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cloudy…

17 Thursday Sep 2015

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what awesome moments today…

  
first thing was the morning glory opening even as the sky was overcast…

while I waited for my ride, got a lovely shot of the sky through the living room window, clearing up…

  
clouds reflected in the coffee table, with my Japanese Maple in the window…

  
a lot of yellow leaves along the edge of the street as I was walking on my way home…

  
going up the street toward the house noticed the colours in the trees… getting lighter… sky is filled with grey and white clouds…

  
just before eight, and after a short period of rain, the sky turned this amazing pink and orange colour…

deck was still wet when I went out and got this picture of the end-of-day morning glory…

  
so happy that I was able to enjoy each of these special sky moments…

pattern…

14 Monday Sep 2015

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as I work to lose the additional pounds that the doctor wants and to stay healthy and active I have been following a pattern…

get up in the morning… make and eat breakfast… take care of bathroom necessities… pack my lunch and take out whatever is needed for dinner…

then I spend fifteen to twenty minutes on the treadmill… it is set up in front of the tv in the basement… I watch a particular morning show while walking which makes the time fly…

  
the rest of the day I make sure to take extra trips to the printer, check in with colleagues in person instead of emailing, and get up and step away from my desk on a regular basis…

usually walk part way home… maybe just one block, but occasionally quite a bit further… sometimes I spend fifteen minutes of my lunch hour and walk on the treadmill at the gym in our building…

happily my Fitbit will vibrate and let me know I have reached my goal for the day…

usually on the weekend I will walk to and around the Park at least once…

sometimes in the evening I will spend a bit of time on the treadmill to ensure I have completed my steps and reached my activity goal…

the pattern has become ingrained and that makes me happy…

walking really is my favourite form of exercise… 

 

walking…

04 Tuesday Aug 2015

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after lazing around all day yesterday thought I better get out and about today… two lovely morning glories in the garden…

  
had a great walk to the Park and around the Gardens… bit of a breeze and the temperature was in the low 20s…

  
some of my favourite shots… water lilies…

  
water drops on hostas…

  
hydrangeas…

  
the very last bloom on the rose standards…

  
pretty dahlias…

  
boxwood going in where the lilacs were…

  
a few geese at the Duck Pond… last time I was there in the daytime, there weren’t any…

  
the river is quite low… not too many weeks ago you couldn’t see this island at all…

on my way back I went to the grocery store to pick up eggs and milk…

as I was walking home from there, I thought about how far I have come in the last few years… I never went anywhere by myself… George and I travelled together all the time… I would walk to the Park occasionally, but would meet him there to wander through the Gardens or have a meal… I don’t think I ever walked to the grocery store…

now I walk over to the Park often, and even to the grocery store, without a second thought… still not so fond of eating out on my own but continue to push myself to do it…

a desire to be healthy and those big girl pants…

walking…

01 Monday Jun 2015

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this morning I took myself to the “A” for breakfast … this is about the fourth time that I have eaten out on my own, so I was feeling rather proud and certainly had those big girl pants on…

walked over to the Park and wandered around the English Garden and the Leo Mol Sculpture Garden…

took a lot of pictures… here are a few…

  
the path in the forest… not exactly like Cathedral Grove…

   
 

thousands of tulips… the main reason I wanted to get over there… didn’t want to miss them…

  
a couple of guys were taping a TV show about the city while I was sitting on my favourite bench…

  
moms with babies were doing some boot camp training beside the Duck Pond… and I got a few shots of ducks and geese…

   
 

spent some time under a canopy of lilacs… I do love the smell and the blossoms… they draw me like a  magnet…

   
   

there was a bit of wind and it was cool, but nice weather for walking…

   

the datura and rose standards were in place and starting to bloom… quite a change from my last visit when the gardens were basically bare…

 wonderful day with a spectacular sky to top it off…

beauty…

16 Thursday Apr 2015

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lovely drive to work… the sky was amazing and luckily I stopped at a red light and got a quick picture…

  

took a short walk at noon and climbed the stairs at the Hydro Building… on my way out I took a shot of one of the water walls…

 

the sound is spectacular…

noticed a lot of fire trucks downtown today…

ran a few errands and found another great card in the mail when I got home… 

beauty is everywhere… glad I had a few opportunities to enjoy it today…  

goals…

14 Tuesday Apr 2015

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trying to get more exercise since my diabetes diagnosis…

been walking on the treadmill as often as possible and using the weights a few times a week…

looking forward to walking outside now that the weather is improving…

here’s my last week’s Fitbit report…

 

I’ve been hitting my daily step goal regularly so yesterday I upped my goal… will see how that goes… I don’t find it encouraging if I never meet the goal, lol…

have signed up for a Diabetes walk at the end of May and we are playing another game at work to help us prepare for the walk…

I am doing 5k… when I was forty I practised with the girls at their school and did a 5k run as part of the Manitoba Marathon… just about killed me because I get shin splints and actually run at the speed that many people walk at, lol…

feeling proud that I am able to get more exercise in…

footsteps…

18 Wednesday Mar 2015

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early this morning, on the way to work, the sky had beautiful pink streaks of clouds… wonderful start to the day…



had an eye appointment at the end of the day… good report, my eyes are in great shape…

walked across to my credit union and put some cheques in… one was for three cents… really, what a waste of time and resources to send someone a cheque for a piddly amount like that… considered not cashing it so it would stay on their books, lol…

last thing I did while I was there was close the Estate account for George… bit of a strange feeling, even though nothing had gone into it for at least a year… another one of those ending pieces…

next, I walked to Polo Park… sunny and fairly warm, with a bit of wind… fair amount of dust blowing around… 

took a cab the rest of the way home…

this is my youngest daughter’s 35th birthday… wasn’t able to talk with her as she is away on vacation and doesn’t have access to any technology… very strange feeling not to be able to spend some time with her on this special day… touch unsettling actually…

over seven thousand footsteps today…

walking…

12 Monday Jan 2015

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had a wonderful evening with my ReImagining group…

so excited when I got home…

my son-in-law had gone and picked up my new treadmill, brought it home and set it up in the basement for me…

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spent the next fifteen minutes walking on it in my bare feet to test it out…

the house phone sits on it very nicely and my cell phone, tablet and Kobo are all going to fit well also…

looking forward to reading up on it and giving it a good test walk tomorrow, lol…

Ottawa Day 2…

26 Tuesday Aug 2014

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saw Cyndi off to work and then went back to bed…

when we were all up, we headed to the Experimental Farm and saw some animals…

IMG_7484.JPGliked the donkey…

IMG_7476.JPGwe learned some of the science of agriculture…saw some lovely gardens…

IMG_7477.JPGthe boys did some paddling…

IMG_7478-0.JPGwe spent some time at the mall and finished off our adventure with beaver tails at ByWard Market…

IMG_7479.JPGfull, but fun day… now to rest my feet, lol…

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walking…

16 Saturday Aug 2014

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first thing this morning I walked over to “the A” to have breakfast with my son-in-law on his way home from work… spotted this bunny, just sitting there watching me…

IMG_7282.JPGI also spotted this new Little Free Library… there are more and more of these popping up…

IMG_7283.JPGsat out in the garden for a while and even did a bit of weeding…

my daughter picked me up and we went to Shelmerdine where I had some fun wandering around… picked up two butterfly bushes as well as some blue Veronica to replace the pink ones in the garden that I want to dig out… also found a few pots and house plants… then we stopped at a market garden and got peas, tiny potatoes and fresh bread… made myself grilled cheese and onion and sat out in the garden to eat…

IMG_7286.JPGnow I just need to get them planted…