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09 Friday Dec 2016

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big girl pants, friend, inscription, moments, pen, purple, sun, sunshine, widow

this morning I used my new pen to write the inscription in a book that I had purchased as a gift…

got it from a dear friend last week…

writes very nicely and is a beautiful shade of purple…

spoke with her this morning to check on how she is doing… lovely to take a few minutes to catch up with a friend…

all day long, whenever I walked around the office, I would comment to everyone about how wonderful the sun shining through the windows was…

we haven’t had sunshine for weeks as it has been dull and overcast so it was great to see it…

so busy that I never did get a picture, but I sure enjoyed those moments…

camping, day 6…

26 Tuesday Jul 2016

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big girl pants, boat, camping, camping day 6, family, fun, kneeboarding, sun, tubing, wakeboarding, water

what a lovely day… heard a couple of loons as we were having our breakfast and packing our lunch…

sun shone and we spent the whole day on the water…

started with a number of rides on the big tube…

the two little guys practically fly when their daddy tries to dump them off, and there are huge grins on all their faces throughout the process…

the oldest grandson and I had a blast, when I wasn’t screaming, lol… 

picnic on board and we toured around half the lake, admiring the cottages… then we swam off the boat… 

after that, there was wakeboarding action… my daughter, son-in-law, and middle grandson are all naturals… my oldest was very close to getting up but the water was getting a bit choppy…

then it was my turn… they had to lower me into the water once the boots were on my feet…

my daughter got right in with me and helped me get positioned…

tried and tried but couldn’t get up… laughed the whole time though… they moved on to kneeboarding and the three oldest boys in the group had a great time, lol… and were very good at it… 

 travelled home after a fun time…

got the boat docked and headed back to the campsite…

my daughter and I went on little tubes (from our visit to Courtenay, many years ago) at the water by our site… bit breezy so we ended up with rock burns, lol…

made and had supper, which was cooked over the fire once again… and a couple of us are trying to save the fire, while the others went out for supplies, but it isn’t looking good, lol…

hoping you had a special day too…

mums…

07 Tuesday Jun 2016

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balloon, big girl pants, flowers, garden, mums, poppy, sun, widow

this morning I drove to the office with some mums for company…


the base was wrapped in one of my cloth bags, in case the person getting them was in the office when I arrived… although they weren’t really hidden, lol… but they were lovely company for me and brightened up the drive…

and then I spotted a hot air balloon gently floating across the sky… want to take another ride in one of those…

what a treat…

before leaving home I checked out the poppy bloom in the garden… the sun was shining on it and made for a beautiful picture…


recently had a conversation about being a mum and how rewarding it can be… and some of the differences amongst children and their responses to life…

able to enjoy some time in the sunshine…

remembering to spend time outdoors when it actually shines helps keep me happy…

runners…

13 Friday May 2016

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big girl pants, breakfast, English Garden, Leo Mol Garden, path, runners, snow, sun, tulips, walk, widow

strange weather today… had planned to meet a friend for a walk around the Gardens at the Park…

sky was lovely when I was first up at 6:45…


if you look hard, you might see the robin in the tree… then this…


all those white dots – snow, sigh… so we decided to meet for breakfast instead…

actually wore runners because I didn’t want to get my toes wet and the temperature was around zero…


after breakfast I went for a walk to and around the English Garden…

couldn’t get into the Leo Mol portion but was excited to see they are replacing the gravel path with bricks… they have replaced other paths in the Garden as well… looks very nice and will be easier to walk on…


the tulips are just starting to open… glad I went over today… hope to get there next week to see them in full bloom…


finally, about 6, the sun came out… crazy day, lol…

view…

04 Monday Apr 2016

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big girl pants, envision, friends, kitchen, light, open mind, snow, sun, view, widow

the sun was shining brightly into the living room tonight as I sat waiting for my friends to arrive… four of the five of us were going to be together…

  
so amazing to be sitting in the bright light at seven thirty at night… yay… 

unfortunately there is still a bit of snow on the ground…

received the first drawings of the kitchen today… trying to look at them and decide whether it is just what I want…

  
interesting to see the kitchen from someone else’s point of view… 

been doing a lot of looking at things with an open mind lately and need to stay in that state of mind…

it is so easy to only see things the way you’ve done them for ages… much more difficult to envision possibilities…

