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baffle…

11 Thursday Apr 2024

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on Tuesday we made a trip to Costco for a few things, and came home with a birthday present for me…

I was treated to a very cool bird feeding station…

there were two tall feeders, plus a suet holder, with spots for two additional feeders…

it also has a baffle to keep the squirrels from getting up into the feeders… lol, we will see about that…

not sure the people who design these squirrel-free feeders have met Canadian squirrels…

today we put it together and went out to plant it in the front yard, at which point it started to rain… we made it in just before the deluge hit…

it was a bit crooked and not all the way into the ground, but when the sun came back out it got fixed and the filled feeders were added…

looks great;-)… what a lovely treat…

replaced…

10 Wednesday Jan 2024

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about ten years ago I got a new set of pots and hung them up on the kitchen wall…

over the last year I have replaced a few of them and the new pans fit well on the original screws…

except for the lid for one of the new pots… it was just a bit too close to the bottom of the largest pan… my solution had been to hang the lid on top of the pot it worked with…

yesterday morning I decided to move the screw with my new Christmas screwdriver…

it was a bit of a process, as I had to find the correct bit, and figure out how to reverse the direction on the screwdriver, lol…

took about ten minutes total and now the lid finally has its own spot again…

interesting how some days those big girl pants fit so well…

clever…

04 Thursday May 2023

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on Monday I received a birthday present in the mail…

it is a plastic envelope with a disk of soil, a popsicle stick and seeds…

it will turn into sunflower micro greens…

this morning, after going online for directions, I added water, stirred up the soil, added the seeds, stirred it a bit more, misted it and put it into the sunshine;-)…

will be checking it out daily to see how it grows…

what a clever idea and lovely gift;-)…

joyful…

11 Saturday Dec 2021

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today there was extra joy;-)…

one of my gifts from Happy Mail for Chocolate Lovers was the smallest gift tag with the word joy cut out…

and a bit later the Joy pillow I ordered online arrived… it is exactly what I was hoping for…

it was lucky that I looked out the window as two parcels were sitting on the step… no one rang the doorbell or knocked…

the second was a gift from my kids for me… I will wrap the box up tomorrow and put it under the tree;-)…

the day was joyful…

trouble…

24 Tuesday Nov 2020

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got in a bit of trouble when I mentioned that I had purchased a fuzzy vest…

I was reminded that there are just a few weeks until Christmas and I should not be buying things for myself…

it did remind me of how my beloved would do that and it would really tick me off, sigh…

but it is cozy, and I did need the warmth, lol…

video…

04 Thursday Oct 2018

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had a great day…

started out with two beautiful blooms on the hibiscus…

got a lovely present… tasty chocolate and a cookbook… looks like there are a couple of recipes that I am going to need to try soon… they can all be made in 15 minutes…

took part in a video with my colleague… we laughed quite a bit…

and that was all before noon…

now for a four day weekend;-)…

groceries…

06 Saturday Aug 2016

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woo hoo… the Olympics are on… I love to watch and have spent a good portion of the day glued to the tv…

they started early so I was watching rowing by about 6:30… enjoyed some of the men’s bike road race…

making potato salad and spinach dip for tomorrow’s birthday party for the 16 year old has certainly put a kink in my viewing, lol…

headed out fairly early to pick up potatoes at the grocery store and realized after I got home that I didn’t have any mayonnaise for the spinach dip… made the potato salad in stages, between the sports I wasn’t as interested in…

five pounds of potatoes… hope it is enough…

later in the afternoon I walked over to the grocery store and picked up the missing ingredient… also found fresh green beans and little cucumbers… so, for my dinner, had goldeye, a tiny bit of the potato salad, the beans and cucumbers…

very tasty, and easy, as I wanted to keep watching swimming and tennis…

finished the spinach dip and everything is ready to go…

present is wrapped, which took about half an hour to finish… 

and now I can focus back on the games…

bye…

birthday two…

21 Friday Mar 2014

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four am this morning marked the birth of our first daughter, in 1978…

had barely left my desk for a minute the day before, as I tried to finish up a huge report for one of my colleagues…

we got home and then headed to the hospital, because I wasn’t feeling one hundred percent… expected them to look me over and send me home…

got there around four pm, and she was born twelve hours later at four in the morning…

not too big a deal… except that she was six weeks early…

thankfully she was fine, and for her second birthday present we brought her home a little sister…

20140321-212708.jpg she sent me this picture today as she, her husband and a good friend of theirs were on the train to Montreal to celebrate their birthdays…

life certainly changed for George and I from the moment she was born…

being a parent has been and continues to be a remarkable experience…