18 Tuesday Mar 2025
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big girl pants, black, charger, connect, Fitbit, instructions, moments, online, screen, Technology, widow
a few days ago my Fitbit wouldn’t connect to my phone… very odd…
then, all of a sudden, the screen went black… I put it on the charger, but that didn’t make a difference…
eventually I went online and found instructions on how to restart the Charge 5…
I followed the instructions and put it on the charger overnight…
happily, it worked perfectly after that;-)…
26 Wednesday Feb 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, door, freezing, moments, nature, night, open, screen, warmer, weather, widow, window
for most of the winter the bedroom window has been closed all the time, partly because it was frozen shut and partly because it has been incredibly cold…
a few nights ago it was finally warm enough to open it and keep it open for the night…
and I also opened the screen door during the day for a little while to let some of that – not freezing – fresh air into the house;-)…
26 Friday Aug 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, installed, kitchen, moments, painting, screen, son-in-law, Technology, widow
busy day Wednesday… we went to Rona and picked up paint and a few other bits and pieces… then Best Buy for a couple more switches… finally Safeway for the last item for our supper…
once we got home, plastic was put all around the kitchen… the ceiling was scraped and sanded… plastic came down, floors were swept, paint went up and a new light fixture was installed…
it works perfectly with the switch that went in a few days ago, and which has a dimmer in it… it is beautiful and puts out a great deal of light…
the screen door was removed and had a good scrub down before going back into its track…
almost invisible now, lol…
the new switches were installed and we had bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches for supper…
woohoo…
05 Thursday May 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, deck, droppings, garden, grass blower, happy, lunch, moments, nature, screen, sun, weather, widow
spent some time out in the garden…
moved the pieces of furniture that were on the back deck and used the grass blower to get rid of a good portion of the debris…
then I had to use the broom for a lot of it that was stuck in the cracks… mostly bunny droppings, lol…
the wet areas dried throughout the day and will be ready for furniture…
after that was done, I sat on the upper deck and read my book for an hour or so…
saw white-throated sparrows and a Swainson’s Thrush, as well as one of my bunny buddies…
this was the first time that I was able to only have the screen open for the entire day…
so happy…
31 Saturday Aug 2019
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big girl pants, Falcon Lake, magnet, nature, pictures, purple, screen, shopping, widow
last year around this time we went out to Falcon Lake for some camping fun…
I picked up the cutest magnetic screen protectors, shaped like butterflies… I put the three of them on the patio screen door…
recently I caught this picture of an actual butterfly on the screen…
wondered if it was having a visit with its magnet friends, lol…
29 Wednesday May 2019
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this morning I turned the furnace off as the weather has really improved…
this was the view out the front door a few minutes ago…
and this was the view out the back… so happy that it is warm enough to have the screen open…
l really love the screen protectors… haven’t walked through the screen even once, lol…
23 Thursday Aug 2018
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big girl pants, butterfly, family, magnet, moments, screen, screen door, shopping, widow
early in August my son-in-law, youngest grandson and I drove out to the campground we had booked for our vacation to leave the boat… only one of the vehicles can pull the boat and trailer so it means two trips to get both of them to our destination…
we had a great day, boating and fishing… we also checked out the shops;-)…
I picked up the sweetest screen door protector…
a lovely butterfly made up of two parts with magnets in the middle… it looked very cool on the screen door…
I really liked it, so while we were there last week I picked up a few more…
very cute;-)… and will surely help people realize the screen is closed, lol..
06 Thursday Jul 2017
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big girl pants, chocolate, daughter, outside, screen, serendipitous, trees, widow
tonight I enjoyed a delightful bit of chocolate… Brookside Dark Chocolate Tart Cherry Crisp with pomegranate flavour… might just take longer to say the name than it did to eat it, lol…
it has a very cool tree on it…
just minutes after that my daughter sent me a picture of some screen printing she did at a class tonight…
another tree… how cool is that…
the really funny thing is that this was the picture I had already prepared to post tonight…
it is of two of my colleagues sitting in the sun for a few minutes over lunch yesterday… we try to get outside for at least a few minutes on sunny days…
the whole serendipitous thing is amazing… great way to start my weekend;-)…
15 Saturday Apr 2017
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, camaraderie, candy, dad, family, flowers, Good Friday, prep, screen, widow
been thinking of my dad a lot over the last few days…
he was ill my entire life and his last four years were really a gift…
he died on Good Friday nearly thirty years ago… I don’t remember the date but it was in March that year… I had been called to the hospital and realized he really was dying… I left for a short while to pull myself together and after talking with a friend went back and sat with him as he moved from this world to the next… a privilege to share those moments with him…
always amazes me how something brings back the sadness and grief, even after all this time…
he was a special man and taught me so much about being a kind and gentle person and always seeing the good in people…
I remember the times he would sit on the deck and enjoy visiting with family and friends…
today I put the screen into the upstairs hall window, which looks out on that deck… over the winter I take it out so that I can take better pictures, lol…
feels like it is Spring now that the screen is in and the window is open… had the screen door open and enjoyed the gorgeous weather while I was cooking and doing prep work for tomorrow’s Easter dinner…
dad always had candy in his pocket… you could almost hear the wrappers rubbing against one another when he walked, lol…
and as I prepared the space and table I was missing my beloved… he was so good at helping me get ready for special meals… he would have picked up the flowers and anything else needed and looked after a good portion of the cleaning as I worked in the kitchen…
I miss that camaraderie…
I have been, and continue to be, blessed with the men in my life…
12 Saturday Mar 2016
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happy to open the patio door and have the warm air flow through the screen…
first time it has been open since the fall I think… had the bedroom window open all day too…
spent a few minutes on the deck shovelling the snow off it… planning to sit out there for a bit tomorrow…
got a few pictures of the water in the pond… won’t be long before I am sitting out there beside it…
heat from the sun is melting the snow around the big rocks…
tonight all the solar lights are on… for the last few nights some have been staying lit until early in the morning… excellent sign of Spring…
streets were pretty dry so today when I headed out I wore my sandals…
now we are talking;-)…
herbiggirlpants 