12 Monday Feb 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, checkout, containers, cute, grandson, groceries, heart shaped, moments, shopping, treat, widow
yesterday we went to Superstore for some groceries…
while we were in the checkout line I spotted these cute little heart-shaped containers…
they had no price tag, but I decided I needed them, lol… they ended up being about $4.00…
today I filled some of them with a few treats for a gathering of friends…
they are so cute and useful with their little covers…
and fun…
10 Saturday Feb 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, books, buy, collection, moments, Nora Roberts, read, shopping, stockpile, widow
such fun on Wednesday as I went through my Nora Roberts book collection…
I reorganized all the books in alphabetical order and went through the trilogies and other items in the stockpile…
and then I ordered a few books to complete some of the trilogies…
can hardly wait for them to arrive;-)…
08 Thursday Feb 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, bowls, collection, food, heart shaped, moments, purple, shopping, widow
I have a small collection of heart-shaped objects and the other day I bought a new bowl to add to the collection…
I have really enjoyed using it;-)…
it is slightly larger but goes perfectly with the other three heart-shaped bowls I already have…
for the month of February I’ve been trying to use them as much as possible❤️…
07 Wednesday Feb 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, buffet, food, friend, Good Earth Restaurant, koi, lightweight, moments, purple, shopping, sweater, time, walk, widow
had a fun time yesterday with my buddy…
we went clothes shopping and I got a beautiful lightweight purple sweater with pearls and silver dots on it… and it was on sale…
after that we stopped and picked up a few groceries before going to the Good Earth for the lunch buffet…
I got to visit with the koi for a few moments…
I even walked up from the end of the street, lol…
then there was a nap;-)…
23 Tuesday Jan 2024
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anticipation, big girl pants, blessed, crocus, daffodils, flowers, happy, hyacinth, moments, plants, pot, Safeway, shopping, Spring, tulips, weather, widow
on Sunday we took a trip to Safeway to find some spring plants… this is the time of year that I need lots of things blooming around me…
we found individual pots of hyacinth and crocus… then a pot with tulips, daffodils, primrose, and hyacinth in it… I got them all, lol…
I am enjoying watching them as they open and anticipating the scent;-)…
14 Sunday Jan 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, books, health, lunch, mall, moments, nature, shopping, shovel, snow, visit, walk, weather, widow
had a lovely time on Thursday…
started out with shovelling the sidewalk… my oh my, we had a lot of snow since yesterday…
then friends arrived to pick me up and take me to Polo Park to mall walk… it was very nice to be able to walk in a space without ice and snow, where there was lots of space, and few people…
forty minutes and three laps later, we went to their house and had a lovely visit and lunch…
we topped lunch off with a few pieces of dark chocolate…
later I was brought home with a bagful of books to add to the stair bookshelf;-)…
what a wonderful treat…
04 Thursday Jan 2024
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for years the catches on the cabinet under the fish tank have not worked…
last week we picked up some new fasteners that I wasn’t sure would fix the problem…
Monday morning I took out the magnetized pieces, added gorilla tape to each of them and fastened them to the door after removing one magnet and cleaning off the tape and glue with one of my Christmas presents, a scraping tool…
such a little thing, but fixing it and having it work properly makes me so happy;-)…
31 Sunday Dec 2023
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BestBuy, big girl pants, blue screen, camera, computer, failed, geeks, grandson, harbinger, HP, learning, moments, research, shopping, son-in-law, Technology, widow
on Thursday the blue screen of death showed up on the laptop…
apparently on Monday, when the camera kept failing during our video call, it was a harbinger of the computer’s end of life…
I spent quite a bit of time on Friday morning searching for the sales slip from January 2nd, 2020, when I purchased it in Ottawa, without success… I did find the record in my credit card statements, but after contacting Best Buy, discovered there was no extended warranty…
did some research and went to Best Buy… had a plan to purchase the same computer, but an updated version…
in the end I found a slightly higher quality machine and was happy they actually had it in the store… after consulting with my two computer geeks, brought it home and we spent time in the afternoon getting it filled with all “the stuff” I need…
the old machine fit beautifully into the box the new one came in, and will take a trip to my son-in-law to see if he is able to save anything on it…
I had some fun in the evening doing some personalization and making it my own, lol…
it will be interesting to see what I forgot I needed, lol…
30 Saturday Dec 2023
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Advent, big girl pants, blessed, books, Boxing Day, Chapters, Christmas, gift card, grandson, happy, moments, reading, reads, shopping, widow
I love to read, so was very happy that one of my presents was a gift card to Chapters…
we went shopping and I found five books, and a series which will be a gift…
not exactly sure why we went on Tuesday (Boxing Day), but it was worthwhile… the books were all 30% off with another 10% because of my membership, and then the gift card…
was pleased with the great savings, and looking forward to some good reads…
20 Wednesday Dec 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, busy, Christmas, done, gifts, happy, last, moments, presents, shopping, tree, widow, wrapping
out shopping on Saturday morning for the last of the Christmas presents…
went to two stores, neither was overly busy and everything on the list was obtained…
happy to be finished …
then spent a bit of time wrapping;-)…
all of the parcels are now under the tree;-)…
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