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convinced…

17 Friday Jul 2026

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while my housemate is away, it has been my job to feed Tatsu, the bearded dragon, her vegetables…

only once has she come right up to the glass, as clearly the veggies had not arrived soon enough…

took a while for her to move off to the side so I could open the glass door and put her dish in… yikes… since then I have been putting them in around 9 am when she is still sleepy…

a friend of his has come every two days to feed her the bugs, because I could not be convinced to do that job🤪…

what one does for their grandchildren…

continuous…

09 Thursday Jul 2026

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last year on July 8th, the upper pond and waterfall were being taken apart to fix the continuous leak we’d had for a few years…

when I think about it now, it was a miserable summer as the repair took a number of weeks to complete…

and I came across this photo from July 2013 when the pond was being built…

as I sat out there yesterday morning I was so happy to have everything working and no leaks…

what a different summer it will be…

hoses…

07 Tuesday Jul 2026

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my housemate recently demonstrated how to change the label maker cartridge and then I got to work…

each of the four hoses connected to the water supply outside now have labels noting what they are for, lol…

I often forget which one is the soaker hose, so this should help me remember 🤪…

invisible…

03 Friday Jul 2026

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apparently, the virginia creeper is the happiest plant in the garden…

it is growing by leaps and bounds…

along the garage it has been trying to make its way back into the eavestrough and it also thinks it should get to the hot tub, lol…

the baskets were nearly invisible on the other side of the garden…

my housemate was able to get it all back under control in just a few minutes… looks so much better now…

it will probably look like that again in a few weeks😊…

reminiscent…

28 Sunday Jun 2026

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last evening, after supper, my housemate and I went to Dairy Queen, and he treated😊…

sadly, they were out of skor bits so I wasn’t able to get my favourite skor blizzard…

instead I chose a turtle blizzard… bit of a mistake, lol…

I enjoyed the pecans, and the ice cream but the little chocolate half circles (with caramel in them) were just not the least reminiscent of a turtle;-)…

of course I did eat half of it then and finished the second half after supper tonight…

it was a lovely summer treat though…

disguise…

25 Thursday Jun 2026

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we bought a new net which we hope will act as a better filter for the pond, so that, hopefully, we won’t have to climb into the pond as often to clean the pump…

right now we have some plants sitting on top of it to kind of disguise it…

if it works well, we will see if we can cut it down just a bit, so it isn’t above water level…

fingers crossed that it does the job;-)…

drooling…

24 Wednesday Jun 2026

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took four of my most used knives in to be sharpened… and was advised they weren’t really worth sharpening…

made me sad as two of them were wearever knives that were my mom and dad’s… which did make them likely sixty or seventy years old…

so, then I bought some new ones… had fun with the salesperson who had lots of questions and made me hold many knives…

lucky for me, they were all reasonably priced, unlike those that my housemate has… the staff were drooling over his collection, which they had just sharpened and were the reason we were there, lol…

monstera…

14 Sunday Jun 2026

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the monstera has been struggling and leaning forward…

we picked up hardware cloth and made a tube for moss which apparently the monstera will cling to and grow up higher…

then we wedged in a few 2x4s to keep the moss tube centered in the pot…

the plant was divided into two pots and fastened to the pole… rocks, soil, and coconut husks were added and the two new plants moved into the living room…

we will see how they do;-)…

emptied…

12 Friday Jun 2026

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the hot tub was emptied a few weeks ago and we’ve been waiting for a friend to look at the broken side of the lid to see if there is a way to fix it… they weren’t available so my housemate decided to see what he could do…

we finally got around to moving it away from the wall and looking to see what might work to repair it…

many screws have been removed, and we now know what the issue was regarding the right side lid…

all new screws and bolts were purchased and a new backing inside the body of the tub was installed on both sides to make the opening and closing mechanism stronger…

it took quite some time to get it sorted and then replace all the rusted screws that hold the eight panels around the tub…

while it was out and empty, a tiny portion of the deck that it sits up against was sawn off, which made a huge difference when the tub was back in place… now the side that rubbed against the gate opens easily…

next, the tub was filled and the pump turned back on… it will be another day or so before the temperature is back to normal…

the lid works properly… I am so happy;-)…

started with a new set of chemicals and looking forward to my first hot tub…

hamburgers…

09 Tuesday Jun 2026

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since our new bbq – Glowy – arrived in April, we (my housemate!) have been barbecuing much more often…

recently we had hamburgers which were delicious… I’ve gotten a bit more lazy and have been buying premade patties, but they are much tastier than previous versions…

this bbq has extra btu, so it is easy to get good heat for searing and lovely grill marks;-)…

we’ve also done chicken, steak, lobster, sausage, and lamb, as well as zucchini, potatoes, and onions…

wondering what we might try next;-)…