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16 Sunday Oct 2022

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went outside and flipped the two rain barrels… one in the garden, and the new one next to the front flowerbed…

although we had drained both, they still had water inside, but once they were turned over, it poured out through the screen…

now they are ready for winter, sigh…

I learned a few years ago that not flipping them can cause serious consequences… lucky for me, the bottom of the one in the garden has returned to flat, lol…

sound…

12 Wednesday Oct 2022

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the other day, my Merlin sound app found many different birds inside an hour and a half… even though I didn’t see them all…

what a treat to have confirmation of some of the little birds flitting about the garden…

we are clearly in the middle of migration season…

levelled…

08 Saturday Oct 2022

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sooooo happy…

today, three jobs that have been on the list for ages, got done, thanks to Nathan the Handyperson, and my grandson;-)…

first, the front door sweep got reset and the edging tightened to close up any open spots… happy this took place before the really cold weather… it was first worked on about a year ago and the piece came off early in the spring…

next, the deck got levelled…

it has been sinking more and more over the summer and when they got the underside open, there was the tiniest piece of rotten wood holding it up😳…

we’ve lived here for just over forty-nine years and the deck was probably built at least thirty-five years ago… the top has been replaced once and is still in excellent condition… there was one piece of the frame that had to be replaced, but the rest was in great shape…

the steps to the side garden were removed for the work and then reattached and feel much sturdier now…

and the rail was redesigned, is much more stable, and matches the rail on the other side…

I am so thrilled it has been fixed…

finally, the rotten section on the bathtub pond ledge has been repaired…

back to normal… safe and level;-)…

what a great day;-)…

reusable…

07 Friday Oct 2022

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I’ve been laughing since Wednesday, when my wonderful cleaning crew came and cleaned the house…

I was in the bathroom after they left and realized that they had tossed the box I had been using for my reusable tissues… it was empty because all of the tissues were in the midst of being laundered…

I checked in the recycling bin, but they must have tossed it into the garbage bag and I wasn’t digging through that…

after thinking about it for a while, I opened the end of the actual Kleenex box that was there for anyone else who comes over and popped them into it…

think it should work fine and I will be careful not to let it sit on the shelf empty, lol…

responded…

03 Monday Oct 2022

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my hair went from being fine… to unmanageable, in what felt like a minute, about last Wednesday… I nearly tried out the freshly sharpened scissors, but managed to hold off until this morning when I walked over to Ultracuts to get it dealt with… had to wait for a bit, so went for a walk, rather than sit inside…

the weather was nice, particularly as it was supposed to rain all day…

along the way I spotted some murals and got a nice shot of this one…

pleased with the cut…

on the way home I passed a person and said good morning… it wasn’t until I was a few steps past them that I realized it was one of my neighbours…

I laughed as I thought of how my beloved would have responded… he would have turned back, called out their name, and had a half hour conversation…

I just kept walking, lol…

teabag…

30 Friday Sep 2022

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was talking with someone recently and making tea at the same time…

as I was squeezing the teabag, they mentioned hearing that doing this bruised the tea, which was a bad thing…

made me laugh as I’ve done it forever to get any additional flavour out of the bag before discarding it…

sourdough…

27 Tuesday Sep 2022

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got fresh sourdough bread recently, so decided on toast with peanut butter for breakfast… this is a treat as bread isn’t on the menu very often…

brought down my left-handed cutting board and it reminded me of fun times at Hillside Beach many, many, years ago…

I love how it cuts the bread to the exact size required for the toaster… and then the knife slides into the tray…

we picked this up at one of the Victoria Beach Country Markets and it has cut many loaves of Village Green Bakery bread, lol…

lovely memories…

ensconced…

23 Friday Sep 2022

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well, Wednesday was that day in the garden, sigh…

Hilda the Gardener came by and most of the planters in the front yard and garden were cleaned out…

as an experiment, a few plants which had been in the planters were put into the ground to see if we could reuse them in the spring… and we tried that with the strawberry basket as well…

everything looks tidy and ready for the next seasons…

I am going to miss time spent in the garden although I am so happy with how many days I was ensconced in the space…

there will be many wonderful memories to enjoy during those freezing cold days in the middle of winter…

but for now, here’s hoping for more beautiful days in this magical space;-)…

swallowed…

21 Wednesday Sep 2022

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I got swallowed up in the events around the Queen’s death and eventual funeral…

reminded me of the way I fall into the Olympics, lol… I always want to watch everything as it happens…

the good news is that these days I am able to be up in the middle of the night and sleep during the day if needed…

now to catch up on a bit of missed sleep…