09 Sunday Oct 2022
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08 Saturday Oct 2022
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sooooo happy…
today, three jobs that have been on the list for ages, got done, thanks to Nathan the Handyperson, and my grandson;-)…
first, the front door sweep got reset and the edging tightened to close up any open spots… happy this took place before the really cold weather… it was first worked on about a year ago and the piece came off early in the spring…
next, the deck got levelled…
it has been sinking more and more over the summer and when they got the underside open, there was the tiniest piece of rotten wood holding it up😳…
we’ve lived here for just over forty-nine years and the deck was probably built at least thirty-five years ago… the top has been replaced once and is still in excellent condition… there was one piece of the frame that had to be replaced, but the rest was in great shape…
the steps to the side garden were removed for the work and then reattached and feel much sturdier now…
and the rail was redesigned, is much more stable, and matches the rail on the other side…
I am so thrilled it has been fixed…
finally, the rotten section on the bathtub pond ledge has been repaired…
back to normal… safe and level;-)…
what a great day;-)…
07 Friday Oct 2022
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I’ve been laughing since Wednesday, when my wonderful cleaning crew came and cleaned the house…
I was in the bathroom after they left and realized that they had tossed the box I had been using for my reusable tissues… it was empty because all of the tissues were in the midst of being laundered…
I checked in the recycling bin, but they must have tossed it into the garbage bag and I wasn’t digging through that…
after thinking about it for a while, I opened the end of the actual Kleenex box that was there for anyone else who comes over and popped them into it…
think it should work fine and I will be careful not to let it sit on the shelf empty, lol…
06 Thursday Oct 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, colours, decorations, Fall, halloween, moments, nature, walk, weather, widow
went for a walk the other day and enjoyed the colours…
the trees were looking so beautiful…
I came across these Halloween decorations just waiting to be turned on…
I bet they will look great when they are blown up…
I had a lovely time…
04 Tuesday Oct 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, fish, garden, goldfish, grandson, moments, nature, pond, sneaky, water, weather, widow
my grandson came over to help with some garden jobs… he cut down baby elm trees, emptied rain barrels, and then spent a lot of time trying and catching the sneaky fish in the pond…
after a few minutes, we decided to pump out a good portion of the water, hoping it would make the catching easier, lol…
it did, a bit… the fish still found all the nooks and crannies amongst the rocks…
eventually he caught most of them and we are down to about six left… so far we haven’t been able to catch any of the babies…
later in the afternoon I sat on the bridge with my feet in the pond, not moving at all… after about fifteen minutes I gave up… not a single fish went by… the minute I stepped out they swam right past, lol…
04 Tuesday Oct 2022
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03 Monday Oct 2022
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my hair went from being fine… to unmanageable, in what felt like a minute, about last Wednesday… I nearly tried out the freshly sharpened scissors, but managed to hold off until this morning when I walked over to Ultracuts to get it dealt with… had to wait for a bit, so went for a walk, rather than sit inside…
the weather was nice, particularly as it was supposed to rain all day…
along the way I spotted some murals and got a nice shot of this one…
pleased with the cut…
on the way home I passed a person and said good morning… it wasn’t until I was a few steps past them that I realized it was one of my neighbours…
I laughed as I thought of how my beloved would have responded… he would have turned back, called out their name, and had a half hour conversation…
I just kept walking, lol…
02 Sunday Oct 2022
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spent time in the garden doing cleanup…
emptied soil from pots and stacked them in the shed…
repotted some pansies to bring inside, brought the butterfly bush into the basement and the hibiscus into the dining room…
after closing up the shed, I undid the bathtub pond pump and brought it inside to clean and put in the basement…
01 Saturday Oct 2022
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spent some time in the garden repotting a few plants to come into the house…
this silver falls had been in a pot hanging on the side of the house and was so pretty I thought I’d give it a try in the house…
I separated a couple of plants and put them in a slightly smaller pot…
finally, I brought in some of the floating pond plants…
it will be interesting to see how they all manage…
30 Friday Sep 2022
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was talking with someone recently and making tea at the same time…
as I was squeezing the teabag, they mentioned hearing that doing this bruised the tea, which was a bad thing…
made me laugh as I’ve done it forever to get any additional flavour out of the bag before discarding it…
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