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gemstones…

15 Saturday Oct 2022

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had an idea the other day when I was watching tv upstairs… I’ve been thinking it was time to change up the display in the living room table, so I got started…

found a number of framed photos from the computer room and my collection of fancy gemstones…

I gathered up some of my angels… I have given away most of them, but kept a few of my favourites, lol…

brought everything to the living room table and had a lovely time putting them into the squares…

remembering where they came from and why they were special to me…

such a lovely walk down memory lane;-)…

turning…

14 Friday Oct 2022

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last year I moved four amaryllis bulbs to the basement when they finished blooming…

I brought them up on Monday, gave them a good dose of water, and put them onto the dining room table…

a couple had already started to grow… one already had a green frond and there were a few with little bits of green starting…

I am turning them every time I feed the fish…

and this is how they look today;-)…

they are shooting up very quickly… and I am excited to see what will happen with them… hoping they end up producing some flowers and not just leaves, lol…

tarp…

13 Thursday Oct 2022

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spent a good portion of Tuesday afternoon in the pond…

I removed the last of the water, by hand scooping, and then using the wet vac…

caught the last three small fish but only found two of the babies…

after that, I vacuumed up most of the leaves I could reach, and then covered the pond with a large tarp…

happy that it will catch the rest of the falling leaves and should make cleaning the pond in the spring much easier…

sadly, it doesn’t look exactly pretty, lol…

sound…

12 Wednesday Oct 2022

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the other day, my Merlin sound app found many different birds inside an hour and a half… even though I didn’t see them all…

what a treat to have confirmation of some of the little birds flitting about the garden…

we are clearly in the middle of migration season…

regular…

10 Monday Oct 2022

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so much to be thankful for…

this year my daughter was here in March and my son-in-law in August…

I spent hours in the garden…

met my friends on a regular basis in the garden all summer… previously, we haven’t met very often during that time as everyone was busy…

saw, texted, and spoke on the phone with many friends… made a new one and enjoyed getting to know them…

worked on changes in the vegetable garden… grew peas, beans, cucumbers, and tomatoes…

was visited by monarchs and swallowtails and a beautiful little hummingbird…

enjoyed bouquets of flowers all summer, thanks to a birthday subscription from the kids…

had many projects completed, in the house and the garden…

life is very good…

levelled…

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;-)…

reusable…

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…

colours

06 Thursday Oct 2022

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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…