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Leclerc…

05 Sunday Jun 2022

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I was sitting on the back deck reading on Saturday, after doing some weeding, and heard a car in the driveway…

a friend was running errands nearby and stopped in for a quick visit…

then we went to Leclerc Greenhouses for a spot of plant shopping;-)…

as time goes on, I am feeling a little more comfortable about going out and about…

I found a hanging basket, some alyssum, a trailing tomato that goes in a basket and a couple of other small plants…

once I arrived back home, I hung up the basket, planted the fuchsia, ivy and tomato… but still have to decide where the alyssum is going to go…

lovely treat;-)…

rehanging…

30 Monday May 2022

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the rain helped me get a few jobs done around the house…

I’ve been putting off rehanging the curtains in the den and I finally got that done…

I also put the Dyson back together… my grandson had taken it apart and washed a filter inside… who knew there was one there… and now it works… yay…

even the living room windows were happy and they are lovely and shiny clean…

nice to check a few things off the list;-)…

expedition…

28 Saturday May 2022

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what a busy day we had on Thursday… didn’t even have time for a nap, although I did manage a short sit down in the garden before my grandson arrived…

he and I spent the day getting jobs done around the yard, and even a few in the house…

we ran out and were able to get all the necessary items at Canadian Tire, so it was a one stop shopping expedition…

things came out of and went into the shed… leaking hoses were repaired… an irrigation system semi-installed… pots moved… trellises put into a planter that had a bit of paint touch up done… and the fire pit problem solved…

what a treat it is to spend time with him… I try to savour every minute;-)…

bike…

26 Thursday May 2022

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on Tuesday, my grandson arrived with his bike in the back of the car…

he had spent hours over the weekend getting the inside and outside of Indi cleaned for me…

I had spent the morning finding space in the garage so that she would fit as she has returned home… very exciting…

looking good…

test…

25 Wednesday May 2022

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started my day with a Duo call from the kids in Ottawa… they have been without power since the wild storm on Saturday…

they were at the Canadian Science and Technology Museum testing wifi as she had a video meeting… the Museum is just a short walk from their house, has plugs all around the outside of the building (technology), and the wifi gave an excellent video call, so that was very handy… I was the test for the meeting, lol…

while they waited for the phones to charge she was teaching him how to play Rummy… it was the card game we played for hours as we sat in the hospital with my mom as she was dying… we laughed about him needing to know how to play when they sit at my deathbed… way in the future…

we talk most days, but don’t often video call… it is always lovely to see their beautiful faces… and it was fun to show them the garden…

wonderful way to begin the day…

protection…

14 Saturday May 2022

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spent time out and about recently, shopping…

my grandson arrived with breakfast from McDonald’s… and his laundry…

after eating, and getting a load into the washer, we headed out to Rona looking for a repair kit for the hose that goes to the pond…

after a bit of fun there… and a few plants… we moved on to Costco… found more plants…

and some pants, all of which had pockets;-)…

throughout the day the laundry got done and a few projects as well… unfortunately, not the hose as it was smaller than normal hoses…

popped all the plants in the garage for the night for their protection… will bring them out into the sunshine on nice days until time to plant…

using the soil we picked up, I filled the pots in the shade garden so they are ready for veggie seeds…

wonder when that might be…

moving…

13 Friday May 2022

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well, the big excitement is that the fish are now in their summer home…

my grandson didn’t have any difficulty catching them, although he did mention that some of them were fast, lol…

we got some great photos of them sliding into the water…

the water lilies also made it into the pond… this is their third year…

I am pleased that they have overwintered well;-)… hoping they will produce flowers again this summer…

debris…

06 Friday May 2022

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it has been a long, but productive, day and the weather has been amazing, around 22 Celsius…

I brought out the pump for the pond, hooked it up to a different hose and used it to empty the water… it doesn’t take too long with the big hose…

thanks to a great idea that my grandson had last year, I used the wet vac to suck up leaves and debris from the bottom… eventually I put on my water shoes, climbed in and got the last bits out…

I attached the pump to the waterfall and placed all the rocks back to hide it, hoping that there wouldn’t be any leakage, lol…

then ran the hose across the garden and filled the pond up… it took just over an hour and I finally plugged in and turned the pump on…

and it worked;-)… with no leaks…

we also got the hammock out and assembled, put up three umbrellas, and moved two of the chairs for the back deck out from the shed…

spent the whole day outside… how blessed am I…

restaurant…

19 Tuesday Apr 2022

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today, I went to a restaurant… first time in over two years…

I wasn’t sure how I would feel… whether I’d be nervous or stressed out, lol… happily I didn’t feel either of those things…

we arrived and there were few people in the space, so that was good…

we were seated near the windows and watched many geese fly up and over the building…

our server, one of my favourites, was masked and pleasant… after breakfast I ordered a beet salad and some falafels to have for my lunch…

it was nice to do something semi-normal…

a bit later in the day a friend dropped by with a beautiful handmade birthday card and we had a brief chat on the steps…

a bit of shovelling, a nap, and reading took up the rest of the day…

portal…

14 Thursday Apr 2022

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technology is a wonderful thing…

a while ago I gathered all my donation documents and printed them so I would have them ready to go with my tax documentation…

then I got a notice reminding me I could upload everything to their portal…

after that I had to consult with my computer geek to sort out where scans went once they made it past the printer, lol… he even put a link on my desktop so I would be able to find them, lol…

I scanned and named all of the pieces of information… at last I got everything uploaded and then waited…

before long I heard back by email that there were documents for me to review…

once I’d reviewed, signed and scanned them, I uploaded them to the portal…

and before you know it my taxes had been submitted…

always makes me think of how tax time was so stressful for my beloved and how much easier it is now to get them done…