22 Monday Jul 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, happy, hot, moments, morning glories, nature, photos, purple, shades, smile, walk, weather, widow
had some fun wandering around the garden this morning…
focussed on the morning glories…
different shades of purple;-)…
morning glories bring such a happy smile to my face…
28 Friday Apr 2023
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Wednesday is the day I water my plants… I have quite a few, lol…
I combine tap water with some banana skin water and wander around the living room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom, and den, with constant trips to the kitchen to refill the watering can…
I have had this watering can forever and have repaired the handle a few times as I enjoy the feel of this one…
seeing all of the blooms on the African violets and orchids, and the lovely purple anthurium blossom brings me so much happiness and makes me smile…
and currently, there are the seedlings that need attention as well…
it is quite a meditative experience and I enjoy the weekly time spent doing this…
11 Wednesday Mar 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, family, memories, moments, peace, quotes, Seize the Day calendar, smile, widow
recently read a quote on my Seize the Day calendar that said “Peace begins with a smile”…
brought a few things to mind…
a woman who I worked with for a number of years always smiled before answering the telephone… she felt, and I think it was true, that the smile made her sound more friendly and caring to the person on the other end of the phone… she credited her mother with the reminder;-)…
my daughter used peace love and happiness as her logo for many years and when I would see it, it always made me smile… found this on one of her old greeting cards…
it is hard to be angry with someone who is smiling…
21 Monday Oct 2019
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I’m not sure why but I love bendy buses…
I’ve ridden in them in Ottawa, when visiting my daughter and son-in-law… there are lots of them there…
there haven’t been many here until recently…
for whatever reason they’ve been driving down the street by our office and I got a photo the other day…
not sure why, but when I see them they make me smile…
23 Sunday Jun 2019
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beloved, blessed, clusters, family, loss, Maui, memories, moments, orchids, remembering, shopping, smile, tears, treat
it has been over seven years since my beloved left us…
I still have difficult days… they often come in clusters and I’m in the midst of one right now…
today, when I was grocery shopping, orchids were on sale… so as a lovely reminder of my beloved I picked up two…
they do make me smile when I think of all the ones he brought home for me over the years…
he would have enjoyed the orchid farm on Maui…
I miss him so much…
17 Wednesday Jan 2018
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big girl pants, calories, Fitbit, flowers, happy, MyFitnessPal, smell, smile, widow
today I got an email from MyFitnessPal congratulating me on six years of using the app… I started using this one not too long after I started using my first Fitbit…
it is the place where I keep track of my calorie intake… it took a while to figure out how to get the most value from it…
today I also picked up flowers… they make me feel happy and in these darker and busy days put a smile on my face…
and when I got home and walked into the house it smelled wonderful as both of the hyacinth flowers were blooming…
what a treat…
03 Monday Apr 2017
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so happy… there are flowers everywhere…
yellow daffodils in the kitchen last night…
then they travelled in the car this morning on their way to the office…
found their final destination on the counter at the front of the office…
remind me of sunshine and smiley faces…
19 Sunday Oct 2014
Posted in life, nature, Uncategorized
early this morning I went out for a hot tub… the sun was brilliant… made me smile…
hard to tell, but there is a bit of frost in this picture so I wore sandals…
later I headed over to the kids’ place… we were spending some time having family pictures done… we went to a number of places and walked a long way, and there were many smiles…
looking forward to seeing the finished pics…
here’s one of Crystal and I on a warehouse ledge…
Jeff may have broken something getting me up and then down from the spot…
watched a soccer practice for one of the boys and then headed home… drove over the Disraeli both ways… a big girl pants moment for me as I really dislike that bridge…
very excited when I walked into the yard and saw the water falling beautifully… this is strange because usually within a few hours of my pond guy being here the water starts to get clumpy, with algae obstructing the flow…maybe it is too cold for algae, lol…
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