15 Wednesday Mar 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, clothes, Costco, extras, groceries, items, moments, shopping, shorts, treats, widow
went to Costco for four things, hahaha…
came home with three of them and just a few other things…
including leggings that I had picked up a while ago, and loved, in a different colour… shorts with side pockets (spring must be coming, right!), two v-neck tops… salad, and maybe a fun snack;-)…
14 Tuesday Mar 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, chopper, cold, doorknob, exercise, garden, hot tub, ice, moments, nature, shovel, slippery, tool, weather, widow
sun was out and it only felt like -14 Celsius, so I went outside to see about getting rid of the ice that has built up where I stand to get into and out of the hot tub…
ice here seems unusual, but could be because I haven’t cleared the snow on my path to the tub every single time it has snowed, lol…
anyway, I’ve slipped a few times so it felt important to clean it up…
that, of course, meant I had to get into the garage to get the ice chopper… but the good news is that now the doorknob has been removed I can get in via the person door again… so I had to shovel to get there…
once I had the chopper it took a while to get rid of most of the ice as the sun doesn’t shine in this area of the garden;-)… handy tool to get the job done…
was careful not to get too close to where the power cord goes… but, it is done and now safe to get in and out of the hot tub…
and I got my exercise for the day…
11 Saturday Mar 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cleaning, fish, moments, murkiness, nature, pump, rain, stress, tank, water, widow, winter condo, yucky
well, that was a process;-(…
cleaning the pumps is not one of my favourite jobs, but I have gotten pretty good with it now that I have no choice, lol…
both tanks were getting murky which is the sign that the entire pump needs to be cleaned… that means the tube and the three different filters in each pump…
yucky, but necessary to get done… small one went fine… I don’t even make a face when I am rinsing them by hand whereas before I wouldn’t even consider touching them…
those big girl pants…
when I dealt with the big pump it was cleaned and put back without any issues…
but, when I plugged it back in nothing happened, sigh…
tried plugging it into a few other outlets, but no luck… brought it back into the kitchen, dumped the water out of it and removed the actual pump, which is quite tiny…
then I took the two pieces apart, used a Q-tip to clean both and rinsed it out without getting the outside of it wet…
got it back together, plugged it in and it worked, phew… when the pumps stop working it is rather worrisome because there is the concern about the stress on the fish in the tank…
now to see how long it takes to clear up the water and get rid of the murkiness…
09 Thursday Mar 2023
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08 Wednesday Mar 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, bouquet, difficult, family, flowers, foam, moments, photos, treat, vase, water, widow
dug out an old watering jug so that I could set the vase of flowers into it and fill it with water so the floral foam inside the vase could soak up all the water it needed…
took a while, but after half an hour or so I was able to get it out with a bit of finagling…
it is amazingly difficult to add fresh water to the container every day, lol…
07 Tuesday Mar 2023
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Assiniboine Hotel, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, breakfast, family, hoarfrost, icy, memories, moments, nature, snow, treacherous, trees, walk, weather, widow
walked to and from the “A” on Sunday morning…
it took a bit longer than usual as it was icy so the walking was a bit treacherous…
but it gave me the opportunity to get a few photos of the beautiful trees…
happy to get outside and enjoy the fresh air…
05 Sunday Mar 2023
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, bouquet, eleven, family, flowers, gone, memories, moments, Ottawa, purple, remembering, time, treat, widow
got a call from the florist Friday, advising they had a delivery for me…
not long after, the doorbell rang and a parcel was handed to me…
when I removed the packaging, I found a beautiful purple vase filled with flowers… what a treat…
they were from the kids in Ottawa… to celebrate my beloved… today will mark eleven years since he left us…
time has flown by and barely moved…
I am going to enjoy these beautiful flowers and take many, many, photos of them as I remember all the wonderful times we had together…
I have been, and continue to be, blessed…
01 Wednesday Mar 2023
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accident, arms, big girl pants, broken, cold, family, grandson, hot tub, Krevco, moments, weather, widow
was on my way downstairs to go out to the hot tub on Friday and heard a loud noise… looked out the window to see one of the two hardcovers laying on the ground… not attached to either side of the tub…
it had slipped out of my grandson’s hands and, in the very cold weather, broke both arms that hold it on…
luckily, after we soaked for a while the two of us were able to set it back where it belonged… no single person hot tubs until it gets repaired, lol, as it will take two of us to open and close the cover…
happily Krevco had some arms available…
we will wait for a warm day to empty the tub, move it to install the arm closest to the house, put it back, connect the second arm, and refill the tub…
fun times, lol…
27 Monday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, fun, iPhone, light, memories, moments, nature, Photography, pictures, red, shadows, sunshine, vase, widow
had some fun with shadow pictures… it reminded me of the great photography class I took with a colleague many years ago… we had so much fun…
the vase looks pretty cool in these photos…
enjoying the afternoon sunshine…
26 Sunday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, family, filler, fixing, moments, porcelain, projects, sanding, sink, stove, Technology, widow
thanks to a suggestion from a friend, we picked up some porcelain filler for the stove and basement pedestal sink…
after sanding, painting, re-sanding, and drying a number of times, the stove looks great… can’t spot the fix unless you get real close and know where to look…
sadly, I forgot to get a before picture…
the sink is taking a bit more time…
but coming along nicely…
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