3M…

06 Tuesday Sep 2022

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my son-in-law completed a ton of big projects while he has been here from Ottawa…

a couple of the littlest ones have made me particularly happy…

I have had an extension cord and a single plug laying on the counter next to the stove and it was a pain… now there is a surge protector held up with 3M strips on the wall… so much tidier and more useful…

in the rolling cabinet that my beloved made, the tracks for the sliding doors kept falling down… now some 3M strips are holding them up where they belong…

little things can make such a big impact…

hummingbird…

03 Saturday Sep 2022

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had the most five or six delightful minutes in the garden this afternoon;-)…

I was eating the last delicious bits of yesterday’s Blizzard on the back deck and spotted a hummingbird in the garden…

for a long time we had feeders, but no hummingbirds, so we gave up… a few have flown through over the years, but none stayed around to snack…

it moved around slurping from the petunias which are everywhere in the space this year… from the six planters around the deck, to the morning glories in the dahlia planter in the centre of the yard, to the baskets hanging along the neighbour’s garage… and back again…

my camera was close by, but I just enjoyed the moment…

I’m fairly sure it was a female ruby-throated hummingbird…

how blessed that I was sitting in that spot and looked up at that exact moment…

banner…

31 Wednesday Aug 2022

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Sunday, now that the two coats of primer were on, the actual paint went onto the shelves and the doors… and because it was going to rain, we had to do the doors inside, rather than on the deck, lol…

then we got to relax as we waited for it to dry…

we checked out a few other projects and I put back the banner that had come down in the hall…

looks so much better now that the holes have been repaired…

interior…

27 Saturday Aug 2022

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Thursday started with breakfast at the “A”…

once we got home the ceiling received its second and final coat of paint… looks great…

and the new light fixture is super bright and very cool looking… by accident, the Tp-Link switch we put in a few days ago makes the light dimmable… woohoo…

we moved all the dishes from the upper cabinets to the dining room table and then I went through everything and was able to delete about a third of it…

now to box those items up and arrange to give them away…

while that was happening, the doors on the cupboard were removed, the inside sanded and two coats of primer rolled on… what a difference it has already made to the dark red interior…

next will come the actual paint, lol…

combining…

23 Tuesday Aug 2022

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started the morning gathering up all my bouquets, combining a few together, and tidying up another…

a bit sad as the glads were done…

then I took out the drill and put the second screw into the motion sensor on the deck… angling it as my son-in-law suggested… and it worked perfectly…

the rocks that were holding it up are now back in amongst the trees…

quicker…

22 Monday Aug 2022

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yesterday most of the day was spent doing computer things…

transferring 300 gig of photos to a separate drive… that takes a while, lol…

purchased a few needed items…

hooked up the cutest little repeater that looks like a little robot, lol… which makes the wifi camera connect so much quicker…

sorted through two boxes and saved a few items and added others to the giveaway box…

roll…

13 Saturday Aug 2022

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so pleased…

in January, 2020, after a visit with the kids in Ottawa, I put the paper towel roll away in the cupboard and began using cloth instead in an effort to reuse and not waste…

I replaced that roll in March of 2021… that was fourteen months…

yesterday I used the last piece from that roll… that is sixteen months;-)… doing better…

the old cloth napkins, face cloths and finger towels have worked beautifully and wash very well… and they were all extras that were in drawers around the house…