15 Sunday Jan 2023
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the Audubon calendar for Friday and Saturday was a chickadee…
and yesterday a memory came up on Facebook of me feeding a chickadee in Mer Bleu three years ago while I was visiting…
I had hoped to train my chickadees to eat from my hand, but so far, no luck…
I did catch this little one dashing to and from the feeder, lol…
24 Monday Oct 2022
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took my first taxi since before the pandemic…
arranged ahead of time for a pickup to go downtown, and then walked to the Delta to get another one to come home…
had to go in and ask the concierge to call for one… I guess with less people downtown the taxis don’t sit outside the hotels all the time…
wore my mask for both trips and so did they…
27 Monday Jun 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, family, formula 1, grandson, happy, home, moments, Montreal, travel, widow
and look who is home…
for the summer at least;-)…
lots of miles have been put on and a quick trip to Montreal to see the Formula 1 race on the 19th…
had to make room in the garage so she could fit, lol…
09 Saturday Apr 2022
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amazing, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, companion, flowers, flying, Hawaii, Maui, moments, nature, nervous, travel, widow
three years ago today we arrived on Maui… and the first thing we spotted in the hotel was an orchid… how cool was that…
I had been thinking of visiting Hawaii since my beloved’s parents went the first time, many, many, years ago…
it lived up to everything I imagined;-)…
travelling had always made me a bit nervous, but having a companion certainly made it easier… I am wondering about how I will feel about future trips…
14 Saturday Nov 2020
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beach, big girl pants, blessed, family, flew, Hawaii, hot tub, Maui, memories, moments, nature, sand, travel, water shoes, widow
last night, as I was putting on my water shoes to go out to the hot tub, I spent a few moments thinking of when I wore them in Hawaii…
I have two pair… the others are in perfect shape, but don’t fit as well or feel as comfortable on my feet… even though these ones have holes in the toes, they were the ones that flew to Hawaii…
when I put them on here, it is to protect my feet from the cold and snow… it was my son-in-law who suggested I wear them rather than slippers which could get filled with snow, or might not be in the right spot when I get out of the tub… they work perfectly and I wear them right into the tub and back to the house…
on Maui I wore them to keep sand off my feet and to keep from being burned on the boiling hot sand…
from minus 20 to plus 20 and back…
21 Thursday May 2020
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today as I was sitting outside, I took this photo of the tree next door as it is budding out…
so happy to watch this transformation from bare branches to a canopy of leaves…
another thing I’ve noticed over the last few days is the number of planes leaving the airport… there are many more than there have been for weeks… hard to believe that people are travelling, although the planes might all be filled with mail and parcels, lol…
19 Sunday May 2019
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artificial, awapuhi, big girl pants, flowers, ginger, Maui, plastic, purple, travel, vegetation, widow
saw a picture of this particular Hawaiian flower recently, and it reminded me of ones we saw when we were on Maui…
it’s known as spiral ginger, red tower ginger or red velvet ginger… the Hawaiian name for ginger plants is awapuhi…
it is one of the flowers that looks like it is made of plastic, lol… this is from a bouquet we had in the Gingerbread house Airbnb we stayed in…
this one, possibly shampoo ginger, had us touching it a few times because we were convinced it was artificial… but then the little piece opened up… with a bit of purple in it…
it’s always so interesting to see the different vegetation when travelling…
07 Sunday Apr 2019
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appropriate, big girl pants, Hawaii, preparations, ready, temperature, travel, Tuesday, widow
well,
the flights are booked… ✔️
the hotels are confirmed… ✔️
the car is rented… ✔️
the car insurance has been purchased… ✔️
the travel insurance is in hand… ✔️
the house sitter is organized… ✔️
the bags are packed… ✔️
although the temperature is around 28° (compared to around 4° here), it looks like it drops by 10° at night…
hope I’ve chosen appropriate clothing for two weeks in Hawaii…
ready to leave on Tuesday…
24 Sunday Mar 2019
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big girl pants, grandson, green, Jericho, Ottawa, resurrection plant, Rose of Jericho, travel, widow
I was tidying up one of the kitchen junk drawers yesterday and I found the resurrection plant that we bought when my youngest grandson and I were in Ottawa last year about this time…
its actual name is Rose of Jericho… thank you Google;-)…
I took pictures as it opened…
12:07, 12:22, 1:31, 3:23…
4:20, 6:23 yesterday and 8:08 am and 5:06 pm today…
it is now a beautiful green floating plant… I am interested to see how it will end up…
14 Monday Jan 2019
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bassinet, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, camper, camping, car, Chevelle, daughter, family, memories, moments, slides, travel, widow
the other day I came across some slides from the 70s…
this first one is from a trip we took with my beloved’s parents to Vancouver in 1978… it was just after our first daughter was born… she travelled in a travel bassinet for the whole trip… times have certainly changed, lol…
at least every second day something bad happened to the car… from blown tires, the muffler falling off at least three times, to windows freezing in the open position, to the engine catching fire… and other things in between…
clearly, a trip to remember…
the second photo is of a camping trip… shows our Chevelle and camper… I purchased that car with my dad in 1968 and we had it for many years… it was a wonderful car… and I have many amazing memories of our times with it…
the camper we have now is very similar to that one… I hope we make as many memories with it;-)…
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