I am very satisfied with how the living room window is looking;-)…
I think I am done adding bits and pieces… and the timer is working correctly…
satisfied…
01 Tuesday Dec 2020
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Tag Archives: purple
silver…
26 Thursday Nov 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, chocolate, Christmas, family, memories, moments, palliative care, purple, silver, teddy bear, widow, wreaths
I added more silver and white ornaments to the tree and a bit of garland to give it depth, although I don’t like garland on the whole… many of the ornaments marked special Christmas times…
I also hung up some wreaths and brought up a teddy bear from the basement that I have always loved…
I was reminded of many previous Christmas trees and decorations… when my daughter moved away she promised to come home for Christmas and she did for many years… the first year she wasn’t able to come home she sent all of us a dragonfly glittery ornament to put on our trees… since then it has gone on the tree each year… for the rest of the year it is clipped onto a chocolate hanging in the hall… she loves chocolate;-)…
I also hung three wreaths… one I made the year my mom was in palliative care and at the same time my sister-in-law was losing her unborn baby… I spent hours at two different hospitals hand sewing the teddy bears and wreath they went on… amazingly stress filled weeks…
now I think back to those times and find great comfort in the memories;-)…
cull…
09 Monday Nov 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, closet, cull, dress pants, moments, pants, purple, sort, successful, widow, work
I don’t know about you, but when I go to clean out a closet or drawer, sometimes it works and other times I seem unable to cull anything…
today I was successful in dealing with my bedroom closet… I’ve realized that I don’t really need 6 pairs of dress pants or 15 tops for work, lol…
this closet is very small so anything I can do to make room will be very helpful;-)…
I packed up twenty pieces and then reorganized the space they opened up…
yay for me;-)…
brainpower…
06 Friday Nov 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, brainpower, lumbar, Modern Plate Catering, moments, purple, supper, Technology, treat, weatherstripping, widow
seemed like a busy day around the house…
up early and worked on a newsletter with a program I am still learning so it took a lot of brainpower, lol…
my handy person stopped by to check out the front door… he is coming back tomorrow with some weatherstripping which should fix the draft… and he is going to pick up some birdseed for me… yay…
a bit later Lyndsay, from Modern Plate Catering, dropped off supper for tonight – and tomorrow – which will be warmed in the oven… very happy about the fact that they deliver as I am without a vehicle or my personal shopper…
I also figured how to keep the lumbar pillow I am using in the den from falling down every time I get up… I came across it when I did some deep closet cleaning…
phew;-)…
stopper…
30 Friday Oct 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, coat, cold, funny, fur, moments, nature, purple, reading, stopper, weather, widow, winter
I’ve been thinking of a friend’s mother who used fur coats as draft stoppers… she had numerous fur coats and it just seemed like the funniest thing to me, although even in those days people were no longer wearing fur, so it was a good use of the coats, lol…
there is a vertical space along the bottom of my front door and I have been trying to figure out what needs to be done to fix it…
my handiperson is supposed to be coming before too long to check it out, but as I sit reading in the living room there is quite a cold draft across the floor…
this afternoon I took one of my winter coats and hung it on the doorknob and I think it is stopping the cold air;-)… or at least slowing it down…
too funny, lol…
foil…
26 Monday Oct 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, delicious, foil, friends, gift, loose tea, memories, moments, purple, scones, treat, widow
yesterday a friend dropped off a purple parcel for me…
in it were two packages… the first was wrapped in foil and was filled with five beautiful scones… still warm from the oven…
the second was also wrapped, but in purple paper… in it was a lovely tea mug with a strainer…
I barely unwrapped the scones before I buttered one, put jam on it and scoffed it down…
the mug is clean now and ready for some loose tea;-)…
root…
19 Monday Oct 2020
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big girl pants, cold, dahlias, flowers, garden, moments, nature, plants, purple, root, thaw, weather, widow
today I spent some time in the garage working on the dahlias…
I took out each of the pots which I brought in a few days ago to thaw, and removed as much soil as I could…
it took a long time, mainly because the plants were packed tight in the pots and were root bound…
now I’ve brought in one pot which all the tubers fit into…
after watching a few videos last week, the next job, in a week or so, will be to separate the tubers into ones that have eyes and package them up for the winter…
tea…
16 Friday Oct 2020
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beloved, big girl pants, blackcurrant, blessed, favourite, purple, Scandinavia, shopping, spot, storage, Tea, Technology, widow
the tea is here, the tea is here;-)…
the parcel arrived a couple of days ago and I didn’t get around to finding a place to store a dozen boxes of blackcurrant tea until today…
I’ve never had that many boxes at once but I wanted to be sure to get multiples as it isn’t available anyplace in Canada or the UK…
cleaned off a shelf above my mugs to fit them in…
this should last me at least six months…
so delicious;-)…
blackcurrant…
18 Friday Sep 2020
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big girl pants, blackcurrant, blessed, delicious, family, happy, moments, online, purple, shopping, Tea, treat, widow
months ago I ran out of my favourite tea – Twinning Blackcurrant… I was very sad… I went online to see if I could order it direct from the company, but they no longer carried it…
about a month ago my Ottawa son-in-law came across a site in Europe that appeared to have it… I went online and ordered one package as the photo looked slightly different and I didn’t want to get a ton of tea I might not like…
Tuesday a very sad package arrived in the mail in a ginormous plastic bag…
the big plastic bag was an apology from Canada Post regarding the state of the parcel…
thankfully the plastic covering the box of tea was still intact and the tea bags were fine…
I made a pot of tea and it is the right kind;-)…
so happy… I then went back online and ordered 12 boxes… yay…
wet-vac…
16 Wednesday Sep 2020
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my grandson came by to get the fish tank ready for the goldfish to come into their condo…
the pump had stopped working in the spring and we hadn’t dealt with it over the summer… he ran it over to the fish store and they discovered the problem and it is fine now…
the tank had lots of dirty water in it and we tried various disgusting methods to empty it… after a number of ideas failed, we brought in the wet-vac and it worked great…
it is now empty and all of the bits and pieces have been scrubbed and are waiting to go back in… next week he will bring some new purple gravel and we will get it set up…
likely around Thanksgiving we will bring the fish in;-)…
