08 Sunday Dec 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, day and night, falling, family, grandson, moments, nature, pretty, shovelling, snow, soundless, weather, widow
it has been doing this since before I woke up this morning…
and it is still going on… it feels like it is soundless, quietly encompassing everything…
it is causing a lot of work…
but so pretty;-)…
18 Monday Nov 2024
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bath, big girl pants, blessed, family, grandson, moments, motorcycle, oil, preparing, shed, stabilizer, tires, weather, widow
on Saturday the motorcycle made its way into the shed for the winter, as this year it is staying with us;-)…
the oil was changed, the gas tank filled, and some fuel stabilizer added to keep it fluid…
it went for a bath and was ready to be put away…
there was just enough space to fit it into the shed…
now there is plenty of room in the garage for Indy, who just a few days ago got her not-so-pretty winter tires put on;-)…
we are ready…
08 Friday Nov 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, changeover, family, grandson, moments, pictures, printer, Shaw, Technology, widow, wifi
computer technology has not been my friend recently…
since our changeover to Shaw, in September, the printer hasn’t worked… it would not connect to the wifi…
my housemate tried numerous times to get it to connect, without success…
we ordered a special cord to connect the laptop directly to the printer… and that didn’t work either;-(…
just a few days ago, my housemate turned the router on and off a number of times and it finally connected… yay…
since then I have printed the big batch of photos that I’d been trying to get done for ages;-)… woohoo…
04 Monday Nov 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, desktop computer, family, fan, geek, grandson, grumpy, moments, son-in-law, speed, Technology, widow
the desktop computer has been a bit grumpy for quite some time…
a month ago or so it just stopped working… I thought maybe it was the fan as I didn’t seem to be hearing any noise from it, so I turned it off and left it alone, lol…
recently my housemate discovered that it wasn’t working and checked on it…
of course it started up without a problem… it is like it knows someone who understands something is there so it behaves itself… but it was working very slowly…
next, I contacted my computer geek son-in-law to climb in and see what the problem was…
he got in there, looked around, and while he was looking it started to work at an excellent speed, sigh…
next, I will work on it for a while and see how it behaves…
31 Thursday Oct 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, books, casserole, grandson, house, Lagostina, lighten, moments, pass-alongs, shopping, widow
made a trip to share some of our pass-alongs…
the trunk and some of the backseat were filled with items that will lighten the house, lol…
and then we found some books and a cute little casserole pan to bring home… I think it will be a perfect size…
we did leave more than we brought home, lol…
30 Wednesday Oct 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, catch, condo, drawbridge, garden, goldfish, grandson, housemate, luck, moments, nature, pond, weather, widow
we’ve been collecting fish from the pond over the last few days as the temperature is getting lower every day and we don’t want to be dealing with ice…
we started with the three that were in the bathtub pond… they have been in the house for about ten days…
right now we have twenty-four…
they have been collected in dribs and drabs… the first collection was about ten, and then a few at a time, as once they see my housemate walk towards the pond they rush under the bridge… unfortunately, it isn’t a drawbridge, lol…
we are still missing five…
wish us luck;-)…
23 Wednesday Oct 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, family, furniture, garden, grandson, moments, nature, pond, pots, prep for winter, sail, shed, turns, umbrellas, weather, widow
spent a few hours in the garden on Sunday working towards getting it put to bed for the winter…
pots went into the shed, the sail was removed, umbrellas came down and were put away, chairs and tables were gathered together in preparation for being covered before the weather turns…
rain barrels were emptied and will be flipped over shortly… just a bit left to do;-)…
and then we are on to the pond🤪…
20 Sunday Oct 2024
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Assiniboine Park, big girl pants, blessed, bonsai, family, garden, grandson, lush, making memories, moments, nature, Technology, The Leaf, thrived, treat, widow
another delightful visit to The Leaf…
we arrived around 4:30 pm Thursday and the biomes were nearly empty of people… which was wonderful for us;-)…
it really is astonishing how the plants have thrived since the opening in December 2022…
the Tropical biome is lush with greenery and it was fun to notice changes since I was last there…
then we moved into the Mediterranean biome… for the first time ever, it was very cool…
the Yasuragi display is lovely… we spent quite a bit of time studying the bonsai and noting how old many of them were…
what an amazing art-form…
can’t wait to go back and enjoy this beautiful space…
14 Monday Oct 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, brilliant, den, drapes, family, grandson, housemate, moments, step stool, struggling, widow
I’ve been wanting to change the drapes in the den for a while now…
I brought down the ones I wanted from upstairs and went to fetch the step-stool, that was currently in the basement, to get the job done…
my housemate noticed what I was doing and came upstairs…
he, very cleverly, took the rod off off the wall to add the new pieces… they are much lighter and go over the light blocking ones currently hanging there…
I was planning on struggling with them while they were still up on the wall..
how brilliant was he;-)…
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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