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coneflower…

03 Thursday Jul 2025

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the coneflower has finally bloomed… this one was planted on the south side of the house, next to the furnace vents… I think this is a much better spot than the pergola garden…

whenever the hose has been put out it has gotten water and has been growing nicely since it was planted…

not too long ago it produced a bud and it has slowly been opening over the last few weeks…

the petals still need to bend completely, but it is looking pretty good now;-)…

seeing it reminds me of how every year I would buy one, we’d plant it in the garden, and then in the spring my beloved would pull it out thinking it was a weed, lol…

memories 😉…

gyro…

26 Thursday Jun 2025

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big girl pants, blessed, family, food, Gather Craft Kitchen & Bar, gyro, housemate, lunch, moments, treat, widow, wrap

had lunch at Gather and it was delicious…

I had the gyro…

and it was very tasty;-)…

my housemate had the wrap and enjoyed it immensely…

both meals were filling and reasonably priced…

as always, it felt like a treat to be there…

sand…

09 Monday Jun 2025

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my middle grandson came over Sunday to help replace the carpet on the front steps… of course it poured so that didn’t happen…

instead he did a final sand of the drywall in the laundry area and gave it two coats of paint…

what a difference it makes, and it looks so fresh with the white paint…

today we put everything back… those dressers were heavy…

sander…

08 Sunday Jun 2025

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big girl pants, blessed, fountain, garden, grandson, moments, nature, peeling, planter, purple, sander, Technology, weather, widow

finally used my housemate’s electric sander to remove the majority of the peeling blue paint from what had been a fountain…

eventually it turned into a planter, but started peeling like crazy…

it has been sitting under the deck, where I could ignore it, for quite some time…

didn’t take too long once I got going to sand it down so it can be painted…

I do love purple, but the sun changes it to blue over time… still not quite sure what colour it is going to be… hmmm…

brakes…

04 Wednesday Jun 2025

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big girl pants, blessed, brakes, car, family, garage, happy, Indi, moments, service station, Sturgeon Automotive, Technology, Uber, widow

my housemate took the car in this morning for new front brakes… we are trying out a garage that a friend recommended…

it took about four hours and then we got the call it was ready…

he had gone to work, so I ordered my first Uber to go and pick it up…

it came in about three minutes, was clean, and the driver was dressed professionally… seven minutes got me there…

the estimate and final bill for the new brakes matched and the car drives well… the brakes don’t feel any different…

happy to have found this new service station which is closer than Toyota;-)…

puddling…

01 Sunday Jun 2025

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big girl pants, blessed, deck, family, garden, grandson, leak, moments, muscle, pond, problem, puddling, repair, shopping, water, weather, widow

the pond has continued to leak but we thought we had the problem figured out…

water seemed to be puddling under a UV clarifier which was installed in the pond at the beginning, but which never accomplished its job and has been unplugged for a number of years…

we picked up a piece to connect the two hoses together and with a lot of cutting and muscle, were able to disconnect it entirely… so happy, thinking the problem had been solved…

turned the pump back on and watched water still coming out where the hose goes under blocks and the deck…

so, the issue appears to be that the six or seven feet of hose from the pump to the waterfall needs to be replaced… we are considering ways to accomplish this, which may involve removing a good sized piece of the deck to get at it, sigh…

and so it goes…

acclimate…

31 Saturday May 2025

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acclimate, big girl pants, blessed, fern, garden, hibiscus, housemate, indoor, Japanese Maple, mandevilla, moments, move, nature, plants, shade, weather, widow

I (and possibly my housemate) have been bringing out the indoor plants slowly, but surely…

first to come out was the Japanese maple… right now it’s sitting on the ledge that’s mostly shaded, for a few days…

next out came the hibiscus, and it went to the back under the trees, again where it’ll get shaded for the next few days before moving to its final spot…

orchids came out and filled up the little plant stand at the back, looks very cute with the begonias…

brought out a fern and another plant which I can’t remember the name of, that did really well in the top of the rain barrel, so we’ll see how that goes…

when the mandevilla comes out, it is going to sit along the path to the side garden to acclimate…

the lemon tree is still in the house… haven’t quite figured out where it’s gonna go and maybe a few other plants from in there are gonna come outside… we will see…

Victoria…

27 Tuesday May 2025

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big girl pants, blessed, family, housemate, Indi, moments, summer, tires, Victoria, weather, wheels, widow

on Victoria Day, my housemate changed the tires on Indi…

it was well past the time to get the summer ones on…

unfortunately, it took a long time as the tires didn’t want to leave the car…

getting the jack in just the right place to be able to work on the back tires took a minute…

eventually, three of the four were replaced, but the fourth one did not want to cooperate… luckily a neighbour came over and between he and my housemate it finally came off…

now she loves lovely with her summer wheels;-)…

vanished…

26 Monday May 2025

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big girl pants, blessed, bridge, condo, family, garden, goldfish, happy, moments, nature, pond, vanished, weather, widow

recently we purchased some feeder fish and popped them into the pond… they vanished under the bridge and weren’t seen again, lol…

a few days ago, the fish were caught and brought out to the pond from their indoor condo … my housemate has very little trouble catching them in the tanks…

once the pail was outside, he waited patiently for me to get out there to take the before, during, and after photos, lol…

they, too, went right under the bridge, but by the next afternoon, they were swimming all around the pond and enjoying a snack…

so happy to have them outdoors again;-)…

housing…

24 Saturday May 2025

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battery, big girl pants, blessed, family, fixed, garden, grass, housing, lawnmower, moments, nature, weather, widow

the other day we discovered that the battery on the lawnmower was no longer working…

after figuring out how to get it out of the housing, we went to The Battery Man to replace it… $168 and it works again…

very happy about that because the grass was getting really long after all the rain…

grass was mowed, whipper snipped, and blown…

looks great;-)…

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