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03 Friday Jul 2026

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apparently, the virginia creeper is the happiest plant in the garden…

it is growing by leaps and bounds…

along the garage it has been trying to make its way back into the eavestrough and it also thinks it should get to the hot tub, lol…

the baskets were nearly invisible on the other side of the garden…

my housemate was able to get it all back under control in just a few minutes… looks so much better now…

it will probably look like that again in a few weeks😊…

reminiscent…

28 Sunday Jun 2026

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last evening, after supper, my housemate and I went to Dairy Queen, and he treated😊…

sadly, they were out of skor bits so I wasn’t able to get my favourite skor blizzard…

instead I chose a turtle blizzard… bit of a mistake, lol…

I enjoyed the pecans, and the ice cream but the little chocolate half circles (with caramel in them) were just not the least reminiscent of a turtle;-)…

of course I did eat half of it then and finished the second half after supper tonight…

it was a lovely summer treat though…

heat…

26 Friday Jun 2026

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had a lovely walk to the English and Leo Mol Gardens, where I met up with my adventure buddy…

as I waited, I sat with the woman who spends all her time reading… I wasn’t able to see the name of the book, lol…

the gardens are looking much nicer than the last time we walked through them, although everything is still a bit behind…

after we’d been around both areas, we popped over to the Park Cafe and had the Berry Good Sundae, which we had enjoyed just the week before when we were there for a birthday celebration;-)…

tasted like a lovely treat after all that walking in the heat;-)…

then a walk home… and a nap😄…

monstera…

14 Sunday Jun 2026

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the monstera has been struggling and leaning forward…

we picked up hardware cloth and made a tube for moss which apparently the monstera will cling to and grow up higher…

then we wedged in a few 2x4s to keep the moss tube centered in the pot…

the plant was divided into two pots and fastened to the pole… rocks, soil, and coconut husks were added and the two new plants moved into the living room…

we will see how they do;-)…

emptied…

12 Friday Jun 2026

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the hot tub was emptied a few weeks ago and we’ve been waiting for a friend to look at the broken side of the lid to see if there is a way to fix it… they weren’t available so my housemate decided to see what he could do…

we finally got around to moving it away from the wall and looking to see what might work to repair it…

many screws have been removed, and we now know what the issue was regarding the right side lid…

all new screws and bolts were purchased and a new backing inside the body of the tub was installed on both sides to make the opening and closing mechanism stronger…

it took quite some time to get it sorted and then replace all the rusted screws that hold the eight panels around the tub…

while it was out and empty, a tiny portion of the deck that it sits up against was sawn off, which made a huge difference when the tub was back in place… now the side that rubbed against the gate opens easily…

next, the tub was filled and the pump turned back on… it will be another day or so before the temperature is back to normal…

the lid works properly… I am so happy;-)…

started with a new set of chemicals and looking forward to my first hot tub…

marble-sized…

11 Thursday Jun 2026

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the storm on Tuesday was quite something…

I was worried the hail was going to come right through the windows even though it was only marble-sized in our neighbourhood…

yesterday when I wandered around the garden, I could see how much the hail had damaged the plants…

the hostas took a real beating and the poppies were knocked over by a branch which fell down from the elm tree next door…

but their colour still popped;-)…

splits…

08 Monday Jun 2026

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great anticipation and excitement on Saturday…

we’ve been looking into air conditioner splits, as well as a new air conditioner for a while now…

the current air conditioner hasn’t worked for at least three years, and maybe even five… I can’t remember…

when I had someone in to look at it, they said it was leaking freon and couldn’t be repaired… it has sometimes been very hot upstairs but I managed with a tower fan…

last year I’d been quoted around $5,000 to replace it and that just seemed too much, particularly as the cold air never really made it upstairs, lol…

we had an HVAC person in the other day and the splits just weren’t going to work here… before moving forward with a new air conditioner, they suggested trying to get the old one working… they came back on Saturday to see if they could get the old one going…

they were here for a couple of hours and got it working😁😆😄…

the problem was the virginia creeper which had wound its way around the motor… I guess the other company was just wanting me to purchase a new air conditioner…

it is recording 13 something and the optimum is 20, so that sounds quite wonderful to me…

my housemate is going to be exceedingly happy…