rebuilt…

28 Tuesday Sep 2021

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the umbrella for the fancy rocking lawn chair/lounger went in to be rebuilt as the fabric had disintegrated, lol…

the chair has been without the umbrella since spring…

I had been looking around for ages and was very happy that Murray Tent and Awning was able to do the job…

my grandson picked it up and brought it here yesterday so I was excited to put it up this morning…

it took a while to figure out how to get the ribs back into it, but eventually I sorted it out… lots of bending and stretching, lol…

it looks great… the colour goes well with the cushion and the other items in the garden…

I am very pleased;-)…

mound…

25 Saturday Sep 2021

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had a great time with Hilda the Gardener this afternoon…

we discussed plans for the next month or so, and for the spring…

she moved some soil for me and I finished filling up the new raised bed…

she also brought the mandevilla up onto the deck… it will be coming into the house before too long..

she moved baby’s breath, silver mound and milkweed to what I hope will be better spots…

and removed some of the weeds in the side garden…

it always makes me happy to see the difference once she’s been here…

ballot…

20 Monday Sep 2021

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I received my vote by mail ballot at the end of August…

once I knew who was running in my area I filled in the ballot with the first and last name of the person I decided on and filled all of the various envelopes being sure to follow all the directions…

eleven days ago I gave the envelope to my wonderful mail carrier who dropped it into the mail for me…

think I have now voted in all the ways you can, lol… at the polling station, at an advance poll, and now by mail…

driveway…

19 Sunday Sep 2021

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the last of the soil has been moved… it feels like the driveway has been covered in dirt for months…

at last the driveway is back to its usual state…

now I just need to mow the grass along the edge, lol…

makes me so happy to have it tidy again…

building…

15 Wednesday Sep 2021

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I’ve spent the last two days building a coffee table… well, putting it together, lol…

I’ve been thinking I would like one where the top lifted so that I could work more easily on my laptop as well as use it to put my plate on when I am eating in the den…

I spotted one a few weeks ago and decided to order it… yesterday, it arrived, in a flat box… it hadn’t said anything about that when I ordered it but I figured this is how it would arrive…

I learned, after about 45 minutes and some YouTube videos, how to change the bit on the cordless drill… I learned that a rubber mallet is a handy tool, and I shouldn’t get rid of it… I learned to read between the lines when following picture directions… I also learned that it isn’t likely going to work out perfectly the first time…

but, after two days, and a lot of putting in and taking out of screws, I have a table that I am very happy with…

I’ve been thinking how my beloved would have had it together in a short time, and also how proud of me he would be…

balloons…

05 Sunday Sep 2021

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woke up and watched half an hour of FMG balloons taking off from the Gatineau Airport…

brought back such wonderful memories… our first flight took five tries in 2013 but when we finally made it, it was spectacular…

that flight was from the grounds of the Festival…

in 2014, we made it the very first time and ended up taking off from the same airport as I watched the liftoff online…

the Festival happens on the September long weekend and I am hoping to make it there again… someday;-)…

crossword…

01 Wednesday Sep 2021

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the cleaners were here today and while they were inside the house, I was in the garden on the back deck spending time with googly finding the answers to the Happy Mail for Chocolate Lovers crossword that I received in an email mid-August;-)…

it was fun learning new facts about the various places where cacao grows…

earbuds…

13 Friday Aug 2021

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received my new earbuds…

two or three weeks ago my pretty Samsung Earbuds just stopped working… all of a sudden they wouldn’t pair with my phone… of course they were not under warranty… the service department suggested I have them repaired locally but the local people advised they would have to send them away… it was going to cost $55 if they sent them away and I decided not to have them repaired… and it wasn’t clear how much the repair might cost…

I thought about it for quite a while and did a ton of research before deciding on these ones…

I want them mainly for phone calls which meant there weren’t that many options and ones that would be comfortable in my ears…

I finally ordered them on Wednesday, and they were delivered on Friday;-)…

they were easy to pair with my iPhone and music sounds good…

will have to see how they are on phone calls…

wish me luck;-)…

rainfall…

13 Friday Aug 2021

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Sunday to Wednesday life was very busy…

Sunday, a friend, her husband and daughter came over for lunch… the garden looked beautiful and we had a lovely visit…

lunch was a delightful collection of goodies from Pho Hoang… everything was tasty…

on Monday morning I had an early meeting in the garden and the rain held off just long enough for us to finish…

Tuesday morning, when I woke up after the storm in the night, I discovered that the hibiscus and dahlia planters were both tipped over from the strong wind… when I looked at the neighbour’s yard I discovered a large branch had fallen right next to their house… thankfully, nothing was damaged…