tags…

12 Sunday Dec 2021

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what a lovely day…

my grandson came over with a bunch of things I’d asked for…

one of which was this cute tree pillow to go with the Joy pillow from the other day…

we had a delicious lunch of roast chicken, potatoes, gravy and carrots…

a lovely visit and off he and Indi went…

then I spent time wrapping a number of presents… such fun… and I used some of my recent Happy Mail for Chocolate Lovers gift tags…

those tags have come in very handy;-)…

joyful…

11 Saturday Dec 2021

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today there was extra joy;-)…

one of my gifts from Happy Mail for Chocolate Lovers was the smallest gift tag with the word joy cut out…

and a bit later the Joy pillow I ordered online arrived… it is exactly what I was hoping for…

it was lucky that I looked out the window as two parcels were sitting on the step… no one rang the doorbell or knocked…

the second was a gift from my kids for me… I will wrap the box up tomorrow and put it under the tree;-)…

the day was joyful…

squirrel-proof…

09 Thursday Dec 2021

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put up a new window feeder which is open in the back so that it is clearer to see the birds stopping by…

once it was up I went and got some seeds from the garage and also went to fill the “squirrel-proof” feeder…

the seeds basically went right through because they had eaten the plastic pieces so there was nothing to keep them inside…

they are serious about getting those seeds and there are often a couple of them discussing who gets the snacks, lol…

rather sad because that was a new feeder purchased this past summer;-(…

topple…

08 Wednesday Dec 2021

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the other day, four trucks took over the street…

I went to look out the window to see what was going on and discovered they were cutting down one of the elm trees on the boulevard…

I watched most of the process…

they had a bucket and the person in it cut down the small branches at the top and they moved it down bit by bit… between cuts, people on the ground gathered up the pieces and put them through the chipper…

finally they put a rope around what was left and there were a number of final cuts as they tried to pull the last 20 feet of it over…

it took quite a few tries to get it to topple over and the ground shook when it landed…

another hole in the sky…

beat…

03 Friday Dec 2021

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last week I put lights around the front windows…

it has been an interesting process as I used duct tape… sadly I’ve had to continuously press the tape back on as it doesn’t really want to stick…

anyway, after I finished I wanted some pictures so I put on my jacket, but left my slippers on as I was only going to be on the sidewalk…

once the pictures were taken I went to open the door and it wouldn’t… my heart skipped a beat as I stood there – in my slippers…

I tried a few times, but it just would not open… by chance I turned the handle up which was the opposite direction than normal and it opened… whew…

talked to my son-in-law, who suggested WD40, but that didn’t work… had to put a note on the door, lol…

my grandson and I picked up a new handle and he was able to change it without a problem…

a tiny piece of plastic broke off which is what caused the issue…

happy to have it working properly again;-)…

bonbons…

02 Thursday Dec 2021

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last year I had a great advent calendar and when it was finished I saved the wooden box it came in…

Canadian Chocoholic made inserts for it and mine came last week… it took me a good portion of an afternoon to construct the paper drawers… lots of folding and bending, lol…

my grandson took the calendar to Decadence Chocolates and Helen filled it with her bonbons…

got it back yesterday and had my first bonbon… yum…

what a lovely treat;-),,,

dicey…

29 Monday Nov 2021

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yesterday a good friend stopped by with a few items from a fundraiser…

there were two beautiful poinsettias and a swag…

after our visit the swag went up on the front door… looks good there…

hope it stays up… the swags don’t have any fasteners on the back so it is always dicey to get them up and looking great…

the poinsettias found homes in the dining and living rooms…

now to see if I can keep them alive through Christmas;-)…

sliding…

27 Saturday Nov 2021

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this morning the snowploughs came down the street and filled in the sidewalk and left a bit of snow in the driveway…

they also ploughed a big slice of my grass so that the fire hydrant is accessible… it will be interesting to see how it looks in the spring…

something I’ve learned over the last few years is that it needs to be shovelled as quickly as possible, so that it doesn’t turn into a solid lump of ice which can’t be moved…

I had finished the end of the sidewalk and was just starting on the bottom of the driveway when my grandson arrived and finished it off…

everything was icy… it had rained a bit last night and then froze so the cement was slick…

I was happy that he finished the driveway because my boots were slip sliding away…

but it was all done in a short time and hopefully the ice will melt over the next day or so… if it doesn’t I have a supply of ice melter that I can put on the ground…