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threshold…

05 Tuesday Jan 2021

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on New Year’s morning I was walking on the treadmill and happened to turn on the front camera to see if any birds were at the feeder…

there was a man standing there, so I ran upstairs to see what was going on…

it was a young friend with a gift in his hand… he said he was looking for coal… I had him step back, and put out a gift bag I had put coal and a scone into… anticipating that my middle grandson was coming over…

then he stepped over the threshold and put down the gift and gift bag and stepped back outside…

my daughter had sent a number of items to her friends and they had packaged them up and delivered them to my door…

for years we have done first-footing… this was by far the fanciest package, lol…

there was tea, charcoal shampoo, chocolate covered fruit, a Christmas cracker, little bottles of alcohol, sourdough chocolate, a delicious fresh banana chocolate chip muffin, an adorable tin with a cute gingerbread person in it and a fresh orange… and of course the chunk of coal;-)…

what a wonderful surprise… truly, I am blessed…

61st…

03 Thursday Dec 2020

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it would have been my beloved’s 72nd birthday tomorrow… we’ve commemorated it a number of ways over the years and this year I plan on dinner from Modern Plate Catering, with my Ottawa kids on Google Duo…

we’ve had some wonderful birthday celebrations over the years…

one of my favourites was his 61st birthday… he was recovering from quadruple bypass on his 60th, so we couldn’t do anything special, lol… on his 61st we had dinner out at Fusion Grill with his boy friends and their partners…

during his illness he had three particular friends who went for walks, coffee, talks and visits with him on a regular basis… it was such fun to spend time with them all together… it was a great surprise for him and everyone had a lovely time…

last night I spent ages searching for this picture and did not find it… this morning it came up in my Facebook memories, lol…

fun to remember some of those special times… makes the days happier;-)…

feed…

21 Wednesday Oct 2020

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woke up to this…

we often get a bit of snow before Halloween, but it usually disappears… not sure that is going to happen this year…

I went out to the garden, dug the shovels out of the garage and shovelled off the top deck and by the hot tub… I set up a few spots for bird seed…

this winter I am going to keep the top deck clear so that I can feed the birds… last year the kids didn’t come by to shovel and my guy only does the bottom so the deck became impassible… still need to figure out how to attach a feeder to the deck…

with retirement, I can clean the deck whenever it works best for me, or a little at a time, lol…

messages…

18 Saturday Apr 2020

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this morning I started my day with the last bag of Twinning Blackcurrant Tea…

texts, phone calls, and Facebook messages came throughout the day…

and the biggest surprise was my BS buddies singing happy birthday on the road with a sign on a six foot pole so that the two holders wouldn’t get too close… what a treat…

seeing friends, even at a distance, brought such warmth to my heart… thanks to my buddy for sharing her photo;-)…

took Barbie (the BBQ) out and grilled steak and lobster for my dinner… ate with my Ottawa kids via Google Duo… they had McDonalds, lol…

very different from last year, but certainly this birthday will be remembered…

cap…

09 Monday Mar 2020

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had quite the giggle this morning…

last night I had rolled up the toothpaste container and then put a bulldog clip on it to keep the toothpaste closer to the top…

this morning when I unscrewed the cap, the toothpaste shot out… clearly there was a bit too much pressure, lol…

reminded me of how I always blamed my beloved for the messy toothpaste tube… amazingly, even after he was gone the tube sometimes gets messy;-)…

strange…

supplier…

19 Thursday Dec 2019

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yesterday I received a message that some flowers were coming my way…

I spoke with the florist who advised they would arrive before end of day…

but then, 6 pm came and went… they usually close at that time, so I figured there would be no flowers…

around 7:30 they arrived… still wasn’t sure who was sending them…

they were well wrapped because it was cold outside…

opened them up to discover a beautiful bouquet of orchids, roses and carnations…

they were from a Toronto supplier I had worked with over the last ten years…

a lovely surprise…

missed…

26 Friday Apr 2019

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been away from the office for sixteen days…

today when I returned there were notes and presents at my desk, and hugs from colleagues… nice to feel missed…

shortly after I went into a meeting I was called into another meeting at which point there was singing, flowers and a card… I was surprised as I was thinking that my birthday celebration would be on Monday…

sure is great to be appreciated;-)…

pellet…

13 Wednesday Feb 2019

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so last night I was in the bathroom and noticed a little piece of something on the ground… wondered if it was a piece of chocolate… it wasn’t, but I couldn’t figure out what it was…

spotted a few more as I walked to the kitchen and there were some on the floor there as well…

by then I was thinking that someone had been in the house… picked up all the bits and tossed them out…

headed upstairs and while I am watching tv saw a little head and then heard the pitter patter of little feet… when I looked down at the end of the bed I saw this…

the cutest little bunny… she let me take her picture and then hopped into the computer room…

I went downstairs to find some water and a carrot but I was still trying to figure out how she got in…

downstairs she came and sat in the doorway between the living and dining rooms…

I made a few phone calls and sent a few pictures… I like bunnies so I wasn’t scared but didn’t want one running around the house all night, leaving little pellets behind…

once she was in the dining room, I used chairs to block her in… then I made a path from there out the front door…

good thing it wasn’t too cold because the door was open for a while… once I moved the barricade to the dining room, she followed the path and went right outside where I had put a few more pieces of carrot for her…

eventually my heart stopped pounding, the furniture was all back in place, and I went downstairs to hook the vent back up, which was how she got in… will be buying something so that nobody else can come in that way;-)…

certainly had the adrenaline flowing…

arrived…

10 Sunday Feb 2019

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my older daughter, who lives in Ottawa, surprised me on Wednesday… she arrived to help with a big event I’ve been working on…

after the event, she was able to visit with a few of her friends and we spent Saturday in our jammies doing nothing…

it was divine as both of us have been very busy for the last month…

we made macaroni and cheese with lobster for supper… at the same time I learned more about Instagram stories and a new app that slices videos to Instagram size;-)… as I was going through my photos looking for one of the mac and cheese to put in this post, I was giggling because we took two sets of videos and there wasn’t a single photo of the process that was good enough to use, lol…

we did manage to get into the hot tub once… our usual routine is to spend a few minutes at the end of each evening there…

this morning we were up early and took our requisite selfie, lol… we used her fancy Huawei phone which has some smoothing aspect in the pic… we look pretty fine…

I got her to the airport by 6:30 am for her flight… and took our final selfie…

a wonderful gift…

schedule…

05 Tuesday Feb 2019

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what a wonderful surprise…

the cleaners were supposed to be here yesterday but they took a snow day because of the weather which made perfect sense… I couldn’t get out of the driveway…

I was thinking they wouldn’t be here today although I asked if they might be able to fit me in…

it was a very long day so when I walked through the door and saw they’d been here it was such a treat…

just what I needed;-)…