need to keep that open mind…

motivation…

02 Saturday Apr 2016

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big girl pants, conversation, edit, hot tub, motivation, organize, paper, snow, sun, widow

didn’t make it out to the hot tub last night, but first thing this morning I put on my water boots and trod through the snow to enjoy a great time in the tub…

  
wasn’t too chilly and the sun was shining… 

  

squirrels and blue jays were dashing about with peanuts… the hot tub is a bit overfull so the water was right up to my neck…

had a giggle as I walked back to the house…

  
was just a few weeks ago that I was sitting in this very chair having lunch and getting a bit of sun…

came in and was watching some tv… having trouble getting motivated but a conversation with my daughter helped get me off my butt and doing some organizing in the computer room and bedroom…

  
hard to tell from this picture, but I shredded bags full of paper and packed a box of goodies to give away while organizing my paper supplies… always happy when I can let go of things at the same time as I am looking at them, lol…

still have some work to do in there, lol… 

also spent some time editing jewelry and knick knacks in the bedroom… might have been wise to only focus on one room at a time…

flowers…

25 Friday Mar 2016

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beloved, big girl pants, flowers, happy, jammies, moon, snow, sun, sunshine, widow

woke up to snow on the ground this morning… really, lol… it was lovely because I didn’t have to go outside into it… 

  
there was also a beautiful moon…

  
spent the entire day in my jammies taking it easy… 

did walk for half an hour on the treadmill and made zucchini basil soup… I might be a bit addicted to that one…

the whole house is permeated with the smell from the hyacinth… so I took a few pictures of all the flowers in the house today…

  
the light was wonderful in the dining room…

  
the sunlight on them was lovely… 

and finally I got a picture of the sun streaming into the living room…

  
so happy to have the flowers filling the house…

they make me happy… 

remembering my beloved who would make sure I had lots around, particularly at this time of the year…

pictures…

23 Wednesday Mar 2016

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big girl pants, geese, glittering, light, pattern, pictures, sun, widow

over the weekend I took a few interesting pictures…

this one is of the glittering snow on the roof of the garage…

  
a lovely pattern showed up as well…

when we were coming out of the store on Sunday I could hear the geese and when I looked up I saw them… it was so bright that I couldn’t see them, but snapped a few pictures…

  
not bad when I couldn’t actually see…

and finally I got this shot of the sun behind haze…

  
pulled over to take the shot… it was a strange sky…

the light was bright for all of these, lol…

surprise…

16 Wednesday Mar 2016

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antibiotic, aquasize, big girl pants, feet, medication, pharmacist, reaction, sandals, snow, sun, surprises, widow

couple of surprises over the last few days…

last night as we were getting ready for aquasize, I noticed that my feet were red and warm… at first I wondered if it was something from the spa… or maybe from my sandals…

they were still red this afternoon so I contacted the pharmacist to see if it was something to do with new antibiotic I am taking to help with an outbreak of blepharitis…

 
because my body responds so poorly to any type of medication I was worried that I was having a strange reaction… Grant reviewed the side effects and thought it was a sensitivity to the sun… I had spent some time on the deck on Monday so that was certainly a possibility… when I got home I changed into some leggings which matched the marks on my ankles exactly… happily I think that confirms his idea… for the next month I will have to be very careful when out in the sun…

as I drove home from work it was spitting and I took this picture when I got into the house just before five… can’t believe that nearly all the snow is gone…

  
I had a lovely nap and woke up to this just before eight…

  
not such nice surprises, lol…

maybe I won’t be wearing my sandals to work in the morning…

Spring…

12 Saturday Mar 2016

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big girl pants, patio, pond, sandals, screen, snow, solar, Spring, sun, widow

happy to open the patio door and have the warm air flow through the screen… 

  
first time it has been open since the fall I think… had the bedroom window open all day too…

spent a few minutes on the deck shovelling the snow off it… planning to sit out there for a bit tomorrow…

got a few pictures of the water in the pond… won’t be long before I am sitting out there beside it…

 
heat from the sun is melting the snow around the big rocks… 

tonight all the solar lights are on… for the last few nights some have been staying lit until early in the morning… excellent sign of Spring…

streets were pretty dry so today when I headed out I wore my sandals…

  
now we are talking;-)…

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