19 Friday Feb 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, fish, fish tank, goldfish, moments, nature, pond, suspended, watching, widow
I’ve been watching the fish more lately and have come to realize that they have favourite places to rest…
one little one looks like it is stuck under a rock on a regular basis… makes me think of how they always rest under the bridge in the garden…
it is interesting to watch them suspended in the water, often for quite some time…
01 Monday Feb 2021
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always learning, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, cleaning, family, fish, fish tank, lifting, moments, nature, widow
as I was cleaning the fish tank it made me think of how much I have learned over the past year…
I now can clean and replace filters and the other bits and pieces of the tank…
since my beloved’s passing, my son-in-law and grandson have done all the heavy lifting with the fish…
but, as they aren’t coming into the house, I’ve learned how to do the required maintenance…
12 Saturday Dec 2020
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Advent, big girl pants, calendar, family, fish, fish tank, food, forget, moments, nature, starving, tricky, water, widow
my morning schedule is to put on the kettle for my tea, choose my Advent treat for the day, feed the fish, and prepare my breakfast…
when I get to the calendar, which is on top of the fish tank, the fish are running back and forth to make sure I know they are there… and starving...
I can practically hear them, lol… later in the day, they will rush over as I enter their space to see if they can convince me that they haven’t been fed…
10 Thursday Dec 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, fish, fish tank, food, goldfish, lifting, moments, music, nature, reading, widow
I’ve been spending a bit more time in the living room, enjoying the lights, reading and listening to music…
sometimes the fish are very noisy… when they are searching for food they toss around the rocks in the bottom of the tank…
these are river rocks, not fish tank gravel, so when they knock them over it produces quite the sound, lol…
it amazes me that they can lift them at all and of course, when I tried to catch them at it, they stopped, lol…
18 Wednesday Nov 2020
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air, big girl pants, calendar, clogged, fish, fish tank, goldfish, moments, new skill, pump, widow
had a problem with the fish tank last week…
one of my fish was floating and it was hard to see through the water…
I finally figured out that the tube linking the bottom of the tank with the pump was clogged and they weren’t getting enough air in the water…
managed to get it out, cleaned and reinserted… after a few scary minutes the water started to flow over the edge and it slowly cleared… the rest of the fish were much happier…
I did have a giggle when I realized that the parrot feathers plant had been completely eaten, so I removed it…
today, I had to take the same steps, although the tank was still clear… having the water lilies in the tank are clogging it up more often…
but an easy fix, now I know what to do… maybe I will add this to the calendar and clean it once a week to be sure they stay healthy;-)…
02 Saturday May 2020
a very sad morning here…
three days ago I unplugged the pump on the fish tank as I was on a Zoom call and it was very noisy… I have often done this…
when I plugged it back in, nothing happened… I tried different outlets to no avail…
I decided to put the fish into the pond but had to do some cleaning of it first… got some done, but hurt my back so waited a bit…
they seemed fine while waiting… in the middle of the night it occurred to me that one of the smaller pond pumps might work in the tank…
first thing this morning I was out in the garage finding a pump… brought it in, tested it in the sink and put it into the tank… think it is going to work in the meantime…
the water is murky, which will not likely clear up as currently there is no filter… the fish seem to be swimming about and appear much happier… this pump is even noisier than the last one, lol…
unfortunately, the biggest fish died during the night;-(…
29 Wednesday Apr 2020
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big girl pants, birthday, blessed, blooming, colleagues, fish tank, flowers, memories, moments, nameless, purple, widow
my plant is flowering… I don’t know what it’s name is…
it was given to me four years ago for my sixty-fifth birthday by my work colleagues…
it is so purple… it was blooming then, but hasn’t bloomed since… I think it likes being next to the fish tank…
very exciting to watch it…
13 Monday Jan 2020
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basement, big girl pants, ceiling, fish tank, leaking, misbehaving, moments, solution, solution stressful, water, widow
went into the kitchen late last night and heard something dripping… thought it was outside, but then realized it was in the basement…
ran down to discover a ceiling tile on the floor, two wet couches, soaked carpet and water pouring down…
when I could move, I found towels and pails to put down and moved cushions into the basement bathtub…
went upstairs to the main floor and tried to figure out what was leaking… opened the front door to see if something was happening outside….
it was the pump in the fish tank… water was pouring out of it… I turned it off and put down more towels there and moved the pump to the main floor bathtub…
more towels on the floor and then up and down to be sure that all the dripping had stopped…
made for a stressful couple of hours… not sure what caused the problem, but had to leave it for the night…
must have run up and down the stairs a dozen times checking to be sure that no water was misbehaving…
tonight my grandson and I figured out that somehow the pump had tilted and the water had run down the back of it… we put a towel in the back and it has been working perfectly fine for five hours;-)…
20 Tuesday Dec 2016
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big girl pants, carols, Christmas, family, fish tank, holidays, presents, shovelled, tacos, widow, wrap
excellent first day of holidays…
slept in a bit, had breakfast and watched some tv…
then I spent a lovely few hours listening to Christmas carols and wrapping presents…
the kids came over and we did a run to Costco to pick up a few final items needed for the season…
while we were gone the oldest grandson shovelled the sidewalk, driveway and backyard…
they brought over the makings for tacos for supper and we gobbled them up…
after supper a bit of work went into the fish tank and the babies were added in… we hope they make it but they’d stopped growing in the bowl…
pretty nice day…
27 Friday Mar 2015
was fasting for blood work this morning so I had a bit of extra time as I wasn’t rushing to get breakfast eaten……
got some shots of the fish tank which is finally clearing up after about two weeks of serious merkiness…
and was very excited to see the leaves starting up on the Japanese Maple…
as we were heading downtown the sky was spectacular…
beautiful start to a Friday…
and the day ended as I walked home along the street and got a few pictures of the creek slightly frozen over…
looking forward to some warmer weather over the weekend…
was pleased to get the blood work done today as I see the doctor next week and we will be able to review my A1C numbers… anticipating that they will be much better than the last time they were taken…
lots to think about…
