BarBaraPrz

@BarBaraPrz (49323)

St. Catharines, Ontario • Age 73

Joined myLot 18 years ago

"If not I, then who?"

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Understatement

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (49323) • St. Catharines, Ontario 19 Apr

I bought an apple pie today when I did my shopping. On the box it says "Best served warm". No kidding! It was frozen solid! Even after 4 hours sitting out on the table. So I nuked the piece and am having it now. Tastes very...

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Finished just in time redux...

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (49323) • St. Catharines, Ontario 19 Apr

I went out shopping this morning. I took my walker and the bus because it looked as if it might rain. I can use my walker as a grocery cart, too. I wore my winter coat even though it was 18°C/65°F because it's always so cold in...

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Finished just in time

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (49323) • St. Catharines, Ontario 18 Apr

I spent another four hours or so working on garden bed #2, turning the soil and adding more from the Big Yellow Bag in my driveway, and repairing a couple corners... reused old fence boards don't last forever, y'know. And just...

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It was the dark o' noon

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (49323) • St. Catharines, Ontario 15 Apr

The day started out sunny but soon clouded up, then cooled from 10°C/50°F at 10am to 7°C/45°F at 1 pm, with wind, rain, hail, rain, thunder and darkness, thrown in for good measure. Yesterday, it'd be hot one minute then cold the...

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What's going on?

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (49323) • St. Catharines, Ontario 8 Apr

I just went into the kitchen and saw that the back door was wide open. This is not a simple matter of the wind blowing it open. Because the flannel sheet I drape across the door was neatly pulled aside and hooked up out of the...

cue the twilight zone theme

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Did you know...

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (49323) • St. Catharines, Ontario 3 Apr

According to the New York imes, some tropical trees don’t just survive lightning, but grow taller and leafier after strikes. I wouldn't mind being struck by lightning if it made me grow taller and leafier. Well, if by "leafier" it...

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I did some

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (49323) • St. Catharines, Ontario 27 Mar

Not much, but I did do some and now feel better for it. What did I do? Some yard work. I cleaned up the mess some critters made by digging into a yardwaste bag I had on the patio. Then I fixed the little decorative picket fence...

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Solar eclipse?

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (49323) • St. Catharines, Ontario 26 Mar

According to my horoscope, there's supposed to be a solar eclipse on the 29th, but it doesn't say where. It's supposed to be "an opportunity for you to nurture the parts of yourself and your life that need TLC or that tend to burn...

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I'm up, I'm up!

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (49323) • St. Catharines, Ontario 26 Mar

Got up at 7am, peed, opened the blinds, checked the temp (-1°C/30°F), checked my internal readings... headache, right foot extremely sore, knee complaining too... So I went back to bed and immediately fell asleep again. But I got...

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I did a bad thing

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (49323) • St. Catharines, Ontario 25 Mar

I ate an entire 200 gram bag of gummies. The package states that 9 pieces equal 40 grams which in turn equal 140 calories. Not sure how many pieces there were but 40 grams goes into 200 grams 5 times. So I guess I just had 700...

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Yup

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (49323) • St. Catharines, Ontario 22 Mar

It's another no pants day. It may be 8°C/48°F out there but its also murky... sorta raining, sorta not, but it certainly isn't shining sun. Not sure what I'm going to do today, maybe read or do the dishes (yeah, I should probably...

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One day to Spring

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (49323) • St. Catharines, Ontario 19 Mar

And the day is starting out warm and sunny and I'm watching a couple birds out my window doing what I'm assuming the mating dance. "He" sneaks up to "her" and "she flies away, but not too far. Then "he" sneaks up to "her" again,...

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It was a dark and stormy... noon?

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (49323) • St. Catharines, Ontario 15 Mar

We're getting rain here in St Catharines... and it's a bit dark out there... and oh my! we just got some thunder, too. It's 15°C/59°F but supposed to reach 21°C/70°F. It was windy earlier but now it's quite still out there. I...

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Is it true

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (49323) • St. Catharines, Ontario 11 Mar

I saw my doctor yesterday, and she wanted to put me on metaformin, to decrease my cravings for sweets, among other things (polycystic ovary syndrome, metabolic syndrome). When I mentioned it to a friend who thinks she knows...

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Have you cleaned your mouse lately

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (49323) • St. Catharines, Ontario 10 Mar

The internet boys have been mucking about with the lines all last week, looking for the break, so my connection has been coming and going sporadically. Just a while ago, it went out again, so I decided to clean my mouse. It gets a...

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Alberta Clipper

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (49323) • St. Catharines, Ontario 8 Mar

Alberta Clippers are caused by low-pressure systems that form when warm winds from the Pacific Ocean collide with the colder air over the Rocky Mountains. The system moves east before getting swept up into the jet stream, which...

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New countries?

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (49323) • St. Catharines, Ontario 6 Mar

I came across these terms in an email from Open Media: "the federated states of Musk ... Bezostan or Zuckerville..." I just thought I'd share this with you. I may even start using them myself.

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Stop it!

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (49323) • St. Catharines, Ontario 6 Mar

Stop it, I say. Stop it, stop it, STOP IT! It's snowing again. And the temperature keeps dropping a degree everytime I check. (Guess I should stop checking it, then .) The snow doesn't seem to be...

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A bit of weirdness

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (49323) • St. Catharines, Ontario 5 Mar

It got really dark around 4:30 this afternoon. It rained quite heavily, then the sun came out. Now at 5:11 it's bright and sunny and not raining anymore, but there's quite a few little ponds out there now. The temperature is...

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Happy and sad

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (49323) • St. Catharines, Ontario 28 Feb

But mostly sad. Happy that my local NDP candidate won re-election last night but sad, so sad, that PCs won the province. Jennie Stevens, my local MPP, was elected for the third time to represent the riding of St Catharines....

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