woke up to this…
and when I was looking on Facebook, I saw this post from the same date in 2021…
so I guess it isn’t completely abnormal, sigh…
abnormal…
14 Tuesday Apr 2026
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Tag Archives: winter
blizzards…
22 Monday Dec 2025
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big girl pants, Blizzards, grandson, moments, nature, neighbour, snow, snowblower, weather, widow, wind, winter
we’ve had our first blizzards of the season… they sort of happened over two days…
Thursday, a good amount of snow fell and then the winds came… later the snow stopped and returned the next day with more wind…
I had to cancel two outings, so was able to stay home and watch through the living room window…
on day three my housemate spent over an hour shovelling the sidewalks and driveway… there was a lot of snow🤪…
thankfully, a neighbour a few houses to the north came with his snowblower and dealt with the area closest to the garage which saved another hour of shovelling…
the back door had about a foot of snow covering it and the deck… now it is all clear…
we will see how long that lasts;-)…
showing…
12 Friday Dec 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, cold, leaf blower, moments, nature, showing, snow, sun dogs, weather, widow, winter
it was very cold this morning 🥶…
it looked beautiful outside with everything covered in fresh snow…
I waited until around 10 to go out and blow the snow off the front steps and sidewalk so that it would be clear for the mail carrier…
today, I did not clear a path through the grass to the neighbours’ house… it was too cold;-(…
the sun was shining, but the wind kept blowing the snow back up at me, covering my leggings, my jacket, and my boots…
I was happy that I’d left my glasses in the house as my face also received a lot of blowing snow on it, lol…
I do believe that winter has arrived… even if it isn’t December 21st… feels like the sundogs are showing it;-)…
hyacinths…
24 Wednesday Jan 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, delightful, enjoy, flowers, happy, hyacinths, moments, nature, purple, scent, weather, widow, winter
it smells delightful right now in the living room as both of the hyacinths are blooming…
spent the majority of the day there so I could enjoy the scent;-)…
I am so happy to have flowers in these dark days of winter…
silent…
13 Saturday Jan 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, magical, moments, nature, shovelling, silent, snow, snow falling, weather, widow, winter
since Tuesday, when I shovelled the snow in the sunshine, I have been out three times, two of them while it was still snowing…
during one of those times, it was magical… the snow was gently falling, there was no wind, and it was absolutely silent… no cars, no animals, no people…
I have been trying to get some good shots of the snow falling but it has not gone well, lol…
and the snow was light as a feather;-)…
sun…
12 Friday Jan 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, cold, moments, nature, pictures, shovelling, sidewalks, snow, sun, sunshine, trees, weather, widow, winter
Tuesday went out and shovelled the sidewalks and steps again…
the sun was shining and it was a beautiful day, even though the weather app said it was -25°C…
the sun has been a bit elusive over the last while so it was a real treat;-)…
it had snowed a bit on Sunday and Monday, although there wasn’t too much on the ground…
took a few photos as I was working away, lol…
snow, sun, trees…
all make me enjoy the moments and try to capture them;-)…
brown…
01 Monday Jan 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, brown, charcoal, doorbell camera, fireworks, first-foot, girl power, goodies, memories, moments, nature, New Year's Eve, research, Technology, tradition, widow, winter
New Year’s Eve hasn’t been a big deal for the last few years… in fact, I’ve slept through it a few times, lol…
usually I’ve had a dark haired person to first-foot the house on New Year’s Day, but this year no one with dark hair was available… currently my hair is gray but in my earlier days it was a dark brown;-)…
I did some research and discovered I could first-foot myself as long as I was out of the house before midnight…
I also learned about the tradition of opening the backdoor to let out any bad vibes and then opening the front door to let in the good…
so I packed up my little bag of goodies, opened the back door to leave the house just before midnight and left it open for a few minutes…
then I went into the garage and out the big door, walked up the driveway and watched some fireworks across the creek for a few minutes before entering the house through the front door… the doorbell camera caught me as I entered;-)…
the tradition is supposed to be a tall, dark haired man, but really, I have had a few women do this cause why not…
my bag held a candy cane, heel of bread, an orange, 3 pieces of charcoal, a little bottle of Baileys, and a cookie…
it was fun to have the actual charcoal, because that is what my dad procured just before New Year’s each year to add to the little bags that he distributed to family and friends just after midnight;-)…
I did laugh when I discovered that I did the same thing last year, although on New Year’s Day morning, lol…
vibe…
18 Saturday Nov 2023
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breaking…
30 Monday Oct 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, breaking, cold, fish, garden, goldfish, grandson, ice, moments, nature, plants, pond, pumps, snow, time, water, weather, widow, winter
Saturday, late in the afternoon, after breaking the ice on the pond, we caught twenty-one of the goldfish…
the pond water was filled with leaves and was rather brown and murky…
it was quite the job as, at one point, my grandson went into it barefoot with his pants rolled up to cut down the water lilies and grasses (I think it was about -12°C in the air)…
but that really helped catch a bunch of them that had been hiding under the lily leaves… they were moving slower in the cold, but still snuck out of the net… also, some of the catching was in the dark, lol…
then they sat in pails in the house for hours before getting moved into the three tanks…
we were careful to be sure to keep size and numbers similar in the tanks so that there is sufficient space for all of them…
we thought we had them all, but on Sunday we discovered five more, woohoo…
now, the pumps have been removed from the pond, and it is apparently going into the winter with water in it, lol…
doorknob…
03 Friday Mar 2023
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big girl pants, door, doorknob, frozen, garage, garbage, handy, help, how to, moments, nature, neighbour, weather, widow, winter
for weeks now the side door to the garage has been stuck shut… kind of like the doorknob was frozen…
while we were working in the basement, there was lots of garbage which we ended up putting into the garage until the bin was empty… having to go through the side gate and then the main garage door was a pain…
yesterday I talked with my neighbour in the lane and mentioned the problem so today he came by and helped me remove the knob… fairly simple when you know how, lol…
now I will know for next time;-)…
so, a bungee cord will be the fastener for the next while… and, apparently a new door is in the future…
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