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twisted…

03 Friday Apr 2020

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my daughter sent me a calendar wth daily yoga for April, so this morning I decided to do some… I got an old yoga mat out, arranged my phone so I could see it from the mat and started the video…

unfortunately I twisted my back in the process so I’ve had to be very careful with everything I’ve done for the rest of the day…

since the girls were little I occasionally end up with a hurt lower back… sadly, it usually takes ages to return to normal… there’s never an obvious action to cause the problem… it just means being careful about standing for too long and twisting the wrong way when sitting…

my solution today has been to quietly sit in the living room and read… so happy I found the books on Kobo…

for a good portion of the day it snowed and late in the afternoon the sun came out and it looked beautiful with everything covered in snow… especially as I didn’t have to leave the house…

as I was sitting and reading I looked out to see the most beautiful sky…

seeing this stunning view was a very special moment, which I enjoyed…

Kobo…

02 Thursday Apr 2020

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I’ve finished all the new books I had and was trying to decide if I should start rereading an old one…

I thought I could read something on my Kobo, but couldn’t remember where I put the charger, lol…

but then I decided to download the app onto the tablet which I got with my last iPhone and haven’t been using…

the bonus was that I had purchased a number of books which I hadn’t yet read… and by some of my favourite authors…

I’ve spent a good portion of the day cuddled up under a blanket in the living room reading, as the snow fell…

avocado…

28 Saturday Mar 2020

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avocado, big girl pants, blessed, garden, hot tub, moments, outside, planting, pond, reading, Spring, sunshine, widow

had a wonderful day outside yesterday…

topped up the hot tub and added chemicals to it…

found my gardening gloves and planted an avocado…

although it is still messy on the deck, I sat in the sun and read for a while…

noticed that there is actually water in the pond;-)…

Spring is really coming, yay…

bricks…

22 Wednesday Jan 2020

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another lovely quiet day…

so happy to know that my shovellers will be by whenever it snows… Saturday it was the partner who did it all with a shovel… there was a lot of snow out there…

when it wasn’t snowing or blowing it was beautiful…

last night the city plowed the street and built some good sized windrows in front of the sidewalk… they did a great job cleaning out the end of the driveway though…

I texted my shovelled and he was by within an hour to clear out the bricks of frozen snow…

think this process is going to work well for both of us… him, not having to dig it out when it has frozen back into one large clump and me, having a clear walkway for my company…

alarm…

10 Tuesday Dec 2019

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this morning I let the alarm go off and let it play the whole song as I considered that I will only need it for two more days…

I might have to get up early in the future, but not for work;-)…

usually I wake up before the alarm rings, so I don’t often have to turn it off…

two more days… hard to believe I have made it to this place… it is exciting and a bit scary…

going to start with lots of rest, relaxation, and maybe even some reading…

resting…

12 Friday Jul 2019

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had a good sleep in my own bed and spent a restful day recovering from my camping trip;-)…

back to usual patterns and started my day with a fruit smoothie, thanks to the frozen fruit my grandson had picked up while he was house sitting…

lots of tv, reading and napping…

walked over and got my hair cut…

tiniest bit of purple left in it, lol…

it was a beautiful day and I enjoyed the walk… even got a few flower photos in the process… the St. James Biz have done a great job with the planters…

back home I had lunch and did more resting;-)… enjoyed time in the garden, listening to the waterfall…

cooked some pickerel for dinner…

it is always nice to come home…

blissful…

28 Friday Jun 2019

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such a lovely day…

was up and in the hot tub while the moon was a crescent in the sky… then I went back to bed and slept for another three hours…

in the garden and had all the cushions out before breakfast, after mowing the grass… spent the entire morning reading and listening to the waterfall…

after lunch had a nap and went for a pedicure…

company for dinner and then spent the remainder of the evening in the garden…

blissful…

birdseed…

04 Saturday May 2019

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basement, big girl pants, birdseed, deck, feeders, furniture, garden, reading, ready, widow, wind

a beautiful day out…

it was fairly windy so I wasn’t going to go and do anything outside, but had a conversation with my Ottawa daughter who had been busy in her yard…

so, I had a nap and then went out for a bit…

brought up the birdseed from the basement and filled the feeders as well as the two pails that live in the garage…

then I did a little cleaning on the back deck and moved the furniture around to get the garden ready…

and finally, I spent some time reading in the sunlight…

grief…

04 Friday Jan 2019

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big girl pants, eloquent, flowers, grief, memories, reading, sick, walk, well, widow

thinking of so many who are not well these days…

also been doing some reading on grief… it is always comforting to see that others have similar feelings and many of them can express themselves much more eloquently than I…

bushes…

10 Sunday Jun 2018

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big girl pants, bushes, butterfly bush, flowers, garden, hot tub, planting, pond, reading, resting, sunrise, weeding, widow

spent the day in the garden… was up early with a quiet hot tub as the sun rose…

did quite a bit of weeding in amongst watering, reading and resting… took a number of photos along the way… always nice at the end of the day to remember what it looked like at the beginning;-)…

planted some butterfly bushes although they don’t really look very lively and potted up the last of the plants I’d bought recently… I was very happy when I came across the bushes because they are difficult to find as they are annuals here, not perennials, which is what the packaging always says…

had all three meals in the garden with a short nap in the house…

enjoyed the time out there, even the weeding…

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