11 Friday Oct 2024
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alert, big girl pants, blessed, bracelet, Calgary, catch up, family, moments, purple, sister-in-law, time, widow
on Monday, I had a lovely visit with my sister-in-law who was in from Calgary for the weekend…
it is always fun to catch-up in person…
and she brought me this beautiful amethyst bracelet…
how blessed am I;-)…
03 Thursday Oct 2024
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always learning, big girl pants, blessed, family, friends, garden, gathering, grandson, moments, nature, orange, time, TRW, widow
on Monday we gathered at our usual time, all wearing our orange shirts…
before we started, my grandson took a few minutes to take our photo…
we do like to commemorate our gatherings, lol…
during the previous week there had been some interesting TRW lunch and learns which provided some information we hadn’t known before…
it is always good to come together and share our lives and talk about what is going on in the world…
28 Saturday Sep 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, food, gathering, lamb, moments, Persian, restaurant, rice, supper, Tehran Market and Cafe, time, waitperson, widow
had fun last night… our group went to Tehran Market & Cafe for Persian food…
it was fun to decipher the menu and and then see exactly what we ordered, lol…
we had this cute little button on the table to connect with the servers… it was very handy because it took us quite a while to decide what we wanted, lol…
our lovely waitperson took pictures of us with all the food…
I had lamb… it was very tasty and came with a huge portion of dill rice;-)…
there was even a spot on the button to advise when we were ready to pay… they came quickly whenever we pushed one of the buttons…
enjoyable evening with wonderful friends…
04 Wednesday Sep 2024
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, floating, hot air balloon, memory, moments, remembering, time, weather, widow
ten years ago I was floating over Gatineau in a hot air balloon… along with dozens of other balloons;-)…
I’d been waiting over twenty years for this experience… for my fortieth my beloved bought us tickets to fly at home, but the company ran away with the money…
it was everything I imagined and a very special moment in my life… the memory continues to be bright;-)…
15 Thursday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, crayons, daughter, family, garden, moments, paper, rubbings, time, widow
had fun documenting my daughter’s activities as she made various rubbings in the garden for a book she is making;-)…
she has been doing this all the way from Vancouver Island…
she wandered around the garden using sheets of paper and the side of different coloured crayons…
some of the rubbings worked beautifully, others, not so much… she also took a few items to add into the book…
but I am sure that the finished product will be beautiful;-)…
13 Tuesday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, casting, coverage, moments, night and day, Olympics, sports, Technology, time, tv, wake-ups, widow
well, I have emerged from the Olympics cycle…
I have watched all kinds of sports, some for the first time…
as mentioned previously, I like to watch in real time and managed to do that for a good portion of the sports I was interested in… although I did sleep through one of the medals that Canada won, lol… it meant a lot of 2:30 and 4:00 am wake-up’s…
my hope for every event that I watch is that each person does their best and I like flipping between channels, if I can, to hear commentary from different points of view…
I am less interested in team sports such as soccer or basketball or football… and I’m not too fond of fighting in any of its numerous forms…
the technology at these games had some interesting highlights… I was particularly taken with the cauldron;-)…
I am happy that this portion is over and I have a few weeks before the Paralympics begin…
hopefully there will be lots of it on tv and Gem as well;-)…
31 Wednesday Jul 2024
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, construction, garden, gate, grandsons, memories, moments, nature, pergola, photographs, remembering, time, waterbed pond, widow
a friend sent me some photographs recently and in amongst them was this picture of my beloved in front of the just finished pergola/gate…
it had the cutest fastener on the gate… I can’t remember when we put all of the pergolas in, but at that time – many moons ago – we still had the waterbed pond beside it…
then I dug out this one from July, 2009 (a bit fuzzy), when he added a shelf for stuff to sit on while we were in the new hot tub… that was fifteen years ago🤪…
and this is how it looks today;-)…
I showed the original picture to my grandsons and it took them a minute to recognize it, lol…
it does need a trim so that the Virginia creeper isn’t overpowering it and the gate could have a prettier fastener…
time flies…
29 Monday Jul 2024
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big girl pants, car racing, F1, happy, moments, pre-qualifying, race, Technology, time, widow
Saturday and Sunday were complicated because not only were the Olympics on, but F1 qualifying Saturday and the actual race Sunday in Belgium…
had to PVR some of the F1 programs, including pre-qualifying, as I enjoy seeing what all the commentators have to say as I continue learning the ins and outs of the sport;-)…
happily I was able to find the time between the Olympic sports I wanted to watch, lol…
27 Saturday Jul 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, cast, moments, Olympics, opening ceremony, silver, Technology, time, watching, widow
well, the Olympics have begun;-)… started with about four hours for the opening ceremony yesterday afternoon…
woohoo… I will spend the next two weeks in front of the tv watching all my favourite sports…
I like to watch as it happens as much as possible… so, there will be a great deal of middle of the night watching and daytime sleeping, lol…
looks like 4:00 am will be my start time although I did cast some rowing to the tv at 2:30 this morning… I’ve added a new Favourites list with just the six channels that have Olympic programming on…
I also have an app that shows the schedule and send me reminders when events I am interested in are starting…
happy, happy, happy;-)…
11 Thursday Jul 2024
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my hair goes along fine and then all of a sudden it has grown like crazy…
Wednesday night it hit that it is too long phase and I marched into the bathroom and started cutting…
for years I cut it myself and then it got more difficult to get the back shaped properly so I started going to get it done…
now I usually go to Ultracuts but I also chop it off every now and then, lol…
it isn’t that big a deal as it is curly so hides any huge mistakes;-)…
came out fine this time…
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