26 Monday Dec 2022
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, cold, door, garden, just, light, moments, nature, snow, stuck, weather, widow
it looks beautiful outside…
I decided to take a few photos of the deck and opened the sliding door… well, tried to open it…
it slid open about six inches and then wouldn’t move…
was able to stick the phone out just enough to get a few pictures…
it really is lovely to look at, but at some point, I will need to go out and clear the deck off so I can fill the feeder, lol…
09 Wednesday Feb 2022
Posted in garden, health, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized, weather
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big girl pants, blessed, melt, moments, nature, pond, rain, shovelling, snow, stuck, weather, widow
yesterday it rained… crazy eh…
I went out before it really got going to clear the snow in front of the patio door…
for the last week or so it has been stuck and only opened about six inches…
seemed like a good plan to deal with it before the rain, in case it freezes into ice back there…
took quite a while and a lot of effort to get the snow moved… it was much heavier and had more chunks in it… the hill next to the deck is high again, so I’ve had to walk along the path before throwing the snow into the garden…
but, got it done… there is still tons of snow on the deck although the rain and wind and warmer weather have certainly melted some of it…
it will be interesting to see how it is going to melt, or whether there will be more than one pond in the space..
15 Thursday Oct 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, company, family, garden, goldfish, moments, nature, plants, pond, stuck, tank, water plants, widow
after the boys left yesterday, I brought in the plants which they had removed from the pond…
took a while, but eventually I got them all into the tank in a way that made me happy, although the tank looks very full…
not sure if they will last the winter, but it is worth a try as they are expensive and the lilies produced a number of blooms which doesn’t always happen, lol…
once the two pails of fish were in the house, I waited for a number of hours so that they could acclimate to the water temperature in the house…
when I finally poured them into the tank most of them did fine… but one of the biggest ones got stuck between a plant and rock and didn’t seem to be able to get out from the spot… I was very worried and it took about half an hour before it moved out from the tight space…
today they seem happy, but maybe a little crowded;-)…
and I enjoyed having company to talk to throughout the day;-)…
15 Friday Nov 2019
Posted in food, life, moments, Uncategorized
the other day I took the lid off the thermos, after the tea had steeped, to take out the tea bag…
I accidentally dropped the lid into the mug, waiting to be filled, that was beside it…
fell right into it and I wasn’t worried…
when I tried to extricate it from the mug it would not release…
I worked away at it for fifteen minutes before it finally came out…
phew…
08 Friday Jun 2018
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big girl pants, dishwasher, glasses, motor, son-in-law, stuck, widow
Tuesday morning I texted my son-in-law to see if he could stop by and check out the dishwasher…
the day before it had stopped working… the powdered soap was still in it and it looked like it had run without water…
I had tried to turn it off and on without success so had contacted him as he is very good with small motors…
it took a few days for me to wash everything that was in it… I don’t mind washing dishes… except glasses, never feel as though they get clean…
he didn’t make it over until this afternoon… at first he thought it was dead, but then he fiddled with a few things and discovered something was stuck and once he popped it back down the dishwasher worked…
it just finished running through a cycle…
yay;-)…
15 Thursday Sep 2016
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big girl pants, different, expectations, open, reminder, steeple, stuck, view, widow
been thinking about different points of view… and how important it is to be open to looking at things from another perspective…
had a few opportunities lately to think about, and look at, things from another angle… it is good to be reminded that there are many ways to see things…
sometimes I can get stuck on one idea, and not be able to see some of the other ways of looking at it…
at lunch today was looking at the steeple from a different view…
same steeple, but different…
a great reminder not to expect others to be a certain way…
nice view…
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