10 Tuesday Mar 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, forward, growth, moments, nature, orchid, plants, purple, Spring, sunshine, weather, widow
had a lovely wander around the living room and dining room to check on the plants…
a few of the orchids are starting some new buds and the other plants are doing nicely…
it was a nice treat to wander around and see the growth…
we just sprang forward on the weekend and I think Spring is really coming…
05 Thursday Mar 2020
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, earbuds, eight, family, garden, George, loss, memories, moments, purple, snow, Technology, treat, widow
today commemorates eight years since my beloved left me… he walked with me longer than I walked alone before and since his death…
I miss him… every day and in every way… I have grown so much since that day… and continue to as I move forward…
I’ve been thinking of many of the fun things that we did during our forty-plus years together… from camping in tents and pop-up trailers, to zip lining and riding up a mountain in a chairlift (for 2 people afraid of heights)… from Grand Beach to Goose Spit… from gardening to bathroom renovations… from family meals on the deck to dimsum in restaurants…
this morning I received a parcel from the kids in Ottawa… 3 cute plants in a wooden box… a great addition to the forest, lol…
the outdoors looked stunning after a night of snow, but the delivery person had to make a path to get to the door…
also received some earbuds in the mail that I had ordered from our AirMiles account, so it was like a gift from my beloved… took me a while to figure out how to connect them…
made steak, potatoes and mushrooms for my dinner… he would have grilled it, but I cooked it in the oven, lol…
02 Monday Mar 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, cleaners, family, friends, haircut, moments, purple, snow, trim, walk, weather, widow, wind
finished tidying the house this morning and then spent time reading while I waited for my cleaners…
once they arrived I got dressed and walked over to the hairdresser to get a trim… we both noticed that my hair seems to be growing a bit more quickly right now… once it was cut there was still a tiny bit of purple remaining…
it was a nice stroll there, a bit breezy, but on the way back big snowflakes were coming down and the wind was blowing sideways… happily my son-in-law picked me up part way home…
cleaners had gone, I made tea and we had a visit before he was off to his next activity…
finished the afternoon reading;-)…
snow finally stopped and it looked so quiet and peaceful out there…
friends came by for coffee and a visit, and when they left it was snowing again;-(…
01 Sunday Mar 2020
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bend, big girl pants, blessed, carnations, flowers, fun, happy, memories, moments, movement, purple, Safeway, tulips, widow, windy
part of the reason I shopped at Safeway yesterday was to be able to get some flowers… they almost always have something I like;-)…
I picked up tulips and a few carnations…
instead of making one arrangement, I divided them… one for the living room, one for the dining room, one for the bathroom and one for the bedroom…
the photos above were from yesterday… tulips move in their vase on a regular basis so they are fun to watch throughout the day…
so far today they have opened up and started to bend over in the light…
I’ve enjoyed watching them as I was reading, particularly as it was a bit overcast and very windy out today…
29 Saturday Feb 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, family, happy, home, memories, mentor, moments, practice, purple, water, watercolour, widow
over the last week or so I’ve been collecting things so that I can do some watercolour painting…
yesterday I gathered up all the equipment and sat down to paint…
when I did some of this at Christmas in Ottawa it was more difficult than I’d imagined it would be…
here at home I think it was even more difficult without my daughter’s mentorship, lol…
it was a fun hour, although I need to practice more;-)…
27 Thursday Feb 2020
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adjust, big girl pants, blessed, cookbook, delicious, memories, moments, pancakes, potato pancakes, purple, recipes, Shrove Tuesday, sort of, widow
this week was Shrove Tuesday and I decided to make pancakes… I sort of followed my recipe, but cut it back by two-thirds and adapted the ingredients…
took the page from my new cookbook and stuck it up on the message board so I could read it easily…
as I’ve typed the recipes, for many of them I’ve added two sets of quantities so there is less likelihood of messing up the ingredients… I will redo this one with the smaller amount for next time, lol…
I used to make this recipe for the family and would take the last few tablespoons to mix with grated potatoes to make potato pancakes for me…
worked out well with the adjustments and they were delicious…
usually I’d use sour cream, but this time I used Greek yogurt and it worked well…
there were a few pancakes left for breakfast;-)…
26 Wednesday Feb 2020
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bevels, big girl pants, blessed, floor, light, Maui, memories, nature, purple, rainbows, remembering, sunshine, vacation, widow
recently I was checking out the rainbows on the kitchen floor… there has been lots of sun;-)…
thought they were coming through the patio door, but then I figured out they were coming from the back door window which has a number of bevels on it…
brought back memories of our time in Maui where there were rainbows all the time…
one day there were seven different rainbows within about an hour… it was amazing…
I do love rainbows…
18 Tuesday Feb 2020
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beloved, big girl pants, Christmas, craftsperson, decorations, February, Heart & Stroke month, hearts, memories, moments, ornaments, purple, quadruple bypass, widow
I was looking through some albums recently and came across this photo from Christmas…
it was an ornament on one of my daughter’s presents… a family tradition has been to give an ornament to each person on one of their gifts…
made me think of all the love signs around the house which I have put out for the month…
there are hearts all over the place… in the kitchen, bathroom, dining, living room, bedroom… and on the stairway…
these two hearts are within eyesight in the bedroom… I bought the purple one, and the wooden one was made by my beloved… he was a very talented craftsperson…
I put up some pictures of the various hearts when I wrote this post… I enjoy seeing them and will leave them up for the month…
February is also Heart and Stroke month… a reminder of my beloved, who died just two years after a quadruple bypass…
14 Friday Feb 2020
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, blown, flowers, moments, purple, Valentine, weather, widow, windy
went out in the very cold weather this morning and was nearly blown into a fence… put on my warmest jacket but didn’t realize that the hood wasn’t attached… yikes…
spent the remainder of the day remembering my beloved and how we enjoyed this particular holiday… found this photo from our last Valentine’s Day…
besides the rose, he gave me a beautiful purple jacket which I put on this morning;-)…
09 Sunday Feb 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, colleagues, credenza, flowers, gift, memories, purple, recycled, roots, trees, vase, widow, work
been enjoying the beautiful vase that my colleagues presented to me to commemorate my retirement…
it is now living on the top of the credenza in the living room… when the light is on, it shines through the design beautifully…
when I had flowers in it, I put them into a plastic bag so they wouldn’t mess up the inside, lol…
the flowers from the Board would have gone nicely in it;-)…
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