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building…

15 Wednesday Sep 2021

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I’ve spent the last two days building a coffee table… well, putting it together, lol…

I’ve been thinking I would like one where the top lifted so that I could work more easily on my laptop as well as use it to put my plate on when I am eating in the den…

I spotted one a few weeks ago and decided to order it… yesterday, it arrived, in a flat box… it hadn’t said anything about that when I ordered it but I figured this is how it would arrive…

I learned, after about 45 minutes and some YouTube videos, how to change the bit on the cordless drill… I learned that a rubber mallet is a handy tool, and I shouldn’t get rid of it… I learned to read between the lines when following picture directions… I also learned that it isn’t likely going to work out perfectly the first time…

but, after two days, and a lot of putting in and taking out of screws, I have a table that I am very happy with…

I’ve been thinking how my beloved would have had it together in a short time, and also how proud of me he would be…

balloons…

05 Sunday Sep 2021

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woke up and watched half an hour of FMG balloons taking off from the Gatineau Airport…

brought back such wonderful memories… our first flight took five tries in 2013 but when we finally made it, it was spectacular…

that flight was from the grounds of the Festival…

in 2014, we made it the very first time and ended up taking off from the same airport as I watched the liftoff online…

the Festival happens on the September long weekend and I am hoping to make it there again… someday;-)…

crossword…

01 Wednesday Sep 2021

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the cleaners were here today and while they were inside the house, I was in the garden on the back deck spending time with googly finding the answers to the Happy Mail for Chocolate Lovers crossword that I received in an email mid-August;-)…

it was fun learning new facts about the various places where cacao grows…

earbuds…

13 Friday Aug 2021

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received my new earbuds…

two or three weeks ago my pretty Samsung Earbuds just stopped working… all of a sudden they wouldn’t pair with my phone… of course they were not under warranty… the service department suggested I have them repaired locally but the local people advised they would have to send them away… it was going to cost $55 if they sent them away and I decided not to have them repaired… and it wasn’t clear how much the repair might cost…

I thought about it for quite a while and did a ton of research before deciding on these ones…

I want them mainly for phone calls which meant there weren’t that many options and ones that would be comfortable in my ears…

I finally ordered them on Wednesday, and they were delivered on Friday;-)…

they were easy to pair with my iPhone and music sounds good…

will have to see how they are on phone calls…

wish me luck;-)…

rainfall…

13 Friday Aug 2021

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Sunday to Wednesday life was very busy…

Sunday, a friend, her husband and daughter came over for lunch… the garden looked beautiful and we had a lovely visit…

lunch was a delightful collection of goodies from Pho Hoang… everything was tasty…

on Monday morning I had an early meeting in the garden and the rain held off just long enough for us to finish…

Tuesday morning, when I woke up after the storm in the night, I discovered that the hibiscus and dahlia planters were both tipped over from the strong wind… when I looked at the neighbour’s yard I discovered a large branch had fallen right next to their house… thankfully, nothing was damaged…

Wednesday morning a friend stopped by and we had a great catch-up…

in the evening my grandson came for his birthday dinner… delicious steak, lobster, mushrooms and twice-stuffed potatoes were on the menu…

once again, great timing… as we were cleaning up the sky turned very dark… we just got all the cushions inside when the wind and rain arrived…

we have certainly appreciated the rainfall;-)…

slinky…

12 Thursday Aug 2021

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on Monday the slinky arrived in the mail…

we’d been looking for a while and apparently everyone has been buying them as there were none available nearby…

this one was ordered on Thursday and turned up just four days later…

once the rain stopped I put it on the bird feeder pole…

I didn’t pin the bottom down as I read that this wasn’t required…

we will see if it keeps the squirrels from getting to the feeder…

blower…

09 Monday Aug 2021

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busy time in the garden on Saturday…

my grandson came, whipper snipped, trimmed the weeds in the driveway, and blew all the leaves and detritus… we do like the blower, which can also act as a vacuum… everything looks tidy… he also helped get one of the bubble machines going…

a bit later Hilda the Gardener spent time weeding and tidying so that the garden looks well cared for… it is always such a treat to see how lovely everything looks after she’s been here…

meanwhile, I had lightly fertilized the plants that are heavy feeders, filled bird feeders and pulled out a few weeds in the new grass…

bubbles make me happy…

reorganized…

07 Saturday Aug 2021

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managed to get the table in the garage cleaned off, and reorganized my toolbox and drill in a corner…

good timing because The Preferred Perch will be delivering two fifty pound bags of birdseed and it goes on the table until I can put it into containers;-)…

then I finally cut back the Virginia creeper that was making it difficult to enter and exit the garage…

good day’s work;-)…

steak…

05 Thursday Aug 2021

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today I learned that if you put the word supper in the title of an appointment in the Google calendar, this is what it shows…

but, if you put dinner in it, you get a cute little picture;-)…

clearly Google doesn’t know that supper and dinner mean the same thing to me, lol…

always enjoy learning new things, particularly concerning technology;-)…

lifesaver…

02 Monday Aug 2021

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came across this photo yesterday… it is one of my all time favourites…

it was taken twenty years ago (so it isn’t quite as crisp as I would like) in a rented hot tub in our yard…

for a few years we would rent a hot tub for our anniversary weekend… it was such fun and a wonderful treat… so lucky to now have my own hot tub to use whenever I want;-)…

the lifesaver is so cute and his little face is adorable;-)…

our grandson just loved it then, and he still enjoys using hot tubs…

makes me smile to remember special times…