19 Friday Aug 2022
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one of today’s projects was to change the water in the hot tub…
started this morning… brought out the sump pump, hooked up a hose and then relaxed for an hour as it emptied out the water…
the next step was to wipe everything down and then use the wet vac to suck up the last of the water and grunge…
after I put away the vac, I spent another bit of time filling up the hot tub…
now I am waiting for the temperature to make it to the 102°C that I keep it at in the summer…
16 Tuesday Aug 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, bread, flowers, garden, gladiola, moments, nature, purple, shopping, treat, widow, Wolseley Farmers Market
went to the Wolseley Farmers Market with a friend and had a great time…
came home with a bag filled with beans, peas, green onions, a zucchini, baby potatoes, garlic, bread, a mushroom galette, and a beet and pesto treat…
and two gorgeous stalks of purple gladiola;-)…
14 Sunday Aug 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, camera, drill, garden, learning, moments, nature, pond, shim, Technology, widow
moved the backyard wifi camera down a bit… also put a shim in so that it points down a touch more…
now it gets a little more of the area in front of the pond… may see critters as they wander past the pond, lol…
getting quite handy with the drill… no trouble to remember how to have it reverse when taking out the screw;-)…
what a pro…
13 Saturday Aug 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, change, happy, moments, paper towel, reuse, roll, transition, trying, widow
so pleased…
in January, 2020, after a visit with the kids in Ottawa, I put the paper towel roll away in the cupboard and began using cloth instead in an effort to reuse and not waste…
I replaced that roll in March of 2021… that was fourteen months…
yesterday I used the last piece from that roll… that is sixteen months;-)… doing better…
the old cloth napkins, face cloths and finger towels have worked beautifully and wash very well… and they were all extras that were in drawers around the house…
today I put a new roll in the cupboard and will see how long this one lasts…
I have been surprised at how easy the transition has been…
just a small change, but it makes me happy…
12 Friday Aug 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, display, impossible, moments, Technology, time, widow
my Fitbit has been nearly impossible to read for the last while, so I went online and found directions to reset it, which was supposed to fix the problem…
followed the directions but it didn’t make any difference…
dug out my old one and charged it and added it in the app and happily it is working, even saved my steps… and I can see it, lol…
hope it lasts for a while…
11 Thursday Aug 2022
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big girl pants, birthday, blessed, Blizzards, Dairy Queen, dinner, family, food, grandson, moments, treat, widow, zucchini
had the kids over for dinner…
we had steak and zucchini, which they barbecued…
mushrooms that my grandson cooked, even though it was his birthday;-)…
salad as well as twice stuffed potatoes, which I made;-)…
everything was delicious and we all enjoyed it…
then we went for blizzards…
I haven’t had one for many years and it was delicious… I ate more than half of it before putting the rest in the freezer, lol…
05 Friday Aug 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, bouquet, family, flowers, moments, subscription, travelling, widow
I’ve been enjoying my flower bouquets…
last week’s is still doing rather well in the living room…
and this week’s has been travelling around with me in the garden…
such a wonderful treat;-)…
03 Wednesday Aug 2022
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I’ve been enjoying my time reading in the garden…
the one issue has been a lack of steps, lol…
recently, I’ve set a timer for twenty minutes of reading and then five minutes of walking, either around the garden or in the spot…
I’ve had some success with a few days of over ten thousand steps… which makes me happy…
now there is no guilt whatsoever about spending the entire day reading😊…
26 Tuesday Jul 2022
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, camera, garden, handyperson, install, magnetic, moments, proud, Technology, widow
getting to be quite the handyperson;-)…
I’m happy with the placement of the wireless camera but wanted to put back the metal section of the barbecue table as it is bright red and a bit obtrusive looking…
I found a small metal piece in the garage, pulled out the drill, and screwed it to the deck… then the magnet on the camera stuck to it perfectly…
works well and I will still be able to bring the camera into the house come winter…
looks good… way to go me…
24 Sunday Jul 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, light, moments, motion sensor, nature, pond, raccoons, solar, stormed, Technology, weather, widow
ordered some solar motion sensor lights for the garden last Wednesday…
wasn’t sure if they would work, but was hopeful they would frighten the raccoons away…
they arrived on Monday and were easy to install… one went at the edge of the bridge and the other is set on the top of the deck…
was so excited that night when they worked… happily it had been sunny all day…
the next night it stormed and they were on most of the time as the wind was blowing all the leaves and floating plants around when the rain wasn’t pouring down…
will see how they work when the raccoons stop by again…
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