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lizard…

17 Friday Oct 2025

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my housemate has been preparing for over a month for a pet bearded dragon…

he picked up a large glass enclosure which he then adapted (a lot) for the lizard to live in…

it took a great deal of thought and ingenuity to get the tank the way he wanted it…

once it was done, he moved the tank to its location and added in bricks, rocks, plants, driftwood, and a number of lights…

everything was ready about four hours before the lizard arrived;-)…

IDA…

12 Sunday Oct 2025

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walked over to Silver Heights IDA Pharmacy on Friday morning and got both my covid and flu shots… I’d been waiting as at my recent doctor’s appointment, the vaccines hadn’t yet arrived… I called the Pharmacy on Wednesday and booked an appointment…

they have the system down pat, you sign a form, sit down and wait maybe a minute, Devarshi comes in and pops a needle into each arm and away you go;-)…

once I got home I took some Advil hoping to stop any sore shoulders, lol…

tempted…

07 Tuesday Oct 2025

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I have been so tempted to take the scissors to my hair for the last few days as I tried to find time for a haircut…

today I managed to fit the time in…

felt so much lighter after the cut…

the hairdresser took quite a bit off, so I shouldn’t have that urge for ages, lol…

on my way home I spotted this happy camper, even if they were stuck in the grass;-)…

plumbing…

04 Saturday Oct 2025

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found a leak under the sink on Thursday, sigh…

we emptied the space out and my housemate discovered that the hose on the tap was leaking… that one had been installed in 2014…

we contacted our plumbing people and headed out to purchase a new tap… we took the $10 Canadian Tire money that has been in the drawer for years…

it was fun to watch various staff members try to figure out how to deal with the paper, lol… eventually they discovered the longest serving teller who was able to assist our cashier and away we went…

as we got home we heard that the plumber was on his way…

in just under an hour, the tap was changed, and they were on their way…

this tap has the handle on the right side, so I am getting adjusted to that, lol…

we had a fan on, drying out the inside of the cabinet before the “stuff” which was filling up a number of counters, went back in…

this morning, now that the space is dry, all of the items from the cabinet when back in… and possibly in a slightly more organized way;-)…

tight…

03 Friday Oct 2025

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climbed into the pond twice on Wednesday…

the leaves have been falling and clogging up the pump every few days…

this is getting to be a pain so I spent the first time cleaning out the filter and pulling up leaves from the bottom…

the second time I cut back all the reeds to be sure the sun could get to the new bud, hoping that the weather cooperates so it can open… I also hoped it would help make the netting easier to cover the pond…

last year we put down green netting over the pond to try to catch the leaves, but it looked terrible and I took it off…

this year we have a new plan… we got black netting and pulled it tight over the pond covering everything from the waterfall to the furthest edges of the pond…

it is really hard to see the netting except around the edges where it is doubled up and it was already catching the never-ending falling leaves….

beep…

02 Thursday Oct 2025

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I’ve been listening to the smoke detector beep every few minutes to tell me it needs the batteries replaced… seems like it’s been going on for hours, lol…

I am waiting for my housemate to arrive home to change them as, not only can’t I reach it, I can’t figure out how to open it…

brilliant…

27 Saturday Sep 2025

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today we got a new fastener for the side gate…

the strong winds we’ve had over the last week keep blowing these doors open so we went shopping for a better solution… the one we’ve had has been good for at least twenty-five years, lol, so a new one seemed in order…

we found one and got it onto the two doors and it looks like it is going to be perfect… and will make it easier for those trying to come through from the driveway…

then I had the brilliant idea of using the old fastener to hook the one door to the pergola instead of using a bungee cord to keep the gate open when expecting company or moving large things through the space… the second door has always just happily leaned against the garage when opened, lol…

looking good;-).

bread…

25 Thursday Sep 2025

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I finally picked up a loaf of sourdough bread today…

when I arrived home I took out a few pieces of bacon from the freezer and microwaved them… I like crisp bacon;-)… when bacon arrives home, two pieces are folded, two of them put into a ziplock bag, and into the freezer so it is easy to get pieces out to use when needed…

it was difficult to cut the bread as it was so fresh, but eventually I managed to get two slices…

then I cut up the gorgeous large tomato that a friend had given me which was perfectly ripe…

finally, a good amount of miracle whip, bacon, tomato, and pink salt between two slices of bread…

oh my… yum…

squashes…

24 Wednesday Sep 2025

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met a lovely deer as I was walking towards The Leaf early yesterday morning… I think we were both surprised, lol…

I also got to check out the little red truck in the Kitchen Garden… this first shot was from the newly opened Water Terrace;-)…

then I got closer;-)…

it looks very cute, filled with pumpkins, other squashes and mums…

connector…

23 Tuesday Sep 2025

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so, we thought the problem with the electricity had been solved with the replacement of the two fuses last week…

apparently, not so…

Saturday and Monday it happened again and lasted for two hours the last time… we weren’t able to get in touch with the electrician so called Hydro… of course we couldn’t get to a real person but left a power outage message… not long after, a real person did call and advised a technician would be out in the next while…

they arrived around dusk, and of course, the power had come back on, lol… that makes it much more difficult for them to figure out the problem…

after checking the recently replaced fuses, which were working properly, they checked the wires on the outside and discovered a connector that was hot and shouldn’t have been…

power was turned off (on purpose!), the connector was replaced, and the power turned back on…

hoping this has actually fixed the problem…