May 25th, 2026 - My Day!!!

 May 25th

Celebrating a new year at Thermea, arrived 10:30am!

May the relaxation begin!

Ohhhh it's been lovely so far!!! I've had two sessions of hot bath, polar waterfall and rest, one being the discovery with snowballs and mild scents wafting through the air. Then the hot tub before grabbing a grapefruit radler and relaxing with my book in the Rainforest to occasional cool mechanical misting. Now I'm waiting for a light lunch before exploring again. My hip is achy but so far behaving!!!

Hmmm, I wanted a couple pizza slices with my grapefruit radler but only whole pizzas, no thank you. So later I went to the restaurant, had a salad, wine, dessert and latte! It'll do till supper!

OMGG!!! What a beautiful day to be here! Hopefully I haven't a sunburn as I totally forgot to apply the sunscreen I brought and had in my bag with me outside.

So after lunch I did another bath and sauna routine and think I may be getting used to the polar plunge!!! Then 4:15 was my massage with a last bath and sauna routine with a full polar body plunge, not just two walk throughs under the waterfall. Afterwards I retreated to the hanging bucket chair to read and relax. This was on the edge of the golf course with low hanging trees above, so soothing. One last hot tub jets on my back and hip before showering and going in for supper!

Yes a beautiful day!!!

I'M STUFFED!!! I left half my feta/tomato salad but forced myself to FINISH OFF this awesome but very messy burger! I was going to have two ceasar cocktails but barely finishing one!!! Definitely no dessert tonight!

As it is I feel I'll be rolling home and I'm not talking about in the UBER!!!

Now home for feet up relaxing at 9:45pm!!!

May 26th

Thank you so very much for all the birthday wishes via emails, messages, phone calls, cards and Facebook recently!!! They all helped to make my day extra special along with pampering myself at Thermea Nordic Spa! AWESOME day! Thank you!!!

Catchup - May 14th-24th, 2026

 May 14th

Gosh what a day!!! I was very productive at Meadowood Quilters today, only two outer vertical sashings to sew together and on and another I Spy quilt top finished off.

But "dang it" my just cleaned car was just a huge mess when I came out 2:30ish! WHY!!! And the trees out my window are totally lunatic tossing around like crazy with a dust laden sky, winds gusting to 80-100kms. And even though we've got new windows and they are closed I'm totally plugged up, hard to breath and smells dusty INSIDE!!! The window ledges feel gritty.

May 16th

YAHOOIE!!! I've booked my Nordic SPA day and found the "fastest" option for the cheaper UBER ride rather than booking it ahead!!! I checked the forecast and it should be hot and sunny that day!!! I can't wait!!!

Maybe my supper?

May 18th

Cool, recycling too!

Well even if this head cold is annoying, I have enjoyed the calmness of tatting scissor fobs. I'm not impressed with the variegated colours for the leaves and covering the rings, in future I'll choose complimentary plain colours. Maybe tomorrow I'll try a snowflake pattern.

May 19th

Ohhhhh I had bought a scrumptious Mandarian orange chicken salad and a new to me salad dressing!!! AND oh boy talk about YUMMY!!! I'll definitely be keeping this in stock!

May 21st

Well I go from inactivity for days to walking two days in a row. Yesterday was a bad day but I had an appointment downtown so with numerous stops I walked. Today I was feeling better so invited Aiada to join me and we walked Edmonton to Osborne, Broadway, to Edmonton home, minor aches and only three stops!!! YEAH!!! But that DANG wind. For some reason my tracker did not register, lucky the Samsung Health app does record movement!

May 22nd

So very very true!!! Thanks Barb for posting this.

May 23rd

I started celebrating early with Edna at the Keg. Usually I'm not keen on it but glad I tried again as food and service was awesome!

Garlic shrimp appetizer.

My BBQ pork ribs and Edna's prime rib.

Gifted Billy Miner cake.

Enjoyed this glass, wish I could have had more!!!

A Then and Now "story" came up, not much change my dear!

May 24th

Well so much for my going for a walk 2ish! While showering the lights went off, hmmmm, heard of cold showers here before but first for a dark one!!! Once out, I thought maybe my lights burnt out but nope an email from MB Hydro says power outage at my address! DANG that's twice recently!!!

So silly me thought we'd have emergency power to keep the hallway lights and elevator working so I could still go for my walk!

NOPE, NADA, NO SIREEEE - NO POWER PERIOD!!! And I'm not walking down six floors in the dark either!

About 3ish the power came back on so out I went for a walk but my body ached badly and I needed rest stops a few times.

Hmmm not sure where this is but will have to check it out one day!

On May 23rd a Then and Now "story" came up, not much change my dear! I didn't realize they disappear after a time! So I'm posting this to keep!

Tomorrow I'll be treating myself to Thermea Spa, not sure when I'll be home! ♥️

Catchup - April 24th-May 12th, 2026

 April 24th

Yummy lunch at Oakwood Cafe with Edna before the St Vital Book Sale.

April 29th

I've been told our Canada Geese have made nests in crazy places! I know a few pairs have built nests on city office buildings roof tops, definitely crazy! Well this is the second year I know of that a pair have returned to this planter, just feet from the blocks entrance, don't know how the ducklings get out of there if they can't fly yet? And last year the 6" or more from pot ground to top of the pot was full of downpour water flooding the nest. I heard someone moved the eggs but not sure if they were safe and survived. Hope not this year!

May 2nd

We're at the ACQ quilting retreat and yesterday I was too tired to take or post pictures. Sylvia is working on a donation fish quilt, Pat worked on placemats and now trying out the migrating flying geese we learnt at our last meeting demo from Lynda K. Edna and I both are working on our smaller Art After Dark gecko wall hangings. I just finished attaching all my pieces and shut that project down. I switched to the quilting on my catus wall hanging.

A couple more pictures. Pat's migrating geese, Sylvia's finished fish quilt top and she started a second quilt top.

May 7th

Today at Meadowood I finished the binding on my Cacti - Art After Dark class from Assiniboine Circle Quilters taught by Jackie J. Well I still have the label to prep and sew in place! I it!!!

May 9th

I finally snapped out of my funkie mood today. Hope it stays away for awhile! Early breakfast with Sylvia, checked out Piece It Together's spring sale and was THRILLED to see one of my donated tops completed and for sale for their fundraiser! Got some quilt ideas too along with a few small purchases!

Then home and picked up my shuttles and tatted a couple more scissor fobs.

May 11th

Yeah!!! Finally after 30 plus years I'm finally taking in an Eastern Canada fall leaves tour, with Sylvia.

Then shortly afterwards I'll be off to Toronto area to visit my girlfriends!!! That'll be it for 2026 and not sure what's in store for 2027.

https://www.railtraveltours.com/.../northern-ontarios...

May 12th

I missed posting about Sunday's outing at the Woodcarvers' Competition where Randy (Pat's hubby) showed his work and received three ribbons! WOW!!! The walking sticks were initially worked on by Sylvia's hubby Len and Randy finished them off! I enjoyed Randy's help in understanding some of the intricasies of this hobby! Thank you!

Update: added Randy's photo of the moose brains he added into the walking stick's indent, googly eyes etc above!