26 Tuesday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, books, family, girls, memories, moments, read, shopping, Technology, widow
since the girls were born, I’ve been giving them books for birthdays and holidays… I’ve done the same for my grandkids, but now we’ve worked up to gift cards as it isn’t clear what they might like to read…
now I don’t really have anyone to buy books for, but I have a new neighbour who has just turned two, so I’m getting books for him now…
it is such fun to buy little people books…
25 Monday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, fire hydrant, hose, hydrant, moments, Technology, testing, water, widow
on Friday a city (I think) truck came by and stopped in front of the house…
the person got out, undid something on the fire hydrant that lives in front of the cedar, and put a ten or twelve foot hose down it…
nothing happened… then they took out the hose, closed the hydrant and got back into the vehicle…
after a few minutes they drove away…
so the question is, does the hydrant work or not… kind of concerned 😟…
24 Sunday Mar 2024
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22 Friday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, bright, dim, garden, hot tub, moments, moon, nature, sky, space station, Technology, weather, widow
I’ve been trying to note how long I am out in the hot tub each night, so I take a screenshot of the time as I leave the house and another once I come in…
tonight I made it out to the hot tub in time to watch the Space Station fly over… I haven’t seen it for quite a while…
this time, as it came over the house it was a bright light, but about halfway across the open space above me it started to dim and then it vanished…
it has done this before and I wonder if it is rotating a bit and then doesn’t have the sun shining on it…
it always makes me happy to see it, especially on such a beautiful evening…
20 Wednesday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, blown, blown away, computer, glass blowing, moments, Netflix, steps, Technology, widow
I’ve been watching Blown Away on Netflix…
it is on my housemate’s computer and as I’ve watched season one and two I’ve been walking on the spot… getting lots of steps… I am now on season three and hope to catch up to the current episodes on season four…
the show is about glass blowing and has been great fun to watch…
I have loved Dale Chihuly’s work and it is so fun to watch the participants produce their art…
19 Tuesday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, element, fixed, foot, Hameed Appliance Repair, moments, oven, stove, Technology, widow
so, this morning at 8:15, Ron, from Hameed Appliance Repair Inc. arrived…
forty-five minutes, and $250 later, he was gone…
in between, he fixed a foot that had come off the stove and replaced the bake element…
woohoo…
at first I thought he was taking the stove’s blood pressure as he had these nifty little pads that pumped up and raised the side of the stove so he could get in to work on the foot, which fought pretty hard, but he won the battle, lol…
the element was an easy fix as he had one in his vehicle, it took minutes to replace…
we had a lovely conversation about the lifespan of older versus newer appliances and I got a card for someone they recommend for refurbished appliances… hope I don’t need that for a long time;-)…
so I think I will roast something for supper…
16 Saturday Mar 2024
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apps, big girl pants, blessed, computer, family, geek, help, moments, remember, specialist, Technology, tended, widow
spent time today with my tech specialist as they worked on a few problems with my main computer…
technology is always a wonderful thing when it is working and a pain in the butt when it isn’t…
took us a while, but eventually we were able to get everything on the list tended to…
some of the issues revolved around the way I enter some apps…
now I have to remember the new ways, lol… wish me luck…
14 Thursday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, broken, family, food, hungry, moments, oven, Pi, pizza, problems, repair, supper, Technology, widow
today was Pi day, lol, so we decided to bake a frozen pizza for supper… it wasn’t cooked after the correct amount of time, nor after more time… eventually we realized that the oven wasn’t heating…
tried using the frypan, but that did not work…
so, then we ordered…
it was tasty, particularly after we’d been trying to have supper for a long time, lol…
now to figure out why the oven isn’t working…
08 Friday Mar 2024
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accountant, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, complete, documentation, happy, memories, moments, preparation, taxes, Technology, widow
have spent time over the last week gathering and preparing all of the information required to complete my 2023 taxes…
getting the documentation ready always reminds me of how difficult doing this work was for my beloved… he really disliked getting the bits and pieces collected…
for the last few years of his life we had others complete the paperwork, although it was still a problem to put it together…
it still surprises me how simple it is for me now… for the first few years after he died, I would gather up paper bits and courier them to my amazing accountant, who would then process everything…
then she connected me to this great technology where I was able to upload all the information and they complete and submit it all online…
it still takes a bit of work to scan, save, and upload everything, but I am getting better at it each year…
and, it is done;-)…
07 Thursday Mar 2024
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battery, big girl pants, blessed, charge, fiddle, Fitbit, moments, Technology, widow
woooo, my Fitbit was mad at me Monday morning…
the battery was so low it didn’t want to charge so I had to fiddle with it quite a few times to get it started…
apparently I should have plugged it in before I went to bed 😳…
didn’t get a picture at the time, lol…
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