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dripping…

09 Sunday Mar 2014

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this morning I went outside to do a bit of shovelling so that I could get to the hot tub…

it was warm, amazingly, and water was dripping from the various icicles which were hanging across the back of the house…

took a few pictures while I was out there…

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this one shows how the snow was actually melting along the edge of the deck…

a bit later I went to have a shower and discovered water dripping from the ceiling into the bathtub… realized that it was from an ice dam that I had been taking pictures of earlier…

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called and consulted with my son-in-law and he agreed he would look at it when they arrived for dinner…

had a bit of a poor me meltdown wanting my beloved to be here to look after me and fix this…

later the kids had some fun in the snow while their daddy blew lots of it out of the driveway…

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then there were ladders, hammers, roof rakes, and long bars as the two oldest boys tried to get rid of the ice dam…

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fought with those big girl pants today…

weather…

06 Thursday Mar 2014

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started the day driving to work in a snowstorm… it was warm but the snow was coming down and had been for most of the night…

it was early, as we had an event… by the time I got to the office I could barely see through the windshield as it was iced over…

when we returned to the office the snow had stopped and it was quite nice…

when I left to come home it took a while to clean off the snow and ice which covered the car…

the drive wasn’t too bad although there was lots of mushy, dirty snow on the streets and it was a bit slippery…

a little while ago I went by the window and lo and behold it was snowing again…

here’s what it looks like…

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can’t remember when we last had a winter like this…

beautiful day…

01 Saturday Mar 2014

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what a beautiful day…

sun was shining and the snow in the backyard was glittering like diamonds…

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when I walked across the kitchen floor, it was cold right up to the sink… about half way into the room from the patio doors… when it’s really cold the floor is cold about a third of the way into the room… bit of a sign, lol…

gorgeous out but really, really cold… just checked the temperature a little while ago…

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spent a bit of time in the kitchen because I’ve been working on a project with a deadline and have done nothing anywhere in the house… so, the kitchen was rather a disaster…

finally finished the project, so tomorrow I will spend some time catching up on chores…

letting go…

16 Sunday Feb 2014

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can’t believe that it started to snow again not long ago…

besides watching Olympics and doing some laundry, I spent the majority of the day working on the bookshelves in the hall… two shelves are not painted and I am trying to decide whether I will paint them… I don’t like to paint, so will see…

one portion of the shelves organized...

one portion of the shelves organized…

today I was able to divest myself of another 3 boxes of books… gave up school books that had belonged to both George and I… lots of gardening magazines, cookbooks and kids books…

couldn’t give up our school yearbooks.. even found a couple from the 30’s when my parents went to my high school…

treasures...

treasures…

had great fun going through all my nature books – birds, wild life, plants… kept nearly all of them… lots of books about sea shells and I couldn’t give any of those up… reminded me that I had started collecting when I was about eleven or twelve and a woman who worked with my dad brought me my first shell from Florida… it was an abalone shell and that was the beginning of my collecting obsession… just recently Crystal brought me home some lovely shells that she got in Mexico… of the two I have so far, both have purple on them, lol…

was able to let go of some trinkets from my days of angel collecting… and I found a dear little silver apple bowl that a friend had given me… now I just have to figure out what to put into it…

took one box downstairs, but will need to have the kids carry down the others as they are too heavy for me… was again very careful as I worked to be sure that I didn’t hurt my back further…

been trying to drink more water because I’ve got a new app which reminds me to drink throughout the day… so yesterday, I made some grape Kool-Aid as there wasn’t anything else to drink… it used to be my drink of choice and as I was making it, was giggling as I remembered how George knew that I only liked it once it was aged…

 

snow…

13 Thursday Feb 2014

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on the way out the back door this morning I stepped into six inches of freshly fallen snow…

as I struggled to get the car out of the garage and down the driveway I made up my mind that if it got stuck I would just call a cab… thankfully I made it out onto the street, and safely to work…

I texted my son-in-law, who had just been here yesterday shovelling, to see if he could come and snowblow… offered dinner as a bribe, and it worked… everyone arrived about 5:30, which gave me time for half an hour of Olympics…

when I arrived home and walked up the front I took a picture of how deep the snow was… those were the footprints of my construction fella who had been by earlier in the day…

sidewalk and front steps...

sidewalk and front steps…

Crystal got here first and shovelled the front steps and sidewalk in about three minutes flat…  oh to be young… I didn’t lift a shovel because of my back, which is feeling much better – and which I want to keep that way, lol…

Crystal shovelling...

