02 Thursday May 2019
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27 Saturday Apr 2019
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little bit jealous this afternoon…
walked by the window and noticed this cat laying in the sun on the back deck…
was wishing I could have been there but the yard hasn’t been raked or the furniture moved and cleaned…
and it wasn’t quite warm enough for me to get out there and clean it up…
15 Monday Apr 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, cacao, cacao trees, chocolate, flowers, glorious, lavender, Maui day five, moments, pictures, purple, sunshine, widow
today we went to Ali’i Kula Lavender… we thought it was just a lavender field but it turned out to have a whole lot of flowering plants and trees as well…
had a lovely wander around and took a few photos, lol…
from there we headed over to Maui Chocolate and Coffee Tours at Kupa’a Farms where we had a wonderful visit with Ann and Janet and Gerry… we talked about jewellery and Instagram and then we got to see cacao trees… somebody was very happy…
we saw all kinds of other trees and learned how chocolate is made, followed by a great chocolate tasting…
what a glorious afternoon…
30 Saturday Mar 2019
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big girl pants, Chihuly, drawer, family, memories, pictures, quadrant, sea shells, Seattle, sunshine, table, weather, widow
sun shone all day which is great… Saturday is my rest day and I try not to leave the house…
had a fun time changing out the drawer in the living room coffee table…
put away all of the pictures of beautiful Chihuly installations and family photos… brought back some lovely memories of our meeting with him in Seattle… like shaking the hand of a rock star;-)…
pulled out the box filled with sea shells and used them to fill the four quadrants… I remember how excited I was to find this table at IKEA that the shells could go into…
of course, I’ve lost two different batches of shells since then, lol…
but it looks lovely and beach-y...
16 Saturday Mar 2019
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worked around the house today… never set foot outside…
did a number of loads of laundry, made zucchini basil soup, sorted through the tax file to be sure everything was there, paid bills online and watched skiing and skating on tv…
when I looked out the back, spotted the bunny… haven’t seen her for a few weeks…
when I looked out the front, got a lovely shot of the sun behind clouds…
snow is melting, even without much sunshine… woo hoo…
24 Sunday Feb 2019
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have decided that it needs to be Spring…
bought this cute little crocus plant and am enjoying watching the blooms open…
the sun is shining out there and it feels like Spring… in the house, lol…
except that the temperature is minus 34…
picked up a few Spring-y tops on Friday…
maybe if we imagine it enough, it will come sooner;-)…
19 Tuesday Feb 2019
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sunshine and clouds…
Saturday the sun was shining down on the planters in the front yard and there were diamonds glittering… lovely dome of snow, which reminded me of a giant ice cream cone…
a bit later I caught this sundog… not very big but always such fun to spot… as I was driving downtown this morning there was a huge one, but I couldn’t stop to take a photo…
Sunday the clouds were very fluffy as I took this picture…
12 Friday Oct 2018
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today was my first Friday back in the office since May…
started the day with a visit to the dentist’s office… have lovely clean teeth now…
dressed casual to ease back into being in the office on a Friday, lol… and brought a snack for everyone… it was the leftover trail mix from Thanksgiving dinner… I had picked up a number of bulk seeds, nuts and smarties and mixed them together… came out great and everyone loved it…
on my lunch break I went for a walk in the sunshine and checked out some cameras… still looking for just the right one to replace my Nikon…
a few pretty plants out there although they were looking a bit rough around the edges close up…
09 Sunday Sep 2018
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odd weather today… went from cloudy to sunny, to rainy, and back again a number of times… ended with sun shining through the clouds…
the poor morning glories took a beating early on… nearly every time it rained the drops were huge…
thinking of my dad today as I took hours to make fresh tomato sauce to go with some spaghetti for supper… I keep buying grape tomatoes to make caprese salad and then never use them all up… he would add all kinds of condiments to add flavour and it always ended up delicious… as I rummaged through the cupboard, I remembered watching him do the same thing, lol…
it turned out great and was a lovely treat as I don’t often have pasta… made some homemade coleslaw to go along with it and have a bit of both for lunch tomorrow;-)…
30 Monday Jul 2018
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big girl pants, family, grandson, lightning, Rabbit Lake, rain, regatta, sky, sunshine, weather, widow
spent Saturday at Rabbit Lake watching a rowing regatta…
last year my grandson was only in two races… this year he was in quite a few…
in his first race he was with someone he hadn’t rowed with before and they came in second, which meant they would row in the finals later in the day…
the process is very interesting… before they can put the boat into the water an umpire has to check that everything is correctly placed… then they have to put the boat into the water, get set up in the boat and head down to the starting area… when they have completed the race they row back, wait for directions to land, take the boat out of the water and then put it back with the rest of their team’s equipment…
then they might have to rush to get ready for their next race… he ended up a couple of times running from the end of one race to the start of another…
the most fun was a four hundred metre mixed race for eights… these huge boats are fun to watch and have very few races, lol…
at one point the proceedings were called due to lightning… so for nearly an hour everyone had to come off the water and tie down their equipment… then the sky cleared and it was back to racing…
much later the lightning and thunder ended the regatta… it was interesting to watch everyone get off the water and pack up all of the equipment…
and then it poured, cleared up and the sun came back out in time for a bbq and award ceremony…
a great fun day… then the long drive home…
