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02 Wednesday Jan 2019

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I get an email whenever the space station flies over the house…

there will be a week or so when the messages come once or twice a day and then weeks go by with no notifications…

I’ve had a number of emails over the last week, but as the fly past has been first thing in the morning I haven’t gotten up to look for the station…

but the emails last night mentioned two fly-bys this morning… one at 6:21 and the second at 7:55, which is just about when I leave for work…

so I headed outside to watch for it… stayed out for about five minutes but didn’t spot it… think it might have been behind the neighbour’s tree…

it is always exciting when I do see it;-)…

stuffed…

06 Thursday Dec 2018

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had to stop and take a shot of the beautiful sky this morning as I was heading out to the garage…

lovely start to the day…

I’ve also been very happy to leave the house and get to the garage through the backyard… the cold has shifted the side garage door again and it isn’t closing again… for a while I was coming and going from the front door… rather a pain because I’d have to open the big door from the kitchen and then go out the front door… when I’d get home I’d have to walk through the house to click the door closer…

but recently I tried stuffing a rag between the door and the lock… it is a bit of a problem as I have to stuff it in whenever I open or close the door but way easier than having to use the front door all the time…

rather pleased that I figured this out, but in the Spring will need to have a new door installed…

anticipated…

11 Sunday Nov 2018

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anticipated a quiet day… no plans to go out or anyone coming over… I would watch the Remembrance Day service on Parliament Hill and read and watch tv…

woke up to blue sky out the window… haven’t had much of that recently, so it was a great treat…

I did a few little jobs around the house and settled in to watch the service…

received a message that someone was going to drop off some chocolate within the hour, so I responded saying as long as it wasn’t while the service was on…

then my son-in-law called and said he was on the way over for tea… he and the youngest arrived just as the moment of silence was taking place…

we watched together and a few minutes later there was a loud noise coming from the driveway… the person who is going to clear my snow had come over and was blowing the little bit of snow on the ground with a strong leaf blower… I wrote out cheques while we were watching the tv and then waited for him to knock on the door… eventually I realized he had left…

about then the kids left…

didn’t really get to watch much of the ceremony, lol…

decided not to nap in case either the snow blower person or the chocolate person turned up…

the snow clearing person arrived a bit later and I gave him the cheques…

wasn’t until I was making supper that the chocolate person arrived…

much busier day than expected…

shrimp…

25 Thursday Oct 2018

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early morning… beautiful sky… changed every few minutes as I drove downtown…

saw dozens of geese flying low overhead… what an amazing sight… and a wonderful way to start the day…

had a smoothie for breakfast, butternut squash soup for lunch and ended the day with a late supper of jumbo shrimp and wild rice… healthy and tasty…

good way to start off my weekend;-)…

stash…

13 Thursday Sep 2018

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two storms during the night and the power was off… not sure for how long, but it came back on at 6 am… I know that because I heard what sounded like a car not starting… after a few minutes I realized it was the printer coming on line…

the sky was still quite angry…

when I got home had a beautiful view as I came out of the garage into the garden… even after an all-day overcast sky, the morning glories were smiling at me…

ended the very long week with a delicious treat… a bit of chocolate, almonds and two shortbread cookies from my stash, lol…

happy weekend;-)…

thunder…

11 Tuesday Sep 2018

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this morning the sky was interesting wherever you looked…

I took a few minutes before I left home to take pictures of it all around me…

while I was taking pictures I could hear the rolling thunder and as I drove to work the lightning was all around…

no rain until I was parking the car and then just a few drops…

glory…

08 Wednesday Aug 2018

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three great things before I even left the driveway this morning…

a stunning sky… couldn’t really get a picture that showed how orange the sun was…

then as I was headed to the garage I spotted morning glory flowers… the first ones of the year…

while I was searching for more blooms spotted my neighbour and after checking in with him he shared cucumbers and tomatoes with me…

dropped them into the house, took one final picture of the morning glories and headed off to work…

pretty fine way to start the day…

boat…

04 Saturday Aug 2018

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what a lovely day…

started with an early wake up, a drive across town, a packed up truck with a boat behind it… I love the boat…

then we drove to Falcon Lake, put the boat into the water and went fishing… my son-in-law caught a fish right away… then we waited patiently for the fish and they never came… quite a while later the sky clouded over and we headed in to the dock…

put the boat back on the trailer and just got the cover on it when it started to spit… had to run to the store for a lock and it poured all the way there and back… then it stopped for about two minutes… just long enough to get the lock on…

afterwards we went out for lunch, drove around to check out our campsite for next week, and headed home…

the closer we got to the city the clearer the sky became;-)… now it is pouring here, lol…

sleepout…

31 Tuesday Jul 2018

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last night I had my annual sleepout…

I miss camping and this is a fun way to get the feeling… also a great opportunity to see the stars;-)…

it is a process and I left it a bit late to get organized… it was dark by the time I brought up the air mattress from the basement… I always put down a comforter underneath to be sure that no slivers puncture the mattress…

I couldn’t find the cap that goes on once it was filled with air… searched upstairs where it had last been set up but could not find the cap… came downstairs thinking there wasn’t going to be a sleepout… started to take out the pump, only to discover the cap was on a string which was inside where the pump was, lol… clearly I should have done the set up in the light…

then it was on to bringing up comforters and bringing down pillows…

had a great sleep, although the mattress went down a bit, likely because it cooled off a bit… not a single mosquito, woo hoo…

a lovely view to wake up to… took everything down, put things away, had a hot tub and then the sky clouded over…

great timing… looks like it will be overcast and rainy most of the day…

regatta…

30 Monday Jul 2018

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spent Saturday at Rabbit Lake watching a rowing regatta…

last year my grandson was only in two races… this year he was in quite a few…

in his first race he was with someone he hadn’t rowed with before and they came in second, which meant they would row in the finals later in the day…

the process is very interesting… before they can put the boat into the water an umpire has to check that everything is correctly placed… then they have to put the boat into the water, get set up in the boat and head down to the starting area… when they have completed the race they row back, wait for directions to land, take the boat out of the water and then put it back with the rest of their team’s equipment…

then they might have to rush to get ready for their next race… he ended up a couple of times running from the end of one race to the start of another…

the most fun was a four hundred metre mixed race for eights… these huge boats are fun to watch and have very few races, lol…

at one point the proceedings were called due to lightning… so for nearly an hour everyone had to come off the water and tie down their equipment… then the sky cleared and it was back to racing…

much later the lightning and thunder ended the regatta… it was interesting to watch everyone get off the water and pack up all of the equipment…

and then it poured, cleared up and the sun came back out in time for a bbq and award ceremony…

a great fun day… then the long drive home…