crossbody…

12 Sunday Apr 2026

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went to a craft show the other day…

found a crossbody bag which will be excellent for a fall trip that is in the planning stages…

I think it will be perfect for a small water bottle, my camera, and maybe a scarf or sarong…

next I found a beautiful purple plant pot… haven’t quite decided what plant is going to go into it… it is bottom heavy so it won’t tip over and has drainage holes in it…

finally, ordered a cute purple duck tape wallet…

what a fun time;-)…

fishtanks…

11 Saturday Apr 2026

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cleaning the pumps in the fishtanks is not one of my favourite things to do… my beloved took care of this job… then for a number of years, my son-in-law looked after the task, lol…

now, it is up to me…

once I get started it isn’t that big a deal and doesn’t really take that long…

and to top it off this week, I scrubbed the algae from the glass front…

always happy when all the cleaning is complete…

and I think the fish like it as well;-)…

Easter-y…

06 Monday Apr 2026

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for Easter dinner this year, we had barbecued steak, twice-stuffed potatoes, mushrooms, broccoli, and caesar salad…

I’d had great fun the day before, setting the table and adding a few Easter-y details…

dinner was delicious and we had carrot cake to finish it off…

wonderful to have a houseful of young people, lol… and between them the table was cleared and the kitchen cleaned up…

what a treat….

nothing…

05 Sunday Apr 2026

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a while ago, when I opened one of the drawers in the dining room, I realized that the bottom was coming away from the sides…

this had nothing to do with the weight of the dishes in the drawer🤪…

I mentioned it to my middle grandson, who advised he could fix it… he’s been a few times since then, but it finally worked out when he was here yesterday, for Easter dinner…

I had emptied the drawer before he came to help speed along the process…

it took a few trips to the basement for tools and a struggle with warped wood, but he got it fixed…

still waiting to put things back into it, after I remove some of the items that had been in it…

obviously there will be something for the pass-along box;-)…

draft…

04 Saturday Apr 2026

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I often have an afternoon nap in the den…

I’ve found, for most of the winter, that I needed my blanket to be up by my neck because of the draft…

I just figured that the window needed some insulation…

a few days ago, I realized that there was a piece of virginia creeper between the window and the screen… and of course I didn’t take a before picture, lol…

yesterday, my housemate was able to dislodge it and close the window properly…

no draft now…

stairway…

29 Sunday Mar 2026

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while we were out last Sunday I picked up flowers…

when I got home, I spent time putting them into a couple of vases… for whatever reason I wasn’t pleased with how they looked…

late in the week they were finally redone, with one bouquet in the den, one in the bathroom, and one in the bedroom, although it lived on the stairway for a while, lol…

happy to have fresh flowers in the house;-)…

Kaleidoscope…

28 Saturday Mar 2026

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Thursday night I picked up a cute little orchid after we attended the Member Preview of Kaleidoscope at The Leaf…

one of the many benefits of membership is that often there are previews of new displays… always great fun…

this new display is filled with bright, colourful, flowers and lots of crystals… I am looking forward to seeing if they produce rainbows on sunny days;-)…

and the neatest thing is a piece that has three kaleidoscopes on it with a platform of flowers which turn and produce the kaleidoscope effect… such an entertaining time, either looking through the three options or spinning the saucer for others to see…

I am also going to go later in the evening to see everything lit;-)…

the orchid is from the Apothecary display, so it is a lovely reminder of that display…

there is always something new or different every time you walk through the biomes…