sump…

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…

mosquitoes…

18 Thursday Aug 2022

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up very early on Tuesday… a friend picked me up and we drove to Miss Millie’s Flower Farm…

what a lovely time we had… other than the very hungry mosquitoes it was delightful, lol…

we got containers and then wandered through the space cutting whichever flowers caught our fancy…

I should have not bothered getting a container, because I kept pulling out my camera to take pictures, lol…

my friend, who has great flower design sense filled her container up so that it looked like an arrangement as we were going along… eventually I got her to tell me what else I needed to finish my bouquet 🤪…

then we laid the stems out on a table and she produced two beautiful arrangements…

what a fun time…

interruption…

17 Wednesday Aug 2022

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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…

gladiola…

16 Tuesday Aug 2022

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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;-)…

effort…

15 Monday Aug 2022

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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…

shim…

14 Sunday Aug 2022

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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…

roll…

13 Saturday Aug 2022

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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…

impossible…

12 Friday Aug 2022

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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…