hung…

02 Thursday Nov 2023

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big girl pants, blessed, car, family, garage, grandson, hung, mess, moments, organized, sorting, tools, weather, widow

nearly a year ago, my eldest grandson and I began working away in the garage… he has a very organized mind…

a few weeks later, we cleaned out a spot and moved the shelves further along the wall…

the next time we worked in it, after purchasing additional hardware, we attached hooks and hung up a number of garden and winter tools… like items were gathered together and placed on the shelves… we came in when we started to get cold…

we spent another few hours another day working away in the space… more tools were hung on the other side of the space, the garbage bin was filled with broken, unusable items, two boxes were filled with giveaway items and the bench had much more space…

great strides were made each time we were in there and we were able to get the car in when it was home over the winter…

then we didn’t do anything more, because it got warm and the car didn’t need to live inside…

so, maybe it got filled up with other stuff, lol…

over the summer, it was great to be able to find tools without effort…

average…

01 Wednesday Nov 2023

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yesterday, I set up pumpkins with lights in them, and put a witch’s hat on the larger one…

I filled a bowl with chocolate bars and set it by the door…

we had twenty kids, about average for our neighbourhood… this was a good number considering how cold it was… I was surprised at how quiet they were – many of them just rang the doorbell, lol…

two of them were from Sturgeon Heights collecting non-perishable items for Christmas hampers… last week there was a flyer in the mailbox advising they would be coming so I had gathered a few items to donate… made sure they got candy too;-)…

the house looked good with the ghost on the steps and pumpkins in the window;-)…

displays…

31 Tuesday Oct 2023

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I’ve been collecting photos of Halloween displays since the very beginning of October when they started popping up on my walks in the neighbourhood;-)…

here are some that I enjoyed🎃…

decorating for Halloween has certainly become a popular pastime…

the very tall skeletons were cool, but I kind of like the happy displays, more than the scary ones, lol…

the majority of these were taken before the snow landed (and hasn’t left) which has since curtailed my walks;-)…

breaking…

30 Monday Oct 2023

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big girl pants, blessed, breaking, cold, fish, garden, goldfish, grandson, ice, moments, nature, plants, pond, pumps, snow, time, water, weather, widow, winter

Saturday, late in the afternoon, after breaking the ice on the pond, we caught twenty-one of the goldfish…

the pond water was filled with leaves and was rather brown and murky…

it was quite the job as, at one point, my grandson went into it barefoot with his pants rolled up to cut down the water lilies and grasses (I think it was about -12°C in the air)…

but that really helped catch a bunch of them that had been hiding under the lily leaves… they were moving slower in the cold, but still snuck out of the net… also, some of the catching was in the dark, lol…

then they sat in pails in the house for hours before getting moved into the three tanks…

we were careful to be sure to keep size and numbers similar in the tanks so that there is sufficient space for all of them…

we thought we had them all, but on Sunday we discovered five more, woohoo…

now, the pumps have been removed from the pond, and it is apparently going into the winter with water in it, lol…

corner…

29 Sunday Oct 2023

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big girl pants, blessed, corner, moments, projects, shelves, step stool, Tea, tidy, widow

had a bit of fun tidying up the corner cupboard…

had to get out the step stool to reach the top shelf…

didn’t take too long and reminded me of how much tea I have up there, yikes…

now it is organized nicely, with the items I use least located on the top shelf…

happy that I got one of my little projects completed;-)..

memorable …

28 Saturday Oct 2023

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the sky today has been a beautiful canvas of colour and light…

woke up and saw this gorgeous view… had to run back and get my iPhone so I could take a few pictures…

this was just after eight am;-)…

and tonight around seven pm…

both memorable;-)… what a treat to spend a few moments enjoying the beauty…

spare…

27 Friday Oct 2023

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this morning I got up early as I had a dentist appointment and my grandson was going to drive me down before he went to class…

it was dark and there was a lot of snow out there…

I put on a vest, dug out a hat and gloves, and made sure I had cash for the taxi…

it lightened up before we left and I went out to start cleaning off the car… there was easily six or seven inches of snow on it…

made it to my appointment, and when it was done walked to the Delta Hotel to get a taxi…

got a few nice photos of snow-covered trees on the short walk…

as I was riding along in the taxi, I realized that I didn’t have a house key😳…

thankfully, after my beloved died and I was on my own in the house, I put a spare key in the backyard for just such an occasion…

and, I was able to get through the snow and collect it, lol…

I unlocked the door and put the key back before shovelling the front sidewalk and steps and the back deck and hot tub area…

got that adrenaline going, in the taxi, and in the yard;-)…

fabric…

26 Thursday Oct 2023

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big girl pants, blessed, covers, fabric, family, grandson, happy, hard work, IKEA, moments, purple, Technology, upholstery, widow

a while back, I removed the cover on one of my IKEA chairs and arranged to have two new ones made…

I used the company that did such a great job on the garden chair cushions…

we picked a pretty fabric and then waited… and waited… and waited…

the first piece of fabric that arrived was defective and it took a while to get the replacement, lol…

got the email advising the covers were done and raced over to pick them up…

then it took us quite some time to get the covers on the chairs as it was snug… good that there were muscles in the room, lol…

but they look great… and I am very pleased with the colour;-)…

handwritten…

25 Wednesday Oct 2023

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been having trouble keeping one of the medicine cabinet doors closed for the last few weeks…

I thought it was because the magnet on the mirror was separating from the plastic behind it…

the other morning I looked at it and thought it was no longer level…

at which point I discovered that the plastic where the door attached to the cabinet had broken… it took two of us to remove the broken cabinet…

what a treat to discover my beloved’s handwritten measurements inside the hole🤗…

after measuring the space, it was off to Home Depot to see if we could find something that would fit into the hole in the wall… and of course I needed two, sigh…

we found a cabinet that should work, but the store we were at didn’t have any in stock, so it meant another trip… after trying two other stores it was off to Rona, where we found two of the same cabinet at an even better price;-)…

it has been fourteen years since my beloved installed these cabinets when we redid the bathroom, so I guess it did pretty well, being opened more than ten thousand times, lol… that wasn’t a bad run…