09 Monday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, drywall, family, fresh, grandson, happy, moments, paint, rain, sand, weather, widow
my middle grandson came over Sunday to help replace the carpet on the front steps… of course it poured so that didn’t happen…
instead he did a final sand of the drywall in the laundry area and gave it two coats of paint…
what a difference it makes, and it looks so fresh with the white paint…
today we put everything back… those dressers were heavy…
08 Sunday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, fountain, garden, grandson, moments, nature, peeling, planter, purple, sander, Technology, weather, widow
finally used my housemate’s electric sander to remove the majority of the peeling blue paint from what had been a fountain…
eventually it turned into a planter, but started peeling like crazy…
it has been sitting under the deck, where I could ignore it, for quite some time…
didn’t take too long once I got going to sand it down so it can be painted…
I do love purple, but the sun changes it to blue over time… still not quite sure what colour it is going to be… hmmm…
01 Sunday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, deck, family, garden, grandson, leak, moments, muscle, pond, problem, puddling, repair, shopping, water, weather, widow
the pond has continued to leak but we thought we had the problem figured out…
water seemed to be puddling under a UV clarifier which was installed in the pond at the beginning, but which never accomplished its job and has been unplugged for a number of years…
we picked up a piece to connect the two hoses together and with a lot of cutting and muscle, were able to disconnect it entirely… so happy, thinking the problem had been solved…
turned the pump back on and watched water still coming out where the hose goes under blocks and the deck…
so, the issue appears to be that the six or seven feet of hose from the pump to the waterfall needs to be replaced… we are considering ways to accomplish this, which may involve removing a good sized piece of the deck to get at it, sigh…
and so it goes…
21 Monday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, birthday, blessed, cards, family, flickers, flowers, food, friends, geese, gifts, google, grandson, lobster, moments, Technology, treats, whoever, widow
on Friday, woke up to geese honking as they headed out looking for something to eat… and spotted flickers in the field across from the house;-)…
opened the beautiful cards and gifts from friends and family I’d been saving over the last few days, and laughed at Google singing to whoever was having the birthday, lol…
received a gorgeous purple handmade book, filled with photos of the garden and a book about monarchs with things I didn’t previously know… going to have to read that more thoroughly…
tried to vote, but the lineup was long, so headed out for breakfast at The Pancake House…
decided to vote Saturday when I would have more time…
friends arrived with cards and flowers and we had a lovely visit… the neighbour stopped by and gave an update on the house next door and collected Easter books for the littles…
received many texts and phone calls and had fun watching some F1 on tv…
cookies and hot cross buns arrived as I was reading in the living room, so I had to eat one of the hot cross buns, yum…
supper was steak and lobster, with fries and asparagus;-)… followed by a blizzard, yum…
what a delightful day it was…
20 Thursday Mar 2025
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big girl pants, family, grandson, moments, motorcycle, nature, ride, shed, weather, widow
a few days ago the motorcycle made its way from the shed into the garage… the weather has been nicer and nicer…
someone has already taken a ride around the block…
10 Monday Mar 2025
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backs, big girl pants, blessed, family, fireplace, grandson, housemate, memories, moments, Technology, widow
the fireplace made its way to the garage on October first…
it stayed there for quite awhile… during that time my housemate put it on a few for sale sites…
there were very few inquiries, but we weren’t in any rush to get rid of it…
recently, a woman came, measured it, and arranged to pick it up when she found some strong backs to help with lifting/carrying, lol…
she arrived a few days later, with a helper, and with my housemate’s assistance, got it into her vehicle…
its new home will be at her dad’s cottage where it will be installed outdoors;-)…
24 Monday Feb 2025
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big girl pants, bins, blessed, deadline, deals, delivery, efficient, food, grandson, groceries, moments, plastic bags, read, Save-On-Foods, shopping, Technology, widow
my housemate has been picking up groceries for me so I haven’t ordered from Save-on-Foods for quite a while, but on Thursday I put an order in for delivery…
I had received an email advising of a $25 refund if I spent $75, so I went ahead and ordered some regular items on my shopping list, lol…
I made sure to call their info line because one item was buy-one-get-one-free, and I couldn’t remember if I should put two, or one, on the order…
the phone was answered quickly and the customer service person had the answer right away…
I also appreciate that they no longer use plastic bags, except for produce… I put out my own boxes and the driver transfers from their bins to mine…
when my order arrived, there wasn’t a credit so I went back to the email, only to discover that the deadline had just passed… by a few days, lol… apparently I should have read it better or put the order in sooner…
but, I did get the free item;-)…
21 Friday Feb 2025
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1200, amaryllis, arches, Babs Asper Display, big girl pants, blessed, Blooms in Winter, family, flowers, garden, grandson, moments, nature, orchids, plants, Technology, The Leaf, widow
as you enter the Mediterranean biome there are dozens of amaryllis in various stages… some nearly done, while others are fully open… many with multiple petals…
absolutely gorgeous…
and then you step into the Babs Asper display area… twelve hundred orchids in one place;-)… heaven…
the Blooms in Winter display is so lovely, a perfect place to enjoy the beauty of orchids…
there are a number of arches to walk through and benches to sit on and enjoy the views…
orchids everywhere, beautiful shapes and sizes…
what a delight;-)…
can’t wait to go back;-)…
17 Monday Feb 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, car, clean, cold, dirty, family, filthy, grandson, happy, Indy, moments, weather, widow
I’ve been asking my grandson to get the car washed for ages…
he had numerous reasons why it didn’t happen, but they boiled down to the fact that it would just get dirty again…
I finally gave an ultimatum that it had to be washed… poor thing was filthy…
he went out Wednesday evening and brought Indy home clean… even though it was dreadfully cold, thankfully, none of the doors froze up…
she looks so nice;-)…
29 Wednesday Jan 2025
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basement, big girl pants, blessed, family, friends, grandson, housemate, memories, moments, Technology, tidy, tour, widow
on Monday, we had a “tour” of the redone basement when everyone arrived for our weekly gathering…
my housemate had tidied it up the evening before to be sure it was ready for the event, lol…
there is a lot of technology used in the space and it has been fun to watch as each piece has been installed…
it was interesting listening to the comments particularly as no one had been down there in years…
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