17 Wednesday Oct 2018
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big girl pants, Fall, garden, leaves, parking lot, piles, trees, weather, widow
a few days ago when I was heading home from work I stopped and took some pictures of the piles of leaves in the parking lot…
as I walked through the backyard I took some shots of the leaves there too…
I haven’t been enjoying this Fall because it hasn’t been very Fall-like, sigh…
cold, snowy, overcast… what a drag…
but the leaves are incredible… even if they are all on the ground…
13 Saturday Oct 2018
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this morning it was hard to tell whether there were more leaves or snow blowing…
not really what is expected at this time of the year, sigh…
I had been laughing just before because when I looked outside the bird feeder was on the ground and the squirrel and birds were enjoying how easy it was to get the seeds…
maybe the raccoon had come by and taken it off the pole… which had been leaning way over again…
05 Friday Oct 2018
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can I just say the weather has been silly for at least a week…
last Friday it was snowing as I went to an appointment in the morning… by the end of the day it was basically all gone…
on Wednesday it snowed like crazy and as I headed out to the car after work – in my sandals – I realized that I did not have a brush or scrapper to clean it off… happily I had a cloth in the trunk which helped clean off the snow from the windows…
when I got home I pulled out some brushes and cleared off the roof which was still covered with the wet snow… thank goodness it melted away overnight and the garage isn’t going to be filled with snow all winter…
today it has been raining/snowing all day so I haven’t left the house…
hoping tomorrow is better because I still don’t have a turkey, lol…
30 Sunday Sep 2018
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, Chihuly, drive, Facebook, Fall, family, girls, memories, moments, return to work, September, surgery, weather, widow, work
I’ve been thinking about September… it has been a good month for me… as a kid I always liked starting school… and as a parent I also enjoyed when the girls headed back to school….
I started with my current employment on September 30, 2009…
following an eight week time away with pancreatitis and gall bladder surgery, I returned to work on September 28, 2010…
after a second surgery and being away from work for ten weeks, I returned September 27, 2012…
hadn’t realized how close those dates were until Facebook reminded me of the above facts…
usually the weather is beautiful as the leaves slowly change colour… this year there’s been a lot more rain and temperatures have plummeted…
one of the things I miss is the fall drive that my beloved and I would often take to enjoy the colours…
happily for me the sun is peeking out of the clouds off and on today;-)…
17 Monday Sep 2018
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big girl pants, branches, leaves, moments, street, summer, trees, virginia creeper, weather, widow
looking forward to spending the evening with my BS buddies… we haven’t met too often over the summer…
ah, the summer… took this picture yesterday as I was coming home from the grocery store…
many branches on the trees are bare… and the street is covered with leaves… when I took the picture I was focusing on the leaves on the street… only discovered the bare branches when I was preparing the picture… yikes…
and the Virginia creeper is moving into its fall stage…
not only is it changing colour… something is enjoying it as a snack!
must continue to take the time to focus on special moments because time is whizzing by…
09 Sunday Sep 2018
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big girl pants, blessed, cooking, dad, dinner, family, flowers, memories, missing, morning glories, pasta, rain, raindrops, remembering, rummaged, sunshine, tomato, treat, weather, widow
odd weather today… went from cloudy to sunny, to rainy, and back again a number of times… ended with sun shining through the clouds…
the poor morning glories took a beating early on… nearly every time it rained the drops were huge…
thinking of my dad today as I took hours to make fresh tomato sauce to go with some spaghetti for supper… I keep buying grape tomatoes to make caprese salad and then never use them all up… he would add all kinds of condiments to add flavour and it always ended up delicious… as I rummaged through the cupboard, I remembered watching him do the same thing, lol…
it turned out great and was a lovely treat as I don’t often have pasta… made some homemade coleslaw to go along with it and have a bit of both for lunch tomorrow;-)…
16 Thursday Aug 2018
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big girl pants, boat, camping, day seven, dock, fishing, fun, loons, seagulls, smoke-filled skies, weather, widow
such odd weather today… cool when we first got up but it was fairly warm and sunny as we left the channel…
then the sky turned gray and it cooled off while we were fishing… we docked the boat to go back to the campsite for lunch and then headed out again…
we saw loons, a parent and child, I think and many, many seagulls… no eagles or turtles…
we spent about six hours on the water fishing… some of us caught nothing…
but we still had lots of fun…
03 Friday Aug 2018
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barrel, baskets, big girl pants, flowers, garden, inconsistent, moments, planters, pond, water barrel, watering, weather, widow
out into the garden this morning…
watered all the planters and baskets using water from the new water barrel…
watering by hand works much better than using the hose as I am able to see exactly how much each plant is getting…
also topped up the pond… seems like it needs filling about every third day…
this basket is doing the best… some of the others are a bit sad… the weather has been odd with boiling hot days and then really cool ones…
we won’t talk about the inconsistent watering, lol…
30 Monday Jul 2018
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spent Saturday at Rabbit Lake watching a rowing regatta…
last year my grandson was only in two races… this year he was in quite a few…
in his first race he was with someone he hadn’t rowed with before and they came in second, which meant they would row in the finals later in the day…
the process is very interesting… before they can put the boat into the water an umpire has to check that everything is correctly placed… then they have to put the boat into the water, get set up in the boat and head down to the starting area… when they have completed the race they row back, wait for directions to land, take the boat out of the water and then put it back with the rest of their team’s equipment…
then they might have to rush to get ready for their next race… he ended up a couple of times running from the end of one race to the start of another…
the most fun was a four hundred metre mixed race for eights… these huge boats are fun to watch and have very few races, lol…
at one point the proceedings were called due to lightning… so for nearly an hour everyone had to come off the water and tie down their equipment… then the sky cleared and it was back to racing…
much later the lightning and thunder ended the regatta… it was interesting to watch everyone get off the water and pack up all of the equipment…
and then it poured, cleared up and the sun came back out in time for a bbq and award ceremony…
a great fun day… then the long drive home…
01 Sunday Jul 2018
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big girl pants, Canada Day, day 3, fireworks, fun, garden, grandsons, rain, sky, walk, weather, widow, WWTB
last night we did stay up and walk over to the the track behind the Library to watch the fireworks… it was a beautiful night and a great show…
this morning we slept in… well I was awake, but stayed in bed so the boys could get their sleep…
once up, and after breakfast, we spent some time in the garden… did some watering, trimming and relaxing… tv watching, video game playing, and possibly some napping was how we spent most of the day, with a bit of time outside playing with the football…
around four we packed a bag and walked over to the Children’s Playground at the Park…
there were a lot of people enjoying Canada Day festivities…. we caught a few Pokémon and then started home when the thunder and lightning started… part way home the rain poured down… we decided to pick up pizza and walked fast…
once we arrived home we took off our wet jackets, hats, shoes and the backpack and had the pizza… thankfully, the box had not quite disintegrated…
FaceTimed with mommy and watched some tv…
