24 Wednesday May 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, blossoms, covered, flowers, garden, lilacs, moments, nature, scent, trees, walk, weather, widow
had a lovely walk on Tuesday;-)…
spotted lilacs everywhere I went, and enjoyed the scent…
and also saw a beautiful tree covered in white blossoms…
and finally spotted one of the mallard families;-)…
02 Thursday Mar 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, Goose Spit, grape hyacinth, happy, living room, moments, nature, orchid, plants, purple, rock collection, scent, table, white, widow
happy that I finally got a nice photo of the cute new little white orchids…
have had the plant for a few weeks now, but just couldn’t get a nice shot of a single bloom…
looks cute on the living room table along with the other new orchid and two little grape hyacinths which have just started to scent the air;-)…
and the new display in the table looks nice as well… some of my rock collection from Goose Spit with a few crystals thrown in;-)…
04 Monday Apr 2022
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big girl pants, charcoal, daughter, first footing, gift, hair, moments, scent, shampoo, sliver, widow
a year ago my daughter sent some gifts for a friend to drop off to me on January 1st…
amongst the items was a bar of charcoal hair shampoo… I have really enjoyed it and it is now a sliver, lol…
apparently the company may have closed, and the shampoo doesn’t appear to be available…
I went online and found something that might work, ordered it and it arrived last week…
not sure if it is going to work… it has a fairly strong smell so I have set it out on the window ledge in the bathroom and will see if the smell dissipates…
then I will try it on my hair and see how it goes…
16 Wednesday Mar 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, hyacinth, moments, perfume, plants, purple, scent, season, smell, widow
I love the perfume that hyacinths produce, but it is very strong…
recently, I had company and knew that strong scents were difficult for them…
so I bagged both of the hyacinth plants to help dissipate the smell, lol…
they looked a bit funny but are now back in in the open and delighting me with the scent;-)…
22 Tuesday Jun 2021
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. soup, big girl pants, blessed, curry, family, flavours, food, lunch, memories, mom, moments, scent, widow
today, as I was eating my cauliflower soup for lunch, I was thinking about my mom…
she loved curry… at that time it was not one of my favourites, but yesterday I popped some into the soup…
tasted pretty good and the smell certainly brought back memories of times with her;-)…
07 Sunday Feb 2021
cut the blooms off the hyacinth plants yesterday morning… when I walked into the living room they were all hanging over the edges of their pots…
put the purple ones in the bathroom…
the yellow ones went on the ledge between the kitchen and dining room…
moved the pots into the dining room garden… a bit of additional green looks good… that garden is getting bigger;-)…
now the scent is everywhere on the main floor…
05 Wednesday Jun 2019
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last night I walked home after having my hair cut, and purposely took a path that would take me by a number of lilac bushes…
I was able to stop at each one and take photos and enjoy the beautiful scent…
tonight when I drove the same path, with all the windows open, the perfume was so delicious… the wind must have been blowing in just the right direction… what a treat…
unfortunately I wasn’t able to bring any home… but I have pictures;-)…
01 Monday Oct 2018
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opened the door to the lovely scent of a freshly cleaned house…
what a gift that is to come home to…
they only come once a month but that works just fine for me… I usually leave a list of what spaces I want them to clean as they are only here for a limited time…
I think back to Ruth, who would spend three or four hours and clean every nook and cranny… she loved to clean and it was so obvious… polishing silver and washing the floors on her hands and knees were two of her specialties…
can always tell the cleaners have been when I walk into the bathroom and see the folded toilet paper;-)…
17 Saturday Mar 2018
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beloved, big girl pants, flowers, fried egg, hyacinth, memories, pink, purple, replicate, sandwich, scent, widow
thinking of my beloved a lot recently… for the past few days I’ve been thinking of his fried egg sandwiches…
this morning I made an open-faced version using some of the French bread from La Belle Baguette that I picked up yesterday…
I can’t replicate what he did… they were always especially yummy… although that might have to do with how much butter he would add to the bread, lol… and the eggs were always perfectly cooked with soft yolks…
I picked up a few hyacinths the other day… left one at work and brought one home for the bedroom… just love the scent as they open… as it bloomed, discovered that it was pink… I usually get the purple ones…
made me realize how much pink there is currently in the bedroom… I held the hyacinth up to the new curtains which have purples and pinks in them… then realized that my afghan has pink in it as well… and when I put away some laundry in the closet – which I recently hung by colour – I spotted some pink as well…
very interesting as pink has never really been one of my colours…
11 Thursday Jan 2018
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big girl pants, flowers, hyacinth, moments, scent, smell, snowflakes, stop, widow
this morning on my way to work I had to stop and take a photo of the snowflake wreath hanging on the back door…
trying hard to remember to stop for the moments…
also spent some time smelling my hyacinth tonight… such a beautiful scent…
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