Next-Gen…

14 Saturday Jun 2025

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Thursday evening I discovered that the kitchen tap was very loose…

I was concerned that it might pop off, start spraying water, and cause another flood…

my housemate worked late and didn’t have a chance to look at it, but the next morning, as I started prepping for a special gathering, I decided to get help…

I called around 9:30 and my friend Al (I have made way too many calls to these folks, lol) turned up around 12:15… this local business is located on the street corner four minutes from my house, so it is very handy …

he tightened the nut holding the tap to the sink, fixed the loose handle, and advised that there wouldn’t have been a flood if the tap completely disengaged…he filled out paperwork and was gone…

amazing what a quick response could do to settle my nerves and let me continue my preparations for the evening’s gathering;-)…

thanks Next-Gen😁…

trim…

05 Thursday Jun 2025

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walked over to Ultracuts for a trim and on the way spotted a plant that had not been put into the soil in one of the big city planters…

I didn’t want to arrive at the salon with dirty hands so I decided to wait until I was on the way home…

when I did arrive back at the planter, it was clear that the plant had not been planted as it was just laying on the soil… I had wondered if a critter had maybe pulled it out of its spot…

I dug a hole and popped it in… hope it is happy now…

brakes…

04 Wednesday Jun 2025

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big girl pants, blessed, brakes, car, family, garage, happy, Indi, moments, service station, Sturgeon Automotive, Technology, Uber, widow

my housemate took the car in this morning for new front brakes… we are trying out a garage that a friend recommended…

it took about four hours and then we got the call it was ready…

he had gone to work, so I ordered my first Uber to go and pick it up…

it came in about three minutes, was clean, and the driver was dressed professionally… seven minutes got me there…

the estimate and final bill for the new brakes matched and the car drives well… the brakes don’t feel any different…

happy to have found this new service station which is closer than Toyota;-)…

puddling…

01 Sunday Jun 2025

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big girl pants, blessed, deck, family, garden, grandson, leak, moments, muscle, pond, problem, puddling, repair, shopping, water, weather, widow

the pond has continued to leak but we thought we had the problem figured out…

water seemed to be puddling under a UV clarifier which was installed in the pond at the beginning, but which never accomplished its job and has been unplugged for a number of years…

we picked up a piece to connect the two hoses together and with a lot of cutting and muscle, were able to disconnect it entirely… so happy, thinking the problem had been solved…

turned the pump back on and watched water still coming out where the hose goes under blocks and the deck…

so, the issue appears to be that the six or seven feet of hose from the pump to the waterfall needs to be replaced… we are considering ways to accomplish this, which may involve removing a good sized piece of the deck to get at it, sigh…

and so it goes…

bison…

30 Friday May 2025

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today I had the opportunity to see the Bison on the Boulevard along Roblin Boulevard…

this art installation is amazing, looks wonderful and is in support of Toba Centre for Children and Youth…

I drove by a number of them and also saw a few closer up on foot…

in the background of a few of them you can see more on the other side of the road…

checked out this one at the entrance to the zoo on my way in, and this one as I was leaving…

reminds me of the polar bears and wolves… wonder where they will end up;-)…

arborist…

28 Wednesday May 2025

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had a surprise visit to The Leaf last week…

I was supposed to meet my adventure buddy for a walk around the English and Leo Mol Gardens… it was cold and windy and I may not have had the warmest clothes on, lol…

I walked over and found a tree trunk down across the path between the walking bridge and the entrance to the Gardens…

reported it to one of the gardeners who was working close to the entrance and they were going to notify the arborist…

once we met up, we decided to walk around The Leaf instead;-)… got the tickets online as we drove over and headed in…

it looked as though the gardeners had done a big pruning job and made a bit of space around the Tropical Biome… views of the water had been trimmed up nicely…

I often take photos of the same things, lol…

fun time, as always;-)…

vanished…

26 Monday May 2025

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recently we purchased some feeder fish and popped them into the pond… they vanished under the bridge and weren’t seen again, lol…

a few days ago, the fish were caught and brought out to the pond from their indoor condo … my housemate has very little trouble catching them in the tanks…