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reimbursed…

04 Tuesday Aug 2026

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very happy to discover that the physio I’ve been paying for is covered under my insurance…

I had gone online to check for amounts and annual start date but couldn’t find any information…

I finally got around to calling and discovered, after talking to a very helpful woman, that I do have coverage and could submit my claims online to be reimbursed…

made me quite pleased as the visits are costly…

after filing the required information, it just took a few days for the money to make its way back into my credit union account…

and I continue to do new and interesting exercises to get back to my best…

gobbling…

31 Friday Jul 2026

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for the longest time the deer were stopping by around 11 or 11:30 pm…

right now the feeders are empty because they have been gobbling up everything when they stop by…

for the last little while, they’ve been coming around 5:30 or 6:00 am… and the door camera has been capturing their visits…

apparently they continue to look to see if there are any seeds available for them…

wide-brimmed…

27 Monday Jul 2026

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I ordered a wide-brimmed hat online on July 6th…

time went by and it didn’t arrive, so I began to think I’d made a donation to some online company…

today, it arrived… I was excited and happy to show my friends to see what they thought as I don’t usually wear hats other than ball caps, lol…

they approved and it is now resting on the tower fan🤭…

looks good…

bruise…

24 Friday Jul 2026

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I have a doctor’s appointment next week which meant that this week I had to have bloodwork done…

Dynacare come to the house and the process takes about ten minutes…

this technician is one of my favourites…

he is quick, efficient and rarely leaves me with a bruise…

last time was quite different, lol…

hoses…

07 Tuesday Jul 2026

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my housemate recently demonstrated how to change the label maker cartridge and then I got to work…

each of the four hoses connected to the water supply outside now have labels noting what they are for, lol…

I often forget which one is the soaker hose, so this should help me remember 🤪…

flats…

17 Wednesday Jun 2026

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I ordered a new pair of shoes from Vessi as I have really enjoyed the ones I ordered previously and wore all winter… and, they only took ten days to arrive;-)…

these ones are flats, and, of course, waterproof…

they fit a tiny bit snug, but I think they will stretch… my plan is to wear them in the house and garden for a while to break them in…

I think they will look good with my new outfits;-)…

splits…

08 Monday Jun 2026

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great anticipation and excitement on Saturday…

we’ve been looking into air conditioner splits, as well as a new air conditioner for a while now…

the current air conditioner hasn’t worked for at least three years, and maybe even five… I can’t remember…

when I had someone in to look at it, they said it was leaking freon and couldn’t be repaired… it has sometimes been very hot upstairs but I managed with a tower fan…

last year I’d been quoted around $5,000 to replace it and that just seemed too much, particularly as the cold air never really made it upstairs, lol…

we had an HVAC person in the other day and the splits just weren’t going to work here… before moving forward with a new air conditioner, they suggested trying to get the old one working… they came back on Saturday to see if they could get the old one going…

they were here for a couple of hours and got it working😁😆😄…

the problem was the virginia creeper which had wound its way around the motor… I guess the other company was just wanting me to purchase a new air conditioner…

it is recording 13 something and the optimum is 20, so that sounds quite wonderful to me…

my housemate is going to be exceedingly happy…

personable…

07 Sunday Jun 2026

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went to a new place to get my hair cut on Friday… the place I’d been going to for years closed recently… I was disappointed because it was close and a nice walk to get there, and there was lots of parking if I had to drive…

today I went to Top End Studio Inc. it is one block up and three streets over, so even closer;-)…

had a lovely experience… the owner is very personable and did a great job cutting my hair…

I am excited that they use elumen and have an appointment scheduled for August to get purpled again, woohoo…

applications…

25 Monday May 2026

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I was using Lawnman (not loving the name, lol) to keep the grass fertilized and dandelion free…

have used them for a number of years and they have been excellent…

recently received a letter in the mail advising they’d been taken over by Eco Green…

they called a few days ago to advise they were coming to apply fertilizer and weed control… which they provide as a liquid mix… but the weed control they use will destroy clover…

as we are mixing clover with the grass in the backyard, it means we can’t have this put down as it will kill clover…

the previous company did feeding and weed control as two separate applications…

so I asked about a lower price as they would only be doing the front yard now…

I was advised that I had only being charged for the front yard previously, which was news to me as they had been doing the fertilizing in the backyard all along… not impressed:-(…

so, I guess this will be the last year for that service…

lower…

21 Thursday May 2026

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once I got up on Tuesday, I decided to feed the fish…

usually they get fed around 10:30, but it was just before nine when I got out the food and discovered that the water in one tank was way lower than the others…

it had been leaking out from the very top of the pump:-(… very unusual spot for a leak… I don’t think it had been spewing water for very long and set out to sort out the situation…

turned the pump off, used towels to mop up as much of the water as possible and then took out the filters and cleaned them… oddly, algae had blocked the bottom of the filter pack…

after cleaning the filters, they went back into the pump and everything seemed fine although it took a few hours to soak up all the spilled water…

whenever there is a leak, I am nervous for the next few days and constantly checking to make sure everything is fine, lol…

so far, so good 😊…