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25 Saturday May 2024

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at 5:30 Tuesday night l started to change the water in the hot tub…

a bit late to start the process, but that was how the day had gone, and it really needed to be done…

turned it off, brought up the pump, connected it to the large hose and within twenty minutes it was almost empty… it is so much quicker with the larger hose…

next I had to climb in and scoop out the last of the water and give it a good wipe down… that part always takes time, usually half an hour or so…

finally, after putting in the new filter, the water started to go in…

forty-five minutes later it was full and ready to be turned back on…

plugged back in and by Thursday morning it was ready for chemicals… it takes about five different ones, which go in one every twenty minutes or so, to get it ready for jumping in;-)…

had a nice time in the hot tub that evening, especially after all the work that had gone on over the last week…

tonight I enjoyed another visit to the tub and although it was overcast, it wasn’t raining or windy, lol… yay…

again…

11 Thursday May 2023

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early Monday morning I unplugged the hot tub again and put the pump in to empty it…

with the new hose it only takes about fifteen minutes… so much better than the old two hour procedure…

Mike from Krevco arrived later and moved the tub away from the wall… then he spent a good half hour trying to remove the bolt in the broken arm…

eventually both arms were attached and the lid was back on… yay…

once my grandson got home in the evening we were able to get the hot tub back into the correct spot… sounds easy, but if it isn’t in just the correct place, the lids won’t open… but we got it into place and then it took an hour and a half to fill…

a slow process, but done… then it was restarted and will take quite a while to come up to temperature as it is plugged into an outlet, not hardwired, lol…

tonight I have been adding the start-up chemicals, with twenty minutes between each addition, and am looking forward to a lovely late evening time in it;-)…

Sunday (well, Mother’s Day) will mark the fourteenth year since I had the first dip in it;-)…

I truly am blessed…

improvement…

29 Saturday Apr 2023

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on Friday we emptied, moved and cleaned the hot tub, put it back and refilled it… this time I used a larger hose that I have and it emptied the tub in fifteen minutes… usually it can take hours, so this was a great improvement…

I am always happy when the jets start up after the refill, because sometimes it takes a few tries to get them working… happily, they started right away…

unfortunately we could not replace the arms as the screw for one of them would not come out…

we also left the seal for them to look at, and hopefully repair or replace…

so I have a call in to Krevco to see about having a technician come out and see what they can do…

lane…

20 Monday Mar 2023

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on Saturday I went out to top up the hot tub…

the weather app was suggesting it was -21 out, but the sun was shining and there wasn’t any wind in the garden…

was able to slide the one side open without taking it right off… worked fine…

while the water was running, I brought in the recycling bin from the lane…

and I found a suet feeder in the garage and put a frozen block of homemade suet out in the front yard…

nice to be outdoors for a little while… Spring is coming…

top-up…

26 Saturday Feb 2022

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well, I am a happy camper…

the hot tub has needed a top-up for a number of weeks, but every time it has been warm enough, or not snowing, the lid has been frozen shut…

and the less water in it the more the jets run and more water evaporates…

today I was able to go out and open it… yay… it took nearly fifteen minutes to top it up so I was pleased to get it done…

I’m not exactly sure that I can open both covers enough to get in it, but at least it has enough water for awhile…

the extendable hose works perfectly… it runs up the stairs and out the door easily so the filling part is simple…

there is a lot of snow out there, lol…

Co-op

04 Tuesday Dec 2018

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on my way home from work today I stopped at Co-op to fill up the tank… I do not put gas in the car, mainly because I can’t stand the smell… my beloved always looked after making sure the car was always filled and at top performance…

today marks the seventh birthday for my beloved without him… he would have been seventy…

he liked the gas at Husky… something to do with the quality… for the longest time after he died my kids would fill up the tank for me whenever it was low…

finally I went to get gas, only to learn that they hadn’t pumped gas for ages, lol… pretty embarrassing…

so, now it is Co-op for me… happily they still serve…

today I had them wash the windows and they did a great job… having worked so long at his dad’s service station my beloved was very particular about the cleaning of windshields…

he would have been happy with the job… although maybe not so pleased with how dirty the car is, lol…

gloves…

19 Thursday Jan 2017

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really happy to have Shadow back at home…

she did bring good luck to my grandson when he took his driving test and passed on the first try…

had to giggle yesterday when I backed out of the garage and the side mirrors weren’t set in their normal location… problem was that I couldn’t see enough to reset them…

when I got to the office I was able to see and set them back to what worked for me…

filled her up tonight on my way home…

even got her windows cleaned…

been searching for something to wear on my hands that would keep them warm when I’m driving… none of my gloves have kept my fingers warm… still haven’t found anything, but last night and tonight I drove with my bare hands because it is so warm…

zero… a few days ago in was minus 30… crazy weather, lol…