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life-giving…

11 Thursday Jan 2024

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yesterday I was sitting in the living room watching the snow fall gently outside as I prepared to do some reading…

thinking of how blessed I truly am as I send healing thoughts to so many in my circle and beyond who are struggling with difficult times…

having good health, a comfortable home, food to eat, and companions during these wintry days is life-giving and it is important to remember what a good life I have…

optimal…

09 Tuesday Jan 2024

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I’ve been trying to make it out to the hot tub each day and so far I’ve managed to accomplish that…

currently 10:00 pm is the optimal time… although midnight is also nice…

last night it was so quiet all I heard was a few planes going over, and an ambulance… apparently there were no skaters at the club…

the light from the lane highlighted the snow on the trees, with little puffs on the ends of the branches… so beautiful…

worry…

23 Saturday Dec 2023

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last winter I was having trouble zipping up my boots… they still fit fine, but it was getting more and more difficult to zip them up… I tried running a candle up and down them and then being sure to zip them closed as soon as I took them off, but it was still a worry when I went to put them on…

I purchased these boots Dec 2, 2015, so they didn’t owe me anything, but I didn’t want to replace them…

not long ago, when we were at Rona, we found a spray (similar to WD40), and used it on the zippers…

they work perfectly now and I am very happy about that;-)…

counting…

09 Saturday Dec 2023

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waited for my Fitbit to charge before going out to shovel the sidewalk today…

and when I got back into the house, there was the Fitbit, sitting on the counter, still attached to the charger…

really not counting the steps, lol…

postcard…

10 Friday Nov 2023

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much as the snow can be a pain, it is also beautiful… especially if you don’t have to be somewhere and drive through it, lol…

the view out the windows were delightful on Thursday morning…

the snow clung to the trees and made it look like a postcard outside…

and the squirrels were busy at one of the feeders… if you look closely you will see the three in this picture…

I went out and shovelled the sidewalks and got a few photos while I was out there…

such a blessing to be able to be home, able to shovel, and enjoy the beauty;-)…

reach…

08 Wednesday Nov 2023

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it was overcast, but not too cold on Saturday, so I went out and was able to fill all the bird feeders…

even the one that I won’t be able to get to before too long, as the snow will make it difficult or impossible to reach, lol…

then I spent half an hour shovelling the driveway…

my grandson had done it awhile ago, but there were icy tire tracks on the slope so I broke them up and tossed the bits to the sides…

the next day my hamstrings and butt were a bit sore from all the bending as the metal shovel I was using was short, lol…

I will be happy when the tires get changed in a few weeks, but now the slope won’t be difficult to get up;-)…

ghost…

05 Sunday Nov 2023

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on November 1st I took down the ghost from the front step… it was difficult, because the sheet had frozen into the step, lol…

then I took the poppy bird feeder that I received as a Christmas gift and tied it to the rail… this was a process, because it was cold and my fingers kept trying to stick to the metal, lol…

looks pretty good, right;-)…

displays…

31 Tuesday Oct 2023

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I’ve been collecting photos of Halloween displays since the very beginning of October when they started popping up on my walks in the neighbourhood;-)…

here are some that I enjoyed🎃…

decorating for Halloween has certainly become a popular pastime…

the very tall skeletons were cool, but I kind of like the happy displays, more than the scary ones, lol…

the majority of these were taken before the snow landed (and hasn’t left) which has since curtailed my walks;-)…

breaking…

30 Monday Oct 2023

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Saturday, late in the afternoon, after breaking the ice on the pond, we caught twenty-one of the goldfish…

the pond water was filled with leaves and was rather brown and murky…

it was quite the job as, at one point, my grandson went into it barefoot with his pants rolled up to cut down the water lilies and grasses (I think it was about -12°C in the air)…

but that really helped catch a bunch of them that had been hiding under the lily leaves… they were moving slower in the cold, but still snuck out of the net… also, some of the catching was in the dark, lol…

then they sat in pails in the house for hours before getting moved into the three tanks…

we were careful to be sure to keep size and numbers similar in the tanks so that there is sufficient space for all of them…

we thought we had them all, but on Sunday we discovered five more, woohoo…

now, the pumps have been removed from the pond, and it is apparently going into the winter with water in it, lol…

spare…

27 Friday Oct 2023

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this morning I got up early as I had a dentist appointment and my grandson was going to drive me down before he went to class…

it was dark and there was a lot of snow out there…

I put on a vest, dug out a hat and gloves, and made sure I had cash for the taxi…

it lightened up before we left and I went out to start cleaning off the car… there was easily six or seven inches of snow on it…

made it to my appointment, and when it was done walked to the Delta Hotel to get a taxi…

got a few nice photos of snow-covered trees on the short walk…

as I was riding along in the taxi, I realized that I didn’t have a house key😳…

thankfully, after my beloved died and I was on my own in the house, I put a spare key in the backyard for just such an occasion…

and, I was able to get through the snow and collect it, lol…

I unlocked the door and put the key back before shovelling the front sidewalk and steps and the back deck and hot tub area…

got that adrenaline going, in the taxi, and in the yard;-)…