17 Saturday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, breakfast, Bruce Park, ditched, family, grandson, moments, nature, the "A", trailer, walk, widow
had breakfast with my grandson at the “A” a few days ago…
it was a nice walk there and back…
we had the breakfast special, our usual…
on our way home we had a good look at a trailer that has been sitting near the end of the street…
it has been there for a long time… we are wondering if it has been ditched…
25 Tuesday Feb 2020
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had a lovely day…
my son-in-law arrived and we had breakfast at the “A” before we headed to Costco…
I really enjoy spending time with him and relish every moment… lots of great conversation as we talked about their upcoming vacation…
off to Costco where we picked up a few things and renewed my membership as well as used my annual refund towards paying the bill… this time when the renewal notice arrived, the cheque was on the first page, lol… last time it was on the second page and I didn’t see it… maybe I wasn’t the only one who didn’t see it…
I always appreciate when one of the kids come shopping with me… once we were back home, he helped put everything away and we had a cup of tea before he left to get his errands done…
23 Sunday Apr 2017
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big girl pants, breakfast, buds, early sunshine, family, reading, the "A", walk, widow, wind
lovely walk to the “A” and back this morning…
my grandson was with me on the way there… we caught a few Pokémon and saw the mallard couple in the creek… it was a bit chilly because of the wind, but the sun was shining…
I had been up and made tea for the daddy who arrived after his overnight shift at work… he had a nap for an hour or so before we went for breakfast… on Sunday the “A” doesn’t open until 8… he and I have learned this the hard way…
he and the youngest drove over… was so hungry I forgot to take a picture of my meal, lol…
after breakfast they headed to their house and I walked back home…
warmer with the wind at my back… had to stop and take a few pictures of the buds starting on the big tree, maybe some kind of willow, just before I reached the house…
had a short nap and read in the sunshine in the living room for the remainder of the day…
my daughter and the younger boys came for dinner and a visit and I went back to reading when they left…
listening to the ducks flying over on their way back to the creek… love the sound of ducks and geese as they travel…
30 Friday Dec 2016
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the out-of-town kids have been staying elsewhere but a few days ago they slept over and in the morning we walked to the “A” for breakfast…
had to get a picture of them walking down the street holding hands…
my beloved and I held hands whenever we were out and about… it is one of the things I miss the most…
the “A” is my son-in-law’s favourite place for breakfast and George really liked it as well… we often had breakfast there on weekends….
breakfast was lovely and we enjoyed our walk back to the house…
with the cold and snowy weather I haven’t been out walking nearly as much as usual…
22 Tuesday Dec 2015
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up early and walked over to the “A” for breakfast…
here are the kids as they waited for their breakfast…
and how they passed the time… made me giggle…
cute eh…
I walked home… and my daughter took this shot of me…
was lovely out and I enjoyed the walk… the giggle was that I forgot to put my Fitbit on in the morning, so none of the steps were recorded…
been looking at this tree down the street for the better part of a week because the snow on it was very pretty…
we spent a few hours at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights where we had some fun in the XOXO exhibit…
here my daughter is making a love letter memento to give to her husband… hard work to produce it, lol…
I got to hug the Embrace which said ahhhh when it was hugged:-)…
while she was waiting for me she spotted these very pretty cream and sugar containers, but by the time we got back there, someone had purchased them…
lots of fun and giggles…
13 Sunday Sep 2015
up early and walked over to the “A” for breakfast with my son-in-law…
surprised to discover that they don’t open until 8 on Sunday… and we got there just a few minutes after 7… so we went to Perkins…
got dropped off not far from home and walked the rest of the way…
saw this interesting X in the sky and had to stop and get a picture…
ran out to do a couple of errands and sat out for a few minutes before my daughter picked me up to go to her new house and figure out where to put everything in the kitchen… picked up a variety of squash on our way to the house…
took the fixings for supper and after a busy but short afternoon, came home with my son-in-law on his way to work…
been thinking of my grandma lately… got my hair cut over a week ago and it was kind of short…
still really short… my grandma used to have hair about this long… she brushed it straight up and it looked really great… been wondering whether I should give that a try… I use a brush that was hers so it reminds me of her on a regular basis…
full day…
07 Saturday Feb 2015
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this morning I put a few extra layers on and walked over to the “A” to meet a friend for breakfast…
they have a great inexpensive breakfast special which George and I would often have on the weekend… I’d walk and he would meet me there after driving the car over… he had trouble walking so it usually worked well… we’d often take a drive after breakfast… sometimes when it was nice out and he was feeling good we would walk over together….
