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11 Friday Feb 2022

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enjoyed some lovely time in the living room this afternoon with the sun shining in, highlighting the amaryllis flowers…

the first one started blooming around January 17th and right now has four blooms on its second stalk…

the three that arrived and were planted on January 21st are doing well… of them, one is down to its last bloom and one is just thinking of opening…

happy they have stretched out their growth… they have brought much joy and I have spent time with them every day…

stuck…

09 Wednesday Feb 2022

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yesterday it rained… crazy eh…

I went out before it really got going to clear the snow in front of the patio door…

for the last week or so it has been stuck and only opened about six inches…

seemed like a good plan to deal with it before the rain, in case it freezes into ice back there…

took quite a while and a lot of effort to get the snow moved… it was much heavier and had more chunks in it… the hill next to the deck is high again, so I’ve had to walk along the path before throwing the snow into the garden…

but, got it done… there is still tons of snow on the deck although the rain and wind and warmer weather have certainly melted some of it…

it will be interesting to see how it is going to melt, or whether there will be more than one pond in the space..

drift…

04 Friday Feb 2022

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yikes, more snow stories…

put on long underwear, an extra vest, mitts over gloves, my Canada Goose jacket, and went out in the extreme cold to shovel a path to the garbage and recycle bins…

I had hoped to put them in the lane for pick up but there was just too much snow… hopefully, next week it will be a bit warmer so I can finish digging the path out all the way to the gate…

thankfully there is a bit of space in both bins so they should be fine for one more week…

there was a huge drift up against the back door and it took a while to get through it…

as I moved further into the yard, the path got narrower… it was cold out there…

it was just wide enough for me to carry out the bags, lol…

sure do miss my beloved, he would have shovelled and snow blowed a great path all the way to the lane, no problem… and had fun doing it, lol… he did love to play with the snowblower…

design…

03 Thursday Feb 2022

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I’ve been thinking a lot recently about moments… as in, how easy it is to miss one…

this morning, the sun was shining through the patio doors and created a beautiful design on the side of the microwave… I spent time enjoying it and took a few photos… the shadows reminded me of the pictures I took during a photography class a number of years ago…

just a few minutes later I was in the kitchen and the design was gone… happy that I wandered in at just the right moment and had the chance to enjoy the sight;-)…

a bit later, I was walking on the spot and got to see a bunny running around the backyard… such a treat…

when I was in the garden, I spotted these lovely designs through the pergola and on the hot tub…

we won’t talk about the large amount of snow covering the hot tub;-(…

I am so blessed to have the opportunity to enjoy these…

closed…

30 Sunday Jan 2022

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last night I had my first hot tub in many weeks…

we have had so much extreme cold and snow that I haven’t wanted to go out…

when I did want to, the cover was frozen closed… this has only ever happened a few times over the twelve years we’ve had it… this year it has already been three or four times…

when it has warmed up a bit… last night a balmy -23… the ice vanishes and the cover opens nicely…

it was quiet and peaceful… sigh, I have missed that;-)…

so, I went out again this morning… even got some pictures…

happy Sunday…

miles…

29 Saturday Jan 2022

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these days I get my steps walking the figure eight in the living and dining rooms…

I was wondering how many trips have been made around these two rooms…

they started when my beloved returned home from his heart surgery, and were short and slow as he regained his strength…

then there were the walks I took as I slowly regained my strength following my cancer surgery just months after he had gone… again, the steps were slow and difficult… took a long time before I could climb the stairs or go out onto the deck…

I walked on the treadmill in the basement before work since being diagnosed with diabetes… I overdid it for a while and my hips and knees can get a bit grumpy if I walk too fast, or too long, so I spend less time on it now…

during the cold weather over the last few years this has been my track… I find walking in the light is a positive encouragement to get the steps in…

how many miles has it been… maybe it is good that it is hardwood and not a carpet that might have ended up with a path in it, lol…

toss…

28 Friday Jan 2022

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the kids came over on Tuesday to do some shovelling…

I am usually able to do the sidewalks and decks, but there is so much snow out there now that I can’t toss the snow high enough to get over the drifts, lol…

the driveway got cleared, which was nice, although as I don’t go anywhere, that isn’t so important these days…

part of the job was to level the tops of some of the piles in the back so I can manage again without the snow sliding back to where I had moved it from…

they were also able to widen the space where the windrow was at the front… it is much easier to walk to the front door now…

blessed to have the help;-)…

harder…

26 Wednesday Jan 2022

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recently I wandered around my space and took photos of all the blooming or nearly blooming things…

January and February are often harder months for me and having flowers blooming really lifts my spirits…

so much beauty in this space and I am grateful;-)…

tracks

23 Sunday Jan 2022

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one of the things I enjoy after a snowfall is seeing the tracks that the bunnies, squirrels and birds make…

it is fairly obvious that one or more bunnies are living under the deck… they climb a snowbank and then head underneath… there is lots of space under there…

the squirrels have been running around on the deck… likely the red ones are chasing the other squirrels and birds away from their stash…

soon the bunnies will be able to eat directly from the front feeders because the snow is getting so high, lol…

it is wonderful to have such a great view of nature just by looking out the windows…

dug…

21 Friday Jan 2022

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as I was watching a show last night I heard a noise in the driveway and discovered my next door neighbour shovelling… there was a ban on street parking so he cleaned two-thirds of the driveway to make room for their cars…

a bit later, as I was getting my last steps in, I watched the snow machines go up and down the street clearing the snow…

they do a great job and also are efficient at leaving the bottom of the driveway accessible… for years my beloved would have to shovel the end of the driveway before being able to get the car out…

unfortunately, in the process of being sure the driveway and fire hydrant are clear, they dump a bunch of snow over the front sidewalk…

this morning I went out and dug through an area about three feet long and two feet deep… there was a blowing snow warning but I’ve learned that it needs to happen as soon as possible…

it had been blowing and snowing and the snow on the path was already packed… I managed to get a narrow path cleared…

the neighbour on the other side came a little later and did the main part of the sidewalks…

it is quite a bit wider than what I managed, lol…