10 Thursday Jan 2019
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been enjoying some beautiful flowers lately…
the cutest little orchid…
and I’ve been watching and waiting for my amaryllis to grow and bloom… I bought two at the same time and the one my daughter had bloomed beautifully at Christmas time…
mine did nothing for over a month… now it has started to grow in a manner that looks more like a hyacinth… will be interesting to see what happens…
a rose from the beginning of the week…
09 Sunday Dec 2018
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big girl pants, buds, developing, flowers, moments, orchid, plants, surprise, treat, watering, widow
was wandering around watering the plants and had a lovely surprise…
usually I water on Saturday but was a bit behind so got to it this morning… was pleased that the paper whites have a couple of buds developing…
was at the mandevilla which has an orchid beside it – usually I keep the orchids for a year or two once they are finished blooming and then end up replacing them…
to my delight, I discovered four buds…
what a wonderful treat…
11 Wednesday Apr 2018
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big girl pants, garden, glowing, happy, light, moon, solar light, surprise, widow
this morning I had a happy surprise when I went by the window in the hallway…
it was around six am and the light was still glowing in the garden… the solar light had stayed on all night… surely a sign of warmer days and stronger sunlight…
had to go back to the bedroom to get my phone so I could get a photo of it…
as I drank my smoothie I also noticed the moon out the window…
every day is getting lighter… this makes me very happy…
12 Monday Jun 2017
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lots of treats and surprises today…
when the mail arrived there was a box with my name on it… in it was all of this…
two tasting packages, a cute notebook, a card and a hummingbird chocolate bar in a tiny love bag…
at lunchtime three of us did a little chocolate tasting… we had a great time… comparing how the small pieces taste for each of us is way more fun in a group than individually…
it was funny because I had decided to do a tasting on my own after supper with some of the pieces that my daughter sent me a while ago…
she had sent the parcel ten days before Mother’s Day and it only arrived last week, lol… the parcel today was a replacement because we had given up on the original one…
after lunch a colleague brought me a package with my favourite summer rolls… had them for my dinner…
the chips were a bonus;-)…
22 Saturday Apr 2017
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big girl pants, colouring, fun, hot tub, pictures, shopping, sleepover buddies, snow, surprise, widow
fun day…
took numerous pictures of the snow outside this morning… pretty, if somewhat surprising…
then my daughter came by and we went shopping… picked up some seeds and a container to plant them in… then we checked out a few stores and I found a few plates and a lovely tray… have already used it twice… for supper and for an evening snack…
home for a nap and then my sleepover buddies arrived…
colouring (in adult colouring books, because he is way beyond kid books), electronic games, tv, hot tubbing and chocolate milkshakes before bed…
hope they go to sleep soon…
all that fun has made for a long day and I am tired, lol…
06 Friday Nov 2015
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this morning had to take this picture as I stepped out the door…
that was snow on the ground, sigh…
I’ve been waiting all week for tonight’s fish and chips from The Captain’s Table…
stopped at Polo Park to pick up a few items and as I left ordered supper from SkiptheDishes on my phone… got home, prepared some veggies, and the food arrived…
less than 30 minutes… great surprise… and it tasted great too…
much better day today… still a bit emotional first thing, but by the end of the day was feeling more settled… really does surprise me how strong emotions can be, even after all these years…
these orchids remind me of my love and how he took care of me…
he would surprise me with orchids all the time…
28 Saturday Mar 2015
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finally the hot tub is back up to 103… early Friday morning I wasn’t sleeping so decided to go out for a hot tub, only to discover that the heater wasn’t running… came back in and laid in bed thinking of all the things that could be wrong with it…
once it was light, I went out and unplugged and plugged it into the outlet… was so happy when it started and it has been heating up ever since… it had gone down to 63 Celsius… really glad I didn’t just jump into it…
hoping to go out a bit later tonight, although rain has been coming down for the last while…
did a few chores around the house and spent some time on the computer printing out my food diary and blood sugar readings for the doctor’s appointment this week… also moved 1400 pictures from my phone to the computer…
had a wonderful surprise when I was watering plants…
found these two blooms on the peace lily…
good day…
29 Thursday Jan 2015
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got a lovely surprise today…
my friend brought me a gorgeous purple orchid…
it was a thank you for using my car… I’m happy to lend it to her… it always comes back filled with gas and freshly washed… I still don’t like to take it to the car wash…
during the winter I don’t take it out much so it is always happy to get a drive in, lol…
I was so happy because I’ve been trying to get out and pick an orchid up for the house… they are wonderful because they flower for a long time…
I do tend to treat flowering plants like cut flowers… enjoy them until they die off…
was particularly lovely, as I had spent the day at home… still wasn’t feeling well so gave in and climbed back into bed this morning…
had a hot tub in the afternoon and watched the squirrel come down through the trees like they were stairs… didn’t see any birds even though the sun was shining… it shone for a good portion of the day which was also very nice as it has been dull for ages…
hoping to feel much better in the morning…
11 Thursday Dec 2014
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couple of lovely surprises today…
my friend drove me to my doctor’s appointment this afternoon as she has been using my car…
afterwards we went to her house and she showed me a few exercises with weights and then she gave me two three-pound ones…
and they are purple… slightly different from the four pound pair I have…
was cooking my dinner when the doorbell rang and a friend of my Ottawa kids handed me a beautiful swag which my daughter had ordered from them…
it smells gorgeous… now I have to figure out where to put it…
how special is that…
08 Wednesday Oct 2014
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had a wonderful surprise this morning when I came downstairs…
the hibiscus was blooming… often when you bring a plant indoors it will die back, so this was quite wonderful…
looked out the window and watched the moon… the eclipse had finished earlier and the moon was no longer red, but it sure was big… the picture doesn’t do it justice, lol…
once I got home from work I jumped in the car and raced to the grocery store… I am on for soup tomorrow and am doing a recipe I haven’t tried before, and because I didn’t feel great last night I didn’t get the shopping done… once home I peeled carrots and yams and tossed everything into a soup pot and got cooking…
the really funny part was that this was a crockpot recipe but I didn’t have time to use the crockpot to cook it…
surprisingly it isn’t as orange as expected because I got yams instead of sweet potatoes and they were white inside…
think it tastes okay…
guess we will know for sure tomorrow…
