08 Wednesday Oct 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, decorating, ghosts, halloween, hunt, memories, moments, pumpkins, spiders, thanksgiving, widow
recently I went through the Halloween and Thanksgiving boxes…
I went on the hunt for pumpkins for Thanksgiving and ended up putting out those as well as Halloween goodies;-)…
pumpkins, witches, ghosts, and spiders, lol…
glad to have set things out as I haven’t done that for a few years…
07 Tuesday Oct 2025
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I have been so tempted to take the scissors to my hair for the last few days as I tried to find time for a haircut…
today I managed to fit the time in…
felt so much lighter after the cut…
the hairdresser took quite a bit off, so I shouldn’t have that urge for ages, lol…
on my way home I spotted this happy camper, even if they were stuck in the grass;-)…
06 Monday Oct 2025
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basement, big girl pants, blessed, family, grandson, housemate, moments, monstera, nature, plants, thriving, trimmed, weather, widow
yesterday, as I was reorganizing the plants that have come in from outside, my housemate helped me with the monstera plant…
he brought it with him when he moved into the basement and had it down there for a while, but had to move it to the main floor as it wasn’t thriving…
It isn’t my favourite plant, but when all the plants were being moved around, we trimmed it and attached it to a pole and it looks much better…
in the same corner, I put one of the ferns that had been in the garden and was much happier than when it went outside… hope it continues to thrive there;-)…
05 Sunday Oct 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, grandson, house, inside, lantana, moments, places, plants, weather, widow
began the process of bringing in the plants for the winter…
I have my usual ones, the mandevilla, hibiscus, lemon tree, and Japanese Maple…
I am also bringing in some additions… the new purple hibiscus, bacopa, a couple of begonias, silver falls, a dahlia, and lantana… we’ll see how they do, and where I am going to put them…
then there are the small Japanese maple and sapling that my housemate plans to make into bonsai, lol…
I have tried a setup in the window and will see how I like it;-)…
still have to find places for a few more;-)…
04 Saturday Oct 2025
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big girl pants, Canadian Tire money, drying, family, faucet, fixed, grandson, housemate, moments, Next-Gen Plumbing and Heating, organized, plumbing, tap, Technology, widow
found a leak under the sink on Thursday, sigh…
we emptied the space out and my housemate discovered that the hose on the tap was leaking… that one had been installed in 2014…
we contacted our plumbing people and headed out to purchase a new tap… we took the $10 Canadian Tire money that has been in the drawer for years…
it was fun to watch various staff members try to figure out how to deal with the paper, lol… eventually they discovered the longest serving teller who was able to assist our cashier and away we went…
as we got home we heard that the plumber was on his way…
in just under an hour, the tap was changed, and they were on their way…
this tap has the handle on the right side, so I am getting adjusted to that, lol…
we had a fan on, drying out the inside of the cabinet before the “stuff” which was filling up a number of counters, went back in…
this morning, now that the space is dry, all of the items from the cabinet when back in… and possibly in a slightly more organized way;-)…
03 Friday Oct 2025
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big girl pants, black netting, blessed, clogging, falling leaves, moments, nature, pond, Technology, tight, water, waterfall, widow
climbed into the pond twice on Wednesday…
the leaves have been falling and clogging up the pump every few days…
this is getting to be a pain so I spent the first time cleaning out the filter and pulling up leaves from the bottom…
the second time I cut back all the reeds to be sure the sun could get to the new bud, hoping that the weather cooperates so it can open… I also hoped it would help make the netting easier to cover the pond…
last year we put down green netting over the pond to try to catch the leaves, but it looked terrible and I took it off…
this year we have a new plan… we got black netting and pulled it tight over the pond covering everything from the waterfall to the furthest edges of the pond…
it is really hard to see the netting except around the edges where it is doubled up and it was already catching the never-ending falling leaves….
02 Thursday Oct 2025
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batteries, beep, big girl pants, blessed, family, grandson, moments, reach, smoke detector, Technology, widow
I’ve been listening to the smoke detector beep every few minutes to tell me it needs the batteries replaced… seems like it’s been going on for hours, lol…
I am waiting for my housemate to arrive home to change them as, not only can’t I reach it, I can’t figure out how to open it…
01 Wednesday Oct 2025
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basement, big girl pants, changes, family, fireplace, friends, grandson, memories, moments, pet, redecorated, remembering, widow
last year, around this time, my housemate decided to redecorate his space…
from removing the fireplace, to drywalling, to putting in new ceiling tiles, to painting the space with two colours, and reorganizing his stuff, he worked hard with help from friends and family…
it came out very nicely…
and he has enjoyed the space…
this fall he has been preparing for an interesting pet…
30 Tuesday Sep 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, cold, cough, garden, miserable, moments, recovering, sick, weather, widow
what a lovely day… I’ve spent most of it in the garden…
I’ve been dealing with a miserable cold for the last three or four days… today it has finally started to improve so it has been quite enjoyable sitting outdoors…
there were a number of things on the calendar, but nothing got accomplished which is often the way it is… there is either nothing happening or a whole bunch of things all at once…
as I am beginning to come out of the fog of illness I am reminded of how truly blessed I am with good health…
here’s to the next few days of overcoming runny noses, coughs, and sore sides;-)…
29 Monday Sep 2025
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big girl pants, cat, garden, moments, nature, pond, Raven, squirrels, tell, water, waterfall, widow
Raven the cat stopped by for a visit to supervise as we were working on the pond waterfall……
the only problem is that the squirrels yell for most of the time, lol…
happily, the waterfall is running again…
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