturas planted… last year I didn’t remember to start any of the daturas, so am excited to see how they will do this year…
started with plastic wrap on top, but then I found some glass in the basement which covers the pots nicely…
I am turning the light on first thing in the morning, and off just before I head to bed;-)…
now to wait for some sprouts…
19 Saturday Nov 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, grandson, happy, metal, moments, nature, outside, plastic, shopping, shovel, sidewalk, snow, Technology, weather, widow
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;-)…
03 Wednesday Nov 2021
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big girl pants, bird feeder, birds, blessed, feeder, moments, nature, plastic, widow
I’ve been having fun watching the birds coming to the window feeder in the living room…
so far there have been chickadees, house finches, nuthatches, and blue jays… I had hoped to be able to take photos but the plastic distorts the pictures…
now I just sit and enjoy them;-)…
I’ve had to go out and wash the glass as they have made a mess of the window…
they make quite a noise as they decide which seed is the one they need and then sometimes open it right there by tapping it on the edge of the drawer…
they have also knocked out the little drawer that sits in the feeder… eventually I taped it down and so far it hasn’t fallen out again…
30 Friday Jul 2021
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anthurium, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, gift, memories, moments, nature, plants, plastic, purple, widow
I’ve been so focussed on the garden I forgot to share the excitement in the dining room…
this anthurium, which I received as a birthday gift five years ago, flowered once last year after not blooming for four years…
on July 7th I spotted this new bloom;-)…
now it is open and beautiful… although it looks like plastic, lol… once open it lasts for ages…
nature truly is amazing…
19 Sunday May 2019
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artificial, awapuhi, big girl pants, flowers, ginger, Maui, plastic, purple, travel, vegetation, widow
saw a picture of this particular Hawaiian flower recently, and it reminded me of ones we saw when we were on Maui…
it’s known as spiral ginger, red tower ginger or red velvet ginger… the Hawaiian name for ginger plants is awapuhi…
it is one of the flowers that looks like it is made of plastic, lol… this is from a bouquet we had in the Gingerbread house Airbnb we stayed in…
this one, possibly shampoo ginger, had us touching it a few times because we were convinced it was artificial… but then the little piece opened up… with a bit of purple in it…
it’s always so interesting to see the different vegetation when travelling…
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