minutes…

10 Wednesday Feb 2016

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big girl pants, crunchy, glass spoons, hubcaps, minutes, Shadow, sunrise, sunset

lots of special things today…

stunning sunrise as I was getting ready…

sure do enjoy these beautiful moments… great start to the day… as I drove out of the driveway I enjoyed the crunch of the tires on the snow… a sure sign that it is really cold…

midway through the morning a package arrived for me and in it were some beautiful glass spoons… happily they were not crunched from the trip…

another nice treat… ordered two as the lovely one that my friend brought me back from Nova Scotia got broken… now I have a spare…

and on my way home I stopped in at Canadian Tire and had hubcaps put on Shadow’s wheels… just took a few minutes and they look way prettier than the not so pretty winter tires… a colleague made the suggestion… why didn’t I think of this before…

and I think Shadow likes them too…

missed getting a picture of the sunset… saw it as I was driving home, and then got busy in the kitchen… when I went to take a picture, this was all I got, lol…

what a difference a few minutes make…

countdown…

30 Saturday Jan 2016

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excellent day…

walked to the Park and met a friend for breakfast… nearly drove because it has been quite slippery, but I decided to take enough time to walk slowly…

it was above zero and beautiful weather for a stroll…

one of the newer pieces of technology that I really appreciate is the countdown timer at stop lights… rather than just having a flashing red hand you can see how many seconds you have left to make it across the street…

really appreciate this particularly at the corner by the Park… not nearly as stressful to get across the road…

so excited to look outside and see my solar dragonflies lit up…

haven’t been on for months so it means the sun is getting stronger… woohoo…

and just a few minutes before I had looked out the window to see this…

spectacular… not five minutes later I walked by and the sky was normal blue…

nature is really putting on a show these days, lol…

movement…

26 Tuesday Jan 2016

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first thing this morning I walked on the treadmill at home for twenty minutes…

at noon I walked on the treadmill at the office for fifteen minutes…

after work I went to the pool for aquasize…

lots of movement today…

tonight I caught some movement in the sky as a plane flew through my picture of a lovely sunset…

pain…

11 Monday Jan 2016

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took a picture of my Japanese maple this morning… wanted a baseline for the next few months as the leaves start to produce again… poor little thing struggles every fall when it comes into the house…

lots of conversation tonight about some of the things I learned after George’s death… the discussion brought back some of the pain from those early days…

we talked about the importance of sharing our thoughts about our final wishes with our family and friends – if and when to pull the plug – what we would hope for in a funeral/memorial/ gathering – where needed information is located… made me think that I should review the when mom dies file that I’ve prepared for the girls… when the time comes it should be as easy as possible for them…

on our way home caught this great shot of the sky… excellent to have things to remind me of my wonderful life…

utensils…

10 Sunday Jan 2016

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Bed Bath & Beyond, big girl pants, brussel sprouts, cold, containers, steamer, sunset, utensils

this morning I woke early, but went back to bed for a bit… when I got up I made breakfast and used my cute little steamer again… getting the hang of it more each time I use it…

I have committed to eating vegetables at each meal and all I had left this morning were brussel sprouts… so, I had brussel sprouts with poached eggs and IKEA rösti…. very tasty…

ran out and picked up groceries, so now I have lots of vegetables… also went for a wander in Bed, Bath and Beyond… took quite a while, but was lots of fun…

picked up a rotating container for kitchen utensils… about the fourth one I’ve purchased in the last year or so, but I believe that this might be the last one I have to buy… think it is going to work perfectly…

to fit everyone’s schedule we had a late lunch instead of supper, so when the kids left, it was still light…

sun was just going down as they headed out… still really cold out, but we’ve really been enjoying some beautiful temperatures…

sunny…

08 Sunday Nov 2015

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just can’t get over the sunshine… blue sky when I woke and the sun rose above the trees a bit later… feel so much better when it is sunny outside…

had a lazy day with just a few chores and prepping for dinner with the kids…

took a few pictures of the sun shining into the living room… new shoots are coming up in the water plant barrel…

and the orchid looked great today…

went to Ikea for a short spell in the afternoon with my daughter…

yesterday I wore these jeggings which I just had hemmed this week… this is my first experience wearing this type of pant/leggings and I’m not sure how I feel about them…

will need to show them to the fashionistas in my life to see what they think, lol…

during supper I had to get up and step outside to get a picture of the sky with my iPhone… so great to have that quick access to a camera without having to run to find it…

it was exactly that shade of red… quite beautiful…

the sunsets have been awesome this fall…

I’ve almost forgotten how dull it has been for the last few weeks…

wonderful how a bit of sunlight can perk me up…

prep…

10 Saturday Oct 2015

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spent time in the garden today…

first thing was emptying the hot tub…

takes quite a while to drain…

then, while it filled, I emptied pots and baskets… also cut back, and cleaned off the dahlia tubers as I prepped the garden for winter, sigh…

brought in the last of the flowers and blooms from the dahlias… hope they continue to bloom like the canna has…

put out a few Thanksgiving decorations, set the table for Monday’s dinner, and watched some tv…

made stuffing… tomorrow I will prepare the vegetables, which makes it much more relaxing on Monday…

I looked out the window at one point and the light looked odd so I ran downstairs and checked the front and back windows…

the sky was spectacular…

out the back…

through the front… just a few minutes later this is what I saw…

have been blessed to have caught so many gorgeous views of the sky in the last while…
so much to be thankful for…

orange…

21 Monday Sep 2015

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first thing this morning I took a picture of the Mandevilla… it is a lovely shade of pink…

then I spent a bit of time putting a few new plants on the steps at the front of the house…

came out pretty nice… hope they last until the cold comes…

been noticing orange things as I remember my friend Susan… she loved orange… on my walks in the Park I have been drawn to the orange flowers… I’ve been working on a project and have noticed I’ve been gravitating to orange there as well…

missing my beloved lately as well… interesting how time can go by and then all of a sudden I miss him tremendously…

tonight the sky was beautiful again…

pinky orange, lol… amazing sunsets lately…