06 Thursday Apr 2023
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aquasize, big girl pants, blessed, boots, feet, moments, nature, sandals, shovelling, snow, Spring, weather, widow, wore
this week we went to aquasize on Tuesday…
this is what I wore on my feet…
first time this year;-)… when I worked I wore sandals year round, but now they come out in the Spring and are around until the first snow…
on Wednesday, I stepped outside into this…
but it was back to my boots as I shovelled the sidewalk…
02 Sunday Apr 2023
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Assiniboine Park, big girl pants, blessed, breakfast, canopy, Diversity Gardens, exercise, food, frozen, garden, glove-free, ice, moments, nature, Park Cafe, photos, snow, trees, walk, weather, widow
on Thursday we walked instead of going to aquasize…
we had breakfast at the Park Cafe where we waited a few moments before getting our table…
I had falafel eggs Benedict without the English muffin and it was very tasty…
after that, we drove over and walked around the outside of the Diversity Gardens on the road which was clear of snow and ice… we went through the Gardens as well where most of the paths were snow free… it was cold, but basically the only frozen things were our fingers, lol… particularly when I was glove-free taking photos…
we enjoyed our half hour walk and are looking forward to more such walks as the weather improves;-)…
30 Thursday Mar 2023
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arched, big girl pants, blessed, box, fit, garden, instructions, moments, online, pieces, snow, Technology, trellis, widow
well, that was fun;-)…
ordered an arched trellis online and it arrived a few days ago… I was a little worried because the package was taped up a lot and I wondered if all the pieces were going to be inside…
I hadn’t planned to put it together until the snow was gone, but was a bit worried about missing pieces and what I would do if I didn’t sort it out till later…
when it was undone, some of the bags appeared to have been opened and then re-closed… and, there were no instructions…
took a while, but after looking at the information from the link where I bought it, it came together nicely…
currently it is in three pieces… the two sides and the arch… not sure I could get it outside if I join it all together… the final two cross pieces and screws are waiting to finish it up…
might take the pieces out to the garage and finish it, or just wait for the snow in the side garden to melt so I can put it in its new home…
sure hope it fits the way I want…
27 Monday Mar 2023
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AirPods, bicker, big girl pants, blessed, Chinese food, driveway, family, food, grandsons, happy, lost, moments, shovelled, snow, supper, time, treat, visit, weather, widow
got to have my grandsons over for dinner…
haven’t seen them for ages, so it was a wonderful treat;-)…
we caught up and they shovelled part of the driveway for me…
the shovelling was a big job as the driveway hasn’t been cleared for months, but it was a beautiful day… and, in the process, the youngest lost his AirPods… in a white container;-(… we spent quite some time digging through all the snow they had moved but did not find them…
we had Chinese food for supper…I’ve been craving it for a while so that made it especially good…
after supper I dug out a set of earbuds from my collection of ones that don’t fit my ears and gave him those… everyone played on their phones for a while as we chatted before they headed home;-)…
they have become lovely young men, although they still bicker like brothers, lol…
21 Tuesday Mar 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, deck, garden, layers, melting, moments, nature, path, shovelled, snow, solar motion sensor, weather, widow
shovelled a path across the upper deck on Sunday morning… that way I was able to adjust the solar motion sensor… the squirrels had tipped it down on their trips back and forth…
it has been many, many, weeks since the deck had been shovelled… and in that time, the sun has frozen a number of layers so it was a bit difficult to get it cleared…
later in the afternoon I noticed that a lot of the remaining snow where I shovelled had melted away… so I made another pass…
this time I left a bit of snow to melt there…
my photos suggest that it looked like this in March of 2021… hard to believe, lol…
12 Sunday Mar 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, blizzard, family, moments, nature, shovel, sidewalks, snow, sun, two inches, weather, widow
well, it was called a blizzard, but it just felt like a lot-of-snow day, lol… Google tells me we had about two inches…
it looks pretty now that the sun has returned… and everything is very quiet… not sure how long that will last before cars and people take over the street…
hopefully, someone else is going to shovel the sidewalks;-)…
07 Tuesday Mar 2023
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Assiniboine Hotel, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, breakfast, family, hoarfrost, icy, memories, moments, nature, snow, treacherous, trees, walk, weather, widow
walked to and from the “A” on Sunday morning…
it took a bit longer than usual as it was icy so the walking was a bit treacherous…
but it gave me the opportunity to get a few photos of the beautiful trees…
happy to get outside and enjoy the fresh air…
20 Monday Feb 2023
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had a quiet day… it was snowing when I got up and didn’t stop until around 4 pm…
then the sun came out and it looked beautiful… looked being the operative word as, sadly, right now it feels like -30 Celsius… brrrrr…
spent a good portion of the day on the couch reading a book by one of my favourite authors and barely got my steps in… when I am into one of those books, it is hard to stop to get up and walk around…
but, was happy to take a few pictures of the lovely blooms around the space…
life is good…
15 Wednesday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, heart, moments, nature, purple, purple heart, shovelling, skinny, snow, Valentine's Day, widow
put out a heart on the front door yesterday to celebrate Valentine’s Day…
then I shovelled the bottom third of the driveway…
a bit skinny, but I think a car would fit there, lol…
13 Monday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, moments, nature, necklace, sculpture, snow, snowperson, weather, widow
someone built a very nice snowperson a few weeks ago and it has been happily sitting in the field across the way and I’ve enjoyed watching it…
recently, with the warmer weather, it has started to shrink a bit;-(…
and yesterday, when I looked out the back, I noticed this lovely necklace hanging from the bird feeder…
looks like a cool sculpture… wonder how it will look next…
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