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drawers…

25 Sunday Sep 2022

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last year I removed the drawers and took a file cabinet outside to become a raised garden planter… it has worked very well…

the drawers, which were filled with my beloved’s stuff, have been stacked on a table in the basement since then…

finally I set up a box for giveaway, one for things to keep, a recycling bin, and a garbage bag…

worked away for a few hours and was able to move items into the various options without a problem…

the drawers went to the back lane, and someone collected them for scrap;-)…

makes me happy to have been able to declutter…

dismantled…

20 Tuesday Sep 2022

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Monday some jobs got done…

I met the kids at the “A” for breakfast and then we worked in the garden…

Virginia creeper was pulled from behind the hot tub and some tiny holes were filled in the foundation close to the door…

the hammock was dismantled and pieces put into the shed…

then we started catching fish to bring into the condo… we got nine so far, including all the biggest ones, and will do more every now and again…

they caught them and I put them into the tanks…

happy to get some of the fall chores done…

tad…

02 Friday Sep 2022

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Wednesday, the kids met us for breakfast and then came by to pick up a few items from the giveaway collection…

while they were here, they pulled down some wayward Virginia creeper along the garage and moved some unsightly cord off the pond bridge…

then they ran over to Nestor’s to get me a shubunkin to add to the pond… there weren’t any available, so they came home with this beauty…

which was a tad bigger than I expected, lol… they all seem to be getting on fine in the school so we are good;-)…

blizzards…

11 Thursday Aug 2022

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had the kids over for dinner…

we had steak and zucchini, which they barbecued…

mushrooms that my grandson cooked, even though it was his birthday;-)…

salad as well as twice stuffed potatoes, which I made;-)…

everything was delicious and we all enjoyed it…

then we went for blizzards…

I haven’t had one for many years and it was delicious… I ate more than half of it before putting the rest in the freezer, lol…

morphed…

01 Monday Aug 2022

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started the day looking at photos of my beloved…a few tears were shed in the process… we were married 52 years ago today… I still remember looking out the window of the apartment to see him dropping off the decorated car… in those days, getting the car turned out with paper flowers was the thing to do, lol…

then I had a walk around the garden… in the 49 years we’ve been in this space, it has morphed from a square green grass covered area, to a swing set with some cedars, to a small swimming pool space, to a huge sandbox with a two story playhouse, to a parking area for a camper trailer… to a space filled with ponds and lovely gardens…

thanks to the help of Hilda the Gardener, a lawn service, and the kids, it is looking wonderful and I know that he would be pleased…

I am truly blessed, but I miss him every day…

bike…

11 Saturday Jun 2022

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a few days ago my grandson came by to return the car before he headed to work…

a piece for his bicycle had arrived and he worked on getting it installed but ran out of time, so he ended up taking the car…

while he was here I made lunch and we ate in the garden…

then the bike sat in the dining room, waiting for his return…

when he came to pick it up, he brought an ice cream cone;-)…

yum…

rehanging…

30 Monday May 2022

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the rain helped me get a few jobs done around the house…

I’ve been putting off rehanging the curtains in the den and I finally got that done…

I also put the Dyson back together… my grandson had taken it apart and washed a filter inside… who knew there was one there… and now it works… yay…

even the living room windows were happy and they are lovely and shiny clean…

nice to check a few things off the list;-)…

expedition…

28 Saturday May 2022

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what a busy day we had on Thursday… didn’t even have time for a nap, although I did manage a short sit down in the garden before my grandson arrived…

he and I spent the day getting jobs done around the yard, and even a few in the house…

we ran out and were able to get all the necessary items at Canadian Tire, so it was a one stop shopping expedition…

things came out of and went into the shed… leaking hoses were repaired… an irrigation system semi-installed… pots moved… trellises put into a planter that had a bit of paint touch up done… and the fire pit problem solved…

what a treat it is to spend time with him… I try to savour every minute;-)…

bike…

26 Thursday May 2022

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on Tuesday, my grandson arrived with his bike in the back of the car…

he had spent hours over the weekend getting the inside and outside of Indi cleaned for me…

I had spent the morning finding space in the garage so that she would fit as she has returned home… very exciting…

looking good…