20 Friday Feb 2026
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big girl pants, cam, door cam, fresh air, moments, nature, shovelled, sidewalk, snow, Technology, weather, widow
took a little time yesterday morning to shovel the sidewalk and steps…
was able to wear a lighter jacket as it was nearly zero out…
it doesn’t take long and it is great to be outdoors…
the door cam very nicely took my picture, lol…
15 Sunday Feb 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, Gem, moments, Olympics, sports, Technology, time, watching, widow
thinking about what a great week it has been and how fortunate I am to be able to adjust my sleep schedule to watch different Olympic sports when they are happening…
CBC Gem has proved a real treat… there are many sports covered so it is easy to find and watch the ones I am most interested in… although, sometimes there are too many live options, lol…
in previous years you were at the whim of a few tv stations as to what was shown, and when…
lots of live watching, my favourite kind;-)…
12 Thursday Feb 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, early, half-decent, moments, photos, silver medal, speed skating, Technology, widow
it was certainly worthwhile to get up at 3:15 am on Tuesday morning…
short track speed skating was on… after I watched the 1000 metre men’s qualifying heats, the mixed team relays were on…
and we got a silver medal;-)…
I’ve been enjoying my attempts to get half-decent photos… those athletes are all very quick, lol…
06 Friday Feb 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, moments, Olympics, reruns, Technology, widow
so, the Olympics have started, woohoo;-)…
I like to watch the original, not the reruns, lol…
which means I will be watching a lot in the middle of the night for the next few weeks…
see you then…
05 Thursday Feb 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, cleaners, moments, pillows, reminded, Technology, widow
was reminded of how blessed I am…
once a month cleaners come to give the house a once over..
when I walked into the bedroom after they left I laughed at how lovely the bed looked…
they took all of the cushions in the room and placed them on the bed;-)…
04 Wednesday Feb 2026
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attended an interesting seminar recently…
it was about dementia and I learned so much…
it was presented by the Alzheimer’s Society…
looking forward to receiving the power point deck to help me remember more of the information they shared with us;-)…
02 Monday Feb 2026
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big girl pants, Big Stuff, blessed, cards, friend, happy, moments, performance, PTE, Technology, widow
on Saturday afternoon, we went to our PTE play, Big Stuff…
as we park underground we always leave our coats in the car which makes sitting in the theatre more comfortable…
as we entered the theatre we were given a card with a pencil in it… most people did respond and the actors collected all of them and dumped them into a couple of boxes…
throughout the performance they connected with some of the people who had responded on the cards…
it was quite delightful and one of our favourite shows;-)…
31 Saturday Jan 2026
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adventure buddy, big girl pants, blessed, driven, family, grandson, moments, Technology, tesla, Uber, weather, widow
I don’t think I’ve driven at all this winter…
since the snow started, I have been relying on my housemate and Uber to get me where I need to go… and my adventure buddy who always does the driving (yay to her!)…
my newest process is to volunteer at The Leaf from three until six… that way I can Uber there and my housemate can pick me up… seems to be working quite well…
recently I had a ride in a Tesla, which had the entire roof made of glass… I knew how to get in, from a previous encounter, although the driver automatically opened the door, but it took a while to figure out how to open the door from the inside to exit at my destination, lol……
I was thinking how cool it would be to drive out of the city and watch the stars or the aurora in comfort from the back seat without having to leave the vehicle, lol…
17 Saturday Jan 2026
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big girl pants, car, drone, lane, moments, Technology, widow
so the other day, as I was sitting in the living room, I spotted a drone lift off from a car which stopped in the lane across the way…
it flew right over the house and didn’t return to the car for at least fifteen minutes…
I’m guessing it was doing some shots for a real estate video…
I couldn’t catch it on video but got a few photos of it coming down to land on the top of the vehicle…
I drew circles around it, lol… the brush behind it certainly didn’t help make it visible…
12 Monday Jan 2026
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alphabetizing, big girl pants, family, label maker, moments, revolving tray, shopping, spices, Technology, widow
we were looking for brown sugar and somehow decided to tidy the cupboards, duh…
everything came down, quite a few rather old items were discarded, and the remaining containers went back in…
then we headed to the grocery store and while we were there, found a couple of revolving trays and new spice jars…
once we were done putting groceries away, we added the trays, which of course meant taking all of the containers out again…
it is going to be so much easier to find the item I am looking for now…
then, we got out the label maker, which I am still learning how to use, and made labels as we filled the jars that would fit in the two spice racks…
now we are working on alphabetizing them;-)…
such fun, but we were both exhausted…
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