withdrawal…

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stopped for gas on the way home and decided to pick up some wings while the tank was getting filled… had been a long day and I thought I deserved a treat… door was closed and locked… so, no wings for me…

got home to see that the power had been off sometime during the day, but was back on…

tried to go onto the Internet to order some supper, only to discover that the laptop wouldn’t connect… again…

then, realized that my phone wasn’t connecting either, sigh…

went upstairs to see if the problem was that the desktop computer needed to be turned back on…

as I walked into the computer room it smelled like burning rubber… computer would not turn on, was hot, and appeared to be emitting the smell… unplugged it…

thought – okay, I will just watch a little TV and then sort this out…

turn on the TV and get “Please wait while system reloads”… waited, nothing reloaded… called my daughter in Ottawa to look up the MTS phone number… can’t believe it wasn’t in my Contacts…

call MTS and get a message saying that the Internet and TVs are experiencing intermittent outages and they are working as fast as they can to fix the problem… reminds me way too much of how my day had gone at work!!!

never mind the dinner issue and the Internet problem and the (likely) dead computer… I have NO TV…. this is serious…

I heat up something from the freezer and eat it on the deck, play solitaire on my phone, top up the pond, water the plants and finally the Internet comes back up on my phone… yay, it’s fixed…

head inside to watch some TV… it still isn’t working…

phone MTS and get the same message…

wifi stops working…

have now turned off the wifi and using 3G to upload my post…

had enough… going to bed and hoping that everything will work then… although I don’t think that’s likely for the computer, lol…

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sky…

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tonight, after supper and a nap, I headed into the garden to take a few pictures of the opened up area of the pond…

waterfall after the fix...

waterfall after the fix…

apparently, while I was napping, my pond guy came by and put it all back together… looks good… now we will have to see if the leak is fixed…

the sky was beautiful and I took a quick pic…

gorgeous sky this evening...

gorgeous sky this evening…

tomorrow morning I will add water to the pond to top it up when I water all the plants…

this morning I got up, dressed and went out and watered everything… it is just too hot to do it at night when I get home…

some of this morning's purple morning glories...

some of this morning’s purple morning glories…

there were five morning glory blooms this morning… and it looks like there will be a number tomorrow morning as well…

closing up and opening...

closing up and opening…

I do enjoy time in the garden… a lovely way to start and end the day…

Hot…

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feels like 27.6 Celsius right now… not sure what it got to this afternoon, but it was very hot…

there were three morning glories and I spent a bit of time enjoying them…

then I worked in the garden and took breaks to do some reading…

kids came for dinner and we discovered that one of my squirrel friends ate through a wire on the lawnmower so that will need to be fixed…

might just sleep out on the deck tonight…

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water lily…

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hurried out to sit and admire the morning glories… and there weren’t any… hadn’t watered the garden and it was rather dry out there…

got out the hose and gave everything a nice drink… then sat by the pond and read and watched the water lily open up…

it was lovely to watch it open… could almost see it moving…

got pics on my phone and with the Nikon… sadly, tonight the laptop would not connect to the Internet so I am only putting up a couple of shots from my phone…

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special day…

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there were 5 blooms this morning… what a wonderful sight to behold…

four of the morning glories...

four of the morning glories…

four were two different shades of purple and there was a lovely blue one as well…

two of the purple morning glories...

two of the purple morning glories…

to top that off, the water lily is rising above the water in the pond…

water lily bloom rising up...

water lily bloom rising up…

every morning is a new surprise in the garden, although tomorrow I had better get out there and water and fertilize everything…

we have a bit of a tradition at work… we celebrate birthdays by circulating a card for everyone to sign and then pick up a rose for the birthday person… it is always fun to try and find a way to surprise them, because everyone knows the plan… today we had a lovely gathering and gave a colleague a beautiful orange rose…

we got some great pictures of the group and I got a couple of nice shots of the rose…

birthday rose...

birthday rose…

used to be George’s job to pick up the roses for me when I couldn’t get to the florist… now I put on the big girl pants and get them myself, lol…

morning…

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excited to get up and check out the morning glory today…

it was a beautiful shade of purple and I got some great pictures with a new camera app that I downloaded called PocketCam… looks like it takes good pictures… two different people suggested I enter at least one in a contest…

first morning glory this summer...

