23 Wednesday Aug 2023
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Monday I cleaned up after supper…
the deal is whoever makes supper doesn’t have to clean up…
so, I was happy to be doing the dishes;-)…
had a delicious meal of shrimp, red pepper, and Shanghai noodles with a delightful sauce…
the food was prepared while I relaxed and watched some tv…
what a treat;-)…
22 Monday May 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, bridge, clean, fish, garden, goldfish, happy, moments, nature, pond, pump, water, widow
happy that the fish have finally decided to come out from under the bridge during the day;-)…
climbed into the pond as the pump that went into it last week was barely running…
after taking all the bits out, washed them in a pail, and then went back into the pond to return them…
when I turned it back on, it burbled just like when it first went in…
always careful when I go into the pond, but it also makes me happy;-)…
01 Monday May 2023
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bench, big girl pants, blessed, clean, dump, family, garage, garage floor, garbage, grandson, moments, organize, remove, snowblower, space, truck, widow
Friday we accomplished a lot…
we sorted through all of the stuff that got put into the garage when we were cleaning out the basement, and piled the items onto the driveway which were for the dump…
a truck arrived, was filled with the collection, and headed out… when it got back the snowblower was lifted in, with help from a neighbour, and away it went to someone with a large driveway…
then we started to reorganize the items that were left and make space in the garage for the car and the motorcycle…
took quite a while and lots of organizing, but eventually space was made…
and the car and motorcycle fit;-)… maybe the next project will be to wash the car, lol…
a start was made on the items still on the workbench, including the million screws, lol…
12 Wednesday Apr 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, chairs, clean, deck, garden, happy, moments, nature, snow, Spring, table, umbrella, widow
on March 12, this is how the deck table looked covered in snow and with the very dilapidated old umbrella… and then on the 2nd of April when the new umbrella was installed…
Sunday, the chairs made it onto the deck… and Monday, the table got washed and the chairs set around it…
starting to look like spring;-)…
25 Monday Apr 2022
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recently I washed my tissues and paper towels… now they are all reusable…
once the tissues were clean, dry, and folded, I put them into the old Kleenex box I’ve been using for them… it works great to dispense them one by one…
since I’ve been using them I’ve taped one end of the box over and over but it is getting a bit messy looking…
this time I thought about using an elastic band instead, and it worked perfectly…
what a great idea… nothing slow about me, lol…
16 Saturday Oct 2021
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, bones, clean, domain, empty, family, fish, fish tank, memories, moments, widow
I have spent a good portion of the day working on the fish tank… it was always my beloved’s domain…
the rocks have been removed… and there were a lot of them…
before supper, there was just a little bit of water in the bottom and I finally got that soaked up… it is empty;-)…
I fried pickerel for my dinner and found two or three bones in it, which made me think of my beloved again…
if there were any bones at all, they would be in his fish, lol…
and he would have made the world’s best French fries to go with it;-)…
funny that I would make fish after working on the tank all day, lol…
19 Tuesday Jan 2021
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was a busy day yesterday… very few people are coming into the house nowadays…
once a month the cleaners are here and during that time I am in a room they don’t clean…
my grandson sometimes steps into the house, although he usually just leaves things for me on the front step…
other than that, no one crosses the threshold…
yesterday two people come into the house… I had planned to meet with both of them in the garage, but it was too cold for that so they both came in…
a lot of cleaning after they each left, with no help from these guys…
08 Thursday Oct 2020
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while I was working in the garage yesterday – a job I’ve been putting off for eight years – I realized that it was doable and wasn’t as difficult as I had imagined…
my system is to take the garbage bin into the garage on Thursday’s and fill it up with various bits and pieces…
today I also brought a table in to lay things out in piles of things I need, things I don’t really know what their purpose is, and things my son-in-law may want to use or for scrap, things to give away and garbage..
I also found some useful items which were put away in the new spots I’ve decided on…
seems like I spend a little over an hour at a time working but I am seeing improvement and actually found some counter space on the workbench;-)…
06 Sunday Jan 2019
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beloved, big girl pants, Chihuly, Christmas, clean, family, friend, grandson, moments, pjs, tidy, twinkle lights, un-decorate, widow
spent the day in my pjs…
also un-decorated all of the Christmas bits and pieces… had hoped to have my oldest grandson help me, but he wasn’t available, so I did it all on my own…
worked away at it off and on all day… had given myself a deadline of tonight as the cleaners are coming tomorrow, lol…
not ready to give up the twinkle lights just yet, lol…
redid the living room table… this time with family and Chihuly…
always remember my friend who would clean up before her housekeeper came and I always thought that was so odd…
of course, now that is exactly what I do;-)… well, tidy…
24 Monday Sep 2018
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this morning I was enjoying the view out of the living room window…
it is sparkling clean… my grandson did a great job…
and then, tonight I read about the problem that birds have with clean windows as they migrate…
oh dear…
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