01 Wednesday Sep 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, cacao, chocolate, crossword, eNews, fun, garden, happy, HappyMailforChocoholics, learning, moments, nature, pond, Technology, widow
the cleaners were here today and while they were inside the house, I was in the garden on the back deck spending time with googly finding the answers to the Happy Mail for Chocolate Lovers crossword that I received in an email mid-August;-)…
it was fun learning new facts about the various places where cacao grows…
28 Saturday Aug 2021
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after considering all the options I applied online to safely vote by mail…
thanks to an email from the David Suzuki Foundation I was able to get to the correct spot without difficulty and submit the application fairly easily…
we shall see if I get the ballot in time and how this new way of voting (for me) goes…
wish me luck, as once you’ve applied to vote by mail you cannot vote in any other manner;-)…
I received my voting package the next day… wow 🤩…
now to find out who is running in my area…
18 Wednesday Aug 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, deck, friends, garden, happy, laughter, memories, moments, nature, Technology, time, widow
had a lovely in-person gathering with my BS buddies…
Monday evening is our usual time to gather, and we’ve been doing that for many years…
since the lockdown we’ve been connecting via Skype, but for the last number of weeks we’ve been meeting on the deck in the garden, unless the weather doesn’t cooperate…
it is wonderful to be together again… we sit apart, but are able to enjoy each other with a cup of tea or coffee…
laughter fills the air…
13 Friday Aug 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, earbuds, fit, happy, iPhone, moments, music, online, shopping, sound, Technology, widow
received my new earbuds…
two or three weeks ago my pretty Samsung Earbuds just stopped working… all of a sudden they wouldn’t pair with my phone… of course they were not under warranty… the service department suggested I have them repaired locally but the local people advised they would have to send them away… it was going to cost $55 if they sent them away and I decided not to have them repaired… and it wasn’t clear how much the repair might cost…
I thought about it for quite a while and did a ton of research before deciding on these ones…
I want them mainly for phone calls which meant there weren’t that many options and ones that would be comfortable in my ears…
I finally ordered them on Wednesday, and they were delivered on Friday;-)…
they were easy to pair with my iPhone and music sounds good…
will have to see how they are on phone calls…
wish me luck;-)…
05 Thursday Aug 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, calendar, dinner, fun, google, learning, moments, steak, supper, Technology, widow
today I learned that if you put the word supper in the title of an appointment in the Google calendar, this is what it shows…
but, if you put dinner in it, you get a cute little picture;-)…
clearly Google doesn’t know that supper and dinner mean the same thing to me, lol…
always enjoy learning new things, particularly concerning technology;-)…
27 Tuesday Jul 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, coffee, deck, friends, garden, moments, nature, solar lights, Technology, time, together, treat, weekly meeting, widow
together at last;-)…
last night I made coffee, set out cushions on the deck, and watched some Olympics while I waited for my BS friends…
everyone is now two weeks since being double vaxed and we met outdoors… one was away, but everyone else turned up in person…
it was the first time we’ve been physically together for our Monday evening gatherings in more than eighteen months…
I was pleased that the coffee turned out as it had been a very long time since I’d made any, but apparently the muscle memory was there, lol… and they told me it was good;-)…
we’ve been meeting via Skype each Monday, but it just hasn’t been the same…we’ve also found that we could only meet in that manner for about an hour as it is so much more tiring…
what a treat to be together… we had snacks, laughs and lots of chat…
after everyone left, I took a wander around the garden as the solar lights came on…
a delightful evening…
26 Monday Jul 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, breakfast, early, food, fun, garden, happy, memories, moments, Olympics, overkill, remembering, retirement, sports, streaming, Technology, weather, widow
I love the Olympics and have watched them for years… I remember a trip we took once and how we had to have access to TVs at the end of each day so that I could keep up with what was happening, lol…
I like to watch in real time so that means reorganizing my sleep schedule to get the best results…
for these ones I couldn’t decide how I felt about them going ahead this year… but now they are happening, I am in… I usually get a Canada Day t-shirt and had purchased one a while ago, but on July 1st I decided not to wear it… as the games began, I put it on;-)…
on Friday I was up at 5:30 am to watch the opening ceremony and ordered McDonald’s for breakfast so I didn’t have to stop watching to make something…
at one point during the first day I was switching between tv channels and streaming on my phone at the same time and I considered turning on the laptop as well… in the end I decided the laptop would be overkill…
I have slowed down slightly… apparently I need a bit more sleep these days…
the great thing about streaming is that I can watch some of the sports that I enjoy most but which don’t always get shown on tv…
the surfing, gymnastics and dressage have been lovely to watch, even if not exactly as they happened…
I’ve even taken the laptop out into the garden so that I can enjoy the weather and not miss anything, lol…
so happy to be able to watch whenever and wherever… retirement is a lovely thing;-)…
25 Sunday Jul 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, fun, garden, Google Home, grandson, iPhone, link, moments, plug, pond, Technology, water, waterfall, widow
been wishing that I didn’t have to climb behind the planter every time I need to turn the waterfall on and off…
I decided to look online to see if there was something I could use outside to control the plug…
I was so excited to find a KASA TP-Link outdoor plug… KASA is part of my Google Home system, and the plug was reasonably priced…
my grandson picked it up for me and it was easy to add to my Google Home… well, he added it, lol… I can even add another item to the plug as it has two outlets…
this is going to make dealing with the waterfall so much easier, and I’ve been having fun turning it on and off;-)…
24 Saturday Jul 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, Facebook, family, forty-two, health, hospital, memories, moments, octopus, recovery, rowing, surgery, Technology, widow
Facebook brought up some interesting memories on this day from the last number of years…
eleven years ago it was a mention of spending the night at the hospital and having a procedure the following day… it doesn’t say that would be the first of forty–two days that I spent in that same hospital…
ten years ago we were in Courtenay, BC learning how to cook octopus, as we gathered fresh shrimp for our supper…
nine years ago, I was home recovering from a big surgery unable to lift even a couple of pounds, with a friend staying over to look after me;-)…
four years ago, I was watching my grandson participate in his first rowing competition…
quite the variety, lol…
12 Saturday Jun 2021
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big girl pants, functioning, Geeni, moments, moon, pictures, router, SnapBridge, Technology, widow
Thursday was a disaster technology wise…
I was wondering if the power had gone off during the night, but the dishwasher, which usually tells me with a big PF, didn’t display that…
my Nikon wouldn’t connect to my phone… no matter what I did, sigh…
my Geeni cameras, on the garage and in two rooms to look out the front and into the garden, would not work… I tried the usual unplug and replug technique, which had no effect…
my smart home plugs weren’t functioning either and none of the usual solutions worked…
someone suggested the new moon was the issue…
so I gave up on technology for the day, hoping a miracle would happen and everything would work on Friday;-)…
of course that didn’t happen… I went downstairs and unplugged the router, waited a bit and plugged it back in…
then there is the patience factor as it takes a while for all the little lights to light up and get happily blinking….
that didn’t fix everything, so I went upstairs and did the same with the second router…
and… finally everything was working… shhhh…
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