09 Tuesday Dec 2025
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had a fun time outside a few days ago when snowflakes were gently falling from the sky;-)…
caught a few on my parka…
and spent time finding snowflakes along the stair rail…
they really are works of art;-)…
14 Monday Apr 2025
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ankles, big girl pants, boots, Canadian, fit, happy, landfill, moments, shopping, snow, Technology, Vessi, waterproof, widow
so excited today to get my new winter boots…
the pair I’ve been wearing for well over twenty years have begun to fall apart in front of me;-(…
I wanted Canadian-made and decided to try Vessi… besides being made in BC, they are also waterproof…
I had hoped to try a pair on and went to the mall, but they aren’t carried in Manitoba…
so, I took a chance and ordered them online and was pleased to get free shipping…
I ordered them last week and they arrived today…
and they fit… I was worried as often when I’ve tried pull-ons, they wouldn’t go over my ankles, but I had no problem… yay…
now they will get put away for when the snow starts in the Fall and the falling apart pair will sadly head to the landfill…
11 Friday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, gone, moments, nature, plants, rain barrel, snow, straighten, weather, widow, wind
shhhhh… the snow is gone from the front yard…
and I finally took a few minutes to straighten up the rain barrel which had been blown over weeks ago from some of the crazy winds we’d been having…
now we are ready for some rain;-)… and plants popping up from the ground…
31 Monday Mar 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, changes, day-to-day, garden, look and see, moments, nature, plants, snow, Technology, weather, widow
just about every time I walk up or down the stairs to the second floor, I stop and look out the window…
watching the garden change from day-to-day…
maybe a bunny, a cat, solar lights, new flowers, squirrels, birds, so many changes take place if you take a moment to look…
this photo shows a few solar lights, one of which was under the snow, lol…
soon it will be green again… please🤪…
30 Sunday Mar 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, bunnies, dogs, fun, garden, moments, nature, paths, snow, trails, weather, widow
fun to watch the garden after the snowfall to see any fresh trails…
the bunnies have been busy…
even caught some through the window into the neighbour’s yard… their trails are made by dogs, not bunnies…
28 Friday Mar 2025
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anticipating, big girl pants, blessed, garden, giggle, in the garden, moments, mother nature, nature, snow, Spring, sticky note, weather, widow
yesterday, I took some photos of the sticky note that is on the mirror at the front door…
in the summer it is often located on the front door so that visitors know I am in the garden;-)…
I took the photos as I was eagerly anticipating spending time in the garden because this is how it was looking outside;-)…
that was at 2:45 pm when I laid down for a nap… when I looked outside at 5:45 pm it looked like this…
and this morning, this is what I saw outside…
another giggle from Mother Nature, lol…
25 Tuesday Mar 2025
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caught a bunny in the garden this morning…hadn’t seen any for ages…
so it was a lovely treat… had to crop the photo quite a bit, lol…
there continues to be snow on the ground, but as the temperature is starting to stay above zero, hopefully it will continue to melt away;-)…
15 Saturday Mar 2025
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big girl pants, blanket, blessed, cold, garden, ice, moments, nature, sliding, snow, weather, widow
the weather has been a bit crazy lately… it was warm and then it changed and has been cold and windy for the last while…
today I took some photos…
the snow on the driveway had melted a bit and after the wind today, it looks like glass all the way up… hoping the car will still be able to make it without sliding down…
and in the backyard the new snow has put a slight blanket over the decks…
enough already;-)…
07 Friday Mar 2025
Posted in business, life, loss, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized, weather
spent a good part of Friday watching two elm trees across the creek being removed…
they’ve had the deadly orange dot on them since the fall, a sure sign their time was up…
because they were in a field it was obviously more difficult to take them down as they couldn’t get one of the big trucks close to them…
it was entertaining;-)…
16 Sunday Feb 2025
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, concentrate, focus, moments, reading, snow, Technology, torpedo, weather, widow, wire
had trouble staying focussed on my book on Wednesday as there was a lot of activity across the way…
two workers spent the entire morning stringing a new wire…
it was so cold I felt bad for them, but they seemed comfortable as I watched…
the most interesting thing was what appeared to be a torpedo shaped object which one person pulled along the line… I think it was winding the new wire around the old ones…
my beloved would have been able to tell me exactly what it was and how it worked, lol…
but, all of those goings-on really made it hard to concentrate on my book;-)…
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