11 Sunday Feb 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, evaporating, fish tanks, house, humidity, moments, nature, pumps, water, widow
spent some time topping up all three fish tanks…
the water is evaporating at a fast rate…
it seems like only a week ago that I had added a bit of water to each of them…
I guess the good news is that the humidity level in the house is good, lol… and the pumps are much quieter the higher the water level;-)…
09 Friday Feb 2024
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on Wednesday I went out for my hot tub much earlier than usual… rain was predicted for later in the evening and overnight…
I don’t like being in the rain so I was pleased to get out and back in before it started…
I still wore a peaked hat over my toque, lol…
06 Tuesday Feb 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, doldrums, flowers, happy, home, moments, purple, tulips, vases, weather, widow
yesterday I picked up tulips when I was at the grocery store… I was very happy about that…
when I got home they went into a single large vase, but this morning I took the time to separate them into four containers…
one is on the stairs to go up to the bedroom…
one has gone onto the kitchen counter…
one is in the bathroom…
and one is next to where I sit to watch TV in the Den…
what a lovely treat… flowers are what help me get through the doldrums of February;-)…
05 Monday Feb 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, haircut, ice, moments, nature, remembering, sidewalks, sore, time, twinges, walk, weather, widow
for the last week one of my knees has been a bit sore, so I have been taking it pretty easy…
today I was able to get in for a haircut and I got dropped off so that I could get there right away…
happy to have a tidy and lighter head, lol…
I decided to walk home as I could call and get a ride if I needed it should my knee misbehave, although it hasn’t given me any twinges for the last day or so…
I walked on the dry sidewalk along Portage, but when I turned onto the side streets I used the middle of the road as the sidewalks were covered in ice…
happily I made it home without any pain…
04 Sunday Feb 2024
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, moments, nature, orchid, phalaenopsis, plants, purple, widow
I’ve been waiting patiently for this phalaenopsis orchid to open…
here it was on Friday…
Saturday…
and today…
it is beautiful and different from the other one that has been open for awhile…
in my mind I was thinking they might turn out to be the same, lol… but not;-)…
whenever I look at my orchids I always think of my beloved, who brought them to me all the time…
31 Wednesday Jan 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, coyote, creek, daytime, moments, nature, snow, streets, weather, widow, wildlife, worry
as I was walking on the spot looking out the living room window this afternoon, I watched a coyote across the way… it was headed towards Portage Avenue along the creek…
I didn’t have time to get the camera out, but took a photo with my iPhone, which is cropped a bit here…
when I was up in the middle of the night, not too long ago, I watched one walk up the street…
fun to see wildlife but a bit of a worry that they are having to come out in the daytime and amongst the city streets…
30 Tuesday Jan 2024
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big girl pants, bird seed, blessed, garden, grass, hot tub, ice, moments, nature, removing, shovelling, slush, snow, squirrel, warm, weather, widow
went out and shovelled up some of the slushy snow/ice… it was getting very slippery beside the hot tub, so I am happy this got done…
it will be much safer when I am uncovering and covering the hot tub…
it didn’t take too long as it was warm out, so after that was done, I filled all the bird feeders…
then I uncovered the seeds in the “house” on the deck at 11:44 am and by 2:30 pm it was completely covered over again…
for a little while I kept going out and removing the grass that the squirrel was adding, but I gave up…
29 Monday Jan 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, chemicals, chlorine, empty, experimenting, grandson, health, hot tub, Krevco, moments, nature, plunge tub, water, widow
the decision was made to empty the plunge tub and refill it with fresh water…
after a visit to Krevco to get some chemicals for the hot tub, we got information on what to use for the plunge tub…
we picked up liquid chlorine and will do some experimenting as to how much to add, and how often, lol…
we used the pump that usually empties the hot tub and then dumped the last bit… wiped it out and then spent a while refilling it…
cover and bungee cord went back on and it is ready for plunging…
at Krevco we saw a plunge pool… it was $10,000, 😳…
28 Sunday Jan 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, caddy, grandson, happy, light, moments, plants, shelves, shower, shower caddy, space, Technology, widow
not too long ago I saw a cool use of a shower caddy…
it had been tucked in a corner of a room and had puck lights under the shelves to provide light for each of the plants…
I’d been looking online but hadn’t yet ordered one… here’s the spot where it will go…
today I got a shelf from Home Depot and we made a few adjustments as we put it together;-)…
ended up leaving the top portion of the pipe off and using some cord holders and zip ties to attach the pipe to the wall…
I decided not to use any additional lights as the spot this is set in gets a lot of light…
I am pleased with how it came out… and may have to get a few more plants, lol…
27 Saturday Jan 2024
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beams, bedroom, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, happy, hot tub, light, moments, moon, nature, sun, sunshine, weather, widow
at last the sun came out late yesterday afternoon…
instead of a nap, I decided to read in the beams of light… and when I went out for my hot tub, the full moon was visible, woohoo…
this morning the sun was out again and I was so excited that I took a few photos in the bedroom as I admired the sunshine on the bed…
that sunlight makes the flowers even more beautiful;-)…
I have spent as much time as possible in the light, even spent some time on the deck…
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