January has been a bit busy so far. Dan has been home so we spend quite some time being together. 😊
I have started cleaning our basement. Basement is probably an overstatement at this point, but it is coming together. I have replaced a dozen cardboard boxes with a few Rubbermaid totes, sorted through Christmas decorations and downsized considerably, vacuumed up a year’s accumulation of dust and spider webs and found a few winter sweaters I forgot that I owned. A few good day’s work for sure.
While going through the basement, I found boxes of old family favourite recipes – and a few that could become so, now that I have time to cook. I have tried a few already – peppersteak, breakfast pizza, breakfast wraps, and lemon butter tarts.
We had a brutal storm this week. Sustained winds of 126mph 😳 and snow. We were extremely fortunate that we had no damage to our place and that all of our family stayed safe. Our power was off for a couple of hours and Dan had some shoveling to do the next day.
There was a lot of property damage across the province and many travellers were stranded away from home. Dan and Amanda spent an extra night in Edmonton after taking Cason in for a bit of day surgery.
I have spent time morning and evening practicing my meditation. I have been enjoying Buddhist chants lately and continue to spend time sending healing energy to friends and family near and far. I cannot imagine why it took me so long to appreciate meditating, but everything in its own time and this is my time to meditate. 🧘
Saskatchewan has the dubious honor of highest per capita Covid numbers since Christmas. Dan has been doing our shopping and running our errands while I hunker down and await my turn to receive the vaccine. In the meantime, I am happy to see those on the frontlines and our most vulnerable seniors getting the first doses that are available here. 🎉🎉🎉
Keep safe, keep busy! Only 4 more months or so until spring 🌻
Seclusion 101 with AnneMarie 
Dan is such a lucky man! All the food sounded delicious 😋. Although, you need to buy him a toque and maybe some boots too🤪
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Thank you, Dwight! It has actually been quite warm – even through the blizzard. Right around 0 celcius.
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And I thought we had bad winter weather?🙄
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I don’t think we have ever had wind like that here. I can’t believe none of the trees around us were destroyed.
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That is surprising. Every time we have strong winds it seems a tree falls and takes out the power with it.
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There were lots of trees around the city that came down – big ones! Highway signs, small sheds blown away, there was a Christmas tree blown up into the power lines🌲, smashed vehicles from stuff being blown on them. We were super lucky on this block.
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I am envious of your basement. Under the bed is the place I store all the things I should be throwing away but can’t.
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I am inspired by you cleaning the basement. A perfect winter activity. Enjoy your day!
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The more place we have, the more stuff we have that we should throw away. It’s not all upside ☺️. But we live in such a small house, I do not know what we would do without a basement.
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Thank you, Betty. I am so excited to clean my basement. For the past year, I could not even go down there without getting really sick from the dust and going down the short staircase to get to it. I amazed myself this week😊
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Wow, what an interesting idea. Where did you get the information about the chants?
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I just poke around on You Tube looking for meditation ideas. My niece is married to a Buddhist from Burma so I was curious to check them out and found them very peaceful.
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Those lemon tarts look delicious, I love anything lemon. You cleaning your basement has put me to shame, maybe I will get myself busy finishing up the cleaning of a closet I started on a few days ago. 🙂
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My basement was putting me to shame
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Thank you. They were pretty good!
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lol
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