my hair went from being fine… to unmanageable, in what felt like a minute, about last Wednesday… I nearly tried out the freshly sharpened scissors, but managed to hold off until this morning when I walked over to Ultracuts to get it dealt with… had to wait for a bit, so went for a walk, rather than sit inside…
the weather was nice, particularly as it was supposed to rain all day…
along the way I spotted some murals and got a nice shot of this one…
pleased with the cut…
on the way home I passed a person and said good morning… it wasn’t until I was a few steps past them that I realized it was one of my neighbours…
I laughed as I thought of how my beloved would have responded… he would have turned back, called out their name, and had a half hour conversation…
on Monday morning we went to the Park Café for breakfast with my BS buddies and then took a stroll around the English and Leo Mol Gardens…
my son-in-law and I walked over and met the rest of the group inside the restaurant… it was wonderful to finally get there, as it had been a long time… breakfast was tasty and my favourite server mentioned how she had missed seeing me😊…
it was the first time I’ve been back in the Gardens for at least a few years and they were full of colour and blooms…
my Ottawa son-in-law arrived today to spend a few weeks with me…
he has plans to help get a few jobs done around my house…
we had breakfast out and then he changed the light switch in the kitchen to one that is compatible with my Google Home…
it felt like I pushed every one of the switches in the basement before we found the correct one to be sure the power was off, lol…
got out the tools Kasa recommended and in a few minutes he had it switched out and working…
then he changed the bulb on the ceiling fixture and put the cover back on… it has been off for months as the Philips Hue I was using needed airflow around it…
looks so much better now…
one job done… not saying how many are left on the list😂…
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 have been enjoying the garden everyday and particularly my walks around to see what might be breaking through the ground or blooming…
the poppies continue to tease me in their slow process of blooming… each morning I check them out to see if any of them have opened, but not just yet, lol…
the vegetable garden is doing well… peas, beans and a few cucumbers have poked their heads through the soil and are keeping the three tomatoes company;-)…
I have also taken to weeding, which is rather new for me…
I have cleaned up a number of spots in the side garden and am excited to see the painted fern has come back and multiplied…
the wild columbine has popped up in about three spots and I am watching them carefully to ensure they don’t get pulled…
it was a year ago today that I fell into the pond…
I must say that I am still very careful when I walk around the edges of it…
wonder how long it will be before I am not so deliberate about moving in that area…
I can still feel the shock… and now I laugh when I think how I pulled my phone out of my back pocket, in the water, and dried it on my shirt even before trying to get out🤪…
the other memory involved the huge bruises that came up across my breasts days later from where I hit the waterfall rock… although they were a beautiful shade of purple… apparently I really hit it hard, lol…
I walked to the Park today… first time in I don’t know how long… at least a year, and maybe longer than that…
took a bit of self-talk to get out the door… I am certainly feeling braver on the whole with being around other people, but I haven’t walked any distance for a long time…
so happy that I did it… the streets were clear of water… thank goodness… and there were very few people on the sidewalks and paths…
walking through the forest in the Park always brings me joy… and they have new signs with wonderful quotes along the way…
the trail has been renamed Story Trail and is part of the Indigenous Youth Storytelling Program… what a great idea… the trail has obviously been cleaned up and there was even a hut made with fallen branches… I am hoping that it might be covered with leaves as the summer progresses…
going through the English and Leo Mol Gardens was a bit disappointing, although really, considering the weather, what was I expecting, lol… the gardeners were everywhere raking and cleaning up the spaces, but there were very few blooming things… I saw one tree, a few daffodils and maybe a berginia in a few different locations…
the great news was that it was basically empty so I had ample time to stop and look whenever I wanted…
there were many geese and I did spot a few goslings, which was delightful…
I was a bit tired by the time I made it back to the house, so I had a nap…
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