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broom…

01 Wednesday Apr 2026

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got to sit outside on the deck Sunday morning… yay:-)…

moved the chairs into their usual spots, took off the covers, brought out the clean cushions, and put them on the chairs…

got out the broom and swept up the cedar bits and elm leaves that were all over the deck… even used the leaf blower to finish up…

put on a light jacket and brought out tea and my book and enjoyed the sun, birdsong, and my book for a wonderful hour and a half;-)…

haven’t made it out since then, what with the snow and overcast skies🥺…

Suzuka…

30 Monday Mar 2026

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was out for a hot tub at 2:00 am, Sunday morning after the F1 race at Suzuka, Japan ended…

it was lovely, although overcast, but the trees were completely still and the temperature was nice as well…

then, when I got out, it became clear that the back hinge on the right arm had disconnected… yikes…

I tried a few ways to get it to close, but couldn’t get it done…

came in with one side left open… will have to see what we can do to fix it, sigh…

later in the day, my housemate was outside and was able to haul it back onto the hot tub…

now to figure out how to solve the problem of broken arms, sigh…

Kaleidoscope…

28 Saturday Mar 2026

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Thursday night I picked up a cute little orchid after we attended the Member Preview of Kaleidoscope at The Leaf…

one of the many benefits of membership is that often there are previews of new displays… always great fun…

this new display is filled with bright, colourful, flowers and lots of crystals… I am looking forward to seeing if they produce rainbows on sunny days;-)…

and the neatest thing is a piece that has three kaleidoscopes on it with a platform of flowers which turn and produce the kaleidoscope effect… such an entertaining time, either looking through the three options or spinning the saucer for others to see…

I am also going to go later in the evening to see everything lit;-)…

the orchid is from the Apothecary display, so it is a lovely reminder of that display…

there is always something new or different every time you walk through the biomes…

covers…

27 Friday Mar 2026

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so happy because, finally, on Tuesday, we were able to pull the covers, that were frozen to the deck, off the chairs…

I was very frustrated because I couldn’t do it on my own and had to wait for my housemate to get home… much stronger arms, lol…

three of the six cushions had to go into the bathtub to dry as they were all very wet…

the other three just went by the backdoor, although likely the covers will come off and go into the washer, lol…

the chairs were covered again and moved away from the snow and ice…

it was warm enough Tuesday, that I could have sat outside for awhile…

once the cushions dried out, I removed the covers, washed and dried them, and then struggled to put them back together…

and now they are waiting to get back outside…

after the snow😔… maybe tomorrow🤞…

anticipating…

22 Sunday Mar 2026

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we finally got the deck shovelled… there is still a bit of snow and ice, but now it should melt more quickly…

we also got the last of the snow off the two chairs on the deck, but I am anticipating that the cushions underneath the covers will be wet…

unfortunately, the cover is still frozen to the deck… but the wind was sure blowing the covers around now that the snow is gone…

spring-y…

15 Sunday Mar 2026

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time to change the living room table…

put away the L O V E letters and found a beautiful spring scarf that my daughter gave me from her trip to Italy…

once the scarf was down, all of the seed packets we have went into the four squares…

then I put the driftwood with the dragonfly on it onto the table…

finally, cushions came down from upstairs and replaced the ones that had been on the sofa…

feels spring-y…

remiss…

16 Monday Feb 2026

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we’ve been a bit remiss in clearing the back decks on the way to the gate and garage, sigh… and it has become rather dicey when I’m getting into and out of the hot tub🤪…

it had gotten very rough and slippery so we tried a few weeks ago to chip away at it… unfortunately it was still too cold and the snow and ice were rather deep…

Sunday, I went out in the afternoon when it was quite warm (-2° C with windchill)… I took out one of the small, metal shovels from the beautifully organized wall in the garage and spent a half hour or so removing the slush and chunks of wet, snowy, ice, clearing a path to the garage side door (almost), hot tub, and driveway gate… due to winter ground heaving in the garage, we aren’t using the side door just now…

it was lovely out and I took my time with constant breaks…

it is down to the wood now, and will likely dry up nicely…

fingers crossed;-)…

air-dried…

14 Saturday Feb 2026

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I’ve been going out to the hot tub for the last week or so…

it had been a long time since I’ve been out there because the weather had caused the lid to freeze over…

last night when I came in there was some Olympic replays of the day on which I watched as I air-dried on the bed, lol…

then it was off to sleep so getting up at 3:30 am wouldn’t seem too tiring;-)…