24 Thursday Nov 2022
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finally took the time to move the table behind the sofa in the den…
it sounds simple, but involved moving the table into the hall, pushing the sofa (and carpet) to the side of the room, getting the table past the edge of the sofa, and then putting everything back, lol…
got it all done, found a quilt to put on the table and sat down to recuperate from all that exercise;-)…
looks good…
29 Saturday Oct 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, candy, family, faster, garden, grandson, kids, lawn chairs, moments, nature, tarpaulin, time, weather, widow
the kids stopped by and brought me some Halloween candy…
they fixed a problem with the printer and then stacked and covered the outdoor chairs and tables with another large tarpaulin… too bad the tarps aren’t the same colour, lol… the job went very smoothly…
they work so much more quickly than I do, lol…
the top deck is cleaned off and now there is more space in the kitchen where the footstool and cushions for one of the chairs were… the cushions have moved into the garage for the winter…
every step is helpful…
12 Wednesday Oct 2022
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, garden, happy, Merlin App, migration, moments, nature, sound, time, treat, weather, widow
the other day, my Merlin sound app found many different birds inside an hour and a half… even though I didn’t see them all…
what a treat to have confirmation of some of the little birds flitting about the garden…
we are clearly in the middle of migration season…
10 Monday Oct 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, friends, garden, happy, memories, moments, nature, plants, pond, projects, regular, remembering, summer, sun, Technology, thankful, time, widow
so much to be thankful for…
this year my daughter was here in March and my son-in-law in August…
I spent hours in the garden…
met my friends on a regular basis in the garden all summer… previously, we haven’t met very often during that time as everyone was busy…
saw, texted, and spoke on the phone with many friends… made a new one and enjoyed getting to know them…
worked on changes in the vegetable garden… grew peas, beans, cucumbers, and tomatoes…
was visited by monarchs and swallowtails and a beautiful little hummingbird…
enjoyed bouquets of flowers all summer, thanks to a birthday subscription from the kids…
had many projects completed, in the house and the garden…
life is very good…
26 Monday Sep 2022
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over the last week or so I’ve been making sure to have a hot tub each night…
I find that the quiet time in the water clears my mind and makes sleep come easier, last longer, and be more restful…
getting back into a habit is always a bit of a process, lol…
21 Wednesday Sep 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, death, funeral, memories, moments, Olympics, swallowed, Technology, time, widow
I got swallowed up in the events around the Queen’s death and eventual funeral…
reminded me of the way I fall into the Olympics, lol… I always want to watch everything as it happens…
the good news is that these days I am able to be up in the middle of the night and sleep during the day if needed…
now to catch up on a bit of missed sleep…
17 Wednesday Aug 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, friends, garden, interruption, moments, nature, pond, time, weather, widow
on Monday had a great time in the garden with 3/4 of our BS group…
I had moved the car to the driveway and put chairs into the garage on the chance that rain or a thunderstorm decided to cause an interruption during our gathering… I didn’t rearrange the chairs and put out the cushions until a few minutes before they arrived as the sky was still covered in clouds…
while we visited, we saw a monarch flit about and land on the milkweed flowers… then a baby bunny stopped by…
the sparrows came by for drinks and baths…
and the fish were swimming all around the pond, including at least one of the babies…
the babies move amazingly quickly, and I spent quite a while trying to catch a photo of one of them…
in the end, the sun came out and it got kind of hot, lol… then, about 7:30 pm we had a huge thunderstorm…
strange weather day…
12 Friday Aug 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, display, impossible, moments, Technology, time, widow
my Fitbit has been nearly impossible to read for the last while, so I went online and found directions to reset it, which was supposed to fix the problem…
followed the directions but it didn’t make any difference…
dug out my old one and charged it and added it in the app and happily it is working, even saved my steps… and I can see it, lol…
hope it lasts for a while…
01 Monday Aug 2022
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anniversary, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, car, family, garden, grandson, memories, moments, morphed, paper flowers, photos, pond, remembering, Technology, time, walk, widow
started the day looking at photos of my beloved…a few tears were shed in the process… we were married 52 years ago today… I still remember looking out the window of the apartment to see him dropping off the decorated car… in those days, getting the car turned out with paper flowers was the thing to do, lol…
then I had a walk around the garden… in the 49 years we’ve been in this space, it has morphed from a square green grass covered area, to a swing set with some cedars, to a small swimming pool space, to a huge sandbox with a two story playhouse, to a parking area for a camper trailer… to a space filled with ponds and lovely gardens…
thanks to the help of Hilda the Gardener, a lawn service, and the kids, it is looking wonderful and I know that he would be pleased…
I am truly blessed, but I miss him every day…
26 Sunday Jun 2022
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, clematis, driveway, garden, happy, moments, nature, plants, purple, spot, time, time flies, widow
recently I wrote about how well the clematis is doing along the driveway…
now it is blooming… and I think this is the most blossoms since we planted it many years ago…
it has more stems and leaves too…
now that I’ve done the math… 🤪… I realize that it is about twelve or thirteen years old… I am actually surprised as I hadn’t realized how long it has been in this spot…
time flies;-)…
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