dull…

23 Friday Oct 2015

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big girl pants, cavity, dentist, dull, flashbacks, glass, rain, spoon

yesterday morning the sun was shining on us as we drove to work…

this morning I headed to work early for a dentist appointment… it was dark and raining… proceeded to rain for most of the day… very dull and on top of that the dentist found a cavity…

had a rough day with flashbacks to the day George died… three and a half years later and it still stabs at my heart… not really what I want to be remembering and certainly drains my energy…

had a wonderful gabfest with a couple of my dear friends last evening… great to have the opportunity to catch up and spend time together…

I was given this amazing glass spoon, with a tiny bit of purple and turquoise on it… plan to make it my tea spoon so it will get lots of use… it feels amazing…

water…

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…

storm…

11 Saturday Jul 2015

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am dripping wet right now…

hard to see but there is a rainbow in this picture… this is what it looked like after I ran out in the pouring rain and put away all the cushions… first time they have been soaked, sigh… should have put them away before supper…

the day had been perfect up till the storm…

fish were out and about…

watered all the planters and baskets and they are doing well…

found a small tomato…

couple of green peppers…

and an eggplant… woo hoo…

mandevilla is ready to open…

and the million bells basket is beautiful…

the rain has ended but the thunder is still rolling…

water…

16 Tuesday Jun 2015

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woke up to this view out the window first thing…

bit rainy and damp…

we had breakfast, visited, and made plans for the day and week…

got a few pictures of our pretty toes while waiting for the bus… people around us must have thought we were crazy…

off to the mall to see Cinderella… excellent movie… “have courage and be kind”…

falafel in the food court with a bottle of water and then downtown for a boat cruise on the river… wonderful falls which I haven’t seen before as well as lots of other facts and tidbits from the tour guide…

this shot looks toward Gatineau Park where we went hot air ballooning last year when I was here…

the light was much better when we got off the boat so we retook all the pictures we had done on our way down beside the locks…

then a walk through Byward Market and dinner at Luxe… delicious… had bone marrow for the first time and it was very nice… followed up with ricotta gnocchi on asparagus, porcini mushrooms, edamame, and tomato, with parmesan snow… oh my… if you get a chance you should eat there…

finally finished off dinner with a beavertail… a bit of indulgence… only ate a little more than half…

lots of water in my day, lol…

great day…

clouds…

14 Sunday Jun 2015

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weather has been interesting over the weekend…

yesterday morning I took these pictures of clouds looking in two directions…

and last night as I was walking home from supper out with the kids…

although it had been raining just a while before, in this shot it was beautiful…

today was a bit overcast early in the day and then the sun came out and lit up the garden as I worked in one section… happy with my work…

put out all the cushions and we had a lovely visit when the kids came for dinner…

had supper on the deck, and just finished in time to move everything into the house and garage as the sky darkened…

poured for about fifteen minutes after they drove out of the driveway… left footprints when I went into the garden afterwards…

then this:-)…

certainly lots of variety…

windy…

17 Sunday May 2015

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had planned to go and pick up some mulch at Home Depot today but it has been rainy and windy all day so I decided to stay home…

lots of TV and a bit of reading…

watered all the plants in the dining room and made sure they were doing well as they wait for warm weather to arrive so they can get into the garden…

the ground is covered with elm seeds as they have been blowing off the trees all day long… with all this rain, will have lots of weeds to pull out of the garden, lol…

bit tense for the last hour or so, as the wind has really picked up… around 60 km per hour…

looked out and saw my swing blown over…

it is very heavy so I was shocked to see it up against the rain barrel…

just hoping the elm tree next door remains standing… a few years ago a whole section of it came down between the two houses…

might be a long night… not sure when the snow is going to start… crazy weather…

wish George was here tonight…

planting…

15 Friday May 2015

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big girl pants, planting, rain, snow

nice day with sun and warm temperatures… too bad I had to be at work…

sixteen degrees and sunny for most of the day…

but there is a threat of snow on Sunday night… and it is supposed to rain all day tomorrow and Sunday… not exactly the long weekend I was hoping for…

don’t think there is going to be any planting taking place…

gone…

28 Sunday Sep 2014

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looking out the window this morning the sky was overcast and the temperature had fallen… the warm weather has gone…

the remainder of the day wasn’t any better… one minute it would be pouring and the next just overcast…

had to run out and pick up a few things for our dinner for my daughter and her husband who celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary last Thursday…

got a picture of the tree that has lost all of its leaves…

we had steak, lobster, twice-stuffed potatoes, mushrooms and salad… and for dessert we made s’mores cooked on a fire pot in the dining room…

seemed like a busy day…

storm…

18 Friday Jul 2014

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had quite the thunderstorm tonight…

the clouds filled the sky before the rain came…

only came down for maybe ten minutes but there was a lot of it and it was coming from the south… usually a bad sign for the basement…

once it stopped I ran down and checked and everything was dry… yay…

been giggling off and on throughout the day… middle of the night I opened the window

wasn’t till this morning that I realized I had taken the screen off to get some pictures and hadn’t put it back on… amazingly there were very few bugs in the house…