22 Wednesday Apr 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, cookie, moments, paw, Technology, thanking, volunteer week, widow
got a lovely thank you from APC in a note this week thanking us for being volunteers;-)…
then, on our shift, we discovered these delightful cookies in the fridge;-)… the paw is so cute…
17 Friday Apr 2026
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big girl pants, bruise, deck, Dynacare, garden, moments, nature, supposed, Technology, weather, widow
was hoping to sit on the deck Wednesday morning while I was waiting for Dynacare to turn up… the weather was supposed to be warm and sunny…
the sun did shine on and off, but the wind was chilly, so I didn’t sit out for long, lol…
the Dynacare technician arrived and took some blood for my next doctor’s appointment… they had trouble getting into the vein and told me I would have a bruise…
and I do…
15 Wednesday Apr 2026
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big girl pants, birthday treat, blessed, daughter, family, gift certificate, Julia, moments, paraffin, pedicure, purple, Technology, Total Wrapture Spa, widow
decided that the first treat of my birthday week was a pedicure at Total Wrapture…
I’ve been going there for many years, but haven’t been for months…
when I arrived, I was handed a gift card… my daughter had called and paid for my pedicure…
what a lovely surprise…
Julia did a wonderful job… she was very gentle and her foot and leg massage was excellent… I also had a paraffin wax treatment before the colour was put on;-)…
and guess what colour I chose, lol…
02 Thursday Apr 2026
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big girl pants, case, giggle, iPhone, moments, phone case, purple, research, Technology, widow, zipper
my phone case was starting to show its age, so I spent time researching what was out there to replace it…
having the spot where cards and a bit of money fit makes it easy for me just to take the phone and not need a purse…
took quite a while, but eventually I found two that I thought might work…
ordered both and discovered, for now, that the smaller one will work perfectly;-)…
the best thing is that it doesn’t have a zipper, like my last one, where the pull tab kept finding its way into my photos, lol… and it is very slim…
the part that makes me giggle is that it is harder to tell the top from the bottom when I take it out of my pocket…
01 Wednesday Apr 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, broom, chairs, cleaned, cushions, deck, garden, moments, nature, sunshine, Technology, warm, weather, widow
got to sit outside on the deck Sunday morning… yay:-)…
moved the chairs into their usual spots, took off the covers, brought out the clean cushions, and put them on the chairs…
got out the broom and swept up the cedar bits and elm leaves that were all over the deck… even used the leaf blower to finish up…
put on a light jacket and brought out tea and my book and enjoyed the sun, birdsong, and my book for a wonderful hour and a half;-)…
haven’t made it out since then, what with the snow and overcast skies🥺…
14 Saturday Mar 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, computer, donations, moments, scans, taxes, Technology, upload, widow
been putting off dealing with the taxes, sigh…
finally sat down in the computer room and got to work on all the documents I needed to send in…
just recently a friend shared that the pharmacy could provide a list of all my prescriptions for the year… saved me a lot of pasting, as I would organize and stick all the receipts in date order from the pharmacy on letter paper and then scan the pages, lol…
thankfully I had printed a hard copy of most of the donation receipts which was handy when I was searching for all of them in my email, lol…
took a minute, but eventually I figured out how to scan things to the computer and locate where they landed…
then shockingly, I also remembered how to get into the Portal and was able to upload all of the pieces of information…
I think, 🤞…
09 Monday Mar 2026
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big girl pants, books, F1, internet, moments, switches, Technology, widow
when I got home late Saturday afternoon it was to discover that the internet was down…
that means no Google or tv🤪…
luckily there are still books to read… and actual light switches to use;-)…
but, as the evening progressed, the internet had not come back on… usually it wouldn’t be such a problem, other than the fact that there was the first F1 race of the season at 11 pm…
found a Youtube channel on my phone where the drivers parade was on and then found a program that showed the race in real time but as dots on a map of the course…
certainly not the best, but at least I could hear the progress…
about halfway through the race, the internet came back on… 😃…
06 Friday Mar 2026
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, burgers, family, floats, food, fourteen, grandson, memories, moments, Technology, time, widow
last night we celebrated my beloved who departed fourteen years ago…
as always, some days it seems like yesterday, and others so long ago…
hamburgers and floats were eaten here and via the internet…
so thankful to have family around for these celebrations;-)…
01 Sunday Mar 2026
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big girl pants, birthday, blessed, calendars, flowers, March, moments, month, Technology, widow
the calendars changed today to March;-)…
new flock of birds to see…
and the little bouquet has changed a bit as the front vase moved to the back;-)…
it is also a birthday month in our family, lol…
25 Wednesday Feb 2026
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big girl pants, cold tub, dishwasher, light, moments, power, switch, Technology, widow
last week we discovered that the heater, that keeps the cold tub at 5° C, had tripped the power switch…
we couldn’t figure out what caused the problem, but it didn’t happen again… until this morning…
twice, while I was making soup in the kitchen, it tripped again…
seems to be some connection with the dishwasher and light above the stove and maybe the heater in the cold tub… turned off the stove light and didn’t have anymore problems…
fingers crossed 🤞…
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