08 Saturday Nov 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, happy, hoodies, moments, Technology, Vicky’s Alterations, widow, zipper
I am absolutely thrilled with the job Vicky’s Alterations did putting zippers in two hoodies…
I had stopped wearing one although it was very comfy… unfortunately, it was just too difficult to take it off…
it looks great and like it always had a zipper in it…
now it is easy to get on and off…
the zipper matched perfectly on the second hoodie…
so happy;-)…
28 Tuesday Oct 2025
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bed, big girl pants, blessed, covers, foot, moments, pictures, sheets, sleeping, Technology, widow
had a conversation the other day about often putting my foot outside of the blankets to sleep…
I’d seen something on social media saying it can help a person go to sleep…
one person agreed they did it all the time, but another said they’d never heard of that, or done it…
so, I went online and found the following:
early this morning I tried to get a photo of my foot outside the sheet and blankets…
it was entertaining to get the photo in the dark, lol…
22 Wednesday Oct 2025
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12 Sunday Oct 2025
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big girl pants, COVID, flu, health, IDA, moments, pharmacy, Silver Heights IDA Pharmacy, Technology, vaccines, widow
walked over to Silver Heights IDA Pharmacy on Friday morning and got both my covid and flu shots… I’d been waiting as at my recent doctor’s appointment, the vaccines hadn’t yet arrived… I called the Pharmacy on Wednesday and booked an appointment…
they have the system down pat, you sign a form, sit down and wait maybe a minute, Devarshi comes in and pops a needle into each arm and away you go;-)…
once I got home I took some Advil hoping to stop any sore shoulders, lol…
04 Saturday Oct 2025
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big girl pants, Canadian Tire money, drying, family, faucet, fixed, grandson, housemate, moments, Next-Gen Plumbing and Heating, organized, plumbing, tap, Technology, widow
found a leak under the sink on Thursday, sigh…
we emptied the space out and my housemate discovered that the hose on the tap was leaking… that one had been installed in 2014…
we contacted our plumbing people and headed out to purchase a new tap… we took the $10 Canadian Tire money that has been in the drawer for years…
it was fun to watch various staff members try to figure out how to deal with the paper, lol… eventually they discovered the longest serving teller who was able to assist our cashier and away we went…
as we got home we heard that the plumber was on his way…
in just under an hour, the tap was changed, and they were on their way…
this tap has the handle on the right side, so I am getting adjusted to that, lol…
we had a fan on, drying out the inside of the cabinet before the “stuff” which was filling up a number of counters, went back in…
this morning, now that the space is dry, all of the items from the cabinet when back in… and possibly in a slightly more organized way;-)…
03 Friday Oct 2025
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big girl pants, black netting, blessed, clogging, falling leaves, moments, nature, pond, Technology, tight, water, waterfall, widow
climbed into the pond twice on Wednesday…
the leaves have been falling and clogging up the pump every few days…
this is getting to be a pain so I spent the first time cleaning out the filter and pulling up leaves from the bottom…
the second time I cut back all the reeds to be sure the sun could get to the new bud, hoping that the weather cooperates so it can open… I also hoped it would help make the netting easier to cover the pond…
last year we put down green netting over the pond to try to catch the leaves, but it looked terrible and I took it off…
this year we have a new plan… we got black netting and pulled it tight over the pond covering everything from the waterfall to the furthest edges of the pond…
it is really hard to see the netting except around the edges where it is doubled up and it was already catching the never-ending falling leaves….
02 Thursday Oct 2025
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batteries, beep, big girl pants, blessed, family, grandson, moments, reach, smoke detector, Technology, widow
I’ve been listening to the smoke detector beep every few minutes to tell me it needs the batteries replaced… seems like it’s been going on for hours, lol…
I am waiting for my housemate to arrive home to change them as, not only can’t I reach it, I can’t figure out how to open it…
21 Sunday Sep 2025
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Assiniboine Park, big girl pants, blessed, family, memories, memory stones, moments, nature, Technology, wearing, weather, widow
when I went to the Park Cafe for brunch on Thursday, I stopped to check out the memory stones that the Ottawa kids had purchased for me;-)…
I’ve visited them enough that it is easy to find them…
sadly, much of the wording on the stones is wearing away…
16 Tuesday Sep 2025
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bee, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, fun, garden, moments, morning glories, morning glory, nature, pictures, shrivelled, Technology, weather, western honey bee, widow
fun with morning glories today…
as I was taking photos of this blue morning glory, a cute little western honey bee showed up looking for a snack…
happily, I got a few nice pics…
then, later in the day, the morning glories shrivelled up into themselves in a very interesting way, so took a few cool photos…
15 Monday Sep 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, books, compare, family, JD Robb, list, moments, need, Ottawa, Technology, widow
been working on my list of needed JD Robb books…
my daughter found a bunch in a used bookstore on a walk in Ottawa…
that meant I had to find, and compare, my list with the titles she sent me… found the list, phew, and sent her four that I could use…
this morning my housemate helped me double check the books on the shelf with the list, and I forwarded that list to my daughter… she found another four…
so, now that the comparison has taken place, it appears that I only need ten to complete my collection;-)…
woohoo…
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