04 Friday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, house, moments, move, neighbours, renting, sad, truck, widow
it was a bit of a sad day today, even though the sun was shining;-)…
a moving truck arrived and took all morning to empty out the house next door…
I am going to miss my little buddy and his baby sister (oh yes, and their parents, lol), but they aren’t moving too far away and will be around as they are renting the house…
28 Saturday Sep 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, fox, foxy, haircut, health, moments, nature, plants, sad, walk, weather, widow
walked over and got a haircut this morning…
on my way, met up with a red fox that was about five feet away when it ran past me…
didn’t even look like much hair was taken off, but my head certainly feels better…
noticed the sad looking flower pots along the boulevard that look like mine at home…
apparently the city isn’t watering, just like me🤪…
does my hair look foxy;-)…
19 Friday Apr 2024
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African Violet, big girl pants, blessed, moments, over-watered, perk, plant, sad, water, widow
I’ve noticed that this African violet was looking very sad…
a few days ago, I picked it up to check it out and discovered it was sitting in 2 inches of water… poor thing was drowning, sigh…
it has already started to perk up;-)…
08 Wednesday Dec 2021
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the other day, four trucks took over the street…
I went to look out the window to see what was going on and discovered they were cutting down one of the elm trees on the boulevard…
I watched most of the process…
they had a bucket and the person in it cut down the small branches at the top and they moved it down bit by bit… between cuts, people on the ground gathered up the pieces and put them through the chipper…
finally they put a rope around what was left and there were a number of final cuts as they tried to pull the last 20 feet of it over…
it took quite a few tries to get it to topple over and the ground shook when it landed…
another hole in the sky…
20 Friday Aug 2021
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big girl pants, damaged, flowers, garden, hibiscus, moments, nature, plants, rain, sad, storm, weather, widow
for the last week or so I’ve been wondering why the hibiscus is getting all these yellow leaves… I’d been watering it and had even given it some banana peel water…
this afternoon, between rainfalls, I put a chair up alongside it as the wind is supposed to get crazy tomorrow and I didn’t want it to blow over again…
and spotted this…
this is very sad… I hope I will be able to remove the broken portion and that the other two stems will remain healthy…
it may have been damaged during the big storm last week… the tree had blown over and I didn’t check the stem when I put it back up… too bad, maybe it could have been repaired…
02 Saturday May 2020
a very sad morning here…
three days ago I unplugged the pump on the fish tank as I was on a Zoom call and it was very noisy… I have often done this…
when I plugged it back in, nothing happened… I tried different outlets to no avail…
I decided to put the fish into the pond but had to do some cleaning of it first… got some done, but hurt my back so waited a bit…
they seemed fine while waiting… in the middle of the night it occurred to me that one of the smaller pond pumps might work in the tank…
first thing this morning I was out in the garage finding a pump… brought it in, tested it in the sink and put it into the tank… think it is going to work in the meantime…
the water is murky, which will not likely clear up as currently there is no filter… the fish seem to be swimming about and appear much happier… this pump is even noisier than the last one, lol…
unfortunately, the biggest fish died during the night;-(…
11 Friday Jan 2019
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took a few pictures today of the neighbour’s front yard…
it is very sad…
the big elm tree was cut down a few days ago… I hadn’t noticed until a while after I got home that night because it was late and dark out…
will be missing the shade this tree provided… and all the seasonal beauty…
another big hole in the neighbourhood landscape…
11 Tuesday Dec 2018
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alone, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, Christmas, family, friends, help, many, melancholy, memories, poinsettias, sad, stocking, widow
this can be a melancholy time of year… often we think of those who are gone and won’t be with us to celebrate… I made sure to put my beloved’s stocking out where I could see it and remember the many wonderful celebrations we had…
it also seems to be a time when people are ill or feeling alone…
I was thinking of that when I took pictures of the poinsettias…
when you glance at them from one angle it appears there is only one, all alone… but when you look at them from another point of view you see there are many of them…
when I’m sad, I often get caught up in thinking I am all alone… good to think of the many who are there to support me…
the trick is to remember and be brave enough to tell them I need them… and then to accept the help, lol…
06 Tuesday Nov 2018
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. soup, big girl pants, dad, down, flowers, friends, happy, memories, November, orchids, sad, widow
recently have had conversations with a few people about being down, feeling sad, being depressed… seems like many in my circles are struggling this month…
November doesn’t seem to be a particularly good month for me… not sure if it is the time change, gray days, cold weather or what… seems like many have similar feelings…
my dad’s birthday was in November… he was a great guy and I miss him…
I like to remember that where there are downs, there will be ups…
today I bought some orchids to brighten my space which always perks me up…
then I made a lovely pot of Thai shrimp soup which was delicious and a wonderful treat…
20 Thursday Sep 2018
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big girl pants, dark, garden, morning glories, sad, vitamin, vitamin D, widow
this morning I was up at my usual time… it was dark…
the sun rose forty-five minutes later… this is very sad… a clear sign of what is to come…
it was light when I left and there were many, many, morning glories blooming in the garden…
this week I started back on vitamin D…
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