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30 Thursday Nov 2023

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last spring the doorknob on the garage door seized up… the door hadn’t been closing properly for a long time as it had shifted… I’d been using a bungee cord to close it from the outside for ages, lol…

I had done research on how to remove the doorknob, but no matter what I did, couldn’t get it off the door…

eventually my neighbour came over and removed it although he had to hammer it off in the end, lol…

since then the bungee cord has been the way to keep the door closed…

I need a new door, but that didn’t make the project list this year, so I hadn’t done anything about fixing this…

last week we were at the hardware store, picked up a new doorknob, and on Monday while I was visiting with my friends, my grandson installed it…

woohoo…

disco…

27 Monday Nov 2023

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the Christmas boxes came out from under the staircase last Sunday… the goal is to reduce the size of the collection as each box is gone through…

Monday, the snow people were moved into the den… they look very cute in there… none were disposed of…

Tuesday, a great number of glass balls were hung in the dining room window… this involved separating ones which had been hung together previously and then hanging them individually… took some time, but came out nicely I think…

Wednesday, more ornaments were put up with the pottery and some of the most beautiful ones were hung on the dining room chandelier…

Thursday was about reindeer and sleighs… and even some snowflakes…

Friday involved the tree… it is filled with purple, silver and glittery ornaments… quite different from my usual choices…

there are lots of little disco balls on it and the ceiling and walls were quite sparkly as the sun shines through the window;-)…

I have been enjoying the process of focussing on one item each day and taking my time completing the decorating…

I did decide to give away some blue and red ornaments and a few wreaths, lol…

way to go me;-)…

plunge…

23 Thursday Nov 2023

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last week a big black tub landed on the deck…

a few days later, in the evening, it got filled up with water…

then a cover went over it… and a heater to keep the temperature at 5° Celsius was added…

now, after a shower, someone uncovers the tub and sits in it for 3 minutes, which seems like a long time, lol…

this is what I spotted this morning;-)…

I am going to give it a try on a Sunday morning… wish me luck…

F1…

21 Tuesday Nov 2023

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I had a nap in the afternoon and went to bed a little early Saturday night so I could get up to watch the F1 race from Las Vegas… usually the races are much earlier in the day, but this was a night race…

set my alarm for midnight and got up without a problem…

found a snack and drink and curled up in bed to watch the race…

stayed awake the entire time and enjoyed the action…

then I may have slept in a bit, lol…

father…

19 Sunday Nov 2023

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I don’t always remember, but first thing yesterday I realized it would have been my dad’s birthday…

my father was a special person and although he’s been gone a very long time, I still miss him…

a bit later in the day his picture came up in my Facebook memories…

this photo was taken not too long before his death…

WREN…

11 Saturday Nov 2023

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I’ve been thinking of my mom a lot in the last few days…

she spent the last months of her life at Princess Elizabeth Hospital, in the final stages of esophageal cancer…

I was blessed with the time to be able to spend those final days with her…

they were hard but so important…

she was a WREN during WWII, a survivor of mental illness, a caregiver for her husband, a poet, a proud Legion and Army and Navy member, and a participant in the organizing of the Women’s War Memorial by the Legislature…

she was strong, but it took me many years to really understand that;-)…

cheery…

09 Thursday Nov 2023

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the plants in the basement were not doing well, so they were moved upstairs…

they, along with some others that had been on the dining room table, moved into the den…

it looks like a garden in there now;-)… a lovely cheery location to start the day…

reach…

08 Wednesday Nov 2023

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it was overcast, but not too cold on Saturday, so I went out and was able to fill all the bird feeders…

even the one that I won’t be able to get to before too long, as the snow will make it difficult or impossible to reach, lol…

then I spent half an hour shovelling the driveway…

my grandson had done it awhile ago, but there were icy tire tracks on the slope so I broke them up and tossed the bits to the sides…

the next day my hamstrings and butt were a bit sore from all the bending as the metal shovel I was using was short, lol…

I will be happy when the tires get changed in a few weeks, but now the slope won’t be difficult to get up;-)…

rafters…

04 Saturday Nov 2023

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we were back in the garage last weekend and spent an hour reorganizing…

we planned to spend another few hours to make enough space to get the car inside, particularly as we have tons of snow already…

we did spend another focussed time in the space… this time all of the stuff that was in the rafters came down to be sorted…

there is a ton of wood and other items on the floor now, in various piles… for garbage, giveaway, and a small pile to keep… but the space above is cleared out and ready for whatever needs to go back up there…

no room for the car just yet…