Crystal shovelling…

all the boys arrived and the two biggest ones got to work cleaning up all the snow… while they were busy, we ordered Chinese food for dinner…

had a lovely visit with everyone and heard all about each person’s day… Gray spoke about Grandpa a bit, which is fairly unusual, as I don’t think he really remembers that much as he was so little when George died…

it was good to spend the time with them this Valentine’s eve…

the moment…

28 Tuesday Jan 2014

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this morning as I was leaving the house I looked up and there was a sliver of moon and Venus shining brightly… it was just gorgeous… didn’t have an opportunity to get a picture…

we talked about how beautiful it was and enjoyed the moment… my colleague had enjoyed catching glimpses of them as she was on her way to pick me up…

moon a few night's ago...

moon a few night’s ago…

reminded me of last night and the conversation we had at BS… how important it is to enjoy the moment, because there is no certainty about the next moment in anyone’s life…

this same conversation took place at the last gathering of my Reimagining friends… and how I am trying to find time each day to be in the moment and realize how special that moment is…

made me think of all the snow and very cold weather we have been having and a comment that a friend put up on Facebook about not wanting to hear anyone complain about the heat in the summer, lol… we are very good at complaining about whatever weather we are experiencing…

on the weekend I took a few pictures of the garden, with the waterfall rock nearly covered with snow… someone reminded me that in 1997 we experienced more snow than this, and another person talked about the winter of 1955-1956 when the there was twice as much snow as we have now… yikes…

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snowy back yard…

when I am sitting out there in the spring and summer enjoying lovely weather I will be able to remember how beautiful and pristine it looked before and after the bunny and squirrels had made paths across it…

more snow…

26 Sunday Jan 2014

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last week Jeff came and snowblowed the driveway, back yard and sidewalks… it was a wonderful treat to get home and have it all cleaned up…

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snowblowing sidewalk…

since then it has snowed at least three times, so while they were here today he went out and did it again… got a few pictures… usually it is dark or I’m not here when he does it…

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blowing the street in front of the house…

it was very windy today so he was pretty cold by the time he came in…

earlier the boys spent some time with me and we put away some of the Christmas ornaments and trees in the basement… its been on my list of things to do, but I just haven’t had the energy to get that job done, so it was great to have their help and get a good piece of it finished…

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racing cars…

then the little guys had great fun with the race cars that Uncle Ron found in his stocking, but then left here…

not sure when we have had this much snow… certainly not for many, many, years… right now there is only a tiny piece of the waterfall rock visible in the back garden… the house should be warmer than usual because there is at least two feet of snow all around the foundation… great insulation, lol…

home…

19 Sunday Jan 2014

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a year ago today we returned from our wonderful week in Mexico… we had an amazing time and enjoyed every minute…

we were picked up in an SUV limo at the airport and had to climb through deep snow (me in my sandals) and ended the vacation with dinner from Tony Roma’s…

 

limo, sandals and snow...

limo, sandals and snow…

 

it was delightful…

today the kids didn’t make it over as the littlest one is sick…

made a crockpot stew and watched some sports and a movie…

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piles of snow yesterday – more fell today…

quite a different day, lol… although there is a lot more snow on the ground this year…

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statue and snow covered chair…

to the right of the statue are the arms of a chair, covered in snow… not from being shovelled, just accumulation, lol…

the tree…

05 Sunday Jan 2014

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took the decorations off the tree and moved it so that I could see out the window again…

Norfolk pine in its new home...

Norfolk pine in its new home…

rather funny, because now it feels like there is a gaping hole and the window looks huge…

this tree ended up being filled with a garland of butterflies that Cyndi made, as well as a snowflake with my name stamped on it, and the leftover hearts which she had made as gifts for her friends…

all decorated...

all decorated…

today I gave one of those hearts to a dear friend who stopped by… haven’t seen her in a very long time so it was wonderful to have the opportunity to catch up… she had to climb through some serious snow to get into the house, lol…

footprints through the deep snow...

footprints through the deep snow…

while she was here, Crystal and the boys arrived and Crystal and Kyler shovelled in the freezing cold, while the little boys visited with us…

they got the snowblower going but it stopped after just one sweep of the driveway and so they had to hand shovel the rest… took them ages and they had to keep coming in to warm up…

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snowblower quit after one sweep…

the great news is that the driveway, sidewalk and back are clear and if needed I can take the car out…

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shovellers at work…

hopefully it will be warm enough tomorrow so that I can go out and put chemicals in the hot tub… although, even I don’t plan to hot tub in these temperatures…

 

shadows…

04 Saturday Jan 2014

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a few years ago I took a photography course with a colleague… we had great fun as we would often go out for dinner before the class… she is an artist and it was wonderful to see what she would do with the homework projects…

shadow thrown from the gate which George made to look like the sun and its rays...

shadow thrown from the gate which George built to look like the sun and its rays…

one of the homework projects involved taking pictures of shadows… it was quite difficult as there wasn’t much sunshine that week… I remember arriving home on the only sunny day we had and rushing out to get a few shots… George and I went to the grocery store and I was taking some pictures of the beautiful fruit when a store representative came up and asked why I was taking pictures, yikes…

we also had fun driving around the Park to get some photos…

bunny tracks through the garden...

bunny tracks through the garden…

this afternoon I got a few great shots of some lovely shadows in the back yard…

shadows in the snow and you can see how high the snow is on the pergola by the garage...

you can see how high the snow is on the pergola by the garage…

there is still a lot of snow out there… it is quite beautiful but I am looking forward to my kids coming over tomorrow and getting some of it cleared away… can’t even get out to the hot tub, lol…