whenever we walked anywhere we always held hands… when the girls were younger they thought it was embarrassing, but as they got older they thought it was cute, lol…
my usual breakfast is softly poached eggs, which I have on a piece of the rye toast, and bacon… of course these days I shouldn’t have the bacon but it was a bit of a treat this morning… final treat was half a slice of remaining toast with a tiny bit of strawberry jam…
sitting there waiting for my friend reminded me of the day I had breakfast there all by myself… it was only the second time in my life that I ate on my own in a restaurant… even though I felt like everyone was watching me it also felt comfortable because we had been there so many times…
when I walked through the doors at the hotel I had to take a picture of the worn handle… it makes me think of all the people who have opened the door over the years… that seems comfortable too…
23 Tuesday Dec 2014
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Advent, beloved, big girl pants, camera, chickadees, Christmas, dragonfly, flying, nuthatches, pistponed, the "A"
this morning my Advent gift was a very glittery purple dragonfly… which flew right to the Christmas tree…
talked with the kids in Ottawa before they headed to the airport…
my son-in-law came by and we walked to the “A” for breakfast… lovely time… I held his arm for part of the walk as it was fairly icy… brought back memories of holding hands with my beloved whenever we walked anywhere…
got a call from Ottawa to say the flight was delayed and then another to say it was cancelled for today and they wouldn’t be flying home until tomorrow…
spent some time feeling sorry for myself, had a nap and went out for a few errands… the last I hope…
sat in the living room and watched the chickadees and nuthatches flit back and forth to the feeder which my grandson had filled on Sunday… dug out the tripod, found the remote and waited for them to come back to the feeder… and, of course, they flew off and never returned, lol… only picture I got was of the camera on the tripod…
trying to remain positive that the kids will really arrive tomorrow… did get a bit of extra time to finish preparations…
14 Saturday Jun 2014
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this morning we laid my beloved to rest for the final time…
lovely place by the creek to rest…
with family we walked down to a spot by the creek just across from our home of over forty years, and deposited his ashes to move out to the two rivers it joins, and then Lake Winnipeg…
I was amazed at how difficult this was… we have been working toward this event since last August when we had the discussion that Dad needed to have a place…
a few of his ashes had been placed into necklaces… a date was chosen, flights were booked… a brick from around the pond was engraved… the spot for the scattering was decided… the house and yard were cleaned and tidied for the event…
the plan had been to have a bonfire in the garden last night, and over wieners, baked potatoes and s’mores, share some of our memories of dad/grandpa… unfortunately the weather was uncooperative and we ended up crowded around in the living room looking through old photo albums… the boys were quite surprised at the photos and how different grandpa looked as a younger man, lol…
all the kids slept over and we got up early, met with the rest of the group and walked to the chosen spot… my grandson and I had decided not to have any readings, just send grandpa on his way… I shared how we had made our decisions about what we would do… told the story about how we were going to make a paper box for his remains and then discovered yesterday it wouldn’t dissolve, the last minute conversations with various professionals to decide on plan B…
scattering complete, now on to breakfast…
George loved the creek, and had spent many hours there with our girls and then the grandkids, finding frogs and checking out critters, so it was a fitting place for him…
once his ashes were scattered in the creek, everyone dropped a daisy or two into the stream to travel with him… then we walked over to the “A” for breakfast, which used to be one of our weekend activities, particularly over the last three or four years… nearly everyone had the special – George’s favourite – and we had a great visit with one another…
we all had breakfast, sort of together…
home for a last few minutes and then folks moved on to the rest of their day… although we did have a few dad memories before they all left…
gathered tonight for a celebratory dinner…
celebratory dinner, steak and lobster with a “Dad” salad…
feeling a bit scattered myself… many memories came flooding back about the day of his memorial service, at which I was going through some serious health issues and had blocked out much of the events that took place…
the final step has been taken… my beloved…
the first poppies of the year, today…
01 Sunday Sep 2013
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big girl pants, dimsum, floats, Grandpa, hot tub, lovely day, morning glories, pond, sleep over friend, steak, the "A"
had a good time with my sleepover friend… we counted morning glories (8)… we walked to the A for “the special” and got the rye toast that Grandpa liked… we worked in the garden, like Grandpa would have… one of us had a hot tub while the other continued with the garden work, like Grandpa would have…
rearranged floating objects in the pond…
had a couple of helpers throughout the day and one of them did some work in the pond… got one of the plants to stay upright, trimmed up some dead material, pulled out a broken glass ball and rearranged all the floats and glass balls…
lily pads and floats…
fish were fed and numbers of people tried to find them, although they really hide well under the slate bridge…
got a couple of good shots of the floats and balls…
close up of floats and glass bubbles…ad
went for dimsum and after the kids left, watched some TV and made a lovely dinner of pan seared steak with pan-fried potatoes, mushrooms and onions, and fresh tiny tomatoes from the garden…
a lovely day all around…
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