24 Saturday Oct 2020
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22 Thursday Oct 2020
Posted in family, food, garden, health, life, moments, nature, technology, Uncategorized, weather
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, comfort food, family, garden, goldfish, lentils, mask, moments, nature, pond, safety, shubunkins, snow, Technology, trying, widow
last night my grandson came over just after dark to bring me a few items and do some jobs around the garden… here he is arriving, thanks to my new camera…
and the goodies he brought… I’m excited to try the purple popcorn…
he took the pump out of the pond, moved the heavy furniture onto the back deck, and then we spent time trying to catch fish…
two cellphone flashlights lit up the pond as he searched for the fish… amazingly he caught one of the shubunkins… quite a feat as they look mainly black in the pond and by then it was very dark out, lol…
I’ve been masking up now whenever he is over because of where he works… last night I ended up taking off my glasses as they kept fogging up, so I was trying not to fall into the pond… which was a feat as there are a bunch of rocks that have been pulled out of the water and are all over the deck, lol…
because I knew he was coming I had made our favourite red curry lentils and packaged up some for him to take home, along with a couple of items for the others… he was sad to hear he had to share the lentils;-)…
had some of mine for breakfast…
21 Wednesday Oct 2020
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big girl pants, birds, deck, family, feed, garden, moments, nature, shovelled, snow, surprise, widow
woke up to this…
we often get a bit of snow before Halloween, but it usually disappears… not sure that is going to happen this year…
I went out to the garden, dug the shovels out of the garage and shovelled off the top deck and by the hot tub… I set up a few spots for bird seed…
this winter I am going to keep the top deck clear so that I can feed the birds… last year the kids didn’t come by to shovel and my guy only does the bottom so the deck became impassible… still need to figure out how to attach a feeder to the deck…
with retirement, I can clean the deck whenever it works best for me, or a little at a time, lol…
20 Tuesday Oct 2020
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big girl pants, cold, family, furniture, garden, moments, nature, photos, pond, pots, snow, widow
went outside this morning and moved as much of the furniture as I could…
a few pieces are very heavy so I left them to be dealt with by the boys…
I also moved all the planter pots under the deck…
here’s the view once I was done…
that was around 10 am… I took this photo at 5:30 pm…
;-(…
09 Tuesday Jun 2020
Posted in garden, life, moments, nature, Uncategorized
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big girl pants, blessed, cottonwood, dandelions, flowers, fluff, garden, moments, nature, snow, sticker book, widow
started one of the sticker pages in my book… and worked on it between tasks in the kitchen…
I chose the dandelion because as I sat in the garden yesterday the fluff from the cottonwoods made it look like it was snowing…
not sure where the tree or trees are, but they sure are producing a lot of fluff, lol…
when I look out the front window it would be easy to imagine that it is the seeds from the dandelions…
07 Tuesday Apr 2020
the weather has been very odd over the last week…
on Friday it snowed all day and into Saturday… everything was covered… then it started to melt and by today it is nearly all gone…
above shows the front yard Saturday on the top and today on the bottom…
the backyard has changed a lot as well… yesterday there was still a fair bit of snow on the deck and by the pond… today it is almost completely gone…
crazy, but I hope to be able to sit out there soon…
05 Sunday Apr 2020
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back, big girl pants, blessed, dressed, groceries, homemade, hot tub, mail, meals, moments, pasta, pjs, sauce, shoveler, snow, spaghetti, sugars, sunshine, widow
today, I got dressed, lol… I know that is a big deal for me and a lot of you, I’ll bet… not having to worry about anyone coming to the door makes pjs perfectly acceptable all day…
in the morning I cooked spaghetti and let it cool down so that the sugars would fly through my system when I warm it up…
looked in the fridge and found part of a jar of spaghetti sauce which I used as a base for my sauce…
the addition of spices, A1, ketchup, and soy sauce, with time to mingle together, makes for a tasty addition to the spaghetti… also added some frozen meatballs to get in the required protein… smelled lovely as it was simmering…
while that was cooking, I went out and shovelled between the front steps and the driveway… snow seemed heavier than in the backyard yesterday, lol… and my back is not so happy just now;-(…
my shovelers came by this morning and did the driveway and sidewalk (but not the connecting area)… very happy they were able to get that done as it needs to be clear for the mail carrier… and Tuesday my grocery order should arrive as well…
supper was tasty and there is enough sauce and spaghetti for two more meals… yay…
seemed like a full day;-)…
04 Saturday Apr 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, hallway, happy, hot tub, moments, proud, purple, shells, snow, sunshine, tidy, widow
rather proud of myself… I have barely done anything for ages, but today I was able to accomplish three things…
first, I went into the backyard and shovelled a path to the hot tub… my shoveler hasn’t been by… likely he is staying at home like everyone else;-)…
being very careful of my back, I worked slowly and made sure there wasn’t too much snow in each shovelful… now I can go out to soak my back if I want;-)…
came in, had a break, and then tidied the hallway bookshelf… I’d organized it back in 2014… made me laugh when I realized it was that long ago…
finally, I redid the living room table drawer… put sea shells in two of them and left the others as they were… one has all the retirement cards and the other has a number of pictures and maps from our trip to Hawaii…
looks good…
pleased with all that got done… maybe I will keep on getting things done;-)…
03 Friday Apr 2020
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back, big girl pants, blessed, Kobo, moments, nature, reading, sky, snow, sunset, sunshine, twisted, weather, widow, yoga
my daughter sent me a calendar wth daily yoga for April, so this morning I decided to do some… I got an old yoga mat out, arranged my phone so I could see it from the mat and started the video…
unfortunately I twisted my back in the process so I’ve had to be very careful with everything I’ve done for the rest of the day…
since the girls were little I occasionally end up with a hurt lower back… sadly, it usually takes ages to return to normal… there’s never an obvious action to cause the problem… it just means being careful about standing for too long and twisting the wrong way when sitting…
my solution today has been to quietly sit in the living room and read… so happy I found the books on Kobo…
for a good portion of the day it snowed and late in the afternoon the sun came out and it looked beautiful with everything covered in snow… especially as I didn’t have to leave the house…
as I was sitting and reading I looked out to see the most beautiful sky…
seeing this stunning view was a very special moment, which I enjoyed…
02 Thursday Apr 2020
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big girl pants, blanket, blessed, books, charger, cuddled, favourite, Kobo, reading, reread, snow, tablet, Technology, treat, widow
I’ve finished all the new books I had and was trying to decide if I should start rereading an old one…
I thought I could read something on my Kobo, but couldn’t remember where I put the charger, lol…
but then I decided to download the app onto the tablet which I got with my last iPhone and haven’t been using…
the bonus was that I had purchased a number of books which I hadn’t yet read… and by some of my favourite authors…
I’ve spent a good portion of the day cuddled up under a blanket in the living room reading, as the snow fell…
