24 Saturday May 2025
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the other day we discovered that the battery on the lawnmower was no longer working…
after figuring out how to get it out of the housing, we went to The Battery Man to replace it… $168 and it works again…
very happy about that because the grass was getting really long after all the rain…
grass was mowed, whipper snipped, and blown…
looks great;-)…
07 Thursday Mar 2024
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woooo, my Fitbit was mad at me Monday morning…
the battery was so low it didn’t want to charge so I had to fiddle with it quite a few times to get it started…
apparently I should have plugged it in before I went to bed 😳…
didn’t get a picture at the time, lol…
09 Saturday Dec 2023
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waited for my Fitbit to charge before going out to shovel the sidewalk today…
and when I got back into the house, there was the Fitbit, sitting on the counter, still attached to the charger…
really not counting the steps, lol…
11 Sunday Jun 2023
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on May 25th the new doorbell arrived…
no time to sort it out until that Sunday when I was able to charge it…
on Monday, the 29th, we managed to get it up onto the doorframe and working…
since then it has worked on and off… the battery is supposed to last for three weeks, but late on Saturday it advised it turned itself off and needed to be charged…
I found the special key to remove it from the door, then the charging cord, charged it, and was able to hook it back up…
woohoo;-)…
25 Thursday Jul 2019
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for the last few days I’ve been very careful walking on the lower deck…
one of the boards kept flipping up when I stepped down onto it…
nearly tripped a few of my friends yesterday;-(…
tonight my grandson found some screws in the garage and went to drill them in…
apparently, the battery pack needs to be charged, lol… neither the battery on the drill, or the spare, had any juice…
I’ve now got one battery charging and will put the second one on the charger tomorrow…
luckily, he was able to finish screwing it down with my little kitchen screwdriver…
safe to walk out there again;-)…
30 Wednesday Jan 2019
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my, oh my… it has been crazy cold…
this morning while I was waiting for the car to warm up a bit, I took some pictures…
the cover of the hot tub is amazing… I haven’t been in it for a while, but it looks like it has turned into a cocoon to keep the heat in, lol…
it is so beautiful as everything is covered in ice…
I don’t usually sit in the car while it is running in the garage, but it was so cold that I felt Indi needed to warm up before we left… although the door was wide open it smelled, so I moved her onto the driveway for a few final minutes…
that’s when I got the pictures, lol…
last night when I left the office it was so cold that it felt like everything in the car was frozen, even though the battery had been plugged in all day…
rarely do we all plug in, but this morning I took this photo… clearly others felt it was cold as well…
21 Friday Dec 2018
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as I learn more and more about my new camera I am very pleased with it….
the one disappointing thing is that the battery runs down rather quickly… all of a sudden it will announce that the battery is exhausted… and not always at an opportune time, lol…
I’ve tried taking out the card and uploading it to my iPhone in case the transferring is using it up…
not sure that is the issue…
have also been struggling with the downloading… at first it worked perfectly and then all of a sudden it wouldn’t connect…
hoping to get to the camera store over the break to get a lesson…
14 Thursday Dec 2017
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Shadow is home… yay…
left work a bit early so I could go and collect her… two weeks in the carspital seemed like forever to me…
I still would forget what the udrive car looked like when I was in parking lots, lol… thank goodness I took that picture the first day…
when I arrived at DonVito on Sargent the process was smooth… after I returned the rental they walked me around the car and explained everything that had been done to her… my biggest concern was that the colour wouldn’t match the rest of her, but happily it was perfect…
then, as I was getting ready to drive away, I realized my parking pass was in the rental car… turned off the car, went in and got someone to fetch it… then when I got back into the car, it chattered and did not start…
went back in and was told that I shouldn’t have turned it off for 15 to 20 minutes after it had been boosted… there didn’t seem to be any clarity on why the battery was dead…
a young woman mechanic came out and got it going… I drove around for half an hour to be sure there was enough time for the battery to charge before getting gas and returning home…
thankfully it started after the fill…
we will see what happens in the morning…
so happy to have her back…
05 Sunday Jul 2015
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quite the day… got this shot of the wasps building a nest on my deck…
was able to get really close as they weren’t moving much… cool this morning after yesterday’s heat and humidity…
walked to the grocery store to get hamburger for tonight’s dinner with the kids and as I was walking up the street to the house reached for my phone to take a picture of the haze and couldn’t find it…
kind of freaked out thinking I might have dropped it in the store… rushed into the house and tried phoning it before jumping into the car and racing back to the store… and there it was, singing in my bag, just not in its usual place… hiding under my OneTouch Mini…
took a few minutes to calm down, lol… I am rather meticulous about putting things away in the same place in whatever bag I have so this doesn’t happen often… thank goodness…
my daughter and I went out to get some fresh veggies and stopped and picked up some groceries for their family…
when we were home a bit later I mentioned how my phone was running out of charge much more quickly these days…
she had a look at it and then checked to see when my contract was up… at 4:45 she discovered that it was already up and at 5:00 we were at the phone store in the mall:-)…
got an iPhone 6… didn’t take too long and it is saving me $5 or so a month…
because I don’t use iCloud to back my phone up, they weren’t able to set it up for me…
had to check out all the phone stores to get a case… eventually got two…
this one and a clear one which I will put one of my photos in…
came home and my daughter started backing it up… but it took longer than they were here for, so she told me what to do when it finished…
took some great pictures with it but, in the very long and convoluted process to get it set up, had to delete them all…
but the sun was really red as it was going down tonight, lol…
well, it is almost set up, sigh… I am on hold with MTS because I can’t remember that password… looks like everything else is good to go…
who knew it would take minutes to buy and then hours to set up, lol…
technology at its finest…
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