sharpening…

14 Wednesday Sep 2022

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last time we used my hair scissors, my friend advised they had lost their ability to cut, lol…

I’ve been looking for new ones and asking around about getting them sharpened, but with no success…

we’ve started going to the Wolseley Farmers Market and I realized a few days ago that there was a person who sharpened knives… I texted to see if he dealt with scissors and he responded that he did…

I took them with me when we went and he did a great job… he also let me know they were very good ones and would be excellent when he finished sharpening them;-)…

it was interesting to watch his process and see all the steps required to make them good as new…

thanks Bret;-)…

arch…

11 Sunday Sep 2022

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took this shot from the side garden the other day…

it brought to mind how that garden has looked over the years…

it used to be a shade garden and my beloved would wander into it and weed all the time…

after he died the tree that provided the shade was taken down… I ignored this space and for a number of years it was basically a weed patch, yikes…

once Hilda the Gardener came it started to improve and over the last few years we have focussed on it a bit more, lol…

last year we added the file cabinet raised bed and it has worked beautifully…

I am now looking for a garden arch trellis that will go from the raised bed to the wall of the house… it will give the peas and cucumbers a better place to grow on…

I think it will be a great addition once I find it, hopefully by spring…

drywall…

07 Wednesday Sep 2022

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the last few days while my son-in-law was here were focused on the ceiling in the basement where drywall was being reinstalled…

it had been taken down a number of years ago when he installed a Nest thermostat for me on the main floor and new wires had to be run…

it was in the back area and didn’t bother me, but it was on his list to repair…

he did a great job and it looks quite wonderful now…

3M…

06 Tuesday Sep 2022

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my son-in-law completed a ton of big projects while he has been here from Ottawa…

a couple of the littlest ones have made me particularly happy…

I have had an extension cord and a single plug laying on the counter next to the stove and it was a pain… now there is a surge protector held up with 3M strips on the wall… so much tidier and more useful…

in the rolling cabinet that my beloved made, the tracks for the sliding doors kept falling down… now some 3M strips are holding them up where they belong…

little things can make such a big impact…

bacon…

05 Monday Sep 2022

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while he was here we worked at having all the foods my son-in-law has missed…

we’ve had burgers and bacon in many forms… we’ve been to a few favourite places…

we ordered samosas and butter chicken… and had Chinese food…

and then there was Tony Roma’s and Captain’s Table and Dairy Queen;-)…

and a few of my recipes were included, lol…

a delicious two weeks😁…

finished…

04 Sunday Sep 2022

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the kitchen is finished;-)… I am sooooo happy… my son-in-law has done a stellar job…

the ceiling was scraped, primed and painted…

the cabinet doors were removed…

everything came out, was sorted, and lots of things went into boxes to give away…

the doors were primed and painted…

the inside of the upper cupboards (which were red) were given two coats of primer and one coat of paint… I have been dreaming about this for at least the last five years…

the doors and drawers and front of the lower cupboards were painted…

the cutting board and end countertop got a coat of paint along the edges…

new hardware was installed on all the doors..

and the light switch (which works with Google) and new light fixture were added…

everything is bright and back where it belongs and I love it;-)…

tad…

02 Friday Sep 2022

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Wednesday, the kids met us for breakfast and then came by to pick up a few items from the giveaway collection…

while they were here, they pulled down some wayward Virginia creeper along the garage and moved some unsightly cord off the pond bridge…

then they ran over to Nestor’s to get me a shubunkin to add to the pond… there weren’t any available, so they came home with this beauty…

which was a tad bigger than I expected, lol… they all seem to be getting on fine in the school so we are good;-)…

drying…

01 Thursday Sep 2022

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Monday was a bit of a slower day with rain during the morning… we had breakfast out and I put the foodstuff back on the shelves while my son-in-law ran out to get a few things we needed…

then we took everything out of all the bottom cabinets, and while he washed the shelves and removed a few extra shelves in the back of two of them, I went through and set aside items for the giveaway boxes…