grumpy…

04 Monday Nov 2024

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the desktop computer has been a bit grumpy for quite some time…

a month ago or so it just stopped working… I thought maybe it was the fan as I didn’t seem to be hearing any noise from it, so I turned it off and left it alone, lol…

recently my housemate discovered that it wasn’t working and checked on it…

of course it started up without a problem… it is like it knows someone who understands something is there so it behaves itself… but it was working very slowly…

next, I contacted my computer geek son-in-law to climb in and see what the problem was…

he got in there, looked around, and while he was looking it started to work at an excellent speed, sigh…

next, I will work on it for a while and see how it behaves…

scrubbing…

02 Saturday Nov 2024

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yesterday I went into the garden and pulled out the metal poppy… luckily the ground wasn’t too frozen…

brought it into the house, gave it a good scrubbing and then took it out to the front step…

I found two small bungee cords to attach it to the rail… it looks pretty good…

and today I pulled out my poppy with the cool centrepiece and put it on my coat…

we must not forget…

turns…

23 Wednesday Oct 2024

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spent a few hours in the garden on Sunday working towards getting it put to bed for the winter…

pots went into the shed, the sail was removed, umbrellas came down and were put away, chairs and tables were gathered together in preparation for being covered before the weather turns…

rain barrels were emptied and will be flipped over shortly… just a bit left to do;-)…

and then we are on to the pond🤪…

thrived…

20 Sunday Oct 2024

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another delightful visit to The Leaf…

we arrived around 4:30 pm Thursday and the biomes were nearly empty of people… which was wonderful for us;-)…

it really is astonishing how the plants have thrived since the opening in December 2022…

the Tropical biome is lush with greenery and it was fun to notice changes since I was last there…

then we moved into the Mediterranean biome… for the first time ever, it was very cool…

the Yasuragi display is lovely… we spent quite a bit of time studying the bonsai and noting how old many of them were…

what an amazing art-form…

can’t wait to go back and enjoy this beautiful space…

ingenuity…

17 Thursday Oct 2024

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recently I picked up some frames to use with some dove cards that were just taped to the wall…

it only took us a little while to add nails and get the two bottom ones up…

then we had to use some ingenuity to attach the top one…

I am very pleased with the results;-)…

drapes…

14 Monday Oct 2024

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I’ve been wanting to change the drapes in the den for a while now…

I brought down the ones I wanted from upstairs and went to fetch the step-stool, that was currently in the basement, to get the job done…

my housemate noticed what I was doing and came upstairs…

he, very cleverly, took the rod off off the wall to add the new pieces… they are much lighter and go over the light blocking ones currently hanging there…