Category Archives: Uncategorized

redoing…

08 Thursday Sep 2022

Posted by in life, moments, Photography, retirement, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , , , , , , , , ,

my bouquet subscription has come to an end and I came across this post I had written about my birthday bouquet…

I had an enjoyable time redoing it… this is how it looked on my birthday…

I removed the roses once they were spent…

it was time to do something new and this is what it became on May fourth…

used a cute teapot and a small glass for the next life of the bouquet…

added some of the statice to a container that was already filled…

and finally, used the container the flowers came in to set a cute new plant I recently purchased…

it is always such fun to change out the flowers as the bouquet ages, lol…

some great memories;-)…

drywall…

07 Wednesday Sep 2022

Posted by in business, family, life, moments, retirement, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , , , , , , , ,

the last few days while my son-in-law was here were focused on the ceiling in the basement where drywall was being reinstalled…

it had been taken down a number of years ago when he installed a Nest thermostat for me on the main floor and new wires had to be run…

it was in the back area and didn’t bother me, but it was on his list to repair…

he did a great job and it looks quite wonderful now…

3M…

06 Tuesday Sep 2022

Posted by in business, family, life, moments, retirement, technology, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , , , , , , , ,

my son-in-law completed a ton of big projects while he has been here from Ottawa…

a couple of the littlest ones have made me particularly happy…

I have had an extension cord and a single plug laying on the counter next to the stove and it was a pain… now there is a surge protector held up with 3M strips on the wall… so much tidier and more useful…

in the rolling cabinet that my beloved made, the tracks for the sliding doors kept falling down… now some 3M strips are holding them up where they belong…

little things can make such a big impact…

bacon…

05 Monday Sep 2022

Posted by in business, family, food, life, moments, retirement, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , , , , , , , , , , ,

while he was here we worked at having all the foods my son-in-law has missed…

we’ve had burgers and bacon in many forms… we’ve been to a few favourite places…

we ordered samosas and butter chicken… and had Chinese food…

and then there was Tony Roma’s and Captain’s Table and Dairy Queen;-)…

and a few of my recipes were included, lol…

a delicious two weeks😁…

finished…

04 Sunday Sep 2022

Posted by in business, family, life, moments, retirement, technology, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , , , , , , , , ,

the kitchen is finished;-)… I am sooooo happy… my son-in-law has done a stellar job…

the ceiling was scraped, primed and painted…

the cabinet doors were removed…

everything came out, was sorted, and lots of things went into boxes to give away…

the doors were primed and painted…

the inside of the upper cupboards (which were red) were given two coats of primer and one coat of paint… I have been dreaming about this for at least the last five years…

the doors and drawers and front of the lower cupboards were painted…

the cutting board and end countertop got a coat of paint along the edges…

new hardware was installed on all the doors..

and the light switch (which works with Google) and new light fixture were added…

everything is bright and back where it belongs and I love it;-)…

hummingbird…

03 Saturday Sep 2022

Posted by in garden, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , , , , , , , , , ,

had the most five or six delightful minutes in the garden this afternoon;-)…

I was eating the last delicious bits of yesterday’s Blizzard on the back deck and spotted a hummingbird in the garden…

for a long time we had feeders, but no hummingbirds, so we gave up… a few have flown through over the years, but none stayed around to snack…

it moved around slurping from the petunias which are everywhere in the space this year… from the six planters around the deck, to the morning glories in the dahlia planter in the centre of the yard, to the baskets hanging along the neighbour’s garage… and back again…

my camera was close by, but I just enjoyed the moment…

I’m fairly sure it was a female ruby-throated hummingbird…

how blessed that I was sitting in that spot and looked up at that exact moment…

tad…

02 Friday Sep 2022

Posted by in business, family, garden, life, moments, nature, Photography, retirement, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Wednesday, the kids met us for breakfast and then came by to pick up a few items from the giveaway collection…

while they were here, they pulled down some wayward Virginia creeper along the garage and moved some unsightly cord off the pond bridge…

then they ran over to Nestor’s to get me a shubunkin to add to the pond… there weren’t any available, so they came home with this beauty…

which was a tad bigger than I expected, lol… they all seem to be getting on fine in the school so we are good;-)…

drying…

01 Thursday Sep 2022

Posted by in business, family, life, moments, retirement, Uncategorized, weather

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , , , , , , , , , ,

Monday was a bit of a slower day with rain during the morning… we had breakfast out and I put the foodstuff back on the shelves while my son-in-law ran out to get a few things we needed…

then we took everything out of all the bottom cabinets, and while he washed the shelves and removed a few extra shelves in the back of two of them, I went through and set aside items for the giveaway boxes…

the frame and all the doors were primed and there were doors and drawers drying all over the place, lol…

banner…

31 Wednesday Aug 2022

Posted by in family, life, moments, retirement, Uncategorized, weather

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , , , , , , , , , ,

Sunday, now that the two coats of primer were on, the actual paint went onto the shelves and the doors… and because it was going to rain, we had to do the doors inside, rather than on the deck, lol…

then we got to relax as we waited for it to dry…

we checked out a few other projects and I put back the banner that had come down in the hall…

looks so much better now that the holes have been repaired…

screws…

30 Tuesday Aug 2022

Posted by in business, family, garden, moments, retirement, technology, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , , , , , , , , ,

Thursday, the actual paint went on the shelves and doors…

the dishes that weren’t staying were all packed up and a pickup scheduled for next week…

we had to run out to pick up some washers and screws to use on the doors…

we also stopped for ice cream… I got a blizzard and my son-in-law a banana split… yum…

what a great treat after all the work…