10 Thursday Sep 2026
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family, big girl pants, widow, moments, tripod, search, monopod, pretending
wandered around the house looking for my monopod which my grandson gave me for Christmas a few years ago…
searched high and low and finally spotted it hanging right at the front door, lol…
I think it was pretending to be an umbrella, lol…
going to try it with my camera to see if it might be better than my tripod, lol…
although it doesn’t let the camera move at all…
we shall see…
12 Tuesday Aug 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, frogs, Leo Mol Garden, moments, nature, photos, pond, rain, search, water lilies, weather, widow
had a lovely time on Monday taking photos of the water lilies in the Leo Mol Garden…
it sprinkled a few times throughout my time there, so I did end up putting on and taking off my rain jacket, lol…
there were also quite a few frogs in the pond and I do love to search them out and get a few pictures, lol…
too bad I didn’t have my Nikon so I could have gotten closer shots…the warm water in the lily pond certainly helps with all the blooms…
there are also lilies in the arbour pond, but more pads, than lilies…
reminded me of my art installation…
01 Friday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, couch, furniture, grandson, moments, narrow, plants, search, shopping, table, Technology, widow
I’ve been looking for ages for a narrow table to go behind the couch in the den…
at one point I even considered having one made by my handyperson…
then I found one that I liked the look of online and eventually decided to order it… it had a spot for a few plugs and usb ports as well…
the package arrived on Wednesday evening and my housemate took it downstairs and put it together while I was reading…
it came up on Thursday morning and went into the living room as I cleared off the table that was currently behind the couch…
after moving many pieces, the new table made it into its final spot…
electrical items were plugged in and then the plants made it onto it and the couch moved back into place…
it is the perfect height and length and looks excellent…
always happy when a project works out well…
25 Wednesday Oct 2023
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14 years, bathroom, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, broken, family, fit, grandson, handwritten, Home Depot, medicine cabinet, moments, new, plastic, Rona, search, stock, widow
been having trouble keeping one of the medicine cabinet doors closed for the last few weeks…
I thought it was because the magnet on the mirror was separating from the plastic behind it…
the other morning I looked at it and thought it was no longer level…
at which point I discovered that the plastic where the door attached to the cabinet had broken… it took two of us to remove the broken cabinet…
what a treat to discover my beloved’s handwritten measurements inside the hole🤗…
after measuring the space, it was off to Home Depot to see if we could find something that would fit into the hole in the wall… and of course I needed two, sigh…
we found a cabinet that should work, but the store we were at didn’t have any in stock, so it meant another trip… after trying two other stores it was off to Rona, where we found two of the same cabinet at an even better price;-)…
it has been fourteen years since my beloved installed these cabinets when we redid the bathroom, so I guess it did pretty well, being opened more than ten thousand times, lol… that wasn’t a bad run…
and, just like that we have two new cabinets, although the space inside them is smaller, but they will work fine;-)…
29 Sunday Jan 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, butterflies, flowers, garden, moments, Morpho, nature, plants, search, Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden, sunshine, Technology, widow
lots of butterflies in the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden… also many people…
the sun was shining so they were flitting about the whole space…
the blue Morpho butterfly is very sneaky and would not let me catch a single photo of it with the gorgeous blue when the wings are open…
next time I will take a video and then a still from that, lol…
the butterflies arrive as chrysalis from Costa Rica on a regular basis and are released into the space once they emerge…
so, each time you are in the Garden, there will likely be different varieties…
it is such fun to search for them in amongst the foliage…
26 Sunday Dec 2021
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so happy to finally have an amaryllis…
I’ve had my grandson on the search for some for weeks…
he finally came across one and dropped it off…
it has a pot and soil, but I decided to put it in water and set it inside the snowflake…
looking forward to watching it grow…
30 Thursday Aug 2018
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big girl pants, family, grandparents, kneeboard, moments, search, strap, strapping, velcro, widow
last year, on our final camping trip of the season, the strap on the kneeboard broke…
the board came from my son-in-law’s grandparents and he is very attached to it… new boards are designed differently and he doesn’t like them…
so, recently I started searching for someone who might fix the strap…
found strapping and Velcro and spoke with a local upholsterer who agreed to do the sewing for us…
once my son-in-law checked out the strapping we realized it wasn’t quite right… he found some from a ratchet he had at home and we dropped off the Velcro and strapping to be sewn…
now we have a nice new strap… it should get attached to the board in the next few days;-)…
01 Sunday Apr 2018
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amethyst, big girl pants, bunnies, chocolate, decorate, eggs, search, slice, strawberries, table, widow
yesterday, while my grandson was here we set the table for Easter dinner…
together we decided on the tablecloth, dishes, platters, bowls, and how we would put the gifts on the plates… I used to buy books for all the special times, but now they are bigger I give them gift cards so they can make their own choice of something to read… also had a chocolate bunny for each of them…
while we were out shopping we picked up an angel food cake, strawberries and whipping cream for dessert… he cut the strawberries up before he left…
when the family arrived this afternoon the boys searched for treats from the Easter bunny… they found tons of mini eggs…
I had Easter treats too… got myself a beautiful heart-shaped amethyst from Poco Inspired, the kids brought me a bag of Ferrero Rocher mini eggs, and apparently there is a bag on my daughter’s mantle in Ottawa waiting for me;-)…
22 Wednesday Mar 2017
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big girl pants, chocolate, cigars, cliff divers, lost, Mazatlan Day 6, pool, Pulmonia, search, tequila, widow
foggy morning… we had breakfast and then went in search of tequila, cigars and chocolate…
walked up the street and found a tequila shop which specializes in mango tequila… also had a few other types… found cigars in a little store close by and then took a Pulmonia downtown… apparently we could all ft in one because the two younger boys could sit on our laps…
checked out the large market and then went in search of chocolate… found some a few blocks away from the market in a department store, lol…
then we went in search of the cliff divers… took a few wrong turns and walked a bit further than needed but eventually we found the spot…
seems like a dangerous pastime but one of the divers told me being injured is part of the job… yikes…
back to the hotel for a nap and some pool time…
this is the hallway outside our room… you can see a busy part of the city through the open portion of the windows…
here’s our chocolate haul… hope it is tasty;-)…
missed the sun setting by a few minutes tonight but it was still a lovely sky…
one last day tomorrow;-)…
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