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tickled…

24 Saturday Feb 2024

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was so tickled on Thursday morning… I spent just under an hour sitting on the deck reading in the sunlight…

the temperature was 3°C, and the weather channel suggested it felt like -2, although the deck is often warmer…

it was a bit of a process as I had to bring out a cushion for the chair and a small table for my tea, lol… I wore my winter jacket and had my Assiniboine Park Conservancy blanket over my legs, although I was in my slippers and was very comfortable…

what a treat to feel that warmth on my face…

and, when I went upstairs to lay down, the sun was shining along the bottom of the bed, so I napped sideways, with scrunched up legs;-)…

fruit…

22 Thursday Feb 2024

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Assiniboine Park, banana, big girl pants, blessed, breadfruit, cacao, cacao pods, food, fruit, kapok tree, moments, nature, plants, star fruit, Technology, The Leaf, widow

recently I’d seen an Instagram post about one of the trees in the Tropical Biome that was flowering…

the branches of the Kapok are bare, but at the very top of the tree, flowers were budding…

I was happy to spot it on our visit Tuesday…

there were lots of volunteers throughout the space and they provided a great deal of information particularly about some of the fruiting trees… we saw cacao pods, jackfruit, star fruit, breadfruit and the fingerlings of bananas…

we had a quick visit with the lead gardener as we discussed the three cacao trees, two of which currently have pods growing on them…

the Tropical Biome is really beginning to feel like the old Conservatory with all the lush growth…

so blessed to have this amazing space to spend time in on a regular basis;-)…

fifty-seven…

19 Monday Feb 2024

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big girl pants, blessed, books, collect, collection, fifty-seven, friends, happy, in Death, JD Robb, moments, reading, starting, Technology, widow

a few days ago a friend dropped by with some books for me and in the process brought me a couple of my JD Robb favourites…

we have both read the entire series and she has the collection, so now I am going to start collecting the series…

two down and fifty-seven left to collect…

longest…

18 Sunday Feb 2024

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big girl pants, blessed, blinking, Christmas, habits, happy, light, moments, nature, snow, solar, solar lights, sunshine, Technology, weather, widow

so happy to see that all the solar lights came on after a day filled with sunshine…

what a treat…

the funny part is that this one set wasn’t working for the longest time (as in, over Christmas) but started up in the last few weeks…

and is doing a blinking pattern…

it is such fun to see them light up as it gets dark out…

at some point I guess I will need to turn off the trees in the planters, but I am enjoying them too much right now;-)…

habits…

17 Saturday Feb 2024

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A1C, big girl pants, blessed, bloodwork, Dynacare, eating, food, habits, home, moments, nervous, Technology, test, waiting, widow

on Friday Dynacare came out to the house and took some blood for my next doctor’s appointment in a few weeks… the appointments are in four hour blocks and they arrived within half an hour of the start time…

hoping that my A1C remains in a good place as I continue to be careful about my eating habits… I am always nervous that the numbers may have gone up…

the technician was in and out of the house inside of ten minutes… for the first time they used a pillow to raise my arm to make the process simpler for them…

they are very good at what they do and once again there was barely a bruise…

happy to have the test done… no point in worrying anymore as I will find out in a week how I am doing;-)…

leaking…

14 Wednesday Feb 2024

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big girl pants, blessed, Costco, garden, groceries, hose, hose attachments, leaking, moments, shopping, water, widow

Tuesday we went to Costco and I got a new set of attachments for the hose…

sadly, the current attachment has been leaking for awhile and the hose doesn’t expand without an attachment…

hoping that all three will work well… fingers crossed…

inspection…

13 Tuesday Feb 2024

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adjustments, appointment, big girl pants, blessed, fail, furnace, Gas, high energy, inspection, Manitoba Hydro, moments, Technology, weather, widow

so, on Thursday, the Manitoba Hydro inspector came to check the installation of the new furnace…

sadly, we didn’t pass inspection…

as he worked he shared what he was looking at and pointed out a few issues which he felt needed to be corrected…

once he was finished everything got written up and I had to sign the paperwork…

apparently the furnace company has thirty days to make the adjustments at which time I have to call and have them back to test it again…

the good news is that none of the items mean the furnace isn’t working, and because we previously had a high efficiency furnace we don’t have to have any adjustments made to the gas hot water heater until it needs to be replaced;-)… phew…

now on to the adjustments and recheck…

stockpile…

10 Saturday Feb 2024

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big girl pants, blessed, books, buy, collection, moments, Nora Roberts, read, shopping, stockpile, widow

such fun on Wednesday as I went through my Nora Roberts book collection…

I reorganized all the books in alphabetical order and went through the trilogies and other items in the stockpile…

and then I ordered a few books to complete some of the trilogies…

can hardly wait for them to arrive;-)…

experimenting…

29 Monday Jan 2024

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big girl pants, blessed, chemicals, chlorine, empty, experimenting, grandson, health, hot tub, Krevco, moments, nature, plunge tub, water, widow

the decision was made to empty the plunge tub and refill it with fresh water…

after a visit to Krevco to get some chemicals for the hot tub, we got information on what to use for the plunge tub…

we picked up liquid chlorine and will do some experimenting as to how much to add, and how often, lol…

we used the pump that usually empties the hot tub and then dumped the last bit… wiped it out and then spent a while refilling it…

cover and bungee cord went back on and it is ready for plunging…

at Krevco we saw a plunge pool… it was $10,000, 😳…

caddy…

28 Sunday Jan 2024

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big girl pants, blessed, caddy, grandson, happy, light, moments, plants, shelves, shower, shower caddy, space, Technology, widow

not too long ago I saw a cool use of a shower caddy…

it had been tucked in a corner of a room and had puck lights under the shelves to provide light for each of the plants…

I’d been looking online but hadn’t yet ordered one… here’s the spot where it will go…

today I got a shelf from Home Depot and we made a few adjustments as we put it together;-)…

ended up leaving the top portion of the pipe off and using some cord holders and zip ties to attach the pipe to the wall…

I decided not to use any additional lights as the spot this is set in gets a lot of light…

I am pleased with how it came out… and may have to get a few more plants, lol…

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