28 Tuesday May 2019
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as I was walking home last night I stopped by the creek and watched the mallard couple for quite a while…
they were swimming up and down the creek calmly…
was so busy enjoying the moment that I didn’t take any photos…
but I have this one from last week, when a mallard popped out of the water at the Duck Pond…
cute, eh…
27 Monday May 2019
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23 Thursday May 2019
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big girl pants, creek, low, snow, walk, water, water level, widow
on my walk home tonight I stopped at the creek and spent a few minutes looking it over…
the water level is very low…
doesn’t seem that long ago that there was water everywhere…
after all the snow, it seems amazing that everything is so dry now…
18 Saturday May 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, camera, family, happy, iPhone, iPhone X, photos, research, tablet, Technology, toys, walk, widow
busy day as I researched and decided on which version of iPhone X I would upgrade to…
walked up and down Polo Park a few times as I checked out the various options…
one of the things I was most interested in was the quality of the camera, as I take many photos…
also, size of the phone was important… I didn’t want something too large for my hand and that would feel uncomfortable…
and then there was the issue of the case… I have the most wonderful case now, but it isn’t available for an iPhone X…
I want something that doesn’t cover the front of the phone as I do take so many photos…
in the end I chose the iPhone X and purchased it from The Source… picked up a Huawei tablet and a Kate Spade cover…
I also found a case that holds a few credit cards… not sure yet which case I will use most, lol…
then I came home and figured out how to move my data from the old to the new…
even got the tablet working with all the apps I use… it will be fun to learn the android system…
looking forward to playing with these new toys;-)…
08 Wednesday May 2019
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Assiniboine Park, big girl pants, geese, grass, nesting, Qualico Family Center, roof, walk, widow
took these photos Sunday, on my walk in the Park…
clearly some geese were setting up their nest on the roof of the skating shelter by the Duck Pond…
sort of funny when you think that the roof on the Qualico Family Center, just a few steps away, is made of grass, lol…
06 Monday May 2019
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as I walked up the street tonight I saw a few couples…
the mallard couple have been coming to this creek for many years… these might be the children or even grandchildren now…
a few steps further along I came across the bunny couple… they weren’t sitting quite as close together, lol…
nice walk…
05 Sunday May 2019
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big girl pants, cold, gloves, May, sandals, shivers, snowflakes, Tea, walk, widow
this morning the sun was shining as I got dressed to go for my first Spring walk to the Park…
temperature was a bit cool, right around 1° Celsius, but it looked pretty nice out…
so, I wore short pants and sandals… by the time I was heading out the door the sky looked a bit dark (like snow) so I did add my hat…
a bit of wind as I was walking, but not too bad… I had on my Spring/Fall jacket and my little gloves were in my pocket…
before too long I had on the gloves and took most of my pictures wearing them… luckily the camera doesn’t insist on bare skin the way the iPhone does, lol…
snowflakes did fall every now and then… May 5th, sigh…
I was happy to get home but didn’t realize until I was laying under a blanket with a hot cup of tea in my hands how cold I had been… I did sit in the bathroom for a while to warm my toes on the floor;-)…
my entire body shivered for ages, lol…
hope my next walk is a bit warmer…
02 Thursday May 2019
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29 Monday Apr 2019
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barbecue, big girl pants, croaking, frogs, garden, grandson, pond, Sargent Sundae, son-in-law, spawn, steak, walk, widow
yesterday my son-in-law and youngest grandson came over…
we ran out and got a few errands done and then made a late lunch…
my son-in-law barbecued steaks and my grandson sliced mushrooms and chopped lettuce for our salad…
first barbecue of the year and it was delicious…
while the steaks were cooking my son-in-law cleaned up a bit of the yard and the pond… and he found three clumps of frog spawn…
been listening to frogs croaking since I’ve been home, so very excited and hopeful that we will have lots of tadpoles and frogs…
then we walked over to Sargent Sundae for ice cream, although it was a bit chilly, lol…
12 Friday Apr 2019
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beautiful, beloved, big girl pants, grandma, groceries, Maui day two, memories, moments, rain, rainbows, relaxing, shopping, sunrise, walk, widow
we went to bed early last night because we were exhausted…
this morning we woke up twenty minutes before the sunrise… so we dressed quickly, and headed out to an iron bench on the property…
it was cool and very windy but we had fun watching ships and outrigger canoes as well as the sun shining on the clouds, lol…
we came in just as it began to rain… and then we saw five rainbows, one after the other, moving across the sky…
we took it gently and went to Whole Foods for snacks and breakfast items over the next week… always fun to see what items are available at the store in different countries… fresh juice and the view…
lunch and off to Paia… we wandered the town, saw surfers and large waves, tried mahi-mahi and had a quiet drive back…
we stopped for some avocado toast and packaged up a bit of salt for the eggs we picked up earlier… reminded both of us of George’s mom always slipping any excess jam or ketchup or whatever into her bag when we took a trip to the east coast many years ago, lol…
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