31 Sunday Mar 2019
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started the day with a lovely hot tub…
although tons of snow has melted, there is still quite a bit covering the garden… took a photo when I got out of the tub…
this afternoon my grandson filled the bird feeders and then shovelled some of the snow so that it might melt a bit faster when the sun shines…
birds are gonna be happy…
20 Wednesday Mar 2019
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beloved, big girl pants, footwork, halfway, hose, hot tub, moments, moon, splash, warm, water, widow
hadn’t been in the hot tub for weeks… Sunday it was warm and I headed out… when I opened the cover I discovered that the water was only about halfway up the side… it was at the correct temperature so I got in and sat on the floor so that I was mostly under water…
then the jets came on and I got splashed… a lot… didn’t stay in too long after that…
dried off and figured out how to get water into it… had to do some fancy footwork to get the vent open so I could run the hose through it…
last night I was out for a hot tub under the nearly full moon… so nice… might have heard some geese…
what a treat to be back there…
23 Saturday Feb 2019
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big girl pants, bunny, garden, hot tub, icicles, loud, pet, shenanigans, widow
backyard shenanigans…
came across my bunny friend in the garden…
I feel a bit like she’s a pet;-)…
then much later I heard a loud noise but couldn’t see where it came from…
just a while ago, I looked out the window and spotted this icicle that had fallen onto the hot tub…
happy I wasn’t in the hot tub at that moment, lol…
18 Monday Feb 2019
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so happy with the shovelling done by my grandson yesterday…
he cleaned out the windrow at the end of the sidewalk which my shoveler hasn’t been able to clear… pleased as my friends have had to use the driveway rather than the sidewalk for weeks;-)… the driveway is sloped so the sidewalk is a safer walk…
he also cleaned off the back deck… there was a lot of snow on it… took ages for him to get this done…
this morning I had a lovely hot tub… it wasn’t too cold out and I enjoyed the quiet… I have been sitting at the opposite end as there are many icicles hanging from the roof and I don’t want any to fall and land on my head, lol…
16 Saturday Feb 2019
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spent some time with my son-in-law yesterday…
one of the things we did was go to RONA and pick up a new cover and clamp for the dryer vent…
we’ve figured out a different way to add water to the hot tub, so that the vent doesn’t have to be removed for the hose to go through it…
as soon as we got home, he popped it into place and hooked up the inside vent…
while he was doing that, the bunny was sitting under a tree on the other side of the yard, watching;-)…
today, when I returned home from brunch out, she was sitting in the same spot… I feel a bit sorry for her…
but not enough to let her back into the house, lol…
15 Friday Feb 2019
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last night I made it out to the hot tub for the first time since my daughter left…
one side of the cover wouldn’t open all the way but that was okay…
while I was sitting there I could hear hooting…
this was the second time I’ve heard an owl in the last week… it flew away and all I saw was a large wingspan…
the other time was early morning and I barely saw it, but it looked a bit like a pheasant with two necks…
today I was googling to see what owls are common around here and found this…
what I thought were two necks is likely the ears…
gonna be watching for it now…
10 Sunday Feb 2019
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arrived, big girl pants, blessed, family, hot tub, iPhone, Ottawa, pictures, SHEday 2019, surprise, treat, widow
my older daughter, who lives in Ottawa, surprised me on Wednesday… she arrived to help with a big event I’ve been working on…
after the event, she was able to visit with a few of her friends and we spent Saturday in our jammies doing nothing…
it was divine as both of us have been very busy for the last month…
we made macaroni and cheese with lobster for supper… at the same time I learned more about Instagram stories and a new app that slices videos to Instagram size;-)… as I was going through my photos looking for one of the mac and cheese to put in this post, I was giggling because we took two sets of videos and there wasn’t a single photo of the process that was good enough to use, lol…
we did manage to get into the hot tub once… our usual routine is to spend a few minutes at the end of each evening there…
this morning we were up early and took our requisite selfie, lol… we used her fancy Huawei phone which has some smoothing aspect in the pic… we look pretty fine…
I got her to the airport by 6:30 am for her flight… and took our final selfie…
a wonderful gift…
03 Sunday Feb 2019
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big girl pants, evaporation, garbage, hose, hot tub, level, recycling, water, widow
this morning I finally made it out for a hot tub… it has been crazy cold here and I just didn’t have the energy to get out there…
when I opened the lid I discovered that a lot of water had evaporated and the jets were shooting through the air… which, of course, leads to more evaporation, lol…
usually, when the water level is low, once I am in the tub, I use up enough space to stop the jets from overshooting, but not this morning…
needless to say, I didn’t stay out too long…
once I was dressed I went out and put water in… it is a bit of a process… have to put a hose through the dryer vent, then go outside and put the hose into the hot tub, usually using one side of the cover to hold it in place… then it is back downstairs to turn on the water, using a pair of pliers to turn it because my fingers aren’t strong enough… back outside to be sure the water is going in and not spraying the wall…
while I was waiting for it to fill, I took out the recycling and garbage… also had a few minutes to take some photos of the frost on one of the windows in the garage…
when it was full, back downstairs to turn off the water, run up and push the hose back into the basement, close the cover and run down to hang up the hose and connect the vent back up to the dryer… good exercise, lol…
30 Wednesday Jan 2019
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my, oh my… it has been crazy cold…
this morning while I was waiting for the car to warm up a bit, I took some pictures…
the cover of the hot tub is amazing… I haven’t been in it for a while, but it looks like it has turned into a cocoon to keep the heat in, lol…
it is so beautiful as everything is covered in ice…
I don’t usually sit in the car while it is running in the garage, but it was so cold that I felt Indi needed to warm up before we left… although the door was wide open it smelled, so I moved her onto the driveway for a few final minutes…
that’s when I got the pictures, lol…
last night when I left the office it was so cold that it felt like everything in the car was frozen, even though the battery had been plugged in all day…
rarely do we all plug in, but this morning I took this photo… clearly others felt it was cold as well…
26 Saturday Jan 2019
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big girl pants, croissants, flowers, hot tub, illusion, moments, moon, optical illusion, rose, snow, Tea, widow
started the day sharing tea and croissants with a very special person… such a lovely way to begin the weekend…
was going to grocery shop, but it just felt too cold, so home I came, lol…
the snow on the hot tub cover was amazing and it looked like the siding was melting… it wasn’t, thank goodness… a very cool optical illusion…
then it was laundry and sports on tv;-)…
