arched…

30 Thursday Mar 2023

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well, that was fun;-)…

ordered an arched trellis online and it arrived a few days ago… I was a little worried because the package was taped up a lot and I wondered if all the pieces were going to be inside…

I hadn’t planned to put it together until the snow was gone, but was a bit worried about missing pieces and what I would do if I didn’t sort it out till later…

when it was undone, some of the bags appeared to have been opened and then re-closed… and, there were no instructions…

took a while, but after looking at the information from the link where I bought it, it came together nicely…

currently it is in three pieces… the two sides and the arch… not sure I could get it outside if I join it all together… the final two cross pieces and screws are waiting to finish it up…

might take the pieces out to the garage and finish it, or just wait for the snow in the side garden to melt so I can put it in its new home…

sure hope it fits the way I want…

Paderno…

30 Thursday Mar 2023

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started Thursday morning with a stop at The Butter Tart Lady where we picked up some delicious items… pampushki and sausage rolls…

later we had a lovely wander through Canadian Tire as we had no time constraints… found the cutest hockey tape in rainbow and purple;-)… picked some scrubbies up and then found a new Paderno saucepan to replace one which had started to lose its non-stick coating, and was on sale…

no idea what I will do with the hockey tape, but I’m sure I’ll come up with something, lol…

and the lid from the old saucepan fits on the new pan so will continue to hang on the wall with the pots…. yay…

grow-light…

29 Wednesday Mar 2023

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been working on the seedling project… this is interesting because I had decided not to start any this year, lol…

not long ago I picked up a grow-light and finally got it up in the den…

for the last few weeks I’ve been collecting toilet paper rolls and cutting them down to be seed containers…

spent time putting them in the bins to keep them together, and filling them with soil…

next will be wetting them down so they will be ready for seeds in a week or so…

getting excited for spring and time in the garden…

unique…

26 Sunday Mar 2023

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went to PTE with my theatre buddy and another friend to see Space Girl…

the show was terrific and the set was quite unique… there was a great deal of technology used, which made it even more fun…

ordered a water and paid using technology for the payment system as well…

amazing how this type of technology has improved over the last few years… seems like it is everywhere now;-)…

abalone…

24 Friday Mar 2023

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came across this picture from a trip to Mexico in 2017…

I have loved and collected seashells since I was given an abalone shell when I was young…

this store was amazing;-)…

I have lost the main part of my collection… this is a very old picture from when I was a teenager…

I think these shells may have ended up in the garbage years ago;-(…

now I fill the drawers with a collection of more recently purchased pieces…

it was fun to remember the store and my collection…

Mylio…

23 Thursday Mar 2023

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after some issues with the computer upstairs, it finally connected to the internet so I was able to work on the Mylio photo program I’d purchased a few months ago…

at last, after trying for a long time, it was able to delete duplicates pictures in my computer and laptop… I knew there were a lot and of the 192,000 images, it deleted 98,543…

it took hours, but the process has now been completed…

although, it found a whole bunch more photos… yikes…

going to need to spend some time deleting some of the multiples of various shots…

I am getting better at deleting excess shots right after I take them;-)…

something…

22 Wednesday Mar 2023

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I’ve been having trouble with the computer upstairs… for the last few weeks it kept advising that it wasn’t connected to the internet… tried many things, but nothing seemed to work… the wifi had been coming and going as well…

a few days ago I went to call MTS about my services and thought I should just take a quick look to be sure it was still disconnected…

and, of course, it connected right away, lol…

when I spoke with a technician, they advised they did something while we were on the call and it shouldn’t be a problem anymore…

I guess we will see;-)…

layers…

21 Tuesday Mar 2023

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shovelled a path across the upper deck on Sunday morning… that way I was able to adjust the solar motion sensor… the squirrels had tipped it down on their trips back and forth…

it has been many, many, weeks since the deck had been shovelled… and in that time, the sun has frozen a number of layers so it was a bit difficult to get it cleared…

later in the afternoon I noticed that a lot of the remaining snow where I shovelled had melted away… so I made another pass…

this time I left a bit of snow to melt there…

my photos suggest that it looked like this in March of 2021… hard to believe, lol…

elusive…

19 Sunday Mar 2023

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had a fun time in the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden at The Leaf on Thursday… it wasn’t too cold outside and bright so there was lots of activity…

a fair number of people were in the space and there were many butterflies…

apparently I was enamoured with the orange ones, lol…

this little one sat and offered different poses;-)…

and, of course, I tried to catch the elusive Blue Morpho… there were quite a few of them, but what makes it elusive is that you need to catch it in flight to capture the blue colour, lol… but I did get a partial shot;-)…

at least you can see some of the blue…

spending time in this space sure does make me happy;-)…

wall…

18 Saturday Mar 2023

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had another great visit to The Leaf on Thursday…

we arrived about 10:45 am and it felt like we walked into a wall of moisture… clearly the humidity level has gone up considerably since we were last here…

there were a good number of people in the space, but it didn’t feel crowded…

the waterfall is still spilling into the walkways, but it seemed at a lesser degree…