27 Sunday Nov 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, cards, Christmas, decorations, drawers, getting ready, memories, moments, ornaments, purple, table, widow
the decorating is taking shape…
worked on the living room table…
removed all the pictures, angels, sarongs, and stones…
found the bags filled with ornaments that have gone into it for the last few years…
got them into three of the squares and saved the last square for cards;-)…
and I also received the first card… woohoo…
18 Friday Nov 2022
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Advent, advent calendar, arrive, big girl pants, blessed, calendar, Canadian Chocoholic, chocolate, Christmas, Decadence Chocolates, family, food, happy, hibiscus, moments, purple, Technology, treat, widow
the Advent calendar has made its way back into the living room… it looks so great in that spot…
last year it was filled with yummy bonbons from Decadence Chocolates…
this year it will be filled with bits and pieces from Canadian Chocoholic’s stash…
now I just have to to wait for the parcel to arrive with the chocolate to go into it😊…
21 Friday Oct 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, camera, data, family, grandson, iPhone, moments, new, photos, purple, Technology, transfer, widow
a few days ago my new iPhone arrived…
my grandson arranged the whole thing and brought over the new phone…
he transferred all the data, made sure everything was working and added a protective screen…
transferring from one phone to another is certainly much easier than the last time I upgraded my phone…
I’ve taken a few pictures and am very impressed with the results…
now I will have to learn what is new and different…
wish me luck🤪
15 Saturday Oct 2022
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angels, big girl pants, blessed, display, family, gemstones, happy, lane, living room, memories, moments, photos, purple, stones, widow
had an idea the other day when I was watching tv upstairs… I’ve been thinking it was time to change up the display in the living room table, so I got started…
found a number of framed photos from the computer room and my collection of fancy gemstones…
I gathered up some of my angels… I have given away most of them, but kept a few of my favourites, lol…
brought everything to the living room table and had a lovely time putting them into the squares…
remembering where they came from and why they were special to me…
such a lovely walk down memory lane;-)…
04 Tuesday Oct 2022
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19 Monday Sep 2022
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back door, big girl pants, blessed, chipped, door, garden, moments, nature, paint, purple, scraped, weather, widow
finally scraped the chipped areas on the back door…
then I pulled out the paint, stirred it for quite a while and painted the bare portions… it was very interesting to see how blue it looked before being stirred up… that probably explains why so many of my purple things turn blue after sitting in the sunlight, lol…
it has been drying and is looking good… I think I will give it one more coat…
08 Thursday Sep 2022
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beautiful, big girl pants, birthday, blessed, crafty, flowers, memories, moments, nature, purple, redoing, widow
my bouquet subscription has come to an end and I came across this post I had written about my birthday bouquet…
I had an enjoyable time redoing it… this is how it looked on my birthday…
I removed the roses once they were spent…
it was time to do something new and this is what it became on May fourth…
used a cute teapot and a small glass for the next life of the bouquet…
added some of the statice to a container that was already filled…
and finally, used the container the flowers came in to set a cute new plant I recently purchased…
it is always such fun to change out the flowers as the bouquet ages, lol…
some great memories;-)…
03 Saturday Sep 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, happy, hummingbird, moments, morning glories, nature, petunias, purple, treat, widow
had the most five or six delightful minutes in the garden this afternoon;-)…
I was eating the last delicious bits of yesterday’s Blizzard on the back deck and spotted a hummingbird in the garden…
for a long time we had feeders, but no hummingbirds, so we gave up… a few have flown through over the years, but none stayed around to snack…
it moved around slurping from the petunias which are everywhere in the space this year… from the six planters around the deck, to the morning glories in the dahlia planter in the centre of the yard, to the baskets hanging along the neighbour’s garage… and back again…
my camera was close by, but I just enjoyed the moment…
I’m fairly sure it was a female ruby-throated hummingbird…
how blessed that I was sitting in that spot and looked up at that exact moment…
16 Tuesday Aug 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, bread, flowers, garden, gladiola, moments, nature, purple, shopping, treat, widow, Wolseley Farmers Market
went to the Wolseley Farmers Market with a friend and had a great time…
came home with a bag filled with beans, peas, green onions, a zucchini, baby potatoes, garlic, bread, a mushroom galette, and a beet and pesto treat…
and two gorgeous stalks of purple gladiola;-)…
17 Sunday Jul 2022
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Armstrong and Small, big girl pants, blessed, eye glasses, glasses, lenses, moments, optometrist, purple, slub, Technology, widow
in April I tried to get in to see my eye doctor at Armstrong and Small… I hadn’t been since 2019 and had noticed that my vision was not what it used to be… knew that I would need new glasses…
I was able to get an appointment for the beginning of June and was in the office for over two hours… my eyes were fine, but there was quite a bit of conversation about getting new glasses between my optometrist and the optician helping me with the glasses…
they ordered some frames and I went back about a week later to try them on… they looked good so we moved forward with ordering them…
I have nearly always had glass lenses, but they are nearly impossible to get now… after much discussion, plastic lenses, made in Canada, were ordered and would likely take about three weeks to arrive…
my current lenses have a slub on the right side… the purpose was to help my eyes focus as the prescription in the eyes is so different… we are going to try something else this time, so will see how it goes…
on Tuesday I got a call that the glasses were in and scheduled an appointment for Wednesday…
went in, had them adjusted, tested the magnetic sunglasses clip, and brought them home… loving the purple case, lol…
I am getting used to them and can see better, which is the most important thing;-)…
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