26 Wednesday Nov 2025
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spent time with the fish and their pumps…
each one was cleaned and the water came streaming over beautifully…
I’ve figured out an easier way to clean them now, so the process is much quicker most of the time… I’ll still need to do the longer process once in a while…
but for now I am happy with this new system…
26 Tuesday Aug 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, clean, cut, drawers, dressers, family, fishtanks, fixed, friends, moments, normal, open, paint, plywood, projects, repair, sort, widow
a big project over the last week was fixing the three dresser drawers along the inside wall so that they would open…
a while ago, a pump was leaking from one of the tanks and the water ran down the front of the drawers… the other problem was the weight of the tanks on the dresser…
we started by emptying the water in two tanks and then removing them… after that the three drawers were yanked out, lol…
a 2×6 went under the corner of the dresser to raise it up a bit, and then the edges of the three drawers were cut down a little which means they will open easily in the future…
while the drawers were out, I went through them one-by-one (as well as the three next to them) and made piles for saving, giving away, and garbage… then each of the six drawers was reorganized… that was like a whole different project, lol…
then we got help to pick up a piece of plywood to go on the top of the dressers, it was cut, after which the pieces were painted and put on top of the dressers…
after all that work, the fishtanks were cleaned, and then put back (another project, lol)… in the next few days, they will be filled with water and the pumps started to clean the water before the fish come in…
at last the living and dining room have been returned to normal;-)…
16 Sunday Mar 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, clean, fish, fishtanks, moments, nature, project, pumps, top up, water, widow
Friday’s project was to clean out the pumps on each of the three fishtanks…
it always slips down towards the bottom of the list, but once I get going, it isn’t that difficult, and doesn’t take that long either…
usually I only do one or two, but this time I did all of them at the same time…
the pumps are now running beautifully, and I topped up the water in each one… usually I do the topping up on Mondays, but was just a bit sooner this time;-)…
04 Friday Oct 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, bridge, family, fishtanks, fixed, grandson, happy, hue, light, lightstrip, moments, remembering, stairs, Technology, widow
during the basement changes the Philips Hue was unplugged…
once we realized that some of the lights weren’t working, it was plugged back in, but it would not start up again…
apparently this does happen, so we ordered a new one…
it arrived on Thursday and my grandson connected it and then had to add all of the units back in, lol…
took a while, but eventually everything was back up… then I added them to the automations and adjusted all their colours… kept having to add more units to the automations, as I remembered which ones were in which…
I was very happy because the lightstrip that runs up the stairs had been off and it has been the nightlight when I am using the stairs at night…
the lightstrip that goes over the fishtanks has been on all the time, so it was good to get it back to being off at night…
I do love technology;-)…
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