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turns…

23 Wednesday Oct 2024

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spent a few hours in the garden on Sunday working towards getting it put to bed for the winter…

pots went into the shed, the sail was removed, umbrellas came down and were put away, chairs and tables were gathered together in preparation for being covered before the weather turns…

rain barrels were emptied and will be flipped over shortly… just a bit left to do;-)…

and then we are on to the pond🤪…

thrived…

20 Sunday Oct 2024

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another delightful visit to The Leaf…

we arrived around 4:30 pm Thursday and the biomes were nearly empty of people… which was wonderful for us;-)…

it really is astonishing how the plants have thrived since the opening in December 2022…

the Tropical biome is lush with greenery and it was fun to notice changes since I was last there…

then we moved into the Mediterranean biome… for the first time ever, it was very cool…

the Yasuragi display is lovely… we spent quite a bit of time studying the bonsai and noting how old many of them were…

what an amazing art-form…

can’t wait to go back and enjoy this beautiful space…

ingenuity…

17 Thursday Oct 2024

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recently I picked up some frames to use with some dove cards that were just taped to the wall…

it only took us a little while to add nails and get the two bottom ones up…

then we had to use some ingenuity to attach the top one…

I am very pleased with the results;-)…

drapes…

14 Monday Oct 2024

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I’ve been wanting to change the drapes in the den for a while now…

I brought down the ones I wanted from upstairs and went to fetch the step-stool, that was currently in the basement, to get the job done…

my housemate noticed what I was doing and came upstairs…

he, very cleverly, took the rod off off the wall to add the new pieces… they are much lighter and go over the light blocking ones currently hanging there…

I was planning on struggling with them while they were still up on the wall..

how brilliant was he;-)…

cheated…

13 Sunday Oct 2024

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for Thanksgiving dinner we had steak and lobster… enjoyed setting the table a little fancier than normal..

a fun change, and happy to have the steak grilled..

and it was delicious…

as was the cute little half pumpkin pie for dessert, lol…

even cheated and used canned whipped cream, which saved time and energy;-)…

out-of-town…

09 Wednesday Oct 2024

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another wonderful visit to The Leaf… this time with family from out-of-town…

we were there Monday, just after eleven and it wasn’t crowded… we began with a quick walk through the Diversity Gardens…

inside the Tropical Biome, we stopped to visit the three cacao trees, lol…

we had a great time in the Mediterranean Biome checking out the new display – Yasuragi: The Gardens of Japan…

I will be coming again and again to enjoy this serene spot…

from there we had lunch at Gather Craft Kitchen & Bar… delicious, as always…

a visit to the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden, where there were many varieties of butterflies, ended our time before we walked home…

certainly a delightful way to spend the day…

sapling…

08 Tuesday Oct 2024

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well, this was a lovely treat…

I’ve been wanting this sapling alongside of the garage to be cut down for ages…

it seems to get cut down on a fairly regular basis, but then grows back, lol…

now it has been chopped…

the trick will be to see if we can stop the stump from growing more branches, lol…

sprinkler…

05 Saturday Oct 2024

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for the last few weeks I have been annoyed by a sound I could hear on the deck…

it sounded like wood rubbing against something…

I have walked all around, looking and listening with no success as I’ve tried to figure out what it was…

on Friday I asked my housemate if he could figure it out…

it took him all of two minutes to point out the solar floating sprinkler, which was sitting upside down on a corner of the deck, mainly in the shade…

apparently, a bit of it was catching the sun’s rays and causing it to attempt to run, which caused the sound…

it has now been moved into the garage and there is blissful silence on the deck;-)…

Hue…

04 Friday Oct 2024

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during the basement changes the Philips Hue was unplugged…

once we realized that some of the lights weren’t working, it was plugged back in, but it would not start up again…

apparently this does happen, so we ordered a new one…

it arrived on Thursday and my grandson connected it and then had to add all of the units back in, lol…

took a while, but eventually everything was back up… then I added them to the automations and adjusted all their colours… kept having to add more units to the automations, as I remembered which ones were in which…

I was very happy because the lightstrip that runs up the stairs had been off and it has been the nightlight when I am using the stairs at night…

the lightstrip that goes over the fishtanks has been on all the time, so it was good to get it back to being off at night…

I do love technology;-)…