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…

kitten…

13 Wednesday Apr 2022

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had a sweet visitor recently…

the kids just got a kitten, to go along with their dog…

they came for dinner and brought her with them… gates went up, doors were closed, and plants were protected, lol…

I think she is going to be a climber because she was up on ledges and chairs, lol…

she also had a lovely nap in the sunshine…

she is very cute… reminded me of some of the cats we have had over the years…

feeder-fish…

10 Sunday Apr 2022

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today, my grandson came over and we went to the fish store to pick up food for the goldfish and a couple of filters for the pumps… you read that right… I went shopping;-)…

I ended up buying a ginormous pail of fish food but it is way more cost effective this way… I will fill a number of ziplock bags and pop them into the freezer… won’t be needing more for quite some time, lol…

I also picked up some feeder-fish…

not that I needed more fish, but they were a great size – about the same as the babies when they came into the house in the fall… and were only a dollar each;-)…

there will be a couple of big schools this summer…

tubing…

05 Tuesday Apr 2022

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recently my grandson and I had a conversation about some fun times… two of the things he remembered are below…

one was a tubing trip down the river in Courtenay, BC, where I was knocked off the tube by a tree branch and lost my new hat… everyone but me was quite happy as they hadn’t liked it, lol… he was around seven at the time… I ended up with a bruised leg and a gash on my head… it certainly was something I won’t forget, and apparently neither will he…

the other memory was around a beta fish in a vase that I kept on my desk at one of my workplaces… he has always been interested in fish and is a great collaborator with the goldfish…

so interesting to hear the things he remembers;-)…

luggage…

28 Monday Mar 2022

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up at 3:15 am…

the last of the luggage was at the front door and a quick breakfast was eaten…

in the car by 4:05… dropped her at the airport and drove by the new Western Aviation Museum on my way home… it looked really cool, even at 4:30 in the morning, lol…

back to bed and up at 8:30… texted with her as she waited in Toronto for her connecting flight…

then I returned the den back to normal…