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replaced…

27 Thursday Jun 2024

Posted by sulis303 in life, loss, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized, weather

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not too long ago (well, it was mid-April) I watched a crew take down one of elms up the street…

in the Fall they had taken another one down close by…

last week Hydro came and marked gas lines and left yellow flags in front of two houses next to me…

this morning I watched as a number of pieces of equipment came by… the first dug two holes on the boulevard and went away… a little while later another few trucks came and planted a tree in each of the holes… then a protective barrier went around the bottom of each of them…

it will be interesting to see if they will come and water them until they get established…

not quite sure what type of tree they are but very happy that the elms have been replaced;-)…

thumping…

17 Wednesday Apr 2024

Posted by sulis303 in business, life, loss, moments, nature, retirement, technology, Uncategorized, weather

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big girl pants, blessed, elm, equipment, moments, nature, Technology, thumping, Timberland Tree Service, tree, tree removal, widow

woke up to a light dusting of snow on the ground and then spent a good portion of the morning at various windows watching the elm tree two doors down being removed…

the gentle thumping of the equipment was like background noise, lol…

there were at least five trucks, plus a small tracker and quite a few workers…

they used a machine I haven’t seen before… it was run from the ground and had a claw that grabbed the branch or trunk and cut through it… then it lowered it to the ground where the tractor picked it up and put the end into the chipper, where another worker turned it on and filled up a truck with the wood chips…

seemed like it was all very safe for those working…

as you drive down the street, it is hard to even tell where they were working…

Maui, day eleven…

21 Sunday Apr 2019

Posted by sulis303 in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, travel, Uncategorized

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well, another moving day… we left the lovely garden of the Gingerbread Airbnb and went up the island to Lahaina…

we hadn’t been this way before so it was all new…

I cannot say enough about The Snorkel Store… besides providing our snorkel gear, chairs, umbrella and cooler, they have arranged tours and provided all kinds of answers to the many questions we have had… every single staff person has been personable and helpful… excellent customer service;-)…

they also provide a snorkelling report by email daily which really helps to decide which beach to go to…

I started following them on Instagram a few months ago… @thesnorkelstore

if you are going to visit Maui, you should check them out…

vegetables…

25 Monday Apr 2016

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big girl pants, cucumber, equipment, spiral, vegetables, Veggetti, widow

yesterday I bought a Veggetti… it spiral cuts veggies so they come out like pasta…

  

my daughter had recommended it as a good piece of equipment for this purpose… there are many price points out there to choose from and this one is reasonable and effective…

tonight I made some cucumber spirals with it and put in a bit of vinegar with them as a side dish for my supper… I continue to be sure there are lots of vegetables at every meal which I think has helped with the weight loss…

  

tried to make some spiral bits with a small carrot, but that did not work at all, lol… apparently, need to use large carrots, not little ones…

the great news is that I didn’t cut or slice any part of my body…

looking forward to trying some different vegetables and seeing how the machine works with them… 

then I will have to figure out how to cook them as well…

beloved…

04 Thursday Feb 2016

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missing my beloved today…

first thing the toilet was acting up… time was when I would just tell him about it and he would fix whatever the problem was…

not these days…

had to dig out the appropriate equipment and solve the problem myself…

last weekend I had to go and find a different shovel so my shoveler can get down to the cement, and salt, so he could make sure the ground isn’t crazy slippery… also had to pick up a few bulbs so I could replace some burnt out ones…

I find choosing bulbs a very difficult job… there are so many and they seem to be similar but when you get them home they don’t throw the amount of light you expect, or are the wrong strength, or colour… arghhhh…

thankfully my son-in-law helped pick them and looks like they will all work…

many days I just do whatever needs doing, but other days I can barely keep from crying because he isn’t here…

today I happened to read a blog I wrote a year ago… it was all about flowers and how they have always lifted my spirits… also talked about how my beloved made sure there were lots around during January and February…

took this picture today…

  
beautiful… does make me feel better…

taxis…

27 Thursday Nov 2014

Posted by sulis303 in life, Uncategorized

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equipment, taxis, Technology

been in a number of taxis lately…

continue to wonder how they can fiddle with all the equipment in their vehicles…

most of us aren’t allowed to text, or even pick our phones up while we are driving…

I am nervous when I’m at a stoplight and want to take a picture…

I have been watching them… they are connected to their dispatcher with a screen on the dash and have their hands at this piece of technology very often…

they also have GPS that they are looking at as they drive, which apparently they are allowed…

interesting…

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