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hills…

20 Wednesday Oct 2021

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got a call yesterday to check out the moon…

checked from every place in the house and garden, but it was too low for me to see…

by the end of the call I could see it above the trees, but it had returned to a normal view…

tonight I got a text suggesting I check it out again…

I put on my jacket and walked down to the toboggan hills at the end of the street, but still couldn’t see it, lol…

there is just no way to see the moon from here when it is on the horizon…

but, I had a nice little walk and got in the last of my steps… even though the current temperature is -2° Celsius…

bricks…

22 Wednesday Jan 2020

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another lovely quiet day…

so happy to know that my shovellers will be by whenever it snows… Saturday it was the partner who did it all with a shovel… there was a lot of snow out there…

when it wasn’t snowing or blowing it was beautiful…

last night the city plowed the street and built some good sized windrows in front of the sidewalk… they did a great job cleaning out the end of the driveway though…

I texted my shovelled and he was by within an hour to clear out the bricks of frozen snow…

think this process is going to work well for both of us… him, not having to dig it out when it has frozen back into one large clump and me, having a clear walkway for my company…

lumps…

12 Tuesday Nov 2019

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was in the basement doing laundry when I heard scraping sounds…

excited to discover that my shoveler was in the backyard clearing snow from the deck…

I knew he was going to come again this year, but wasn’t sure of what it would cost so checked with him while he was here…

wrote cheques for the season and chatted with him for a few moments before he left..

this year I will text him as soon as the city clears the street… and produces the pile of snow at the end of the sidewalk… they are fairly good with clearing the driveway but do not even attempt the sidewalk… if you don’t clean it up quickly it turns into blocks of ice that are very difficult to remove…

my visitors use the sidewalk, so our plan is to get ahead of the lumps of packed snow if we can;-)…

very happy that he is thinking of ways to make the shovelling easier…

flight…

05 Wednesday Sep 2018

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woke up to a text from my daughter in Ottawa sending me some photos and video of a great blue heron…

I love them and she spotted this one while having her breakfast at Dows Lake before walking to her office…

a few minutes later I came across this memory on Facebook… two years ago we decided at the last minute to see if we could get a balloon flight… and we made it…

I had booked a trip a few years before just to be able to have an opportunity to fly in a hot air balloon… that time, it took five tries to actually get up into the air, so this was a treat…

lovely way to start the day…

recording…

11 Monday Jun 2018

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have spent the last hour or so trying to record my iPhone screen so that I can show the steps necessary to complete a particularly task… interesting learning process…

sounds really simple, except for when you go too fast, or slow… or someone sends you a text, or Twitter let’s you know someone is tweeting after a long time… all in the middle of the recording…

then, after all that, when I emailed it, the video was a bit fuzzy…

but, I think I’ve got it;-)…

opportunity…

14 Wednesday Mar 2018

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I’ve been wanting to get some flowers for the office recently, but haven’t had an opportunity to pick any up…

as I was heading to work this morning I got a text from a colleague asking me to pick up cream for the office on my way in…

so it just felt like a sign that I now had the chance to get the flowers;-)…

and so I did…

another colleague has an amazing artistic talent and she took the flowers and made them picture worthy…

I also picked up two small hyacinth plants… left one at the office and brought the other one home…

just love the fragrance when they are blooming… Spring is in the air…

bendy busses…

14 Tuesday Jan 2014

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just looked up and saw a picture of George and I in Cyndi and Ron’s house in Courtenay… we had a lovely visit on that trip…

made me laugh because I was just thinking about bendy busses… and Cyndi…

I rarely read the newspaper, although it sits right at my desk every day… for some reason this morning I looked over the front page and saw this…

bendy busses coming here...

bendy busses coming here…

the first time I saw one of these busses was in 2000 when Cyndi and I were in Chicago for a church event about Families… she saw the busses and went a little bit crazy about them…

so this morning, I took a quick picture of the front page and emailed it to her… one doesn’t text in the morning because that might wake her up, but emailing is okay…

she responded within a few minutes saying she was actually riding on a bendy bus in Ottawa as she read my email…

I still haven’t ridden on one… maybe they will run along Portage and I can take one home one night in the spring, when the weather is nice…

synchronicity is an amazing thing…

made me smile for quite a while after, and even as I write this I have a smile on my face… one of those special moments…