beds…

17 Thursday Aug 2023

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Tuesday, our neighbour, who had moved away, came by to remove a couple of very large planters that were filled with great soil… they had been using them for their veggie gardens and decided to take the beds apart and shovel the soil into their trailer to reuse at the new house as they are renting this one out…

happily I was allowed three wheelbarrows full of the great soil…

then it had to be raked across the grass to help level it out…

looks bad now, but I am excited to see how it will look in a few weeks…

launching…

16 Wednesday Aug 2023

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this little red squirrel bounces around the garden like crazy, along with some other friends…

usually I don’t mind, but a few days ago I had to clean two chairs and a table from where their little paw prints covered everything, after the previous night’s rain, lol…

they are currently jumping onto the chair, then the table, and launching onto the bird feeder…

after wiping the chairs, I had to wait for them to dry before putting on the cushions… I’d cleaned up quite a bit of the mess, before I thought to take these photos…

little beggars…

arch…

15 Tuesday Aug 2023

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on Saturday I took a photo of the veggie garden arch…

I’ve taken lots, but haven’t felt they were just right…

finally I figured out that I should take one from the front yard, lol…

looks pretty… maybe next year I won’t have the beans growing across the top, where I can’t reach them, lol…

gifted…

14 Monday Aug 2023

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Sunday was International left-handers day…

made me laugh as I thought about the cute magnet that my son-in-law got for me a number of years ago…

it is certainly one of my favourites;-)…

apparently both my beloved and I were gifted…

sad about the kids, lol…

potted…

13 Sunday Aug 2023

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had some fun on Thursday…

had breakfast out and then we went to Home Depot, found plants, pots, and rocks… then it was on to Rona to check for different pots, and back to Home Depot to pick up the first one, lol…

when we got home the plant light that had been ordered had arrived…

at last, everything was potted, put together, and set up;-)…

I think it was a good birthday for the twenty-three year old;-)…

runner…

12 Saturday Aug 2023

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on Thursday, amongst all the shopping, we ran over to IKEA to pick up a lamp…

while we were there we came across a runner that was purple and gray-blue, and just the length I was looking for… on sale, it jumped right off the shelf into my arms…

when I got home I realized that the two ends were a shade of yellow and wondered if it would spoil the look…

but that bit of yellow goes perfectly with the wood on the wall…

it took a while for it to flatten out, but I am very pleased with how it looks…

what do you think;-)…

fritz…

11 Friday Aug 2023

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the dryer has been on the fritz for a week or so… we’d tried a few things, but nothing made a difference…

I sent a message to Hameed Appliance Repair on Wednesday and this morning Ron arrived and had a look…

he was able to replace a piece (even for this old dryer) and got it working;-)…

he advised we needed to change the vent tube, so we went to Home Depot again, lol… we’ve been there a number of times in the last few days…

now the tube has been replaced, the dryer is back in its spot, and laundry is being done;-)…

categories…

09 Wednesday Aug 2023

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had some fun the other evening when I watched a webinar on Mylio… it was a beautiful evening so I watched it on the deck…

I had tried the free version, and eventually bought the better one as I have so many pictures on my various pieces of technology…

one of the things it does is combine all your photos and remove duplicates… still working on that one, lol…

it also puts them in a calendar which can make finding them simpler than having to search through a bunch, guessing when the one you want may have been taken…

the photographer on the webinar mentioned that he no longer uses categories, because the program can find basically anything you ask for…

made me think I need to get back in there and play with it more;-)…

left-out…

08 Tuesday Aug 2023

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been looking through my photos and came across a few pond pictures which demonstrate how crazy the water lily has gone, lol…

this is it yesterday…

this was last year about the same time…

and the year before…

still not sure if it is the weather or a response to being left-out over the winter…