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16 Friday Jul 2021

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I was laying on the bed upstairs yesterday watching the end of a movie when I heard a huge clap of thunder…

jumped up and ran outside to put away the cushions… I don’t like it when they get wet and they were on all of the chairs…

almost got the last ones into the garage when the downpour began… I stood in the garage doorway and watched rain and hail pelt down for a while and then, when it slowed down a little, made it into the house…

all of the windows were wide open as well as the screen door, but luckily only the kitchen and bedroom had issues…

had to take up the rug at the door and wipe up the water in the kitchen… the other rooms were pretty good… thankfully, the blinds were down in the bedroom so the water only came in a bit in one corner of the frame… once I wiped it up it didn’t take long to dry…

it remained overcast for a while, but then the sun came out and it was beautiful…

brought Barbie the barbecue out and grilled a steak for my dinner to go along with the potato salad I had made earlier in the day…

then I sat on the deck and read;-)… crazy weather…

tall…

12 Monday Jul 2021

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my plan was to put morning glories all around the garden and that has worked out nicely…

there are some in the planters right when you walk into the garden, there are some in various pots, there are some in the garden by the pond, although they haven grown up the obelisk just yet, lol…

there are even some in a pot by the pond that I didn’t even plant…

there are also a few in the grass but so far I haven’t seen any flowers…

I am most hoping for more in the large pot on the deck with the tall obelisk in it… I thought they would grow up it and make a beautiful showy display…

but I planted a dahlia in that planter as well and currently it is hiding most of them;-(… although that is the first of the dahlias to have buds form;-)…

carton…

06 Tuesday Jul 2021

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for my birthday I received an egg carton with four little eggs of wildflower seeds to plant…

I started two in a pot I had and they are starting to bloom;-)…

no idea what any of them are, but these are lovely little cuties… I’ve also got some sweet little bachelor buttons…

wonder what else will flower;-)…

leak…

05 Monday Jul 2021

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silly waterfall continues to leak so I am now turning it off at night…

it had been working perfectly until I fell in and messed it up…

the nights are much quieter…

between it and watering the grass every day my water bill is going to be a bit high, lol…

tonight as I was doing a final walk through, I heard running water and realized that water was pouring out of the neighbour’s hose… gave them a quick call and they were able to get it stopped…

relations…

01 Thursday Jul 2021

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today…

I signed a petition…

read a book – 21 Things You May Not Know About The Indian Act... one of the Appendices included the 94 recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada…

put orange sarongs on both doors (the only orange I have)… they darkened the space, so every time I walked by them I was reminded of my focus for today…

listened to “A Day to Listen”… yesterday I heard a few of them on the radio, but today took the time to hear all of them…

made donations to The Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack Fund and Indigenous Residential School Survivors Society…

thought long and hard about what we/I must continue to do to make right relations…

although it was a new and sad way to spend Canada Day, I learned a great deal… and I will not forget…

vaccinated…

26 Saturday Jun 2021

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Wednesday was a busy day…

got the bathtub pond up and running…

then climbed into the main pond to clean out the pump…

after lunch my son-in-law and middle grandson came by… one levelled the waterfall stone so that water doesn’t leak out and need to be replaced as much… he also spread soil in the front, filled containers and tidied up the dirt pile…

the other mowed and whipper snipped the front and garden, including along the lane (sometimes we forget about that area)… he also helped with the soil cleanup…

they left, and the oldest grandson arrived to take me downtown where I got vaccinated for the second time;-)… as a treat we got ice cream cones on the way home;-)…

once home he changed a leaky hose and carried many boxes of books to the front step for pickup… we put them in plastic bags because they weren’t being picked up until Friday, but were too heavy for me to move, lol…

really was a busy one…

bathtub…

23 Wednesday Jun 2021

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on Sunday, I spent the majority of the day working on the bathtub pond…

started out emptying it with the watering jug… realized that was going to take too long and would be difficult to get as the water went down, so I used the shop vac instead…

as it filled with water I scooped it out and used it to water the grass seedlings around the garden…

then the shop vac sucked up a million sunflower seeds along with Virginia creeper remnants…

eventually I got in and removed the rocks and plant and also trimmed back some of the Virginia creeper… nice to have it cleaned up;-)…

ordered a new pump for this pond and waited a few days for it to arrive…

this morning I filled up the tub with water and got the new pump working… it is going to be excellent and shouldn’t get plugged up…

next, I think a few feeder fish might go into it…

hose…

16 Wednesday Jun 2021

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I am loving my new hose…

it reaches to the front step with ease and I can also get to all the plants and pots in the shade garden as well…

lots of room to get to each of the hanging baskets to give them a drink…

I’ve been having fun trying different routes with it, to see which ones I like the best…

and it barely takes up any room when it is put away… unlike the old one which wouldn’t hang properly as it had a mind of its own, lol…

yay…

functioning…

12 Saturday Jun 2021

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Thursday was a disaster technology wise…

I was wondering if the power had gone off during the night, but the dishwasher, which usually tells me with a big PF, didn’t display that…

my Nikon wouldn’t connect to my phone… no matter what I did, sigh…

my Geeni cameras, on the garage and in two rooms to look out the front and into the garden, would not work… I tried the usual unplug and replug technique, which had no effect…

my smart home plugs weren’t functioning either and none of the usual solutions worked…

someone suggested the new moon was the issue…

so I gave up on technology for the day, hoping a miracle would happen and everything would work on Friday;-)…

of course that didn’t happen… I went downstairs and unplugged the router, waited a bit and plugged it back in…

then there is the patience factor as it takes a while for all the little lights to light up and get happily blinking….

that didn’t fix everything, so I went upstairs and did the same with the second router…

and… finally everything was working… shhhh…

readings…

10 Thursday Jun 2021

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had an appointment with the doctor on Tuesday as he wasn’t thrilled with the blood pressure readings I was giving him on our last phone call…

he had suggested that I have my meter recalibrated, but when I contacted the company they advised it was so old they didn’t support it any longer…

I bought a new one and took it with me to see him…

my blood pressure was still high on my machine, but was good on the one in the office… I had to adjust where it sat on my arm and will hope I get it right going forward…

all in all, it was a good appointment and the meds don’t need to be changed…

the really good news is I only have to take it a few times a month;-)…