30 Saturday Nov 2024
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advent calendar, art, big girl pants, blessed, contemplate, daughter, family, gift, handmade, moments, purple, quotes, widow
one of my previous Advent Calendars, which my daughter gave me, is a lovely set of 24 hand painted cards with interesting quotes…
although it isn’t Advent yet, I have been choosing one each day to contemplate;-)…
it is fun to spend some time each day thinking of the quote…
27 Sunday Oct 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, decorate, halloweeny, hat, moments, pumpkin, purple, widow, witch
this morning I had some fun bringing out a few decorations for Halloween…
plugged in one of the pumpkins and put a witch’s hat on it…
next I moved the dining room table and set up a second pumpkin after stuffing it with some solar lights…
it also got a witch’s hat… apparently I have a number of them, lol… a friendly witch and her purple pumpkin finished off that area…
one velvety cape went on the dining table and the other spiderweb one went on the living room table, along with a few halloweeny items…
and, finally, I changed the cushions on the couch…
fun 🤩…
11 Friday Oct 2024
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alert, big girl pants, blessed, bracelet, Calgary, catch up, family, moments, purple, sister-in-law, time, widow
on Monday, I had a lovely visit with my sister-in-law who was in from Calgary for the weekend…
it is always fun to catch-up in person…
and she brought me this beautiful amethyst bracelet…
how blessed am I;-)…
24 Tuesday Sep 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, caulk, fix, friend, front door, house, moments, nature, neighbour, purple, retractable, rot, weather, widow
this morning, my former neighbour and friend came by, removed the front door, and took it to his house where he replaced the bottom board which had rotted…
we had put a sweep on the bottom of the door and rainwater had been going into it which caused the rot…
we stuck a table in the space, put a chair up against it on the inside, and closed the retractable screen while the door was gone…
I sat and read in the living room as it was a bit nerve racking to not have a door, lol…
and, of course, a meter reader came to the door and I had to call through the table for them to go to the back…
when the door returned a few hours later, a new sweep was put on, screwed in, and caulked so it won’t get water in and should last for as long as I do in the house, lol…
what a blessing to have friends and neighbours who can help deal with some of the issues that take place in the house…
17 Tuesday Sep 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, falafels, flowers, friends, gardeners, gardens, hummingbird, moments, nature, overcast, Park, Park Cafe, plants, purple, steps, stroll, weather, widow
met up with my adventure buddy and we went for a stroll through the English and Leo Mol Gardens at the Park…
it was an overcast day, but the rain held off…
there were gardeners working everywhere to keep the space beautiful…
here are a few things I took photos of…
we spotted a hummingbird and watched it for a few minutes amongst the purple flowers…
had a break on our bench before enjoying a bit of lunch at the Park Cafe where I had some tasty falafels…
it was spitting when I left the Park…
managed over 12,000 steps for the day, woohoo…
14 Saturday Sep 2024
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amethyst, big girl pants, blessed, Divine Clarity, gemstones, moments, nature, purple, rocks, shopping bag, stones, treat, widow
I’ve been walking past Divine Clarity for awhile now, since I am taking a slightly longer walk…
I haven’t been inside for ages, but on Friday morning decided to stop in…
the space has been completely rearranged since I was last there and I really like the new setup… and it continues to be a lovely welcoming space…
I had fun in the rock area and came home with four lovely gemstones… a chevron amethyst, a ruby fuchsite, malachite, and azurite…
they make me feel happy;-)…
I also picked up a pretty shopping bag… for the life of me, I don’t know where my other ones are although they are perfectly safe😳…
07 Wednesday Aug 2024
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, corms, dahlias, flowers, garden, happy, hues, Lilystone Gardens, moments, nature, pink, plants, purple, surprise, treat, weather, white, widow
I have been so excited…
for a number of years, I’ve been overwintering dahlia corms, but haven’t had tons of luck… sometimes I know what they are and other times they are a surprise when they get put away…
one white one has proven very prolific and it has produced at least a dozen blooms so far this year in three different pots…
these are about the size of my palm…
a delightful feathery one that I purchased last year at Lilystone Gardens has come back nicely and has a number of blooms and buds in one pot…
each bloom is bigger than my hand…
these have all been white so I was particularly excited to see one come up in a pot that looked like it was pinky/purple…
it is a bit smaller than the white pompom-looking ones, but stands out in all its pink and purple hues…
nature is so amazing…
22 Monday Jul 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, happy, hot, moments, morning glories, nature, photos, purple, shades, smile, walk, weather, widow
had some fun wandering around the garden this morning…
focussed on the morning glories…
different shades of purple;-)…
morning glories bring such a happy smile to my face…
14 Sunday Jul 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, clematis, comparison, family, flowering, flowers, garden, growth, moments, nature, plants, purple, remembering, weather, widow
the clematis on the south side of the house has been outdoing itself this season… maybe it likes all the rain, lol…
I would say there are maybe a hundred buds or blossoms… and that is after two serious thunderstorms which knocked tons of petals off…
came across this photo from July, 2013…
at that point it was probably five or six years old… before this one we had probably planted five or six that all died…
nice to have the comparison as it is easy to forgot how much something has grown…
18 Tuesday Jun 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, columbine, family, flowers, garden, moments, nature, phone camera, plants, purple, Technology, trick, widow
the other day my daughter taught me a great trick for photographing flowers that haven’t turned up… this was her before photo…
as she was taking the picture she put the camera on reverse and set it below the flower…
what a great idea… here is one I took…
how cool is that…
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