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craving…

15 Monday Oct 2018

Posted by sulis303 in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, Boob Burger, Costco, craving, family, help, snow, tacos, vegan, widow

yesterday my son-in-law and middle grandson came over and we went to Costco to pick up a few things…

they carted stuff in and put it away while I prepared the meat for tacos… serendipitous as my grandson mentioned he’d been craving them for a few days…

the boys use both hard and soft shells, but I like to make salad with mine…

after supper we jumped in the car and drove to Boon Burger for some vegan pumpkin pie ice cream… my son-in-law is having to watch his dairy intake and was very excited to learn that they have this particular ice cream and that he could eat it…

it was snowing a bit as we left with our treats, lol…

WWTB day 1…

29 Friday Jun 2018

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blessed, ducklings, English Garden, family, flowers, garden, grandsons, groceries, mallard, nap, pond, tacos, vacation, WWTB day 1

week with the boys…

my daughter, son-in-law and oldest grandson have taken off on a two week trip to the East Coast to celebrate his graduation… so my younger grandsons are spending a week with me and then a week with an uncle and aunt…

this morning we drove to the Park, where we met a friend, for breakfast and a walk around the Gardens…

we checked out our stones when we arrived… just to be sure they were still there, lol…

we had a great time in the Gardens and spent ages at the tropical lily pond watching a momma mallard and her four babies…

we also found a few critters…

we went and picked up groceries for the week and when we got home spotted a goldfinch at the feeder… when I called them to come quick, not saying why, one said to the other I wonder what kind of bird it is, lol… they do know their grandma…

the x-box came to visit too, and got well used during the hottest part of the day, while I may have napped…

a trip to the Dollar Store, Safeway and then we returned home…

fun with the football we picked up, taco supper, and now some time in the garden…

we did FaceTime with mommy and watched daddy work on a campfire…

they are off to play some badminton… then, maybe a movie, or early to bed, lol…

at least one of us is tired…

lunch…

19 Sunday Feb 2017

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big girl pants, holiday, internet, kids, lunch, Pokémon, sink, strike plate, tacos, widow

today the kids came for lunch rather than our usual dinner…

early this week my son-in-law came over and fixed the garage door… he had to put on a new strike plate… he had added a bar in the summer when the door latch wasn’t quite catching…  

a week or so ago I heard something fall to the ground but I didn’t see what actually fell and then when I arrived home later I realized that the door wouldn’t stay closed… the bar had fallen off… I texted him and he came by that night on his way home from work…

had thought he might wait until it was light out, but he got it fixed no problem, even though it was dark…

today he cleaned the drain in the bathroom sink… appeared it was filled with my daughters’ hair… took quite a while but eventually he got it fixed and all back together…

his final project was to check out the internet and wi-fi… think he might have got that working better too…

we also spent a lot of time playing Pokémon… twice while they were here one of them ran out to catch Pokémon close by, lol…

the little guy seemed to be doing yoga poses at one point…

my daughter and I spent some time looking at the information about the hotel and city we are going to visit next month… should be fun…

everyone enjoyed the meal… we had ground beef and shrimp tacos… very tasty… and we had a fun visit…

now for some tv…

wrap…

20 Tuesday Dec 2016

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big girl pants, carols, Christmas, family, fish tank, holidays, presents, shovelled, tacos, widow, wrap

excellent first day of holidays…

slept in a bit, had breakfast and watched some tv…

then I spent a lovely few hours listening to Christmas carols and wrapping presents…

the kids came over and we did a run to Costco to pick up a few final items needed for the season…

while we were gone the oldest grandson shovelled the sidewalk, driveway and backyard…

they brought over the makings for tacos for supper and we gobbled them up…

after supper a bit of work went into the fish tank and the babies were added in… we hope they make it but they’d stopped growing in the bowl…

pretty nice day…

grandparents…

17 Sunday Jan 2016

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art, big girl pants, Brian Baeumler, brush, gelcool, grandparents, popcorn, stem, tacos, Tupperware

fun day…

went to the Renovation Show with my daughter… we are OK, or so said the stamp on our hands, lol… didn’t get to see Brian Baeumler, but wandered around and picked up some very helpful information…

  
had quite a good time… picked up a couple of things…

  

a gelcool pillow which makes me very happy as it will make my head feel cooler so I don’t have to do my regular flip of the pillow in the middle of the night… 

also this beautifully designed toilet cleaner brush, which looks like a piece of art, or an arrow, as my grandson suggested…

