21 Sunday Aug 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, family, garden, moments, nature, plants, son-in-law, tamed, virginia creeper, weather, widow
here is my son-in-law trimming up the Virginia creeper which has absolutely loved the weather this year, lol…
but, it has been tamed…
for now…
20 Saturday Aug 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, family, jobs, moments, projects, son-in-law, switch, Technology, walk, widow
my Ottawa son-in-law arrived today to spend a few weeks with me…
he has plans to help get a few jobs done around my house…
we had breakfast out and then he changed the light switch in the kitchen to one that is compatible with my Google Home…
it felt like I pushed every one of the switches in the basement before we found the correct one to be sure the power was off, lol…
got out the tools Kasa recommended and in a few minutes he had it switched out and working…
then he changed the bulb on the ceiling fixture and put the cover back on… it has been off for months as the Philips Hue I was using needed airflow around it…
looks so much better now…
one job done… not saying how many are left on the list😂…
19 Friday Aug 2022
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one of today’s projects was to change the water in the hot tub…
started this morning… brought out the sump pump, hooked up a hose and then relaxed for an hour as it emptied out the water…
the next step was to wipe everything down and then use the wet vac to suck up the last of the water and grunge…
after I put away the vac, I spent another bit of time filling up the hot tub…
now I am waiting for the temperature to make it to the 102°C that I keep it at in the summer…
17 Wednesday Aug 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, friends, garden, interruption, moments, nature, pond, time, weather, widow
on Monday had a great time in the garden with 3/4 of our BS group…
I had moved the car to the driveway and put chairs into the garage on the chance that rain or a thunderstorm decided to cause an interruption during our gathering… I didn’t rearrange the chairs and put out the cushions until a few minutes before they arrived as the sky was still covered in clouds…
while we visited, we saw a monarch flit about and land on the milkweed flowers… then a baby bunny stopped by…
the sparrows came by for drinks and baths…
and the fish were swimming all around the pond, including at least one of the babies…
the babies move amazingly quickly, and I spent quite a while trying to catch a photo of one of them…
in the end, the sun came out and it got kind of hot, lol… then, about 7:30 pm we had a huge thunderstorm…
strange weather day…
16 Tuesday Aug 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, bread, flowers, garden, gladiola, moments, nature, purple, shopping, treat, widow, Wolseley Farmers Market
went to the Wolseley Farmers Market with a friend and had a great time…
came home with a bag filled with beans, peas, green onions, a zucchini, baby potatoes, garlic, bread, a mushroom galette, and a beet and pesto treat…
and two gorgeous stalks of purple gladiola;-)…
15 Monday Aug 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, cleaning, clutter, computer room, cushions, desktop, effort, family, memories, moments, widow
spent time in the computer room this morning when it looked like it was going to rain… although it didn’t at that time…
cleared off the desktop, threw out paper, gathered a few items for the giveaway box, put cushions in the closet (possibly I have a cushion problem, lol), and moved a few things around…
even found a few things I’d forgotten…
a few more hours of effort before my son-in-law arrives from the east on Saturday and it should be comfortable for him to work in, lol… I hope…
14 Sunday Aug 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, camera, drill, garden, learning, moments, nature, pond, shim, Technology, widow
moved the backyard wifi camera down a bit… also put a shim in so that it points down a touch more…
now it gets a little more of the area in front of the pond… may see critters as they wander past the pond, lol…
getting quite handy with the drill… no trouble to remember how to have it reverse when taking out the screw;-)…
what a pro…
13 Saturday Aug 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, change, happy, moments, paper towel, reuse, roll, transition, trying, widow
so pleased…
in January, 2020, after a visit with the kids in Ottawa, I put the paper towel roll away in the cupboard and began using cloth instead in an effort to reuse and not waste…
I replaced that roll in March of 2021… that was fourteen months…
yesterday I used the last piece from that roll… that is sixteen months;-)… doing better…
the old cloth napkins, face cloths and finger towels have worked beautifully and wash very well… and they were all extras that were in drawers around the house…
today I put a new roll in the cupboard and will see how long this one lasts…
I have been surprised at how easy the transition has been…
just a small change, but it makes me happy…
12 Friday Aug 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, display, impossible, moments, Technology, time, widow
my Fitbit has been nearly impossible to read for the last while, so I went online and found directions to reset it, which was supposed to fix the problem…
followed the directions but it didn’t make any difference…
dug out my old one and charged it and added it in the app and happily it is working, even saved my steps… and I can see it, lol…
hope it lasts for a while…
11 Thursday Aug 2022
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big girl pants, birthday, blessed, Blizzards, Dairy Queen, dinner, family, food, grandson, moments, treat, widow, zucchini
had the kids over for dinner…
we had steak and zucchini, which they barbecued…
mushrooms that my grandson cooked, even though it was his birthday;-)…
salad as well as twice stuffed potatoes, which I made;-)…
everything was delicious and we all enjoyed it…
then we went for blizzards…
I haven’t had one for many years and it was delicious… I ate more than half of it before putting the rest in the freezer, lol…
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