04 Saturday Mar 2023
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found my way back into the computer room to continue the tidy up…
filled boxes with giveaway items, put things into the garbage, and filled a container with recycling…
pleased with the continued progress and have actually been enjoying the process…
03 Friday Mar 2023
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big girl pants, door, doorknob, frozen, garage, garbage, handy, help, how to, moments, nature, neighbour, weather, widow, winter
for weeks now the side door to the garage has been stuck shut… kind of like the doorknob was frozen…
while we were working in the basement, there was lots of garbage which we ended up putting into the garage until the bin was empty… having to go through the side gate and then the main garage door was a pain…
yesterday I talked with my neighbour in the lane and mentioned the problem so today he came by and helped me remove the knob… fairly simple when you know how, lol…
now I will know for next time;-)…
so, a bungee cord will be the fastener for the next while… and, apparently a new door is in the future…
02 Thursday Mar 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, Goose Spit, grape hyacinth, happy, living room, moments, nature, orchid, plants, purple, rock collection, scent, table, white, widow
happy that I finally got a nice photo of the cute new little white orchids…
have had the plant for a few weeks now, but just couldn’t get a nice shot of a single bloom…
looks cute on the living room table along with the other new orchid and two little grape hyacinths which have just started to scent the air;-)…
and the new display in the table looks nice as well… some of my rock collection from Goose Spit with a few crystals thrown in;-)…
01 Wednesday Mar 2023
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accident, arms, big girl pants, broken, cold, family, grandson, hot tub, Krevco, moments, weather, widow
was on my way downstairs to go out to the hot tub on Friday and heard a loud noise… looked out the window to see one of the two hardcovers laying on the ground… not attached to either side of the tub…
it had slipped out of my grandson’s hands and, in the very cold weather, broke both arms that hold it on…
luckily, after we soaked for a while the two of us were able to set it back where it belonged… no single person hot tubs until it gets repaired, lol, as it will take two of us to open and close the cover…
happily Krevco had some arms available…
we will wait for a warm day to empty the tub, move it to install the arm closest to the house, put it back, connect the second arm, and refill the tub…
fun times, lol…
28 Tuesday Feb 2023
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27 Monday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, fun, iPhone, light, memories, moments, nature, Photography, pictures, red, shadows, sunshine, vase, widow
had some fun with shadow pictures… it reminded me of the great photography class I took with a colleague many years ago… we had so much fun…
the vase looks pretty cool in these photos…
enjoying the afternoon sunshine…
26 Sunday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, family, filler, fixing, moments, porcelain, projects, sanding, sink, stove, Technology, widow
thanks to a suggestion from a friend, we picked up some porcelain filler for the stove and basement pedestal sink…
after sanding, painting, re-sanding, and drying a number of times, the stove looks great… can’t spot the fix unless you get real close and know where to look…
sadly, I forgot to get a before picture…
the sink is taking a bit more time…
but coming along nicely…
25 Saturday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, control, moments, MTS, remote, Technology, tv, volume, widow
when the MTS people were here the other day, they replaced the remote for the bedroom tv…
the good news is that now I won’t need to press my finger through the remote to make some of the actions happen, lol…
at the last minute they mentioned that the new remote didn’t turn the tv on or off, or change the volume…
really 🤪…
the good news is that Google Home can turn it on and off and change the volume level…
24 Friday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cold, door, family, grandsons, home, hung, light, moments, picture, projects, repositioned, sweep, widow, wire
another few projects got taken care of…
the wooden bird picture that my middle grandson gave me about a year ago has finally made it onto the wall… we had to pick up wire to use as it is heavy and the usual fishing line wasn’t going to hold it up…
looks great and I am so proud of him as he did a good job of making it…
then we put a new sweep on the bottom of the back door so that cold air isn’t flowing down into the basement… bit of a process, but it was finally complete… better than it was, for sure…
a strip of carpet got cut and repositioned so that feet won’t be on concrete on the way to the bathroom, lol…
the final piece of work was cutting and installing a tile over the light in the bathroom…
a lot of work got done;-)… I am blessed…
23 Thursday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, chatting, fun, garden, haircut, Hilda the Gardener, memories, moments, plants, visit, widow
so happy that my friend, Hilda the gardener, came by last Friday for a drink, visit, and a haircut…
we spent a lovely hour chatting and laughing about life in general and gardens in particular…
then she dealt with the overgrown mess that was my hair, lol…
looks and feels so much better now;-)…
