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pump…

03 Sunday May 2026

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spent time in the garden on a lovely day…

used the pond pump to empty the water on top of the tarp and then took the tarp off the pond…

took a few minutes to lay it out on the grass to dry out…

we moved a few planters to new places and will see if they stay in those spots…

did a little bit of raking of leaves, but there is still a lot to do…

and also spent some time reading in one of the chairs which recently came out of the shed…

appear…

30 Thursday Apr 2026

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had fun watching my grandson start to work on his Japanese Maple bonsai…

we picked up the Japanese Maple last spring and it lived in the garden for the summer and moved into the living room in the fall…

over the winter it lost all of its leaves, but new ones have just started to appear;-)…

lots of bits were trimmed off and quite a few types of wire were used to begin the process of bending branches to new spots…

this is the second try as the first one he worked on didn’t make it…

kind of exciting to see how it will turn out, although it is a very slow process…

April…

29 Wednesday Apr 2026

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last night was my first in the hot tub for a really long time…

a screw had come loose on the left side cover and it took quite a while before we were able to screw it back in… then it needed to be filled and it took me ages to get that done…

looking for photos of it, I found this note about the day the hot tub arrived —- April 29, 2009…

and this one from my first hot tub on Mother’s Day, 2009…

the area around the tub has changed a lot since its arrival…

these photos reminded me when the right hand cover came off and was repaired…

these photos were taken on April 28, 2023…

apparently, the end of April has been an important period for the hot tub…

next up will be emptying the tub and figuring out if we can make the right side more stable for opening and closing…

u-haul…

28 Tuesday Apr 2026

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spent the morning between reading and watching the move-out next door…

luckily, there were lots of helpers, although it still took four hours to fill the u-haul, two trucks, and two cars before they left…

an hour or so later, as the sky was clouding over, a hired crew came to move the hot tub to its new home…

next up will be seeing who moves in;-)

blew…

26 Sunday Apr 2026

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sat out on the deck on Thursday morning…

it was fairly warm, but windy…

I took my slippers off to get some sun on my feet and had one foot on a slipper, but crossed my leg with the other…

all of a sudden the second slipper blew right off the deck, lol…

I hopped on down, brought it back up onto the deck, and slid both of them under my foot;-)…

tails…

25 Saturday Apr 2026

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went for a walk to the English Garden on Thursday morning… it was so windy that I couldn’t wear my hat, and my scarf ended up with the tails blowing behind me…

had a little break beside Sargent Sundae as I waited for my walking buddies…

hadn’t been yet this spring so it was interesting to see the state of the gardens as it has not been long since the snow melted…

the gardens were clean and tidy, but not much was growing yet, lol…

we did come across some photographers who were looking for birds;-)…

the most fun was counting the frogs by the pergola… in just a few minutes I saw at least twelve…

got all my steps in between walking to, around, and home from the Gardens…

electric…

24 Friday Apr 2026

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there was a lovely electric storm late Wednesday evening…

it lasted for quite a while, with lots of thunder and lightning…

I watched it from the open patio doors as well as the living room window and the bedroom…

it lit up the neighbourhood like daylight a number of times, and the lightening flashes were beautiful… although I hope they didn’t hit anything…

eventually it rained, but not for too long or too hard… I heard from a friend that it rained like crazy where they live, not that far from here…

I was so busy watching that I didn’t take a single picture, lol…

here’s how the garden looked the next morning…

shed…

23 Thursday Apr 2026

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had a great day in the garden yesterday… at last it was nice enough to put the cushions back on the deck…

sat on the top deck reading in the sun for ages… eventually I had to move to the lower deck to sit in the shade because it was so hot…

I tried to open the shed to bring out the rest of the lawn furniture, with no success…

but, I turned over the water barrel and yard waste bin, and emptied pots into the yard waste bin…

then there was sitting, lunch, and reading for the remainder of the afternoon…

once my housemate arrived home, he got the shed open and brought out some of the furniture…

summer is coming 😊…

chilled…

21 Tuesday Apr 2026

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was treated to a blizzard to celebrate my birthday…

was kind of funny, because I was cold after getting chilled in an air conditioned restaurant…

so I sat there eating the blizzard in my winter coat, with the seat warmer going, and gloves on…

but it was a wonderful treat… and half of it did go into the freezer for another day, lol…