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deadline…

24 Monday Feb 2025

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my housemate has been picking up groceries for me so I haven’t ordered from Save-on-Foods for quite a while, but on Thursday I put an order in for delivery…

I had received an email advising of a $25 refund if I spent $75, so I went ahead and ordered some regular items on my shopping list, lol…

I made sure to call their info line because one item was buy-one-get-one-free, and I couldn’t remember if I should put two, or one, on the order…

the phone was answered quickly and the customer service person had the answer right away…

I also appreciate that they no longer use plastic bags, except for produce… I put out my own boxes and the driver transfers from their bins to mine…

when my order arrived, there wasn’t a credit so I went back to the email, only to discover that the deadline had just passed… by a few days, lol… apparently I should have read it better or put the order in sooner…

but, I did get the free item;-)…

shorten…

23 Sunday Feb 2025

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finally made it to Vicki’s Alterations Tailor…

had washed the two new long dresses so they would be ready…

after putting them both on and having May mark where to shorten them, I paid for them and expect they will be ready sometime next week…

apparently many of their clients are wanting their alterations done right away as they are in vacation mode and leaving shortly for warmer climes…

free…

22 Saturday Feb 2025

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the butterflies are free;-)…

the closed in piece is still in the centre, but the door has been removed…

butterflies were flitting about all over the space… yay…

there weren’t too many, but it may have been the end of the two week cycle…

so happy to see them free and all the people sitting in the space watching them…

arches…

21 Friday Feb 2025

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as you enter the Mediterranean biome there are dozens of amaryllis in various stages… some nearly done, while others are fully open… many with multiple petals…

absolutely gorgeous…

and then you step into the Babs Asper display area… twelve hundred orchids in one place;-)… heaven…

the Blooms in Winter display is so lovely, a perfect place to enjoy the beauty of orchids…

there are a number of arches to walk through and benches to sit on and enjoy the views…

orchids everywhere, beautiful shapes and sizes…

what a delight;-)…

can’t wait to go back;-)…

thinning…

20 Thursday Feb 2025

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had a wonderful time at The Leaf on Tuesday…

first I spent time at the registration desk where they had to make me a new card as mine had stopped working… apparently the website has been misbehaving a bit, so hopefully the new card will solve that issue;-)…

then we went through the biomes… there were a number of baskets of orchids throughout the Tropical biome…

very humid, and it was obvious that there had been a serious trim and thinning of many of the plants…

the cacao trees had been cutback and all the pods have been removed…

the koi were very active… while we were there one of the zoo keepers came along and fed them… clearly the fish were waiting for them, lol…

the dwarf banana is just starting with a new set of banana fingers…

my housemate pointed out the difference between the dwarf and regular bananas… the dwarf has the banana fingers coming out of the flower, whereas the full-size banana has a flower at the end and the fingers below…

there are always subtle changes in the Tropical biome each time I visit;-)…

torpedo…

16 Sunday Feb 2025

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had trouble staying focussed on my book on Wednesday as there was a lot of activity across the way…

two workers spent the entire morning stringing a new wire…

it was so cold I felt bad for them, but they seemed comfortable as I watched…

the most interesting thing was what appeared to be a torpedo shaped object which one person pulled along the line… I think it was winding the new wire around the old ones…

my beloved would have been able to tell me exactly what it was and how it worked, lol…

but, all of those goings-on really made it hard to concentrate on my book;-)…

thermostat…

07 Friday Feb 2025

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my Nest thermostat is ticking me off…

for the last few weeks it has been telling me that it is figuring out the best way to be eco friendly for the winter season…

at bedtime it goes down to 16.5°C instead of the 18° where I want it to be…

although at night that isn’t such a problem, lol…

during the day, if I sit reading for too long, it drops the temperature by a couple of degrees… makes it rather chilly when it is cold, sigh…

a few nights ago, we changed a few things and it appears that it has made a difference… it looks like it won’t go below 21°C during the day;-)… woohoo…

platforms…

06 Thursday Feb 2025

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had a great time preparing for a visit from a dear friend…

dug out some shortbread from the freezer, a few Russian Mints… and put out the pistachios in their special dish, which hasn’t been out since before covid…

we had a lovely visit and even did some learning with one of our social media platforms…

always fun to learn something new, and spend time with important people in my life;-)…

orientation…

02 Sunday Feb 2025

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was having some trouble with the new photo frame…

for some reason it stopped accepting photos that were sent to it…

after some investigation I discovered that it was offline… wasn’t sure why or how to fix that…

then all of a sudden it was working again…

I’ve also decided to turn it to vertical rather than horizontal… the majority of pictures I take use that orientation…

and was able to change the piece on the back so that the frame stands up the way I want, lol…

crystals…

30 Thursday Jan 2025

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Monday night I went out for a hot tub…

it had been warm during the day and there were a ton of icicles over the tub, so I sat in the opposite corner from usual so nothing could fall onto my head, lol…

as I stepped outside I could hear the ice crystals falling so I grabbed my cap to protect my glasses…

it was a bit chilly for anything above the water as the ice crystals continued to fall…

I am still having trouble with the Ring light, which I have to turn off from the garage, no matter what I try on the app…

I was out for quite a while and when I came inside I realized how much snow had come down, lol…