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urge…

31 Sunday Dec 2017

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big girl pants, drawer, jobs, pictures, printer, Technology, tidy, trees, un-decorate, urge, widow

had the urge to get a few unfinished jobs completed, so while my son-in-law was here we tacked a couple of them…

last night I printed a number of pictures to put in a frame that I’d picked up a while ago and hadn’t been able to decide on what should go in it… I’d been waiting for the professional photos that we had taken in October… but once I started choosing I ended up with pictures that I, or the kids, had taken… it was fun because my son-in-law had got the wifi printer working perfectly so that I could print right from my phone… I do love technology, lol… unfortunately I stayed up very late to finish the job…

so this morning I hung the frame up… yay me, although consensus has it that it might need to come down a bit on the wall…

then he helped un-decorate the two small trees, box them up and put them away in the basement… looks way more roomy in the living room now… left everything else up for New Year’s dinner tomorrow…

I’ve had an IKEA drawer for ages that needed to be put together and installed so he also did that… took a few minutes to decide where it would actually fit…

it is going to make getting the pots out a lot simpler, although it has to be held open or else it slides shut on its own… apparently the kitchen cupboards might not be perfectly level…

and finally this evening I emptied out a drawer that was filled with expired crackers and cereal, lol…

I feel very accomplished;-)…

drive…

26 Tuesday Dec 2017

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Assiniboine Park, beloved, big girl pants, drive, hoarfrost, photos, remembering, trees, widow

been thinking of my beloved a lot over the last few weeks…

recently took a drive through the Park and was remembering all the drives we had taken through it… we often enjoyed going to the Park Cafe for breakfast on a weekend morning and then taking a drive around the Park so that I could get some photos…

we particularly liked it when there was hoarfrost covering the trees… haven’t seen any this year but as I drove through it was overcast and a bit dull, which was a reminder…

he would have been interested in the construction going on for the new project… he would have explaine all that was happening and whether he thought they were doing it correctly, lol… he always knew what every piece of equipment was used for…

took these shots as I circled around…

it really is a beautiful place for a walk or a drive…

stairs…

12 Tuesday Dec 2017

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beloved, big girl pants, Christmas, decorating, gait, snow people, stairs, trees, widow

last night, as I was going down the stairs, I thought of my beloved… he loved Christmas but sometimes the decorations got the better of him…

he really disliked the various collections that would end up on the stairs…

following his heart surgery, where they took veins from his leg, he wasn’t as steady as he used to be… if you were walking and came upon him from behind you might think he was tipsy because of his gait…

walking was difficult and he only had one speed that worked for him…

so stuff on the stairs could cause him to lose his balance… but that didn’t stop me from decorating, lol…

here’s how the stairs to the second floor look this year… snow people and trees;-)…

he did enjoy shopping and always found many things for me… I miss that…

early…

11 Wednesday Oct 2017

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big girl pants, early, Fall, house, moon, sunrise, trees, widow

early mornings when the sky is just starting to lighten…

sure sign that Fall has arrived when leaving for work a bit early and it is still dark…

the moon was very bright over the neighbour’s tree…

I like how the house looks warm and inviting…

bare…

05 Thursday Oct 2017

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bare, big girl pants, colour, crunch, leaves, pictures, Shadow, trees, weather, widow

been enjoying the colours of the leaves and trees everywhere…

took a few pictures over the last few days… beautiful orange on elms on my street and the gorgeous gold on trees in the Millennium Library Park by the office…

and this lovely collection of leaves beside Shadow this morning… the crunching sound is so cool…

I’ve also noticed a number of trees that were stunning last week and are bare now…

pressure…

29 Friday Sep 2017

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appointment, big girl pants, bruise, photos, pressure, sky, sunrise, trees, walk, widow

had some fun with my photos this morning…

needed to get my blood work done for my next doctor’s appointment and took a few pictures of the sunrise as I parked the car…

I always park a good distance from wherever I am going and then get some extra walking in so there is less pressure to get enough exercise…

spotted this lovely tree changing colour as I walked along…

the walk to and from the clinic was very nice on this beautiful day…

the final reminder of my day was this bruise from the blood work…

the technicians suggest that the longer you keep pressure on the spot where the needle was inserted, the smaller the bruise will be…

trees…

06 Thursday Jul 2017

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big girl pants, chocolate, daughter, outside, screen, serendipitous, trees, widow

tonight I enjoyed a delightful bit of chocolate… Brookside Dark Chocolate Tart Cherry Crisp with pomegranate flavour… might just take longer to say the name than it did to eat it, lol… 
it has a very cool tree on it…

just minutes after that my daughter sent me a picture of some screen printing she did at a class tonight…

another tree… how cool is that…

the really funny thing is that this was the picture I had already prepared to post tonight…

it is of two of my colleagues sitting in the sun for a few minutes over lunch yesterday… we try to get outside for at least a few minutes on sunny days…

the whole serendipitous thing is amazing… great way to start my weekend;-)…

bunny…

18 Thursday May 2017

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aquasize, big girl pants, bunny, evening, fish and chips, move, trees, walk, widow

had a lovely stroll home after supper with my swimming buddy… following our aquasize class we went out for fish and chips…

it was a beautiful evening so I decided to walk home…

nearly home I met up with this cute bunny…

 at first he thought if he didn’t move I couldn’t see him… then we walked nearly a block together…

street is looking beautiful as the trees have leafed out…

overcast…

05 Sunday Feb 2017

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big girl pants, birthday, helium, overcast, shark, snow, sun, trees, widow

lovely sky this morning, even with the overcast…

that is the sun in the trees…a bit later it started to snow and it snowed for three or four hours…

picked up by my kids and went to their place to celebrate the eight year old’s birthday…

they showed me their shark, that they got for Christmas, after they topped up the helium…

ready for cake… it looked delicious and the birthday boy was happy…

got very quiet as everyone was gobbling it up…

home soon and then to bed…

decorations…

27 Sunday Nov 2016

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Advent, big girl pants, bubbles, Christmas, decorations, feather, friends, glitter, pottery, purple, trees, widow

what a wonderful afternoon… two dear friends came over to help me put up my Christmas decorations… one focussed on the living room and the other made the pottery on the dining room wall sparkle… we had such fun and great conversation as we worked away… well, mostly they worked, and I sat on the couch… my knee was not happy with the fall yesterday…

one tree went into the bay window inside one of my favourite sleighs… two of the drawers in the table were filled with silver and purple ornaments…

the second tree went across the room next to an angel and a large purple glitter ball…

purple feather trees and a family-made nativity lamp go together beautifully…

the stunning glitter trees with glass reindeer are lovely on the fish tank… of course there is glitter everywhere on the main floor now, lol…

these bubbles have lived in the dining room window at Christmas for the last three years… love how they look with the various ribbons that hold them up…and they reflect so nicely…

and all the pottery looks beautiful, newly organized in the nooks…

things can look so different from another viewpoint…

now all that’s needed are my advent boxes;-)…

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