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10 Wednesday May 2017

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big girl pants, blink, change, circle, difficulties, eye, family, remember, roses, smell, tulips, widow

things can change in the blink of an eye…

recently a number of women in my circles have been dealing with very difficult situations… loss of parents, illness of partners and children, employment concerns…

often there is little to do besides sending positive energy and love over the airwaves… spending time holding them in thought and prayer feels like a good use of time…

good to remember to smell the roses, or in this case, tulips…

frozen…

01 Monday May 2017

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beloved, big girl pants, daughter, decisions, freezer, frozen, garbage, grandson, smell, strong hands, widow

or not…

Saturday was a good day… up at a reasonable time… made a lovely breakfast… I tend to have eggs on the weekend… 

got some laundry done… even scrubbed down the top of the stove… sure do miss George for some jobs and scrubbing is one of them… my arms are wussy but he had strong hands and arms… when he scrubbed a pot it was completely shiny when he was done;-)…

had a break and sat outside and read for a bit… texted with my daughter to see if they were coming for dinner on Sunday and when she advised they were, I headed down to the freezer to pull something out to thaw…

that is when the day took a turn… everything was thawed… as in not frozen, not even cold… bad… it smelled bad and all of it was bad…

my daughter and grandson came over and he – who has a strong stomach and weak nose – unlike his mother and grandmother – took out five bags to the garbage…

then he hosed down and rinsed out the freezer a few times and moved the – now very heavy and completely full – garbage can to the back of the yard… of course Friday was garbage day, so the disgusting smell will be around all week… likely we will need to put some bleach in it for a few days after it gets dumped to get rid of the odour…

so, here’s my freezer today…

waiting to be picked up and taken to the scrap yard…

starting to research a replacement… should I get another chest freezer or go for an upright one…

decisions, decisions…

recover…

01 Saturday Apr 2017

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

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. soup, beloved, big girl pants, ChefsPlate, chocolate, cold, eat, hyacinth, jammies, meals, meatballs, missing, omelette, recover, sick, smell, widow

have really taken the day to rest and recover from the cold I’ve been struggling with all week… 

these are some of the times when I most miss my beloved… he always did a great job of looking after me…

jammies on all day and the only thing I did was prepare meals…

for breakfast I really wanted to order something, but dragged myself down to the kitchen and took inspiration from the cute woman at the resort who made all the egg dishes… cooked up mushrooms, green onion and spinach and made an omelette with a little cheese in it as well… came out very nicely…

for lunch I chose the last bit of my zucchini basil chicken soup with chips and some Mexican chocolate… seemed like just the right combination, lol…

for supper made one of the ChefsPlate meals… still enjoying the process of preparing the meal… and it tasted great…

turkey and spinach meatballs…

as I was sitting in the living room waiting for the meatballs to finish cooking I could actually smell the hyacinth…

hurray, the cold is starting to let up…

air…

23 Thursday Jun 2016

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air, big girl pants, breathe, Duck Pond, lilacs, Park, smell, squirrel, Ultimate

had to run and get my camera this morning when I saw these squirrels… one was running up a telephone pole and the other was standing at attention on the peak of the roof…


so cute…

after work I walked over to the Park and watched some Ultimate… had a lovely visit with a friend and on my way home stopped to smell the air in a few spots where the lilacs were blooming… it was wonderful…

got a nice shot of one of the Duck Pond fountains… different angle…


also came across this little manicured garden by the Pavilion… took a few moments to breathe in the peace…

simmering…

28 Sunday Feb 2016

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Academy Awards, big girl pants, chicken, comfort, dumplings, mom, recipe, simmering, smell

decided this morning to make chicken and dumplings for supper…

daughter isn’t feeling well so they didn’t come for dinner…

I think what I like about this meal is that it takes a while to make, but most of the time it is simmering on the stove so you don’t have to work away for hours, but that is what makes it comfort food for me… and the smell is delicious throughout the house…

I put chicken legs and thighs in a large pot with onion, celery, carrots with salt, pepper, bay leaves and water… brought it to a boil and then turned it down to simmer for a number of hours…

then I strained it, and while the chicken cooled down, put chopped carrots, peas, corn and barley into the broth…

  
took the meat off the bone and slid it back into the pot…

left it to simmer for awhile and then made dumplings using my mom’s recipe… today I included cilantro…

simmered for another half hour and then enjoyed it…

  
scrumptious… 

was careful with my food intake earlier in the day so that I could have two helpings…

now to watch the Academy Awards…

smell…

10 Friday Apr 2015

Posted by sulis303 in health, life, nature

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big girl pants, hyacinth, peace lily, smell, Starbuck's, walk

there’s a lovely smell in the house these days…

last week when I picked up the tulips I also picked up a hyacinth…
was hoping for purple but it turned out to be a white one…
  
every time I walk into the house it smells like spring… even smell it when I am walking down the stairs…
recently had a lovely walk in the spring weather with someone I don’t get to visit with much…
had a cup of tea at Starbucks, where she had to point out the area where the milk and sweetener were located… 
I laughed as I mentioned how I was always embarrassing my girls by not knowing where things are located…
the peace lily is beautiful right now…
  
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