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friday i'm in love...(but also so tired of winter)....

March 13, 2026 Arlene Giddings

It’s been a rough week
full of headaches
and being sick…
bad news and
broken toilets…
ice storm stress
and cancelled plans.

But its had some
little glimmers of goodness.
Like the pretty spring-inspiring tulips
my little brother brought me
as a Friday surprise. 🌷
How sweet is he?

Let’s get right to the list, shall we?
(before this Tylenol wears off….
yes, I am fighting another headache)

FRIDAY I AM LOVING:
🌷last weekend, I got out for a
stroll in the woods with a friend
for some much needed therapeutic
rambling and ranting
and the occasional “wait…but
like…where exactly are we? Here? There?”
and to my joy,
someone had created an Easter trail
(which didn’t stop us from getting slightly lost)
but made me so incredibly happy!
and then I stopped at Sunny’s Dairy Bar
(first stop of the season, but not the last!)
on the way home where I felt bad for
scaring some snowmobilers with my
exceptionally loud music…

🌷I know I mentioned this
before but I am absolutely
obsessed Tide and Tallow products…
I started with the body butters (mmmmm,
these smell soooo good)
then the face whip (I had vanilla, of course)
& facial oil (sweet orange)
but then had the chance to get a sweet orange
face whip (mine was almost gone)
and she surprised me with a blush…
and I am IN LOVE.
Like….seriously….so obsessed.
(and also she is incredibly sweet,
please go check her stuff out…
I can’t get enough. 😍)

🌷and after some panic about
a leak in my bathroom, I was
able to get it sorted out…if you know me,
you know that I panic when things go
wrong in the big orange house
BECAUSE IT JUST DRIVES HOME THE
FACT THAT I DON’T KNOW WHAT I AM DOING
and also
why am I
THE ONLY GROWN UP
IN THIS HOUSE.

So anyway, GB Island Contracting
fixed it all up for me and one more
crisis averted….on to the next! Sigh.
(But they were great & would definitely
use them again, just hopefully won’t need to…
water issues scare the bejeezus out of me.)

I guess that’s long enough for today…
but I can’t wait to tell you
about the books that I read so far in March!!!
🤭

In friday i'm in love Tags tulips, easter, tide and tallow, things i love
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friday i'm in love

April 18, 2025 Arlene Giddings

An extra long Easter weekend
for me as I had yesterday off, too….
a nice long drive, a dirt road even though
the timing felt sketchy and dangerously
possibly muddy but it ended ok! :)
an amazing lunch at Bogside
with a bestie,
and an appointment with a new
osteopath and big hopes
that maybe THIS will fix my headaches!
(I am ever the optimist…haha)

FRIDAY I’M IN LOVE:

🐰um…i might like to have this kitchen please…

🐰ummm. i might like to have this latte please…and I don’t even know if i like lattes but this one? this one is screaming my name.

🐰DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME. I played it and I CAN’T STOP!!! I warned you…..and I even warned you in all caps.

🐰 it’s “just barely” warm enough for deck reading (and this book is sooo good)

🐰 the photo at the very top was a leaf that fell off one of my plants and it was so frigging pretty that I had to try to draw it…I just couldn’t capture the color…

Happy easter to you and i hope
the easter bunny finds you and that he is
not as terrifying as he seems to be in all the
old photos I keep seeing online with traumatized
little screaming children.
:)

Tags easter, drawing
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one weekend in spring...

April 17, 2022 Arlene Giddings

4 day weekend full of
books read by the beach
in the rain

polka dot rubber boot
excursions on a quiet, wet shore…
doughnuts….so many doughnuts…
a coffee date where we stayed
til they closed the place down…

cat cuddles…
a visit with my parents…
a little bit of planning for the summer
with great anticipation and excitement…

Spring makes me smile.
Happy Easter…hope the bunny found you. ♥

In life's beachy, RESOLVE 2022, the adventure continues Tags photo drop, easter, long weekends rule, beach, pei, my happy place, avid reader
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365 photo-a-day project {April 2015}

April 12, 2015 Arlene Giddings

i have been trying to take a photo a day
every day
for the year 2015...
most days i make it
some days i don't...

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In 365 photo-a-day project Tags photo-a-day, april, 365, pugsey, easter, amazing building, tiltshift, vsco
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