20 Sunday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, garden, inside, moments, morning glories, nature, smoky, tv, weather, widow, windows
another smoky day here…
all the windows were closed overnight and all of today… I miss the fresh air…
was only outside for a few minutes this morning to check on the morning glories;-)…
rest of the day was in front of the tv, lol… athletics, gymnastics, and binge watching shows…
30 Monday May 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, dyson, grandson, moments, nature, rain, rehanging, Technology, weather, widow, windows
the rain helped me get a few jobs done around the house…
I’ve been putting off rehanging the curtains in the den and I finally got that done…
I also put the Dyson back together… my grandson had taken it apart and washed a filter inside… who knew there was one there… and now it works… yay…
even the living room windows were happy and they are lovely and shiny clean…
nice to check a few things off the list;-)…
09 Wednesday Dec 2020
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big girl pants, camera, cleaning, moments, squeegee, Technology, weather, widow, windows
Sunday I cleaned the windows on the patio door, inside and out… used a squeegee that I found when cleaning out a cupboard… it was a beautiful day…
also finished the inside of the living room window… I had done the outside a few days before… the camera kept showing the dirty spots when I viewed it on the screen, lol…
pretty and bright…
24 Monday Sep 2018
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this morning I was enjoying the view out of the living room window…
it is sparkling clean… my grandson did a great job…
and then, tonight I read about the problem that birds have with clean windows as they migrate…
oh dear…
24 Tuesday Oct 2017
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was recently talking with friends about cleaning windows… at the time we were looking out the dirty ones in my living room…
in our house George was the one who cared about the windows being clean…
my friends felt that their husbands seem more interested in clean windows as well…
we kind of laughed because we all like clean windows, we are just less likely to do the cleaning, lol…
as I arrived at the office this morning I noticed the window cleaners setting up across the street…
too funny…
26 Wednesday Jul 2017
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air conditioning, beloved, big girl pants, cold, cool, George, morning glories, purple, widow, windows
last week I gave in and turned on the air conditioner to cool down the house…
George and I would always struggle over when to put it on, at what temperature and when to turn it off…
at night I would want to turn it off and open the windows to let in fresh air… he would want to keep it on with all the windows closed to keep the cool/cold air in the house…
made for interesting conversations, lol… I would be so happy to still be able to have one of those conversations…
another negative is once you get into the cool house you don’t want to go outside again…
since turning it on, I’ve been leaving the house closed up during the day and the temperature not too cold… at night I’ve been opening the windows to let in the fresh air…
this shot of one of the morning glories today reminded me not to hide in the house but to get outside and enjoy the peace and beauty of the garden…
27 Sunday Dec 2015
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big girl pants, KG Saigon, moments, orchid, sister-in-law, snow, sunshine, windows
this morning, while I was coming and going doing some chores around the house, I took this picture of the sun shining out the front window…
I sure do love the sunshine… and take the time to enjoy it every day it is out… we don’t get as much of it as we used to…
also put my orchid back on the table in the living room… it has been in amongst the garland in the dining room for the last few weeks while a hydrangea had the top spot in the living room… I left the greenery on the table when the flower died, but rearranged it today… the orchid has been blooming for months…
had a lovely lunch out with my sister-in-law, nephew and his friend… we had some very nice Vietnamese food at one of my nephew’s favourite places, KG Saigon… after tea here, she was heading to the airport for a flight to Vancouver for the remainder of her holiday… it was great to spend a bit of time together…
didn’t get photos of the whole table but these days I take pictures of everything I eat… really helps with recording my food intake…
another shot looking out the bedroom window as the sun was going down…
always so happy when I catch these beautiful moments…
27 Friday Nov 2015
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big girl pants, Christmas, crochet, decorate, friends, frost, hoarfrost, memories, sunlight, windows
last night I was quite excited to look out and see that the solar powered lights glowing…
that means the sun had been shining during the day…
really enjoying the sunlight as much as possible… today I was commenting on the sunlight streaming through the office windows…
was very pleased tonight when I arrived home and looked at the garage windows… had to get out my phone to take a few pictures…
a few years ago I was at a friend’s house and got some amazing shots of hoarfrost on her garage windows… so these pictures reminded me of that special evening when we decorated her living room for Christmas…
frost is amazingly beautiful…
as I walked up to the door my phone chirped with a text from another friend who had just cuddled up on her couch with a crocheted blanket I had made for her a year or so ago and wanted to tell me how she enjoyed it…
lovely memories to finish off a long week…
31 Monday Aug 2015
it has been extremely humid here for a good portion of the summer… this is not the norm… well it wasn’t before…
for the last few weeks there has been fog or heavy dew nearly every day…
yesterday I took this picture of the front windows… first time it happened a few weeks ago I nearly had a heart attack thinking the seal had gone on the windows… not sure I’ve ever seen that before then…
this close up shows how thick the moisture covering the window was…
even though it was wet, decided to mow the grass in the garden because it was so long I didn’t want to sit out there… had the bag on and finished to discover there was nothing in the bag… had my neighbour come and look at it to see if the bag was on right… it had all stuck on the inside… so I spent quite a while scraping it off, lol… apparently I should have waited for it to dry up a bit…
the squirrels were busy… early in the day this red squirrel decided to have a snack at the front feeder…
later in the day either the same squirrel, or a relative, had a great time at the garden feeder while I was reading…
interesting because for most of the summer the grey squirrels have been the only ones I’ve seen…
felt under the weather for a good portion of the day, but was much better by the evening… certainly kept me from the gardening I had hoped to finish up…
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