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26 Saturday Jun 2021

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Wednesday was a busy day…

got the bathtub pond up and running…

then climbed into the main pond to clean out the pump…

after lunch my son-in-law and middle grandson came by… one levelled the waterfall stone so that water doesn’t leak out and need to be replaced as much… he also spread soil in the front, filled containers and tidied up the dirt pile…

the other mowed and whipper snipped the front and garden, including along the lane (sometimes we forget about that area)… he also helped with the soil cleanup…

they left, and the oldest grandson arrived to take me downtown where I got vaccinated for the second time;-)… as a treat we got ice cream cones on the way home;-)…

once home he changed a leaky hose and carried many boxes of books to the front step for pickup… we put them in plastic bags because they weren’t being picked up until Friday, but were too heavy for me to move, lol…

really was a busy one…

arrival…

13 Saturday Feb 2021

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I miss my beloved all the time but seems more so around this time of year…

he was a romantic and always made it a special holiday for me… usually that included roses…

of course there haven’t been too many for me recently, lol…

I ordered books as a treat and didn’t expect them until the 15th, but they arrived early…

woohoo, looking forward to reading in the sunny living room over the next while…

reader…

04 Monday Jan 2021

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I’ve been frustrated for a long time because I couldn’t find my Kobo reader… I think I started the search around May…

I came across it ages before that and put it away carefully, sigh… at that point I also had no idea where the charger was for it…

so, I knew it was here, and I’d been searching everywhere for it, particularly after my daughter suggested that one of the universal chargers would likely power it up…

I’ve been using the tablet, but that only works in the house due to the way that the light bounces off it outside… so that meant I needed paper books all summer, lol… I still have one last book from my last online summer purchases…

this morning I was tidying in the bedroom and there it was tucked in along the edge of one of the shelves…

honestly…

and I even found a charger that worked, from my old Blackberry, lol…

woohoo… gonna get reading;-)…

experiment…

21 Monday Sep 2020

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recently I spent a good portion of the day in the computer room tidying…

I’ve been dumping empty boxes in there for months and there were about 10 boxes of books that were packed up before the pandemic but hadn’t made it to the fire station…

when I am on my Skype calls with my BS buddies I keep losing video of them, so I thought I’d try a call from the main computer which is hooked up directly to the internet… hope that helps…

so, I had to clean the room up so when I was on the call I wouldn’t be horribly embarrassed, lol…

this morning I carried all but one of the boxes of books out to the garage and put them on the newly emptied shelves… they weigh a lot… the last one is way too heavy for me…

for tonight’s call, one person wasn’t available, one person couldn’t get her camera working and in the middle of the call, my computer decided it was going to upgrade, so I was off the call for ten minutes or so…

interesting experiment, lol…

Chapters…

08 Monday Jun 2020

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very happy that my order from Chapters/Indigo arrived yesterday…

I did laugh a bit when I realized I had ordered two of one of them… good that it was on sale, sigh… should have used the computer instead of my phone to place the order… I left the extra one out of the photo and plan to see if one of my friends would like it;-)…

the books will sit on the dining room table for a few days before I take them out one by one as I read them… it has been fun reading on the tablet in the living room and the paperbacks in the garden;-)…

location…

24 Sunday May 2020

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I now have an interesting reading plan, which depends on location……

if I am reading in the house I go into the living room and read on my tablet with Kobo… I had purchased a great number of books a few years ago and then completely forgot about them… this has proven very useful;-)…

if I am reading outside, I use paperback books… I find it too hard to read using the tablet due to the reflection…

today I just finished the last of the books that have been lent to me by friends and my next door neighbour… going back to the bookshelf to find something to reread…

Kobo…

02 Thursday Apr 2020

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I’ve finished all the new books I had and was trying to decide if I should start rereading an old one…

I thought I could read something on my Kobo, but couldn’t remember where I put the charger, lol…

but then I decided to download the app onto the tablet which I got with my last iPhone and haven’t been using…

the bonus was that I had purchased a number of books which I hadn’t yet read… and by some of my favourite authors…

I’ve spent a good portion of the day cuddled up under a blanket in the living room reading, as the snow fell…

shelves…

05 Wednesday Feb 2020

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filled nine boxes with books a few days ago…

the computer room looks like a bomb went off in it, so I am rather pleased to have started the cleanup process…

happily, it was easy to pack them up… I spent many years collecting books on religion, feminism and spirituality… now seems like a good time to pass them along to someone else…

I also gathered many books on children and worship…

planning to drop them off at the Fire Station in the next while…

put aside a few that covered Celtic writings…

once I find a few more empty boxes I will continue with the decluttering;-)…

looking forward to having shelves with space on them, not crammed with books I no longer read…

plates…

26 Wednesday Dec 2018

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on Christmas Eve day I bought some new plates I’d been eyeing for a while…

last night we used them for Christmas dinner…

today I had to find a place to put them… had a good time going through one of the kitchen cupboards and making space… was able to let a number of things go which always makes me happy…

later in the day I spent some time searching for something on the hallway bookshelf… and in the process was able to set aside a number of children’s books… again, way to go me…

dishes have been put away, give aways packed up, and books ready to be picked up by a young friend…

underneath…

15 Wednesday Mar 2017

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have six books packed for holiday reading…

two 3-book series from Nora Roberts… she is one of my favourite authors but I haven’t been reading for quite a while…

underneath all those shoes and clothes the books are in the bag…

looking forward to the opportunity to spend time just relaxing and reading…

sounds glorious;-)…