12 Tuesday Feb 2019
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05 Tuesday Feb 2019
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what a wonderful surprise…
the cleaners were supposed to be here yesterday but they took a snow day because of the weather which made perfect sense… I couldn’t get out of the driveway…
I was thinking they wouldn’t be here today although I asked if they might be able to fit me in…
it was a very long day so when I walked through the door and saw they’d been here it was such a treat…
just what I needed;-)…
04 Monday Feb 2019
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big girl pants, car, colleague, deep, drifted, driveway, overnight, pretty, shoveler, snow, widow
this morning I was rather surprised by how much snow had fallen overnight…
when I opened the back door there was easily six inches of snow up against it… I figured it had just drifted and when I stepped over it there was six inches of snow on the deck and all the way to the garage…
when I opened the big door there was four or five inches… I walked along the driveway to see how deep the snow was and decided that I might not be able to get the car out…
back inside and called a cab… didn’t want to get stuck at the bottom of the driveway…
but it sure was pretty, lol…
was able to get a ride home with a colleague and walked from the end of the street to be sure she didn’t get stuck…
there was even more snow when I walked up the driveway… snow pants would have been helpful, lol…
the steps and sidewalk were completely covered…
my shoveler isn’t available tonight, but will be here at 7:30 am so that I can get out in time for work…
26 Saturday Jan 2019
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big girl pants, croissants, flowers, hot tub, illusion, moments, moon, optical illusion, rose, snow, Tea, widow
started the day sharing tea and croissants with a very special person… such a lovely way to begin the weekend…
was going to grocery shop, but it just felt too cold, so home I came, lol…
the snow on the hot tub cover was amazing and it looked like the siding was melting… it wasn’t, thank goodness… a very cool optical illusion…
then it was laundry and sports on tv;-)…
24 Thursday Jan 2019
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it is cold out…
this morning I had to replace a safety pin that is helping to keep the garage door closed…
thought I was pretty smart when I figured out that by pinning a cloth over the lock mechanism the door will stay closed in the colder weather…
then as I drove beside the trellis I stopped, rolled down the window, took my gloves off, and got a few pictures of the snow on the leaves…
been looking at it every day as I move up or down the driveway…
silly to decide today, when it is -40 with the windchill, that I need to stop and take the photo, lol…
12 Saturday Jan 2019
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on the first day back to work, as I stepped out of the house, the ground was covered with a light dusting of snow…
I was at the garage door when a sweet bunny hopped into the garden…
had to stop and get a few photos, even though my hands were full, lol…
this morning as I was standing at the kitchen sink I noticed a bunny and a squirrel having a tiff in the neighbour’s backyard… seems like the squirrel won because the bunny went and hid behind a shed…
such fun to watch the critters…
07 Monday Jan 2019
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my oh my… it snowed quite a bit last night… and then the wind took over… blew the side door of the garage open and quite a bit of snow went inside…
looked pretty as I was leaving the house this morning, although the driving wasn’t great…
at the end of the day we left the office in groups to be sure that no one got stuck in the parking lot…
when I arrived home I turned into the driveway and couldn’t get up the slope as my snow clearing person hadn’t made it over yet…
vehicles were parked on the street so I was worried I might back into one of them if I tried to make a run for it… I went and knocked on a neighbour’s door… the vehicle wasn’t his but he thought it was from the house right across the street from me… that neighbour was shovelling so I went and asked about the vehicle… it was his, but he said I had lots of room…
he came over and tried to drive Indi up the driveway… as he was trying, the first neighbour came out to help… with a number of tries, and two of us pushing, Indi made it to the flat section of the driveway… thank goodness for winter tires…
I was able to get her into the garage from there…
I opened the side door to see that my back lane neighbour had snow-blowed the sidewalk from the lane to the deck;-)…
I took a picture of the spot where Indi got stuck, but it doesn’t look like a problem…
here’s the driver as he finished shovelling his sidewalk…
pretty neighbourly, I’d say;-)…
30 Sunday Dec 2018
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big girl pants, breakfast, cake, Christmas, Facebook, family, grandsons, hot tub, lonely, memories, missing, snow, tasty, widow
I’ve been a bit lonely over the last week or so… most Christmases my older daughter and her husband have come home… it didn’t work out this year…
was out in the hot tub this morning, first time in ages… a bit later these two pictures came up in my Facebook memories…
the first is deadly chocolate mousse cake, her favourite… I always make sure to have it in the house when she comes… in fact whenever I go to visit her, I take some as well… we always have the cake for breakfast, which the grandsons think is amazing;-)…
the second is of our water boots from last Christmas… she loves the hot tub and our usual pattern is a late night dip before bed…
it was my other son-in-law who suggested water boots many years ago… they work perfectly so that my feet never get cold or snowy…
today I spent some time cooking… turkey and dumplings, and mashed potato and garlic soup…
they both came out pretty tasty, although I am not going to be able to have the potato soup for work lunches because it reeks of garlic, lol…
23 Sunday Dec 2018
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big girl pants, Christmas, family, filled, flowers, nature, orchid, pictures, preparations, shopping, snow, supper, widow
today was filled with activity…
started the day with a few pictures of my orchid…
then I prepped potatoes, turnip, stuffing for Christmas dinner and prepared twice stuffed potatoes for tonight’s supper…
it had snowed more overnight and in the morning… there was a lot of snow out there…
the kids arrived and we ran around getting a few last minute items… there were many, many people in all the places we went… particularly the parking lots…
home, dinner cooked, eaten and a bit of relaxing before everyone headed home…
last picture of the orchid…
22 Saturday Dec 2018
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big girl pants, brunch, giant, pictures, pretty, shovelling, snow, snowflakes, widow
this morning giant snowflakes were gently falling when I first got up…
my friends were coming for brunch, so I was busy getting a few things done…
I eventually took a few pictures but by that time the snow had changed so wasn’t nearly as pretty, lol…
just before my company arrived I went out and shovelled the sidewalk as the snow clearer hadn’t turned up…
it sure was pretty, before I shovelled…
the driveway and sidewalk are now cleared, hurray;-)…
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