18 Tuesday Mar 2025
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big girl pants, black, charger, connect, Fitbit, instructions, moments, online, screen, Technology, widow
a few days ago my Fitbit wouldn’t connect to my phone… very odd…
then, all of a sudden, the screen went black… I put it on the charger, but that didn’t make a difference…
eventually I went online and found instructions on how to restart the Charge 5…
I followed the instructions and put it on the charger overnight…
happily, it worked perfectly after that;-)…
13 Thursday Jul 2023
Posted in business, garden, moments, nature, retirement, technology, Uncategorized, weather
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big girl pants, blessed, bunny, chewed, connect, dig, family, garden, irrigation, irrigation system, moments, nature, oops, plants, rubber, teeth, tubes, water, widow, working
been trying to figure out why the irrigation system hadn’t been working properly…
no matter what I tried it kept sending water over the waterfall and nearly into the cushions on my chair…
we discovered that some of the smaller rubber tubes had been cut… possibly by bunny teeth;-)…
we were able to fix a few, but needed more tubing…
went to Lee Valley and picked up another of the systems so that it can also water the vegetable garden…
laid the main hose out in the sun to soften the curves and then stretched it out to see if it would go where I wanted it… looked like it would work fine…
we attached the new unit to the end of the main line so that it could send water to either the garden beds or the veggie section…
then the main hose was dug into the ground between the connection point and the veggie garden…
the hose was run along the back of the planters, holes were punched into it, the watering heads were added to each of the pots… another hole was made leading to the file cabinet planter and then the last bits were added…
it works perfectly and I am absolutely thrilled with the outcome;-)…
hmmm, wonder if we can figure out how to deal with the pots around the deck and in the centre of the garden🤪…
30 Tuesday Oct 2018
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big girl pants, computer, connect, conversation, pictures, telephone, widow, work
in the middle of a telephone conversation tonight I realized I needed to look for something on the computer I’d brought home from work a month or so ago…
what a process… had to find a spot on my desk… find the slots to plug in the keyboard and mouse and get them in the right way… search through the files only to discover that what I was hoping to find was not there;-)…
in the end had both computers going and kept using the wrong mouse or keyboard and wondering why they weren’t working, lol…
now to get some help transferring everything from the old computer to the new one… not even gonna think about how many pictures I have to move…
06 Wednesday Jun 2018
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so happy this morning as I was able to top up the pond easily…
over the winter the connection at the wall had broken so that only one hose could be hooked up instead of the two I need…
this meant that every time the pond needed water I had to drag out the hose to fill it and then drag it back to put it away… which usually ended up with my hands black from the hose and smelling like rubber…
looked for quite a while to find a replacement and eventually found one last week… on Sunday my grandson was over and hooked it up for me…
excited when I arrived home tonight and found the fish out and about in the pond…
happy they are finally more comfortable and connecting to the space…
28 Wednesday Oct 2015
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big girl pants, connect, fish, moment, orchid, Pause, reflect, reimagined, Robert Leider
recently came across an article which struck a chord… I subscribe to a newsletter which often gives me Pause to think…
this time it led to an article by Richard Leider on reimagining one’s future at any stage in life…
what struck me particularly in this article was the piece about living in the moment…
for the past number of years I have been working hard to be in the moment as often as possible…
sometimes I am very successful and other times, not so much…
other points in the article resonated as well…
connecting was one… I have been contemplating retirement, but feel that if I were to stay home I might turn into a hermit, lol… not a good plan… I enjoy what I do as well as the people I do it with… I want to go to work each day and hope to work until I don’t have that feeling anymore…
choice was another… these last three years I have stepped out of my comfort zone many times and done things I never would have imagined… like writing a blog… eating at a restaurant on my own… looking after my home…
Life Reimagined feels like what I’ve been living for the last while, without even knowing…
also made me giggle a bit as much of this is what the ReImagining group I am part of has been doing for over twenty years…
tonight I took a moment to check on my orchid and have a good look at it… it has more blooms and I got a nice shot of it with the fish tank in the background…
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