25 Monday Mar 2019
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tonight, as I walked up the street, I took a photo of the road and creek…
there is lots of water out there, which is exciting because that means it is Spring…
yay, yay, yay…
been wearing sandals since last Wednesday (start of Spring and all), so have had to do a bit less walking on the sidewalks because they are still slushy, or icy, or filled with puddles…
there is still a great deal of snow out there, particularly on the lawns and in yards, but it is certainly melting more every day…
20 Monday Feb 2017
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big girl pants, flowers, Formal Gardens, garden, hot tub, Poke Balls, puddles, Safeway, squirrels, walk, widow
out for an early morning hot tub and was listening to the squirrels chattering away…
as I looked out into the yard – which didn’t get quite as cleaned up for winter as my beloved would have done – I remembered how the garbage can was damaged by an angry squirrel… George had cleaned out a nest the squirrels had made in the shed… he’d put a ton of peanuts and leaves and various bits of stuffing into the garbage can… a few days later we discovered that the squirrel had chewed through a corner of the can… it is very thick plastic and we couldn’t believe they could actually get through it, lol… and all the peanuts were gone…
was remembering many of the fun times that have taken place in the garden…
headed out to the Formal Gardens at the Park a bit later to get a walk in, and gather some poke balls…
dull sky but warm… lots of puddles to go around…
on the way home stopped at the Tuxedo Safeway and picked up flowers… they looked lovely and perked me right up…
I’d tried to get some at the Madison Safeway yesterday but their supply was decimated from the Valentine’s Day rush…
a restful Louis Riel day…
07 Monday Mar 2016
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big girl pants, bright, busy, clean, cleaners, melting, puddles, snow, strong, sun, treat, widow
had to stop as I was backing out of the driveway this morning to take a picture of the glittering snow… so white, bright, shiny and clean looking…
lovely start to the day…
when I returned to the house I noticed two things… huge amounts of snow had melted throughout the day… here is the top of the deck just a few days ago…
this is the same spot tonight…
the sun shone with great strength all day… really noticed it on the drive home as there were many puddles and the snow banks had gone down a lot…
the final piece was in the bathroom… the cleaners come the first Monday of the month and they always fold the toilet paper like you are in a hotel…
I had prepared for them, but with the busyness of the day totally forgot they’d been here until I walked into the house and noticed how clean it was…
what a treat…
04 Friday Sep 2015
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big girl pants, fire alarm, fish, pond, puddles, rain, relaxed, water
quite a day…
had to top up the water in the pond, so I spent a few minutes enjoying the fish… always makes me feel calm and relaxed…
overcast when we headed to work… but still nice…
around two our fire alarm went off…
out we went, and across the street to the approved gathering spot… started to spit while we were out there…
three fire trucks and two other fire vehicles arrived to check things out… work in the basement may have caused the alarm, so we were back inside within half an hour, once they were able to find the alarm panel and turn it off… that bell is very loud…
within five minutes of our return to the office the sky went black and the heavens opened…
picked up by my daughter and grandson and we went to The Burger Place for supper as the concert they were going to was cancelled due to the storm…
it was still raining and the puddles were amazing…
my daughter took this great shot of the corner where we were having our supper… one of George’s favourite places…
got home and was happy to discover that, although water had come into the basement, it had mainly been soaked up by the towels that I leave on the floor…
a bit had run across the floor to the drain, but nothing had gone as far as the carpet…
probably didn’t need to top up the pond, lol…
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