20 Saturday Apr 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, family, few, flowers, food, groceries, moments, plants, Safeway, seniors, shopping, treat, widow
on Wednesday we went for a quick visit to Safeway to pick up a few items…
I got flowers and a plant with two types of hyacinth, tulips am daffodils…
seemed like a lovely birthday treat;-)…
and it was seniors’ day so the saving was the same amount as the bouquet…
that was a treat…
the few items did end up filling two bags, lol…
23 Tuesday Jan 2024
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anticipation, big girl pants, blessed, crocus, daffodils, flowers, happy, hyacinth, moments, plants, pot, Safeway, shopping, Spring, tulips, weather, widow
on Sunday we took a trip to Safeway to find some spring plants… this is the time of year that I need lots of things blooming around me…
we found individual pots of hyacinth and crocus… then a pot with tulips, daffodils, primrose, and hyacinth in it… I got them all, lol…
I am enjoying watching them as they open and anticipating the scent;-)…
01 Sunday Mar 2020
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bend, big girl pants, blessed, carnations, flowers, fun, happy, memories, moments, movement, purple, Safeway, tulips, widow, windy
part of the reason I shopped at Safeway yesterday was to be able to get some flowers… they almost always have something I like;-)…
I picked up tulips and a few carnations…
instead of making one arrangement, I divided them… one for the living room, one for the dining room, one for the bathroom and one for the bedroom…
the photos above were from yesterday… tulips move in their vase on a regular basis so they are fun to watch throughout the day…
so far today they have opened up and started to bend over in the light…
I’ve enjoyed watching them as I was reading, particularly as it was a bit overcast and very windy out today…
05 Tuesday Mar 2019
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anniversary, beloved, big girl pants, colleagues, flowers, lunch, memories, orchid, potato pancakes, Safeway, samosas, Shrove Tuesday, widow
on this seventh anniversary of losing my beloved, I started the day by going to Safeway and buying flowers and an orchid for work… flowers for the front of the office and some for my space…
was very happy that they had orchids because the last few times I’ve been there haven’t been any…
my beloved always bought me flowers and orchids, particularly in the winter which has often been a difficult time for me…
at noon, I ran out and picked up samosas to share for our lunch… this was something he would do every now and then… seemed like a lovely way to remember him and what made him so special…
it was a great meal, with salad, veggies, hummus, cheese and grapes added by my colleagues…
as it is Shrove Tuesday, pancakes were on the menu for supper and I made potato pancakes, a nod to the world’s best hash brown patties that he would make…
a good day with many lovely memories…
25 Monday Jun 2018
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big girl pants, event, flowers, guru, Safeway, shopping, transformation, widow
yesterday I picked up flowers from Safeway for an event this evening…
I gave them to the clerk to wrap without putting them in a plastic sleeve and assumed she would put them in one before wrapping them…
she didn’t so the package was soaking wet at the bottom and the stems were sticking out before I even got home…
I took them out and put them into a container of water so they would be in good shape for today…
this morning I put them in a plastic bag filled with water so they wouldn’t suffer on the way to work… tucked them into the seatbelt and away we went…
at the office, our resident flower guru cut and placed them in fresh water, and then arranged them beautifully…
they spent most of the day at the front of the office and then moved into the meeting space for the evening…
quite the transformation…
26 Monday Jun 2017
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arrangements, big girl pants, florist, flowers, fun, office, Safeway, widow
had such fun getting ready for our AGM…
had planned to have a friend prepare the flowers for the event but that fell through… luckily she gave me some great pointers…
yesterday I went to the floral area at Safeway and hoped to get some design help from Michelle, the florist on duty…
I showed her one of the vases that we were planning to use and the basic design I’d been given… once we chose the flowers she was able to make me a sample… helped with how tall to cut the flowers, where to add the greenery, etc… she was amazing and put everything into a bucket for me and boxed up the sample…
filled the back of the car with flowers and it smelled like a flower shop as I drove home…
when I got home I sent a picture to my friend to see if the arrangement looked similar to what she had planned…
she thought it looked great, which helped make me feel better about the whole thing, lol…
packed up the bucket and box and took everything to the office this morning…
spent a lovely time putting together the arrangements… and they came out great, thanks to a colleague who finished them off with ribbons…
they looked great on the tables… simple but pretty…
afterwards I put a bouquet in each of the helpers’ offices;-)…
flowers make me happy…
13 Thursday Apr 2017
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looking forward to having the next four days off;-)…
it was beautiful out and the first time this spring I’ve driven with the moonroof open…
ended my week with a trip to have my hair purpled… the process takes a bit of time but I had brought my book… it was nice to have a quiet time with nothing to do except read…
when I was leaving a deer walked right through their yard… how cool… what a treat…
on my way home stopped in at Safeway and got all the fixings for Easter dinner… tomorrow will be a rest and read day…
here’s the result of the evening…
20 Monday Feb 2017
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big girl pants, flowers, Formal Gardens, garden, hot tub, Poke Balls, puddles, Safeway, squirrels, walk, widow
out for an early morning hot tub and was listening to the squirrels chattering away…
as I looked out into the yard – which didn’t get quite as cleaned up for winter as my beloved would have done – I remembered how the garbage can was damaged by an angry squirrel… George had cleaned out a nest the squirrels had made in the shed… he’d put a ton of peanuts and leaves and various bits of stuffing into the garbage can… a few days later we discovered that the squirrel had chewed through a corner of the can… it is very thick plastic and we couldn’t believe they could actually get through it, lol… and all the peanuts were gone…
was remembering many of the fun times that have taken place in the garden…
headed out to the Formal Gardens at the Park a bit later to get a walk in, and gather some poke balls…
dull sky but warm… lots of puddles to go around…
on the way home stopped at the Tuxedo Safeway and picked up flowers… they looked lovely and perked me right up…
I’d tried to get some at the Madison Safeway yesterday but their supply was decimated from the Valentine’s Day rush…
a restful Louis Riel day…
31 Tuesday Jan 2017
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arrangement, big girl pants, chips, florist, flowers, hydrangeas, Safeway, widow
needed chips and flowers today so I stopped at Safeway on my way home and picked up both…
spoke to the florist on duty and told him about the hydrangeas that I brought home a few weeks back and which died within a few days… he mentioned they would replace them so one batch of these flowers were free… nice…
had enough flowers to make two arrangements so I’ve got one in the living room and one in the bedroom…
munched on a bowl of chips while enjoying the flowers…
18 Sunday Sep 2016
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bed, big girl pants, blossoms, camera, Costco, dropping, Emmys, Pokémon, Safeway, sweater, widow
had some fun with my camera first thing this morning as I took pictures of the flowers in the house…
we will see if they end up dropping the rest of the blossoms or whether they will happily open…
beautiful hibiscus flower…
mandevilla blooms in the hanging basket which I set into the gardenia plant… hope they all make it through the winter…
grocery shopped at Safeway, dropped off the bags, and then went to Costco with my kids…
always find a few things there that I really need… today it was a cute Tommy Hilfiger sweater and some fancy olive oils…
great to have supper together again… and both my son-in-law and grandson did a few jobs around the house for me…
now I am curled up on my bed watching the Emmys and catching the odd Pokemon…
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