Weekly Musings of the 30th

 

Because it is too darn cold to go out there so curling up with a good book and warm blankets and that is good enough.  

Although early in the week we did go out for errands and that included the trip for hubby's smokes.  We topped up the car although it didn't need a full tank because who is driving far when you don't have to.  

Kinda the point of retiring from having to be someplace.  I do love heading out and doing stuff but probably from spring to the end of fall is when you can get me out there.  Winter is my hibernation time and if I do get up to stuff it is going through things and purging what is not needed and I feel that urge coming on.  I see things in cupboards and know that we are not going to use them anymore so what is the point of them taking up space.  If it is too good to toss then they will be donated as always.  Someone else could use them more than them sitting in my cupboards. 

I have never been one to hang onto stuff just for the sake of keeping them but that point really got driven home when I had to go through mom's stuff, so much junk that could have been tossed or given away no longer used.  Closets filled with papers and decorations that were no good anymore to be tossed.  I was happy that there was help to donate the furniture and clothes but just the rest of the stuff, nearly 2 tons of it tossed.  Every time I think of the work I want to go through my cupboards to make sure there is nothing kept for no reason.  Anyway, enough of that - LOL, I just know a full cupboard tidy is coming soon.  

So keep warm my friends and have a lovely weekend. 

 

Weekly Musings of the 23rd

 

Isn't that the truth?  Just like that Friday is here again and we are galloping to the end of the first month of the year.   This week was our 37th anniversary of our life together.  We stayed home this day as it was cold and snowy as it actually was our first night together.  I made the same meal this day as I did back then of lasagna and then coconut cream pie, both of hubby's favourite.  Yes, he fell in love with me but I think my cooking kinda sealed the deal - LOL.  

He arrived the night of the 20th with all he had in the back seat of his car and quietly asked me, "Can I stay with you?"  And I threw open the door and helped him bring in what little he had and we have been together ever since.  We have lived in four apartments together.  That first night was on Riverside Drive at the corner of Bank Street.  Our second was the Island Park Towers at the corner of Island Park and the Parkway.  Our last one in Ottawa was in the upstairs apartment at his mother's on Rochester Street and now we are in Simcoe on Cedar Street.  So many things have come and gone as hubby and I have gotten older together.  Sometimes we might miss those days when we were younger and perhaps would appreciate them all the more now knowing that age does take over the body.  You can help it by taking good care of it but still it will age and there are things that happen that no matter how good the care is, there is change.  

This picture was taken the summer of our first year together.  We went to Quebec City together.  

Lots of reminiscing this week as I kept telling myself that it has been 37 years.  I couldn't believe that so many years have past so fast.  

Today the sun is shining but it is cold out there and this week has been quiet as we only went out as we really needed with the snow squalls that had been happening day after day it was just an good idea to stay and putter at home. 

Before this was on Pinterest my hubby said it to me, really and truly.

 

 Have a wonderful weekend!

Weekly Musings of the 16th

 

You ever have those weeks that when you look back on it there doesn't seem to be anything worth mentioning?   This week was kind of that way.  Lots of stuff in my mind of course because when do women ever stop thinking of just stuff?  Hubby and I have talked about that and both of us look at each other and wonder how can that be?  He says there are times that he is really thinking nothing, I mean, not a thought, idea, worry, or musing just blank or silent.  To which I replied with what was going on through my mind while just sitting and he wondered how I kept it all straight or how come I didn't just explode.  Which goes to show how people can misunderstand each other so much.  

Anyway, enough of my trains of thought... oh sure, now I thought about those trains falling off... LOL. 

Hubby is nearly back to normal and with Wednesday being the calm before the storm we both got walks in and then I went off to Waterford Girl to get my soap because another thing that I figured out was that I was feeling itchy because I tried to make due with another kind of soap and that just isn't working out and I needed to go get the kind I use all the time.   I wish I had a dollar for every time I went ahead thinking I had to get something new or try something new only to learn what I was doing or using at first was the best for me.  I would certainly be well on my way to a few million because I do that so often.  (picture me rolling my eyes at myself - LOL) At least as I get older it is happening less and less and I figure it out quicker as well.  

Anyway, I was very glad that I did that morning walk and the errands that morning because come the afternoon down went the temperature and then came the ice and then snow which as continued for the rest of the week, so home chores are the best way to go.  

Anyway, that was my pretty quiet week.  Wishing you all a great weekend. 

Posted this on Facebook and had to share here because it is just so true.