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…
26 Friday May 2017
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big girl pants, Bino, chives, flowers, lilacs, Mexican, moments, purpleness, scent, SkipTheDishes, sunshine, Tomy Roma's, treats, widow, yoga
the day was filled with purple treats…
early this morning as I was walking to the clinic for some bloodwork I came across numerous lilacs in various stages of opening…
these ones were on the way there…
and these ones were on the way back… so pretty and the scent was divine…
was wonderful to be walking outside in the sunshine and warm weather…
at noon did yoga, in my purple outfit, on my purple mat, lol…
at the end of the day when I arrived home I took this picture of the purple flowering chives that are lining the driveway…
for supper I ordered beef bones through SkipTheDishes… lovely end to the week… Tony Roma’s is the only restaurant that calls after you’ve ordered to see if your meal was satisfactory… a great touch…
my daughter FaceTimed me to show me the parcel that arrived… inside was my newest Fitbit Charge 2 metal band… a purple one…
the final treat of my day was some of my loose teamate tea and a little bit of chocolate… love the purple Bino bottle with the extra hot water in it…
and it looks nice on my Mexican blanket/ tablecloth…
good day filled with purple moments…
05 Thursday May 2016
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big girl pants, blooms, hot, Millennium Library, pond, scent, widow
just spent half an hour sitting on the deck reading… while I was there the delicious scent of the the apricot tree down the lane kept wafting over me… some years it has barely any, but this year it is filled with blooms…
the temperature at 8 pm was 30 Celsius…
crazy hot day…
went for a walk around 2 and took this shot of one section of the pond by the Millennium Library …
was hoping there might be some ducks, but not so far…
happily my knee is feeling a bit better…
going to be hot for sleeping…
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