hung…

02 Thursday Nov 2023

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nearly a year ago, my eldest grandson and I began working away in the garage… he has a very organized mind…

a few weeks later, we cleaned out a spot and moved the shelves further along the wall…

the next time we worked in it, after purchasing additional hardware, we attached hooks and hung up a number of garden and winter tools… like items were gathered together and placed on the shelves… we came in when we started to get cold…

we spent another few hours another day working away in the space… more tools were hung on the other side of the space, the garbage bin was filled with broken, unusable items, two boxes were filled with giveaway items and the bench had much more space…

great strides were made each time we were in there and we were able to get the car in when it was home over the winter…

then we didn’t do anything more, because it got warm and the car didn’t need to live inside…

so, maybe it got filled up with other stuff, lol…

over the summer, it was great to be able to find tools without effort…

spare…

27 Friday Oct 2023

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this morning I got up early as I had a dentist appointment and my grandson was going to drive me down before he went to class…

it was dark and there was a lot of snow out there…

I put on a vest, dug out a hat and gloves, and made sure I had cash for the taxi…

it lightened up before we left and I went out to start cleaning off the car… there was easily six or seven inches of snow on it…

made it to my appointment, and when it was done walked to the Delta Hotel to get a taxi…

got a few nice photos of snow-covered trees on the short walk…

as I was riding along in the taxi, I realized that I didn’t have a house key😳…

thankfully, after my beloved died and I was on my own in the house, I put a spare key in the backyard for just such an occasion…

and, I was able to get through the snow and collect it, lol…

I unlocked the door and put the key back before shovelling the front sidewalk and steps and the back deck and hot tub area…

got that adrenaline going, in the taxi, and in the yard;-)…

handwritten…

25 Wednesday Oct 2023

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been having trouble keeping one of the medicine cabinet doors closed for the last few weeks…

I thought it was because the magnet on the mirror was separating from the plastic behind it…

the other morning I looked at it and thought it was no longer level…

at which point I discovered that the plastic where the door attached to the cabinet had broken… it took two of us to remove the broken cabinet…

what a treat to discover my beloved’s handwritten measurements inside the hole🤗…

after measuring the space, it was off to Home Depot to see if we could find something that would fit into the hole in the wall… and of course I needed two, sigh…

we found a cabinet that should work, but the store we were at didn’t have any in stock, so it meant another trip… after trying two other stores it was off to Rona, where we found two of the same cabinet at an even better price;-)…

it has been fourteen years since my beloved installed these cabinets when we redid the bathroom, so I guess it did pretty well, being opened more than ten thousand times, lol… that wasn’t a bad run…

and, just like that we have two new cabinets, although the space inside them is smaller, but they will work fine;-)…

blower…

22 Sunday Oct 2023

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spent the morning in the garden…

we blew out the irrigation system, and put the caps in a clear bag on the side of the fridge so I can see them and remember where they are come spring, lol…

we stacked lawn furniture and got it ready for the tarp which will go over it in the next week or so…

we used the leaf blower to move many of the elm leaves into the flower beds so bugs and other things have a place to over-winter…

we moved flower pots under the deck and into the shed… and took apart the hammock stand to go in there as well…

two umbrellas came down, but because it had rained not long before we started our work, they went into the garage open to dry before making their way to the shelves…

we hooked up one of the bird feeders so I can get to it from the deck once the snow starts…

the pump came out of the bathtub pond and made it into the house, was cleaned and is ready for storage…

phew…

devoted…

21 Saturday Oct 2023

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my grandson has got me devoted to Formula 1 car racing…

a few years back, he used my car to drive to a race in Montreal…

often the races are rather early in the day, so sometimes I end up needing a nap on race day…

today I watched a few hours of cars shooting around a racetrack in Austin, Texas…

I am learning more of the nuances during each race and have been having a good time getting questions answered by my own expert, lol…

I think that my beloved would have enjoyed it as well;-)…

rediscovered…

02 Monday Oct 2023

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took some time to begin the process of changing the living room table display for the fall…

removed the shells that I rediscovered in the spring… I won’t forget where I put them this time (upstairs in the Computer room closet🤪), lol…

I decided to put my camera collection out… I had to move the glass to fit one of them in…

next I printed photos to put in each of the squares… that was a bit of a process between the iPhone, computer, and printer, lol… besides having to choose only sixteen (well, seventeen)…

I’m rather pleased with how it came out;-)…

next change will be glittery things for the holiday season…

staring…

29 Friday Sep 2023

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ordered a second arch a week or so ago when I noticed it was on sale for half price…

it arrived a few days ago and sat there staring at me, lol…

Wednesday afternoon, as the weather was nice, I finally spent the time to put it together… feel like a pro now, after the springtime attempt to put it together;-)…

my grandson managed to set it in place right next to the other one…

next year I will focus on beans, cucumbers, and peas, as well as a ton of morning glories to grow right over it;-)…

50…

15 Friday Sep 2023

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we moved into this house in September of 1973… 50 years ago:-)…

this is rather astonishing to me, lol…

early on, there was a lot of red everywhere, inside and out… then we went to some light pink, gray, and finally to touches of purple…

the garden started out as a grassed square, then a space for a kid swing set, a small pool, a giant sandbox, a two story playhouse, and then plants and ponds…

so many changes, so many memories;-)…

what a life…

impediment…

09 Saturday Sep 2023

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finally the gate area got finished on Sunday… we got up and out early to beat the heat;-)…

a ton of dirt had been dug up, and a big chunk of cement removed a while back, so Sunday the area was levelled out, quarter down was poured and packed down, and blocks were laid where the garbage and recycling bins reside…

this will make it much easier to move them on recycling days;-)…

next, a spring was attached so that the gate will automatically close after being opened… I particularly wanted this as it opens into the lane and could be an impediment to a vehicle driving along…