15 Thursday Feb 2024
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algae, big girl pants, blessed, fish, glass, goldfish, moments, nature, pump, scrubbed, tank, widow
spent some quality time with the fish over the last few days;-)…
pumps were scrubbed out and tank glass was cleaned…
I have started to feed them every other day to see if they might eat some of the algae on the rocks…
not sure if they are mad at me or not, lol…
14 Wednesday Feb 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, Costco, garden, groceries, hose, hose attachments, leaking, moments, shopping, water, widow
Tuesday we went to Costco and I got a new set of attachments for the hose…
sadly, the current attachment has been leaking for awhile and the hose doesn’t expand without an attachment…
hoping that all three will work well… fingers crossed…
13 Tuesday Feb 2024
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adjustments, appointment, big girl pants, blessed, fail, furnace, Gas, high energy, inspection, Manitoba Hydro, moments, Technology, weather, widow
so, on Thursday, the Manitoba Hydro inspector came to check the installation of the new furnace…
sadly, we didn’t pass inspection…
as he worked he shared what he was looking at and pointed out a few issues which he felt needed to be corrected…
once he was finished everything got written up and I had to sign the paperwork…
apparently the furnace company has thirty days to make the adjustments at which time I have to call and have them back to test it again…
the good news is that none of the items mean the furnace isn’t working, and because we previously had a high efficiency furnace we don’t have to have any adjustments made to the gas hot water heater until it needs to be replaced;-)… phew…
now on to the adjustments and recheck…
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…
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