optimal…

09 Tuesday Jan 2024

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I’ve been trying to make it out to the hot tub each day and so far I’ve managed to accomplish that…

currently 10:00 pm is the optimal time… although midnight is also nice…

last night it was so quiet all I heard was a few planes going over, and an ambulance… apparently there were no skaters at the club…

the light from the lane highlighted the snow on the trees, with little puffs on the ends of the branches… so beautiful…

tub…

02 Tuesday Jan 2024

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many people start their New Year’s Day with a cold plunge;-)…

I like to start with a hot tub… it was beautiful out, the sun was shining, there wasn’t much wind, and the chickadees were busy at the feeders…

a lovely way to begin the year…

I took out the fancy selfie stick and set it up to get a photo of me in the tub, even though Google told me it felt like -20° Celsius… which it didn’t, lol…

I did look at the plunge tub for a hot second as I walked past it, lol… if my housemate had been home I might have gone in…

that’s my story and I’m sticking with it;-)…

bodes…

11 Monday Dec 2023

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so, the strangest thing happened…

I looked out at the bird feeders and discovered this…

I think that maybe the squirrel has stuffed the feeders full of grass and fur…

I have never seen this before…

wonder what it bodes for the winter…

if…

10 Sunday Dec 2023

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well, last Sunday I finally made it into the plunge tub…

didn’t get as deep as my neck… it was chilly, but I made it to two minutes…

maybe, if I do it again, I will try to get down to my neck, lol…

certainly did wake me up, but I was still shivering and my legs were cold half an hour later;-)…

fun😳🤪🤔…

plunge…

23 Thursday Nov 2023

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last week a big black tub landed on the deck…

a few days later, in the evening, it got filled up with water…

then a cover went over it… and a heater to keep the temperature at 5° Celsius was added…

now, after a shower, someone uncovers the tub and sits in it for 3 minutes, which seems like a long time, lol…

this is what I spotted this morning;-)…

I am going to give it a try on a Sunday morning… wish me luck…

shrivelled…

20 Monday Nov 2023

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all of the garden work has now been completed for the winter… yay…

about a week ago I finished cleaning and putting away the last pond pump…

Saturday I finally got around to the dahlias… after watching a few videos, I used a knife to clean out the bits of dirt that were still on the tubers and then cut them to separate those with eyes, which should produce next year…

after doing a bit of research, I left a few (after cleaning them), to see if I will be able to separate them more easily in the spring when they start to sprout…

packaged them in paper bags, put them back in the pot, which went into a box in the coolest area of the basement… and wrote on the box to remember that is where they are, lol…

we will see what shape they are come spring… sometimes when the bags are open, there is nothing but shrivelled up bits of nothing;-(…

always an experiment…

extra…

16 Thursday Nov 2023

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used the tarp from the extra wood to cover the lawn furniture on the back deck…

didn’t take long at all with two people…

it is a really large tarpaulin so we tucked all the excess under the legs…

pliers…

14 Tuesday Nov 2023

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yesterday was a beautiful day… the sun shone and the temperature made it to 6° Celsius…

took the opportunity to top up the water in the hot tub…

now that the hose is hooked up in the basement it is a bit of a process…

the hose comes upstairs and just reaches to the outside of the door… then it has to be turned on with pliers at the tap at which point it expands so I can reach the hot tub…

takes a while to fill it to above the top hole on the filter, then I run downstairs and close the tap, again with the pliers… and run back up as the hose starts to contract before it yanks out of the tub… and finally taking the hose downstairs and hanging it up for the next time…

so I did get a bit of exercise;-)…