first morning glory this summer…

as I was backing down the driveway I spotted a goldfinch at the feeder and got a couple of pictures…

goldfinch as I was leaving the house...

goldfinch as I was leaving the house…

pretty good way to start the morning…

on my way home I picked up some lovely long glads… a lovely way to finish off the workday as well…

fresh glads...

fresh glads…

connected with both of my girls… all in all a darn fine day…

moon and morning glory…

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last night I went out for a hot tub and the moon was looking spectacular in its fullness, so I came in, got the tripod and camera to take a few pictures…

full moon last night...

full moon last night…

of course, by then more clouds had materialized and I didn’t get anything great, although when I was in the hot tub later, the clouds opened up and the moon shone brightly again, lol…

tonight I was admiring the dahlia again and noticed that a morning glory is getting ready to open… I imagine it will be open when I head off to work in the morning…

first morning glory buds, one of my favourites...

first morning glory buds, just a few days ago…

I just love it when the morning glories start blooming…

morning glory ready to bloom tomorrow...

morning glory ready to bloom tomorrow…

took a few pics and then went to see if I could get a picture of the bud on the water lily in the pond… right now the water hyacinth are all gathered up around it… if you look hard, you might spot it on the right…

water lily bud hiding among the water hyacinth...

water lily bud hiding among the water hyacinth…

the waterfall is going again, so we will see how the water drops…

summer is such a glorious time…

first dahlia bloom…

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as I was leaving the bedroom this morning I took this picture of the sun lighting the tree next door…

sunlight in the neighbour's tree this morning...

sunlight on the neighbour’s tree this morning…

when I stepped into the garden I saw that the dahlia was finally completely open…

really took a while to get there… the bud looked like it was ready to bloom before the August 6 party…

purple dahlia...

purple dahlia… on August 14…

it has been opening up very slowly… but it is quite lovely and I got a couple of good pictures…

first dahlia bloom this summer, from the side...

first dahlia bloom this summer, from the side… hmmm, looks pink, not so purple…

strange smell…

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for the last week or so there has been a strange smell in the house…

usually smelled it in the kitchen and realized that a couple of potatoes had gone bad in the potato drawer…  Wednesday or Thursday I tossed them all out and washed and aired out the drawer…

problem solved, or so I thought…

when I got home on Saturday morning it still smelled a bit, but I opened all the cupboard doors and drawers again and walked all through the house and couldn’t pinpoint a smell so opened the potato drawer and left it ajar to see if that would help…

tonight I got home from work and opened the door to hundreds of flies roaring around the house, mainly in the kitchen… it was disgusting and once again I went through and couldn’t find anything… and I’ve been killing flies ever since…

Crystal stopped by a little while ago and she wandered around the house… couldn’t smell anything in the kitchen but I’d had the screen door open for hours so thought that might have gotten rid of the smell…

she checked out the basement and thought something smelled bad in the workroom… I had sensed a strange odor by the woodpile and wondered if some of the wood had been wet when the ServiceMaster people put it back, but it didn’t really smell damp…

Crystal walked out of the workroom and I looked down onto a little table beside the freezer and saw – something – in a plastic bag sitting there… it looked like a clear bag filled with dirty paper towels but it was a chicken that had been in the freezer and when we were putting things in after the party we must have taken it out and not put it back into the freezer… I put it into a plastic bag and took it right out to the garbage can…

then I got a wet cloth to wipe up the bit of dried blood that appeared underneath it when I slid it into the bag…

there were maggots on the table… thank goodness Crystal was able to carry the whole thing outside as we were both gagging…

now we know where the flies came from… I have put bleach down on the floor and will get Jeff to deal with the table tomorrow…

I didn’t want to wear those big girl pants today… that was disgusting, but I am glad the mysterious smell has been discovered…

focussing on sweet smelling roses…

roses the kids sent last year to remember...

roses the kids sent last year to remember our wedding anniversary…