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28 Tuesday Oct 2025

Posted by sulis303 in health, life, moments, retirement, technology, Uncategorized, weather

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bed, big girl pants, blessed, covers, foot, moments, pictures, sheets, sleeping, Technology, widow

had a conversation the other day about often putting my foot outside of the blankets to sleep…

I’d seen something on social media saying it can help a person go to sleep…

one person agreed they did it all the time, but another said they’d never heard of that, or done it…

so, I went online and found the following:

early this morning I tried to get a photo of my foot outside the sheet and blankets…

it was entertaining to get the photo in the dark, lol…

reverse…

07 Monday Aug 2023

Posted by sulis303 in camping, health, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized, weather

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air mattress, big girl pants, blessed, comforters, deck, dew, garden, moments, moon, preparation, reverse, sleeping, sleepout, weather, widow

spent another night out on the deck;-)…

this time I brought up the air mattress, laid down a comforter to set it on, and filled it up;-)…

then up came more comforters and down came pillows from my bed…

had a good sleep but the top cover of the comforter was wet from the dew… and my glasses were completely fogged over…

last view of the moon before the entire process was repeated in reverse…

sleeping…

19 Wednesday Dec 2018

Posted by sulis303 in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized

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ache, big girl pants, healthy, hot tub, neck, propped up, sleeping, virus, widow

for weeks I was having trouble sleeping…

I think I had a virus which caused an ache in my neck that really made laying down in bed painful… a number of colleagues had mentioned similar issues…

it went on and on… some nights I barely slept… other nights I would wake up ten or twelve times… even went out to the hot tub in the middle of the night and took the odd drug, which clearly shows how bad I was feeling, lol… none of which worked by the way…

for the last few days I’ve been able to sleep without being propped up in the bed…

and I hadn’t even realized it, lol… a reminder of how quickly we can forget when we weren’t feeling well… but great to realize how good being healthy makes you feel…

getting a good night’s sleep is so beneficial to everything else you do…

so happy to be over whatever it was…

WWTB day 10…

08 Sunday Jul 2018

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adventure, best, big girl pants, day 10, family, grandsons, grass, lobster, moments, movie, read, sleeping, supper, videos, widow, WWTB

the final day of my week with the boys while the rest of the family visit the East Coast…

tidied bedrooms, watched videos, went to a movie, read and mowed the grass…

relaxed for the remainder of the day…

we talked about the best things during our time together… biggest hit was our steak and lobster dinner… best camp happening was touching the snake… best thing for the older one was sleeping in and our visit to The Forks… not a bad list, lol…

suitcases, pillows, groceries, backpack and shoes all ready to go… then there were the happy faces as they got picked up, lol…

bye;-)…

WWTB day 5…

03 Tuesday Jul 2018

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big girl pants, camp, chores, day 5, fun, grandsons, organized, sleeping, soccer, supper, widow, WWTB, zoo

great news… the youngest did go to camp and had a great time… I was a bit worried about whether he would actually get there…

he hadn’t been to camp before and had a poor night’s sleep… maybe worrying about it…

got up and got his bag packed with lunch, two snacks and a water bottle in addition to rain gear and a change of clothes… had a bit of trouble getting the bag closed, lol…

spent a few minutes relaxing before taking him over to the Park…

dropped him off at the very beginning of the check-in time and he went in, a bit tentative but he went through the gate…

kept my phone close all day long, but he clearly enjoyed himself and there were no calls…

when I picked him up he wanted to stay longer to play soccer…

as we drove away he advised that I needed to drop him off at the exact same time tomorrow so he would have extra play time…

meanwhile the older one slept for most of the day… he did eventually get up and do the few chores on the list I’d left him… did I mention he is 13, lol…

together we decided on bits and pieces to have for supper from various meals we’ve eaten over the last few days… we also reviewed our planned meals and made a few adjustments to be sure we had all the meals covered…

tv and video games till bedtime, lol…

I think some of us are more tired than others…

lazy…

26 Saturday Dec 2015

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amaryllis, big girl pants, eating, lazy, sleeping, snow, sun, trees, window

this morning I wandered around and took a few pictures of the snow…

  

through the living room window… sun was shining… nice…

  
and from the dining room window… trees are very pretty…

  
my amaryllis is growing nicely, although no buds have started…

had a lazy day in my jammies watching tv, sleeping and eating…

seemed to be just the right thing to do…

seeing and hearing, or not…

13 Tuesday Aug 2013

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better eyes, big girl pants, goldfinch singing, hot tub, meteor shower, miss my beloved, seeing and hearing or not, sleeping, sounds, waterfall turned off

last night I sat in the hot tub watching for the meteor shower, although it wasn’t very likely I would see it as it was in the direction of a very bright street light…

was thinking how George may have been able to see some activity in the sky… he had much better eyes than I and could always spot the satellites and shooting stars…

tonight I arrived home to a quiet backyard as the pond folk had been in and turned off the waterfall as they attempt to find the leak in the pond…

amazing how much one gets used to a certain sound… reminded me of the goldfinch that stopped by to sing for us as we were eating our dinner on the deck last night…

goldfinch having breakfast...

goldfinch…

still in recovery mode from all the recent activity here and after I ate my dinner I spent the rest of the evening sleeping…

going out for a short hot tub and then back to sleep for the night…

when I went to write this blog the computer wouldn’t connect to the internet and, rather than get rattled, I tried a few things and all of a sudden it was working again…

those darn big girl pants, lol…

oh how I miss my beloved…

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