mess-making…

13 Wednesday Nov 2024

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Saturday’s project was to transplant the lemon tree and the fern…

had to run out to the garage to get gloves and into the basement for a pail and spoon, lol…

after a bit of digging and mess-making the two plants were in their new pots, trimmed, fertilized, and watered…

the fern was absolutely jammed into the pot and took quite a bit of work to get it thinned out, cut back and set into its new home…

it was much simpler to put the lemon tree into the larger pot and add some soil… it looks good;-)… I cannot remember when I started this, maybe this spring or last spring, lol…

hopefully they will both thrive…

nearly…

12 Tuesday Nov 2024

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Friday afternoon I took out the solar small Christmas tree lights and put them into one of the flower pots…

wanted to be sure the pics would be able to go into the nearly frozen soil…

I also filled the snowflake with solar mini lights…

they came out very nicely…

CDCP…

10 Sunday Nov 2024

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Friday morning I had an appointment to have my teeth cleaned and only had to wait a few minutes before getting into the chair…

everything went well and I was happy to only pay a tiny piece of the invoice… thanks to the CDCP… I was pleased because previously my dentist had advised they wouldn’t be participating in the program…

I usually don’t eat before my appointment, so on the way home I got a breakfast burrito;-)… yum…

and then I admired my goody bag treats, lol…

I’ve been going to this dentist for years, but still stress before and during the appointment…

turmoil…

09 Saturday Nov 2024

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when I was cleaning and reorganizing the computer room, I came across a few items that I usually put out around Christmas, but with all the recent turmoil going on, felt like now was the time to bring them out…

one is a white dove that I hung onto the Japanese Maple in the front window…

and the other is a stunning card that a friend got me for Christmas many years ago, which I placed in the dining room where I can see it…

I’ve been spending quite a bit of time thinking of those around me who are dealing with health issues and heavy life events and I am feeling more calm as I gaze upon these…

changeover…

08 Friday Nov 2024

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computer technology has not been my friend recently…

since our changeover to Shaw, in September, the printer hasn’t worked… it would not connect to the wifi…

my housemate tried numerous times to get it to connect, without success…

we ordered a special cord to connect the laptop directly to the printer… and that didn’t work either;-(…

just a few days ago, my housemate turned the router on and off a number of times and it finally connected… yay…

since then I have printed the big batch of photos that I’d been trying to get done for ages;-)… woohoo…

complaining…

07 Thursday Nov 2024

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well, last night, when I went out for a hot tub, I put on my water shoes and toque…

the toque always reminds me of my beloved;-)…

when I’d gone out the night before and climbed up the steps in my bare feet, they were cold;-(…

and so it begins…

I was feeling bad about needing them already, but when I looked at previous times I’d started wearing them it had been towards the end of October, so I guess I shouldn’t be complaining…

almost-open…

06 Wednesday Nov 2024

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in the process of moving the hibiscus and mandevilla, an almost-open bloom fell off…

the next morning I discovered that it was starting to open, even though it was laying in the dirt…

I grabbed it and put it in water and then spent the day watching as it opened and then began to close…

what a lovely treat…

I also found at least five buds on the plant… can hardly wait to see more flowers…

clinging…

05 Tuesday Nov 2024

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brought the dahlia tubers up from the basement to finish putting them to bed for the winter…

I cleaned off the last of the dirt that was clinging to them, separated them by type, cut off miscellaneous bits, and divided them up…

once they were in paper bags, they went into a box to be stored in the basement and the leftover bits and dirt made their way to the garbage bin…

happy to get that job done and hopeful they will all start to grow come spring;-)…

grumpy…

04 Monday Nov 2024

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the desktop computer has been a bit grumpy for quite some time…

a month ago or so it just stopped working… I thought maybe it was the fan as I didn’t seem to be hearing any noise from it, so I turned it off and left it alone, lol…

recently my housemate discovered that it wasn’t working and checked on it…

of course it started up without a problem… it is like it knows someone who understands something is there so it behaves itself… but it was working very slowly…

next, I contacted my computer geek son-in-law to climb in and see what the problem was…

he got in there, looked around, and while he was looking it started to work at an excellent speed, sigh…

next, I will work on it for a while and see how it behaves…