22 Saturday Sep 2018
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big girl pants, blessed, computer, garden, gymnastics, rain, widow
been a quiet day… worked on the computer, did laundry and was able to watch some artistic gymnastics… what a treat…
cool this morning and overcast… as the day proceeded the rain started and kept on…
clearly an autumn day…
11 Tuesday Sep 2018
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big girl pants, clouds, drops, everywhere, rain, sky, thunder, widow
this morning the sky was interesting wherever you looked…
I took a few minutes before I left home to take pictures of it all around me…
while I was taking pictures I could hear the rolling thunder and as I drove to work the lightning was all around…
no rain until I was parking the car and then just a few drops…
09 Sunday Sep 2018
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big girl pants, blessed, cooking, dad, dinner, family, flowers, memories, missing, morning glories, pasta, rain, raindrops, remembering, rummaged, sunshine, tomato, treat, weather, widow
odd weather today… went from cloudy to sunny, to rainy, and back again a number of times… ended with sun shining through the clouds…
the poor morning glories took a beating early on… nearly every time it rained the drops were huge…
thinking of my dad today as I took hours to make fresh tomato sauce to go with some spaghetti for supper… I keep buying grape tomatoes to make caprese salad and then never use them all up… he would add all kinds of condiments to add flavour and it always ended up delicious… as I rummaged through the cupboard, I remembered watching him do the same thing, lol…
it turned out great and was a lovely treat as I don’t often have pasta… made some homemade coleslaw to go along with it and have a bit of both for lunch tomorrow;-)…
04 Saturday Aug 2018
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big girl pants, boat, camping, campsite, drive, Falcon, family, fish, fishing, love, lunch, patience, rain, sky, widow
what a lovely day…
started with an early wake up, a drive across town, a packed up truck with a boat behind it… I love the boat…
then we drove to Falcon Lake, put the boat into the water and went fishing… my son-in-law caught a fish right away… then we waited patiently for the fish and they never came… quite a while later the sky clouded over and we headed in to the dock…
put the boat back on the trailer and just got the cover on it when it started to spit… had to run to the store for a lock and it poured all the way there and back… then it stopped for about two minutes… just long enough to get the lock on…
afterwards we went out for lunch, drove around to check out our campsite for next week, and headed home…
the closer we got to the city the clearer the sky became;-)… now it is pouring here, lol…
30 Monday Jul 2018
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big girl pants, family, grandson, lightning, Rabbit Lake, rain, regatta, sky, sunshine, weather, widow
spent Saturday at Rabbit Lake watching a rowing regatta…
last year my grandson was only in two races… this year he was in quite a few…
in his first race he was with someone he hadn’t rowed with before and they came in second, which meant they would row in the finals later in the day…
the process is very interesting… before they can put the boat into the water an umpire has to check that everything is correctly placed… then they have to put the boat into the water, get set up in the boat and head down to the starting area… when they have completed the race they row back, wait for directions to land, take the boat out of the water and then put it back with the rest of their team’s equipment…
then they might have to rush to get ready for their next race… he ended up a couple of times running from the end of one race to the start of another…
the most fun was a four hundred metre mixed race for eights… these huge boats are fun to watch and have very few races, lol…
at one point the proceedings were called due to lightning… so for nearly an hour everyone had to come off the water and tie down their equipment… then the sky cleared and it was back to racing…
much later the lightning and thunder ended the regatta… it was interesting to watch everyone get off the water and pack up all of the equipment…
and then it poured, cleared up and the sun came back out in time for a bbq and award ceremony…
a great fun day… then the long drive home…
01 Sunday Jul 2018
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big girl pants, Canada Day, day 3, fireworks, fun, garden, grandsons, rain, sky, walk, weather, widow, WWTB
last night we did stay up and walk over to the the track behind the Library to watch the fireworks… it was a beautiful night and a great show…
this morning we slept in… well I was awake, but stayed in bed so the boys could get their sleep…
once up, and after breakfast, we spent some time in the garden… did some watering, trimming and relaxing… tv watching, video game playing, and possibly some napping was how we spent most of the day, with a bit of time outside playing with the football…
around four we packed a bag and walked over to the Children’s Playground at the Park…
there were a lot of people enjoying Canada Day festivities…. we caught a few Pokémon and then started home when the thunder and lightning started… part way home the rain poured down… we decided to pick up pizza and walked fast…
once we arrived home we took off our wet jackets, hats, shoes and the backpack and had the pizza… thankfully, the box had not quite disintegrated…
FaceTimed with mommy and watched some tv…
14 Thursday Jun 2018
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big girl pants, dinner, fireworks, friends, lightening, pedicure, purple, rain, sheets, spa, stunning, thunder, toes, widow
what a wonderful evening…
supper out with some very special women…
tried shrimp stuffed eggplant at Blaze Bistro… tasty…
then it was off for pedicures… such fun…
as we left the spa the sky was dark gray… getting into the car it was starting to spit…
by the time I arrived home I’d driven through sheets of rain, loads of lightening and waterlogged streets… that part wasn’t so fun, lol…
as I write this the thunder is rolling around the sky… it looks amazing out there… and is currently sounding like fireworks… yikes…
but my toes are stunning;-)…
09 Saturday Jun 2018
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been watching ads on tv for the Red River Ex, which is always a sign of summer…
they brought back some wonderful memories…
when our kids were in baton – so, quite a few years ago – my beloved and I worked at the gates welcoming guests… it was fun and paid well for the four or five years we participated… always so interesting to see how people present themselves…
people were either thrilled and happy to be there or irritated beyond belief, lol…
the other piece it reminded me of is how often it rains during the Ex, lol… rain suits were a staple… should be good for the garden…
fun memories…
took this picture last week;-)…
30 Wednesday May 2018
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bag, big girl pants, electricity, GFI, pond, rain, storm, widow
late yesterday afternoon it poured in St. James… apparently not necessarily in other parts of the city…
it was coming down so hard when I arrived home that I put a large IKEA bag that I found in the garage, over my head…
I took a video of the downpour but it wouldn’t upload…
the pond filled to overflowing and then the pumps stopped… there was so much rain that it tripped the GFI… once the weather improved I went out and pulled the plug out, reset the button and plugged the cord back in… happily the pump started and the waterfall began running… and I wasn’t electrocuted… I texted my son-in-law to say I was still alive and he laughed… hmmmmm…
same thing when I got home tonight… poured like crazy for an hour or so in the late afternoon… we need the rain, but I would like it to rain during the night…
was going to wait till the morning to get it turned back on, but just ran out and got it going again..
18 Friday May 2018
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big girl pants, Birchwood Toyota, Indi, nail, rain, service, tires, widow, winter
this morning I put on those big girl pants and headed out to Birchwood Toyota… in the rain… to pick up my tires…
when I took Shadow to trade her for Indi, she still had her winter tires on… got a call about a week ago saying they were ready for pick up…
had a bit of a giggle when I pulled up to one of the three service bay doors… hadn’t realized that it said Lexus on it while the other two said Toyota… a service guy had me move, lol…
once in the bay a kind man went and found my tires, wrapped them up and put them into the car for me…
once home I was able to get them out of the car and piled them up in the corner… I couldn’t lift them to their spot in the shelf, but will have my son-in-law or grandson do it next time they are here… was rather proud that I had managed to get them moved…
and only broke one nail…
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