14 Sunday Aug 2022
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moved the backyard wifi camera down a bit… also put a shim in so that it points down a touch more…
now it gets a little more of the area in front of the pond… may see critters as they wander past the pond, lol…
getting quite handy with the drill… no trouble to remember how to have it reverse when taking out the screw;-)…
what a pro…
29 Wednesday Jun 2022
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two projects were completed on Monday…
the first involved putting a new bottom piece on one of my favourite bird feeders…
it is made of copper and the bottom rusted out… I found a plastic saucer and with a great deal of effort… including hammering and drilling… was able to attach it to the bottom of the feeder… it is going to work perfectly…
looks good and got hung up in a great spot that the birds like…
then I moved the one that had been there previously over beside the pond… and the one that had been by the pond over to the new hanger I attached to the garage last week… phew 😅…
I spent half an hour standing along the edge of the hot tub trimming the Virginia creeper, which was trying to cover the den window…
pleased with how it came out… this time I was clever and moved the hot tub steps over to make getting up and down much easier, lol…
always happy after a productive day…
18 Saturday Jun 2022
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was able to complete a few jobs in the garden although not the irrigation system… I am going to need a second pair of hands for that one…
using landscape fabric, I was able to turn a very cute, but not useful, bird feeder into a little planter… think it came out rather nicely… found a couple of morning glory plants, a sweet potato vine and a spider plant to go in it…
then there was quite a production to get a hook up on the garage and put up the planter… the drill, ladder and I had to sort through some stuff, but eventually it was up…
after all that I don’t like it there, but haven’t quite decided where to move it, lol…
reconnected two parts of a little planter that has an obelisk on the top… used zip ties to connect… it looks good and isn’t going to fall apart…
I also did a bit of pruning of the cedars along the back fence…
that’s it for work today;-)…
19 Wednesday May 2021
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Monday I used the big clamp on the workbench in the garage…
I couldn’t find the 2×4 that had two nails in it which I made last year to put oranges out, hoping the orioles might stop by… no idea where it is…
so, I put a piece of wood in the clamp and used the drill to add two screws to it;-)…
we shall see if any orioles decide to stop by…
and then I drilled a couple of screws into a few spots in the deck that had come loose…
way to go me…
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;-)…
31 Saturday Oct 2015
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had a sleepover at the kids…
this morning I took a picture out the living room window of the front of their house…
ignore the bloody footprints, lol… so much brighter with the cedar tree down… 
and now you can see the beautiful birch tree…
this morning we headed out and about to look at tiles and countertops which was great fun… but now I am rather worn out, lol…
this is the front of the house very early on Friday…
put out some pass-along boxes, yay… having a box on the dining room counter to pop items in has become a great habit… whenever I get a call from an organization who wants to collect stuff I know immediately if I have enough to pass along, so I’m not running around like a crazy person trying to find stuff…
this was the front of the house tonight just before I turned out the lights…
plastic pumpkins looked cute… didn’t have the energy to put out the usual Halloween decorations… not sure what that was about, although it was much more fun to hand out the goodies with George, lol…
ended up with a total of 17 kids… fair amount of candy left which will need to get out of the house so I am not tempted to eat it…
here’s my final Halloween picture… my youngest grandson admiring the pumpkin his mom had carved with a drill… he was really enjoying the process this year…
busy day with lots of fun memories…
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