08 Wednesday Oct 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, decorating, ghosts, halloween, hunt, memories, moments, pumpkins, spiders, thanksgiving, widow
recently I went through the Halloween and Thanksgiving boxes…
I went on the hunt for pumpkins for Thanksgiving and ended up putting out those as well as Halloween goodies;-)…
pumpkins, witches, ghosts, and spiders, lol…
glad to have set things out as I haven’t done that for a few years…
04 Sunday Nov 2018
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beloved, big girl pants, facecloth, garage, hands, little things, missing, now, spiders, widow
it’s the little things…
was sitting in the hot tub this morning thinking of my beloved… realizing that some of the things I miss most are the little ones…
like having him wring out facecloths and towels and swimsuits… he had the strongest hands… now, I’ve developed more strength in my hands and wring things out myself…
like dealing with spiders… I have always been afraid of them… and always felt that they search me out… he would save me when I would come across one… my shriek would be a fairly clear sign for him, lol… I can now find the nearest item to use to smack down a spider when I come across one… just the other day I was surprised by a big one and I didn’t even freeze… just grabbed something and wacked it…
like being there to commiserate with… this morning I banged my foot on the door… it really hurt… no one to say poor you;-(… haven’t found a solution for that yet…
like driving the car into the garage… it was always stressful for me because of the slight jog in the driveway… now I just drive right on in, even when I know I have to go out again soon…
and of course holding hands… I really miss that…
12 Saturday Aug 2017
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started the day with tea and a book while the rest of the family slept…
last night as we were getting ready for bed we discovered dozens of spiders in the camper… the youngest had the eagle eye that would spot them, the middle one would catch them, while daddy found dudu coils in an attempt to smoke them out… my job was to shine my flashlight wherever they were spotted… we were all kind of creeped out but in the end managed to sleep… don’t think we will ever forget this trip, lol…
after a simple breakfast the younger boys, daddy and I went fishing while the rest of the crew went on a hike…
it was entertaining to see their process for putting on sunscreen…
my son-in-law caught a 26″ pickerel… it was very big and the only nibble we got but we had a fun time together…
after lunch the younger boys and I went on a short hike to the bridge that goes over the river/creek that we had fished on… it was a lovely walk, but hot…
now we are waiting for baked potatoes and kebabs for our dinner…
camping meals sure have improved over the years;-)…
04 Thursday Sep 2014
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can’t believe the number of spiders I have found in the house in the last few weeks…
yesterday they seemed to be everywhere… this one was under the fridge…
I wasn’t able to deal with it… and not ten minutes later I found this one in a pot on the stove…
I was able to take the pot outside and dump it over the deck…
today I was sorting through some baskets at the front door and found one in the brim of a hat and got it outside… another on a cupboard door and finally one on the back door…
enough already… I am still afraid of them, but I get the fly swatter or Kleenex or a shoe and do what needs to be done…
they’ve been in the bathroom and even the bedroom…
wearing those big girl pants a lot lately…
21 Monday Oct 2013
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big girl pants, decorate, getting pumpkins, halloween, skeletons, spiders, witches on the stairway
yesterday afternoon the boys brought up the Halloween box and then proceeded to decorate…
it was really lots of fun because they had no preconceived ideas about where things should go… after all these years, I tend to put things in their place… not so the boys… there are ghosts hanging from lights, the front window and between the living room and dining room… a mobile is hanging over the mirror at the front door and looks great there…
last year the spiders had to go in an inconspicuous spot because the littlest guy was a bit afraid of them… and we didn’t even get to put out the skeleton because he was terrified of it…
this year, he happily helped his brothers put that skeleton on the window and arranged the spiders all over the place…
witches gathered up the stairs…
he was also in charge of the witches and put most of them on the stairway…
what a difference a year makes, lol…
think we are going to pick out a few pumpkins one night this week…
04 Wednesday Sep 2013
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big girl pants, pond is not leaking, run-in, serenity, she bear, spiders, terrified, wonderful sound
couple of things have happened over the last few days..
both yesterday and today I have had run-ins with spiders… if you know me you know that I dislike spiders immensely… all of our married life George would save me when I came across one… I would holler and he would come running and dispose of the creature…
one of the few times I dealt with one, that I can remember, was when Cyndi was a tiny baby in the bassinet and one headed across the living room floor toward her… I found a shoe and disposed of it in a fit of she bear protective rage…
we watched Arachnophobia when it was on TV once, and I had nightmares for weeks, the girls thought it was hilarious… I remember as a girl at my Grandmother’s cottage having spiders run toward me on a regular basis… I think they knew I was terrified…
yesterday there was one in the main floor bathroom when I came downstairs first thing in the morning… I had to find a shoe and deal with it and did, with barely a flutter of my heart… tonight I sat up on the bed to discover one right up against the wall not a foot from my foot… quickly I found a book and dealt with it…
apparently, I am getting used to those big girl pants…
pond that is maintaining the water level…
finally the pond is maintaining its water level which makes me very happy… it sounds just wonderful and brings me such serenity…
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