29 Monday Jun 2026
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this pesky knee is being a bit of a pain, so on Sunday I didn’t spend any time getting steps…
made for a quiet day, although with the rainy and overcast weather it was fairly easy to lay around reading and napping…
I also got to watch the F1 race in Austria…
that was fun…
03 Saturday Jan 2026
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2025, apps, big girl pants, books, Goodreads, moments, read, Technology, widow
while talking with someone about the 100 books I read in 2025 (yay me), I discovered there were apps out there to track your reading… who knew🤪…
my method had been to take a photo of the book when I finished it and add it to a Books Read album on my phone… this worked well until I dumped my photos, lol… then I would record the count in a new album and continue adding photos of books as I went along…
I am trying one called Goodreads… this one has many options… you can join groups, accept challenges and review books you’ve read… all I want is a place to record what I’ve read…
so, we will see how it goes…
24 Monday Feb 2025
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big girl pants, bins, blessed, deadline, deals, delivery, efficient, food, grandson, groceries, moments, plastic bags, read, Save-On-Foods, shopping, Technology, widow
my housemate has been picking up groceries for me so I haven’t ordered from Save-on-Foods for quite a while, but on Thursday I put an order in for delivery…
I had received an email advising of a $25 refund if I spent $75, so I went ahead and ordered some regular items on my shopping list, lol…
I made sure to call their info line because one item was buy-one-get-one-free, and I couldn’t remember if I should put two, or one, on the order…
the phone was answered quickly and the customer service person had the answer right away…
I also appreciate that they no longer use plastic bags, except for produce… I put out my own boxes and the driver transfers from their bins to mine…
when my order arrived, there wasn’t a credit so I went back to the email, only to discover that the deadline had just passed… by a few days, lol… apparently I should have read it better or put the order in sooner…
but, I did get the free item;-)…
11 Saturday Jan 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, books, later, library, moments, read, Technology, time, widow
the stair library has returned;-)…
now to get back to the work of reading them all;-)…
see you later…
19 Thursday Sep 2024
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big girl pants, books, cash, GLOBOsapiens, JD Robb, Louise Penny, moments, read, shopping, Technology, trunk, widow
finally made it to GLOBOsapiens Used Bookstore, as a number of friends had told me about it…
took a box full of books that I had read, which have been rattling around in the trunk for weeks, and came home with a box full of books that I have been looking for…
they only take cash and luckily I had some on me… and, because I brought books in, most of the ones I purchased were half price…
I’ve been looking for the JD Robb In Death series for quite some time so was thrilled when I found twenty to add to my library woohoo…
now to add them to my list so I know which ones I have and which ones I still need;-)… and figure out where they are going to go…
26 Tuesday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, books, family, girls, memories, moments, read, shopping, Technology, widow
since the girls were born, I’ve been giving them books for birthdays and holidays… I’ve done the same for my grandkids, but now we’ve worked up to gift cards as it isn’t clear what they might like to read…
now I don’t really have anyone to buy books for, but I have a new neighbour who has just turned two, so I’m getting books for him now…
it is such fun to buy little people books…
10 Saturday Feb 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, books, buy, collection, moments, Nora Roberts, read, shopping, stockpile, widow
such fun on Wednesday as I went through my Nora Roberts book collection…
I reorganized all the books in alphabetical order and went through the trilogies and other items in the stockpile…
and then I ordered a few books to complete some of the trilogies…
can hardly wait for them to arrive;-)…
25 Sunday Jun 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cliff, cliff deck, family, happy, moments, nature, power, read, Technology, water, waves, weather, whitecaps, widow, wind
spent a good portion of my day on the cliff deck… it was sunny…
in the morning, it was a little breezy, but by the afternoon, it was very windy…
watching the whitecaps and waves pounding the shore reminds one of the huge power of nature…
20 Sunday Nov 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, finished, friend, living room, moments, parcel, plants, read, reorganized, scones, visit, weather, widow
a good friend came by Friday morning with a parcel they picked up for me…
I also received some delicious scones;-)…
after they left, I spent time in the living room reorganizing the space…
tidied and moved plants, rearranged tables and sat and read in the finished space…
01 Thursday Jul 2021
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big girl pants, donation, garden, moments, orange, petition, read, relations, sorrow, take action, widow
today…
I signed a petition…
read a book – 21 Things You May Not Know About The Indian Act... one of the Appendices included the 94 recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada…
put orange sarongs on both doors (the only orange I have)… they darkened the space, so every time I walked by them I was reminded of my focus for today…
listened to “A Day to Listen”… yesterday I heard a few of them on the radio, but today took the time to hear all of them…
made donations to The Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack Fund and Indigenous Residential School Survivors Society…
thought long and hard about what we/I must continue to do to make right relations…
although it was a new and sad way to spend Canada Day, I learned a great deal… and I will not forget…
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