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wake-ups…

13 Tuesday Aug 2024

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well, I have emerged from the Olympics cycle…

I have watched all kinds of sports, some for the first time…

as mentioned previously, I like to watch in real time and managed to do that for a good portion of the sports I was interested in… although I did sleep through one of the medals that Canada won, lol… it meant a lot of 2:30 and 4:00 am wake-up’s…

my hope for every event that I watch is that each person does their best and I like flipping between channels, if I can, to hear commentary from different points of view…

I am less interested in team sports such as soccer or basketball or football… and I’m not too fond of fighting in any of its numerous forms…

the technology at these games had some interesting highlights… I was particularly taken with the cauldron;-)…

I am happy that this portion is over and I have a few weeks before the Paralympics begin…

hopefully there will be lots of it on tv and Gem as well;-)…

hat…

11 Sunday Aug 2024

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I’ve been wearing this Chihuly hat since we visited Atlanta in 2016 and love it…

it has turned that very sad gray/black colour and looks completely worn out…

haven’t been able to figure out how to save it, sigh…

got this new hat a few days ago… it was part of the 2024 Canadian Olympics clothing line and I hope it lasts as long and as well as the Chihuly…

ripe…

10 Saturday Aug 2024

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this memory came up in my feed on Thursday… it was from a year ago and clearly the tomatoes were ripe and nearly ready to eat…

this one is from the garden this Thursday…

obviously these ones are quite a ways behind, lol…

screwdriver…

04 Sunday Aug 2024

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well, I pulled out those big girl pants and installed two glass shelves in the bedroom…

both shelves had been broken during cleaning over the last few years but I had one available to replace the first one…

after the second one broke, the cleaning company was able to find some that were similar, but they used different hardware than what was on the wall…

the shelves have been sitting in the box they arrived in for quite a few weeks, but today I brought out my screwdriver and the drill and went at it…

took awhile because I had trouble with getting just the right screw head for the screwdriver…

but I persevered and did it and they look good;-)…

I am very pleased because the bedroom has been looking untidy, which makes me a bit crazy, and I have spent a lot of time in it over the last week, with another one to go…

casting…

03 Saturday Aug 2024

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I’ve been spending a lot of time in the bedroom, lol…

during the Olympics I try to watch as many live events as possible… so this year that means quite a lot of middle of the night viewing…

and, if what is on isn’t one of my favourites, I cast shows to the tv… currently that only happens on the bedroom tv…

I do love casting… particularly as I’ve finally figured out how to do it easily, lol…

I’ve been able to watch surfing, sailing, equestrian, rowing, and trampoline that way…

I am sure I could win a medal if watching the Olympics was a sport🤪…

pre-qualifying…

29 Monday Jul 2024

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Saturday and Sunday were complicated because not only were the Olympics on, but F1 qualifying Saturday and the actual race Sunday in Belgium…

had to PVR some of the F1 programs, including pre-qualifying, as I enjoy seeing what all the commentators have to say as I continue learning the ins and outs of the sport;-)…

happily I was able to find the time between the Olympic sports I wanted to watch, lol…

cast…

27 Saturday Jul 2024

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well, the Olympics have begun;-)… started with about four hours for the opening ceremony yesterday afternoon…

woohoo… I will spend the next two weeks in front of the tv watching all my favourite sports…

I like to watch as it happens as much as possible… so, there will be a great deal of middle of the night watching and daytime sleeping, lol…

looks like 4:00 am will be my start time although I did cast some rowing to the tv at 2:30 this morning… I’ve added a new Favourites list with just the six channels that have Olympic programming on…

I also have an app that shows the schedule and send me reminders when events I am interested in are starting…

happy, happy, happy;-)…

sail…

17 Wednesday Jul 2024

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I’ve been trying to figure out how to get another umbrella on the back deck to provide shade mid afternoon without a whole out of success…

I have an old umbrella, but no pole or stand for it… we went looking but weren’t able to find anything that might work and keep it stable…

in the end we purchased a 3-point sail… we also picked up a lot of rope to be able to connect the corners…

after considerable trial and error, we got it up and I think it is going to work quite well…

and it looks good;-)…

tentative…

04 Thursday Jul 2024

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last night, after supper, I felt as though I had something stuck in one of my back teeth…

after trying for a while to get it out, I realized that a piece of my back tooth was missing…

kind of freaked me out… anyone who knows me knows how I feel about going to the dentist, sigh…

it didn’t hurt, but I kept wondering if it was going to…

first thing in the morning I called and was able to get in to see my dentist…

had to take a taxi to get there and found it rather difficult to see how much was owed…

I just barely sat down when I was called into the office…

it took nearly an hour for the filling to be completed… it was a bad one and apparently it was in the worst place for someone like me who has a tremendous gag reflex, lol… glad it is over…

walked down to the Delta and caught a cab home…

I am still rather tentative about chewing on that side…

OEB…

25 Tuesday Jun 2024

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this morning I discovered OEB… it is a restaurant that my daughter had encountered in Calgary and said was excellent…

we ordered last night and it was delivered first thing this morning…

I chose the French Toast Trifle… it looked delicious on the website and was exactly the same when it arrived…

there were two pieces of brioche smothered in custard with blueberries and strawberries… and to top it off there were three cute little meringues on top…

and it was delicious;-)…