08 Thursday Jun 2023
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07 Wednesday Jun 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, crackers, dill pickle soup, family, food, friends, fun, memories, moments, Premium Plus Salt Topped Crackers, remembering, Taverna Rodos, treat, widow
today, as I was enjoying the dill pickle soup that I didn’t eat when we were at Taverna Rodos on Monday, I remembered a lovely story shared by a friend…
with the soup, they included some Premium Plus Salted Top Cracker look-alikes… because the box is pretty big I haven’t had them in a very long time, so it was a nice treat… my favourite way to eat them is as a little sandwich, with butter or margarine…
my friend and their family really enjoy food, so they had quite a variety of crackers in their home…
one day one of the kids came home and advised that they had just had the most delicious crackers and that the family should get some…
it took a while, but eventually they were able to name them as Premium Plus Crackers…
so funny that with all the fancy crackers they had, the kids had never had the Premium ones…
such a chuckle, particularly as in my home that was the only type of cracker we ever had;-)…
06 Tuesday Jun 2023
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big girl pants, birthday, blessed, BS, celebrate, food, friends, fun, liver, lunch, memories, moments, Taverna Rodos, treat, weather, widow
on Monday our BS group went to Taverna Rodos for lunch to celebrate an upcoming birthday… it was very hot so we chose the inside and had a great time…
I had liver and onions with gravy, along with a salad and French fries… it was wonderful and I enjoyed every bite…
other dishes included lemon rice soup, souvlaki, steak sandwich, and a chicken and Caesar salad… and maybe a few desserts;-)…
fun times as we considered how long we’ve used the birthday bag and the photo on it, lol…
lots of sharing, laughter, and some singing…
09 Tuesday May 2023
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big girl pants, birthday bouquet, blessed, bouquet, flowers, friends, moments, purple, redone, treat, widow
finally took the time to get the bouquet redone with the remaining flowers… the main one had lasted seventeen days;-)…
lots of purple… came out nicely and I expect it will last for another few days…
I am blessed with wonderful friends;-)…
07 Sunday May 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, bunny, bushes, cedar, creek, deer, garden, happy, memories, moments, nature, phone, resting, treat, widow, window
when I’m on the phone I usually walk on the spot at the front window…
yesterday, as I was there, four deer walked along the other side of the creek… just last year at this time I saw two in the same location, lol…
even though they were there it was nearly impossible to spot them as they stood still amongst the bushes and trees…
I couldn’t get a picture of all four of them, just these two, but did find this one having a rest a bit later;-)…
and when I spotted the resting one, I also noticed a bunny relaxing under the cedar tree in the front yard…
both bunny and deer seemed very comfortable…
04 Thursday May 2023
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big girl pants, birthday, blessed, clever, food, growing, light, micro greens, moments, nature, present, seeds, soil, Technology, time, treat, watching, water, widow
on Monday I received a birthday present in the mail…
it is a plastic envelope with a disk of soil, a popsicle stick and seeds…
it will turn into sunflower micro greens…
this morning, after going online for directions, I added water, stirred up the soil, added the seeds, stirred it a bit more, misted it and put it into the sunshine;-)…
will be checking it out daily to see how it grows…
what a clever idea and lovely gift;-)…
26 Wednesday Apr 2023
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art, big girl pants, blessed, Connie Bart Hamel, drive, friends, fun, happy, ice cream, lunch, moments, mushrooms, nature, Roxy’s, sunshine, Syl’s, treat, widow
Tuesday we went to aquasize as my buddy had an appointment on Thursday…
from there we drove to Oak Bluff, where we had lunch at Roxy’s Restaurant & Lounge… I was very excited to find battered mushrooms on the menu, so we started with those… and they were delicious;-)… then I had a tasty beef dip with Caesar salad… the service was excellent, the food good and it was a nice spot…
onward to Carman where we visited the Golden Prairie Arts Council to see an exhibition by Connie Bart Hamel which was filled with a variety of mediums… she is very talented and a neighbour of my friend…
we stopped at Syl’s for ice cream and had a lovely drive home in the sunshine…
wonderful day;-)…
24 Monday Apr 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, communication, computer, connecting, friends, gathering, moments, person, Technology, together, treat, widow
so happy today…
after three months we were all together again… in person… what a treat;-)…
it had me thinking of the various places our group has taken part from for our gatherings…
over the last twenty years, a few spots in British Columbia, Minneapolis, Ontario, and even here in Winnipeg…
from using borrowed business speaker phones, to Skype and Zoom on computers, to most recently FaceTime…
and as times have changed, we have moved with them;-)…
20 Thursday Apr 2023
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17 Monday Apr 2023
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bag, big girl pants, birthday, blessed, BS, celebrating, cherry pie, delicious, food, friends, happy, moments, pie, treat, widow
as the birthday week celebrations continue, today I gathered with my BS buddies and they brought the birthday bag, a beautiful card, and cherry pie…
we have used the birthday bag for maybe twenty years… found this old photo from 2014 that has the bag in it, lol…
it used to hold a gift, but at this point in our lives we really don’t need anything, so now it contains a card…
this one was a beautiful painting by one of our group… it is a park bench and represents the bench that my beloved and I would sit on in the Leo Mol Garden during our walks…
happy birthday was sung and we had cherry pie with whipped cream… sooooo delicious;-)…
lots of conversation, laughs, and good eats…
now to be sure I don’t lose the bag before it is needed for the next birthday…
