02 Monday Nov 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, frozen, garden, heavy, moments, rain barrel, saved, water, weather, widow, winterized
it has been below zero for a number of days and I had not remembered to empty the rain barrel… a lot of water had frozen in it and it was too heavy for me to flip it…
today, the temperature went to double digits and I just went out and opened the tap… and the water is running freely…
tomorrow, when it is empty I will turn it over for the winter;-)…
saved by the warm weather…
20 Monday Jan 2020
Posted in food, health, life, moments, Uncategorized
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big girl pants, blessed, friends, frozen, hungry, Instant Pot, laughing, memories, moments, organizing, Technology, widow
a few days ago I cooked chicken thighs from frozen (just took thirty minutes) and then white rice in the Instant Pot… both came out nicely…
had a lovely dinner and visit with a dear friend… good to catch up…
was laughing to myself because I completely forgot to take a picture of my plate as supper was later than expected…
earlier in the day I tidied two drawers in the dining room…
hope this desire for tidying and reorganizing continues…
30 Wednesday Jan 2019
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battery, big girl pants, brrr, cold, frozen, garage, hot tub, pictures, plug, weather, widow, winter
my, oh my… it has been crazy cold…
this morning while I was waiting for the car to warm up a bit, I took some pictures…
the cover of the hot tub is amazing… I haven’t been in it for a while, but it looks like it has turned into a cocoon to keep the heat in, lol…
it is so beautiful as everything is covered in ice…
I don’t usually sit in the car while it is running in the garage, but it was so cold that I felt Indi needed to warm up before we left… although the door was wide open it smelled, so I moved her onto the driveway for a few final minutes…
that’s when I got the pictures, lol…
last night when I left the office it was so cold that it felt like everything in the car was frozen, even though the battery had been plugged in all day…
rarely do we all plug in, but this morning I took this photo… clearly others felt it was cold as well…
01 Monday May 2017
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beloved, big girl pants, daughter, decisions, freezer, frozen, garbage, grandson, smell, strong hands, widow
or not…
Saturday was a good day… up at a reasonable time… made a lovely breakfast… I tend to have eggs on the weekend…
got some laundry done… even scrubbed down the top of the stove… sure do miss George for some jobs and scrubbing is one of them… my arms are wussy but he had strong hands and arms… when he scrubbed a pot it was completely shiny when he was done;-)…
had a break and sat outside and read for a bit… texted with my daughter to see if they were coming for dinner on Sunday and when she advised they were, I headed down to the freezer to pull something out to thaw…
that is when the day took a turn… everything was thawed… as in not frozen, not even cold… bad… it smelled bad and all of it was bad…
my daughter and grandson came over and he – who has a strong stomach and weak nose – unlike his mother and grandmother – took out five bags to the garbage…
then he hosed down and rinsed out the freezer a few times and moved the – now very heavy and completely full – garbage can to the back of the yard… of course Friday was garbage day, so the disgusting smell will be around all week… likely we will need to put some bleach in it for a few days after it gets dumped to get rid of the odour…
so, here’s my freezer today…
waiting to be picked up and taken to the scrap yard…
starting to research a replacement… should I get another chest freezer or go for an upright one…
decisions, decisions…
17 Monday Apr 2017
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accidents, big girl pants, broken, excited, frozen, garden, prepared, rain barrel, trashed, vase, widow
had a couple of accidents recently…
a few weeks ago this happened…
I was opening a cupboard and this tiny vase fell out and broke… it was made for a single bloom and I really enjoyed it… sadly I can’t even remember where it came from so won’t be able to replace it…
the second oopsie is due mainly to laziness I think… I didn’t empty the rain barrel before the weather changed and the water inside froze and now it is trashed…
pretty sure we aren’t going to be able to fix this, sigh… and it had taken so long to find one that I liked…
because it is all one piece don’t even think I can use it for anything else…
will need to be careful in the Fall with whatever I replace it with…
but I am excited that the weather is warming up and before long we’ll be sitting out in the garden…
03 Friday Feb 2017
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lovely sunrise this morning…
felt cold last night so decided on a hot tub around ten…
headed out only to discover that the strap was frozen to the side of the hot tub… which meant the lid wouldn’t open…
back into the house to find the little hammer, turn on the outside light and then out again to bash the ice…
took a bit of energy to clear the ice away and then I had to take the hammer back in and turn out the light…
finally got the lid open and made it into the tub…
beautiful and toasty warm…
might have had a short nap…
worked rather hard for that hot tub, but I slept really well after that…
