09 Monday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, drywall, family, fresh, grandson, happy, moments, paint, rain, sand, weather, widow
my middle grandson came over Sunday to help replace the carpet on the front steps… of course it poured so that didn’t happen…
instead he did a final sand of the drywall in the laundry area and gave it two coats of paint…
what a difference it makes, and it looks so fresh with the white paint…
today we put everything back… those dressers were heavy…
15 Monday Jul 2024
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, dirty, dust bath, garden, moments, nature, path, pond, sand, swept, walkway, weather, widow
we’ve tidied up the walkway between the pond and garden and I had swept the path a few days ago…
yesterday I looked at it and discovered that it was once again covered in dirt, sigh…
as I watched the sparrows having their dust baths it occurred to me what the problem was, lol…
today I swept it again, pretty much knowing that it won’t stay tidy for any length of time…
maybe I will put down that fancy magic sand that turns solid once it has water put on it…
it will be interesting to see how the birds respond…
29 Thursday Jun 2023
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beach, big girl pants, blessed, Fall, family, fun, happy, moments, nature, rocks, sand, water, weather, widow
took a while, but I made it all the way into the water…
Sunday we spent a short time at Albert Beach where I went in up to my knees for just a few minutes… while there we spotted a pair of eagles flying over, although I was only able to get a photo of one…
late in the afternoon we went down to our beach and went into the water… it was rocky at the edge but we got through, found the sand and stayed in for quite a while… it was lovely although I had a little spill coming out of the water, lol… lots of rocks, but there were no injuries…
14 Wednesday Jul 2021
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beach, big girl pants, blessed, food, friends, health, memories, moments, nature, remembering, restored, sand, sunrise, time, treats, vacation, water, widow
I spent five glorious days with friends’ at their beach cottage…
the first thing I always do is jump out of the car and run down to be sure the beach and lake are still there, lol…
what a wonderful time it was… delicious food (that I didn’t have to prepare); wonderful conversations, stories, and laughter; listening to birds and the waves; lots of time on the beach and in the water; relaxing, reading and sleeping…
what more could you ask for;-)… I am restored…
such a gift…
14 Saturday Nov 2020
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beach, big girl pants, blessed, family, flew, Hawaii, hot tub, Maui, memories, moments, nature, sand, travel, water shoes, widow
last night, as I was putting on my water shoes to go out to the hot tub, I spent a few moments thinking of when I wore them in Hawaii…
I have two pair… the others are in perfect shape, but don’t fit as well or feel as comfortable on my feet… even though these ones have holes in the toes, they were the ones that flew to Hawaii…
when I put them on here, it is to protect my feet from the cold and snow… it was my son-in-law who suggested I wear them rather than slippers which could get filled with snow, or might not be in the right spot when I get out of the tub… they work perfectly and I wear them right into the tub and back to the house…
on Maui I wore them to keep sand off my feet and to keep from being burned on the boiling hot sand…
from minus 20 to plus 20 and back…
21 Tuesday Mar 2017
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beach, big girl pants, henna, Mazatlan Day 5, ocean, parasailing, pina colada, sand, shells, shopping, vacation, waves, widow
as usual I was up and on the balcony by 6… bit of early morning fog then…
but by 6:45 it was nearly gone… called the other daughter as today is her birthday…
had breakfast around 8 and then we headed to the beach in front of the hotel… spent the day there… we beachcombed, jumped in the waves, rode on boogy boards, relaxed, got henna tattoos, drank piña coladas, shopped for signs, jewellery and sea shells…
and parasailed…
my daughter took the shots from up in the air…
I got to go on my own… such fun…
we spent a final hour in the pool and headed to our rooms to rest and get ready for dinner at the Mexican restaurant…
enjoyed our supper and are all headed to bed…
all that fun wears a person out, lol…
here’s today shell collection… that we found…
and the purchased ones which came from the island just across from the hotel…
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