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08 Wednesday Nov 2023

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it was overcast, but not too cold on Saturday, so I went out and was able to fill all the bird feeders…

even the one that I won’t be able to get to before too long, as the snow will make it difficult or impossible to reach, lol…

then I spent half an hour shovelling the driveway…

my grandson had done it awhile ago, but there were icy tire tracks on the slope so I broke them up and tossed the bits to the sides…

the next day my hamstrings and butt were a bit sore from all the bending as the metal shovel I was using was short, lol…

I will be happy when the tires get changed in a few weeks, but now the slope won’t be difficult to get up;-)…

corner…

29 Sunday Oct 2023

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had a bit of fun tidying up the corner cupboard…

had to get out the step stool to reach the top shelf…

didn’t take too long and reminded me of how much tea I have up there, yikes…

now it is organized nicely, with the items I use least located on the top shelf…

happy that I got one of my little projects completed;-)..

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…

detours…

20 Friday Oct 2023

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it didn’t rain, as the weather report had suggested for Thursday, so I went for a walk…

I went a block further than normal and walked in the opposite direction, lol…

once again I had to take a few detours to check out more Halloween installations…

even got to see a few geese this time…

later, I filled the bird feeders and was able to spend time on the deck reading and noticed many more leaves on the deck…

the temperature has been around 16 or 17 degrees Celsius and I’ve been taking the time to get outside and enjoy;-)…

beautiful fall day…

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19 Thursday Oct 2023

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Wednesday was a slow and bit of a downer day…

had a sore arm and felt kind of achy and just bleh… no doubt the result of the two needles in my arm the previous day…

wasn’t able to sleep and eventually spent time on the deck, wrapped in a blanket, reading…

even had a snack, which was a treat as I’ve been steering clear of extras for a while…

two…

18 Wednesday Oct 2023

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took two walks Tuesday, lol…

first one was my little circle tour… on the way home I had to walk partway down a different street to admire a very large Halloween display, across from a school…

the second was to go to Silver Heights IDA for my covid and flu shots… had to wait a few minutes while others were looked after, but then in a flash, it was done and I was on my way home…

disconnected…

16 Monday Oct 2023

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Sunday was a beautiful fall day…

we disconnected the hose at the tap, undid the three connections to the pond, irrigation system, and hose (which was then hooked up in the laundry room for the winter)… still have to blow out the irrigation lines…

then I spent quite awhile digging out the three dahlias and repotting the begonia… will see if it will act like a houseplant over the winter…

put the dahlias in an empty pot and will leave them in the garage for a few more days to dry out before relocating them into the basement…

moved pots off the steps and deck… that big pot was interesting to move, but I got it done… once the garage has been tidied up the obelisk will move there…

then I spent a few hours reading in the afternoon sunshine;-)…

happy to have accomplished more of the “w” prep, lol…

collected…

15 Sunday Oct 2023

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went for a walk on Friday… it was lovely out…

first stop was the Little Library I usually stop at… when I was last there, there were only a few books, so I went through some of mine and filled a backpack to drop off…

I also included a couple of the extra bookmarks I made last Christmas…

from there I walked to the Post Office to drop a package in the mail and on my way back stopped into Ultracuts for a haircut…

since my last visit, I may have taken the scissors to my hair a few times, lol… didn’t take long, or really that much hair being snipped, to look tidy again…

as I walked home, I stopped and collected some morning glory seeds from the outside of a fence… these flowers are a lighter purple…

I’ve been watching them for a while, waiting for the pods to be ready for picking;-)…

got lots done;-)…