23 Friday Oct 2026
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big girl pants, food, widow, moments, basil, short, zucchini basil soup
today I made zucchini basil soup… I may have been a bit short of basil, lol…
it tastes good, and I’ve made it with someone special in mind…
I hope they like it😊…
23 Thursday Oct 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, butterflies, cacao, cake, daughter, family, food, moments, Ottawa, short, The Leaf, time, treat, visit, widow
had a wonderful, but short, visit with my Ottawa daughter over the last few days…
she had been to Calgary for an event and stopped here on her way home…
lots of time together as we caught up in person… late nights and early mornings while she was here… and lots of laughter…
always cake from Baked Expectations when she arrives;-)…
we spent a lovely morning at The Leaf noticing the growth since she was last here and counting cacao pods…
she also spotted the first chileo on the second tree… made me laugh cause I’ve been looking for ages trying to spot one on that tree…
we visited the butterflies although they weren’t very active as it was cool and overcast but it was fun to see them together… the Canadian Museum of Nature, in Ottawa, currently has a butterfly display as well so we often compare which butterflies we each see, lol…
we worked on a plan for our next trip together and did lots of research on the computer…
dinners in and out as we ate some of her favourites and then we were headed back to the airport for her flight home…
always a treat;-)…
06 Friday Dec 2024
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went to take out the last sleeve of crackers and thought it had already been opened because it was so low in the box…
it wasn’t, and I was shocked when I measured the sleeve alongside the box…
it was way shorter…
maybe the price hasn’t changed much, but there are way less crackers in it…
24 Thursday Aug 2023
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there has been a loose board on the lower deck for quite some time now, which has tried to trip people up for ages…
it was a bit warped and we had tried screwing it down at the two ends, but clearly the wood underneath was not in good condition in those spots… recently, the hose got stuck in it, lol…
finally, I lifted it right up and checked underneath only to discover that the screws in the middle were too short, so I brought out the drill and screwed in much longer ones…
and now it is no longer moving… yay me;-)…
13 Sunday Sep 2015
up early and walked over to the “A” for breakfast with my son-in-law…
surprised to discover that they don’t open until 8 on Sunday… and we got there just a few minutes after 7… so we went to Perkins…
got dropped off not far from home and walked the rest of the way…
saw this interesting X in the sky and had to stop and get a picture…
ran out to do a couple of errands and sat out for a few minutes before my daughter picked me up to go to her new house and figure out where to put everything in the kitchen… picked up a variety of squash on our way to the house…
took the fixings for supper and after a busy but short afternoon, came home with my son-in-law on his way to work…
been thinking of my grandma lately… got my hair cut over a week ago and it was kind of short…
still really short… my grandma used to have hair about this long… she brushed it straight up and it looked really great… been wondering whether I should give that a try… I use a brush that was hers so it reminds me of her on a regular basis…
full day…
