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Melody…

22 Friday Mar 2019

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big girl pants, daughter, family, Melody, photos, remembering, special moments, sphere, Vancouver Island, widow

one of the things I do when preparing a blog is look to see if I’ve used the title previously…

tonight I came across a post about Melody, an amazing sphere that my daughter and I stayed in on Vancouver Island in June, 2013…

remembering how lovely it was to be rocked to sleep amongst the trees…

reminded me of being rocked in the sailboat, many, many, years ago…

was a bit disappointed when I realized the poor quality of this picture… my photo game has certainly improved over the last six years;-)…

Ziggy…

25 Sunday Dec 2016

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big girl pants, Christmas, family, hot chocolate, special moments, treats, tree, turkey, widow, Ziggy

felt a bit sad for our friend Ziggy this morning… he looked very sad as we put him into the hot almond milk…

but sure was tasty… 

had a wonderful day filled with fun, family, special moments and lots of treats…

ended with delicious turkey and all the trimmings…

the boys did a great job of cleaning up and then we devoured a chocolate Christmas tree;-)…

photo by @peacecyndi…

sundogs…

19 Monday Sep 2016

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big girl pants, chance, moments, research, sky, special moments, sundogs, widow, window

spent some time recently considering what makes things special…

an event, a workplace, a person, a view…

and how do we make them special… 

is it being in the right place at the right time… is it an aura they produce… is it just being open to hear/see/feel…

last night I noticed a sundog in the sky which is very odd at this time of the year… usually they are visible when it is very cold, but after a little research I discovered this:

Sundogs can and do occur worldwide and during all seasons, but they are most common during winter months when the sun is low in the sky and ice crystals are more common. All that’s needed for a sun dog to form are cirrus or cirrostratus clouds. Only these clouds are cold enough to be made of the plate-shaped ice crystals we mentioned above. The sun dog occurs when sunlight is refracted off of these crystals…

it is just over the tree canopy to the left of the sun in this picture… 

what made me look out the window at just that moment… and actually see the tiny version of a rainbow…

chance?

bendy busses…

14 Tuesday Jan 2014

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just looked up and saw a picture of George and I in Cyndi and Ron’s house in Courtenay… we had a lovely visit on that trip…

made me laugh because I was just thinking about bendy busses… and Cyndi…

I rarely read the newspaper, although it sits right at my desk every day… for some reason this morning I looked over the front page and saw this…

bendy busses coming here...

bendy busses coming here…

the first time I saw one of these busses was in 2000 when Cyndi and I were in Chicago for a church event about Families… she saw the busses and went a little bit crazy about them…

so this morning, I took a quick picture of the front page and emailed it to her… one doesn’t text in the morning because that might wake her up, but emailing is okay…

she responded within a few minutes saying she was actually riding on a bendy bus in Ottawa as she read my email…

I still haven’t ridden on one… maybe they will run along Portage and I can take one home one night in the spring, when the weather is nice…

synchronicity is an amazing thing…

made me smile for quite a while after, and even as I write this I have a smile on my face… one of those special moments…

hot tub…

12 Sunday Jan 2014

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darkness opens up conversation, felt like spring, hot tub, special moments

this morning I headed out for a hot tub… didn’t check the temperature but it was beautiful… it was around -5 with the windchill I discovered later…

felt like a spring morning… once I got out, I put in some chemicals and moved some snow away from the tub… reminded me of a lovely time that Cyndi and I had in the tub while she was here over Christmas… Ron came out and took a few pics…

 

hot tub with Cyndi...

hot tub with Cyndi…

 

I have enjoyed my hot tub for the nearly five years that I have had it…

when the girls were very small George spent some time in Baker Lake and while he was gone I had pool people come out for an estimate… because we had lots of overhead wires and a small yard they could only put in a small pool, which didn’t seem worth it… for about 10 years we would rent a hot tub for our anniversary weekend and we all loved it.. at the time our oldest grandson was a toddler and he adored it… as did all the girls’ friends who were sure to come by that weekend, lol…

got this tub in March of 2009, but we had our first hot tub on Mother’s Day… and since then I have gone in it nearly every day, although for the last few months it has been much more sporadic with the extreme cold… I don’t mind when it is -30 but I don’t really like it when the windchill is below -35…

kids having a hot tub...

kids having a hot tub…

the boys still love it, although someone wants to be carried in and out if it is cold, lol…

although George always said he didn’t like it, he would usually join me and we would have wonderful conversations… always amazing how the darkness and enclosed spaces opens up the most interesting subjects…

thinking of some of those special moments tonight as I come in from another lovely tub… got to enjoy the beautiful weather… particularly after hot water was added this afternoon:-}…

family fun…

26 Saturday Oct 2013

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big girl pants, blessed, family fun, gorgeous sunset, Henry's, Jamie Noordman Photography, new blue jeans, special moments, vanished

went to a dog park with the kids this afternoon for some family photos… I had never been to this particular place before, but did find my way… wearing the new blue jeans and hoodie…

there were lots of trees to climb… everyone listened very well and lots of photos were taken… even I climbed a tree, although could not make it far enough out on the trunk to be in the group shot, lol…

boys standing on a stump...

boys standing on a stump…

took my camera and got a few shots behind the scenes as the fun was being had… Jamie Noordman Photography did a great job…

nice shot of Jeff and Crystal...

nice shot of Jeff and Crystal…

there were lots and lots and lots of dogs there… most of them loose… one nearly knocked me over, but on the whole they were very well behaved… including the two with us…

watching the group...

watching the group…

things went very well, until one of those other dogs grabbed the special stick that one of the little guys had found, right out of his hand…

Jeff and Phoenix while Browny looks on...

Jeff and Phoenix while Browny looks on…

that doesn’t sound like that big a deal, but it was the end of cooperation for picture taking… even Grandma’s Skittle treats couldn’t save the day…

on our way home we stopped for hot chocolate at Starbucks and then went our separate ways… sadly I got a little lost, but then found the right road…

ended up stopping at Henry’s to buy a new charger for my phone because the old one has vanished…

stunning sky tonight, caught with my iPhone...

stunning sky tonight, caught with my iPhone…

watched some tv and caught this absolutely gorgeous sky when I happened to look out the window…

eventful day filled with lots of fun and special moments… I am truly blessed…

clean bill of health…

15 Friday Mar 2013

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big girl pants, clean bill of health, my beloved, special moments

yesterday I had an appointment at CancerCare for a check-up… last time we were there the wait was over two hours… this time we were in a room within 20 minutes of arriving… waited for quite a while in the room before seeing the doctor… it is hard to feel peeved when you know that they could be giving someone devastating news or have been in an operating room saving someone’s life…

after the check-up the doctor advised that everything was fine and they would see me in six months…  they were pleased that I can no longer feel the mesh that was part of the hernia surgery, as many people feel it for a very long time… I had asked if I could have the check-ups with my GP instead of using up the space in the CancerCare system but was advised that it made more sense for them to see me, at least for the first two years…

made me think back to the few days that I was in hospital in July when I had my surgery… it was just four months after George’s death and two months since discovering the cancer… my time in the hospital was a roller coaster of bad reactions to pain meds and happiness that I had actually survived the surgery as well as huge sadness that George wasn’t there to look after me…

frst night at the hospital...

I have been wearing those big girl pants a lot since then…  when I think back I realize how I have grown in these months…

I think of my beloved every day and the impact of his loss on my grandchildren, my children and me…

and then I remember all the special moments in our lives…

George and Tavin...

George and Tavin…

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