and a new Tupperware measuring cup to replace the one I’ve been using to make popcorn, which is kind of ruined, lol… exciting because they have just reintroduced it…
found a new natural system for the hot tub… will use enzymes instead of the current chemicals I put in, and way less will need to be added… 

finally picked up a paring knife which fits my hand perfectly… been looking for one that is comfortable in my palm forever…

picked up the last few items for our taco supper, came home and finished it up… 

had quite the start this morning as I was chopping tomatoes… looked over and saw this…

 
nearly jumped out of my skin because I thought it was a spider… just the stem from one of the tomatoes, lol…

supper was gobbled up… I am so happy when everyone enjoys our meal and time together… two and three helpings were had, and the littlest one even ate the meat happily… in fact he had two plates of taco salad before he ate his usual taco… 

such fun to see them begin to try, and enjoy, new things…

as I enjoy my Sunday afternoons and evenings with my grandkids I realize how lucky I am to be in close proximity to them… many grandparents I know only get to see their kids now and again, and I am able to see them grow every week…

grandparenting is one of the best jobs I’ve ever had… life is good…

tacos…

29 Sunday Nov 2015

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big girl pants, boys, breakfast, healthy, mills, pepper, salt, shopping, tacos, vegan

boys slept in until eight this morning… then happily watched cartoons on tv until their mom arrived about 8:30…

we went out for breakfast… second day in a row for me, lol… today it was Perkins for eggs Benedict… the 55 plus portion for me, which is just the right amount…

more shopping and found these adorable battery powered salt and pepper mills… had to bring them home… they are so cute…

  
now I have to figure out where to put them because they are too tall to fit in the cabinet where the old ones were, lol… but I can get rid of the older ones…

for our supper tonight we had tacos… only the little boys and their daddy came, but everyone loved them and had at least three each…

  
I used a ground vegan product instead of meat… very tasty and easier than cooking hamburger… no one even noticed the difference… we also had some refried beans, which we adults enjoyed… the boys don’t like beans of any kind…

I love feeding them tacos because they always eat well and there aren’t any complaints… there is lots of lettuce, tomatoes, green onions, avocado and sour cream to go with the soft and hard tacos that they like…

tonight they had milk with their supper… I usually offer juice boxes because I don’t think of drinking milk as I really dislike it, but they think of it as a treat, ugh…

another of their favourites is Subway sandwiches… they would choose that over burgers nearly any day… 

wonderful that they enjoy healthy foods…

sunshine…

06 Sunday Apr 2014

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clean, closet, Japanese Maple, Spring, sunshine, tacos, walk

had brunch out with friends and then walked home in the sunshine…

wore a light jacket and took a few pictures along the way…

this was the pool that was at the end of the street…

20140406-205125.jpg had to do a bit of fancy footwork to make my way around it, lol…

spent some some cleaning out the last bit of a closet upstairs and I was able to divest myself of a box full of books and other bits and pieces… also cleaned up a corner of the computer room and put my collection of gift bags and tissue paper into the closet… more space in the room, yay…

later in the day the sun was shining into the living room and I got this shot of the couch and cushion glittering…

20140406-205655.jpgmy daughter and her boys came for dinner and we had tacos… the most exciting thing was that the littlest guy had meat on all of his tacos… maybe we are moving out of the no meat phase…

finally, I took this shot of the Japanese Maple, which at Christmas time, didn’t have a single leaf on it…

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another sign that Spring might really be coming…

tacos…

20 Sunday Oct 2013

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Amish Friendship bread, big girl pants, dessert loaf, Halloween decorations, shopping at Safeway, tacos

this morning I prepared the meat for tacos for tonight’s dinner…

then I headed over to pick up a few items that were still needed for tonight… fairly busy at Safeway but I ran in and out and got everything…

after I got home I also made some Amish Friendship bread… I had been given the starter over a week ago… thought it was going to be an actual bread but it turned out to be more of a dessert loaf…

ready for dinner...

ready for dinner…

the boys love tacos and tonight they gobbled them up… one of the reasons I make them is the fact that everyone eats them… not always easy to find something that they all like…

taco inside a taco...

taco inside a taco…

it is always fun to watch them put them together… A soft taco gets sour cream on it and then it wraps around the hard taco before getting filled with all the goodies…

one likes them best with cheese and lettuce…

my taco...

my taco…

they also liked the loaf…

finally, the boys put out the Halloween decorations while I finished tidying up in the kitchen… now to get some candy…

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