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I am grateful for all the gardens that are a part of my gardening journey. This is an experimental garden I had in California back in 2018, where half of the garden was planted in-ground and half of the garden was a container garden. My daughter had begged me for years to have her own…
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Welcome to the Weekend Coffee Share! Can I get you a cup of coffee? Or tea? I learned something new about coffee this week. I learned that if you travel first class on the train you have access to this little station seen in the photo above, where one can get free coffee, tea, hot…
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When I got home from work yesterday my daughter told me to go into my bedroom and look out the window. I did. It might be difficult to see in the photo but from my window I could clearly see that she had written ”I love mom” with large letters in the snow. It made…
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I took this photo today, twelve years ago. It’s my daughter on her way to help me feed the horses early one morning. At one time we had 17 (!) rescue horses, her dad collected them.. and we cared for them. It was a lot of work, but I am grateful for the experience. A…
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Today I woke up smiling thinking about a lovely evening walk in the snow that my daughter and I took last night. It wasn’t cold at all, just perfect and beautiful. We stopped and admired beautiful patches of ice and snow on trees, noticing how the snow attached itself differently depending on what tree it…
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This beautiful Sunday morning when I woke up it was -18C/-0.4F outside, but warm and cozy inside. I love the outdoors, but I also love my home. Since this apartment building is brand new every experience is a first. This first winter my daughter and I hoped that the heating and isolation was going to…
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Welcome to the Weekend coffee share! Can I get you a cup of coffee? Or perhaps a cup of tea? How are you? What is the weather like in your neck of the woods? Today is officially the last day of my winter vacation, of course there’s still the weekend as well. It has been…
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I am trying a gratitude practice 2026, sharing one photo a day of something that I am grateful for. Sometimes it is going to be only a photo, and sometimes I’ll write something about gratitude, related to the photo. The goal is for it to be a daily practice, (but I am going to be…
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Welcome to the weekend coffee share! Can I get you a cup of coffee? Tea? Or perhaps some hot cocoa? It’s the Christmas week. We did our main celebration on Christmas Eve, and a smaller on Christmas Day. My daughter and I both have a minimalistic mindset. We appreciate time together and shared activities like…
