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windrow…

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…

vent…

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…

owl…

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…

arrived…

10 Sunday Feb 2019

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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…

level…

03 Sunday Feb 2019

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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…

brrrr…

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…

illusion…

26 Saturday Jan 2019

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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;-)…

pleased…

01 Tuesday Jan 2019

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for the last four or five years one of my first acts of the New Year has been to change my Chihuly calendar from the last year to the coming one…

when I went to change it this morning and turned up the last page of the 2018 calendar it was a lovely photo of a Float Boat… I love the circular shapes and gorgeous colours and was sad that I wouldn’t see them…

when I opened up the 2019 calendar the first photo was of Mille Fiore… lovely blues and purples… the calendars have a few months before January and a few after December…

the January picture was all clear and didn’t make me at all excited…

so I changed it… cut the photo out and put it over the clear pic, lol..

I am pleased with the final product…

later in the afternoon I spent some time in the hot tub and thought of the various places I have seen Float Boats… the first place was at Chihuly Gardens and Glass in 2013 with my daughter and son-in-law when they were living on Vancouver Island…

I’ve also seen lots of photos in books on Chihuly…

and my favourite was from our visit to the Atlanta Botanical Garden in 2016…

lovely memories…

tasty…

30 Sunday Dec 2018

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I’ve been a bit lonely over the last week or so… most Christmases my older daughter and her husband have come home… it didn’t work out this year…

was out in the hot tub this morning, first time in ages… a bit later these two pictures came up in my Facebook memories…

the first is deadly chocolate mousse cake, her favourite… I always make sure to have it in the house when she comes… in fact whenever I go to visit her, I take some as well… we always have the cake for breakfast, which the grandsons think is amazing;-)…

the second is of our water boots from last Christmas… she loves the hot tub and our usual pattern is a late night dip before bed…

it was my other son-in-law who suggested water boots many years ago… they work perfectly so that my feet never get cold or snowy…

today I spent some time cooking… turkey and dumplings, and mashed potato and garlic soup…

they both came out pretty tasty, although I am not going to be able to have the potato soup for work lunches because it reeks of garlic, lol…

sleeping…

19 Wednesday Dec 2018

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for weeks I was having trouble sleeping…

I think I had a virus which caused an ache in my neck that really made laying down in bed painful… a number of colleagues had mentioned similar issues…

it went on and on… some nights I barely slept… other nights I would wake up ten or twelve times… even went out to the hot tub in the middle of the night and took the odd drug, which clearly shows how bad I was feeling, lol… none of which worked by the way…

for the last few days I’ve been able to sleep without being propped up in the bed…

and I hadn’t even realized it, lol… a reminder of how quickly we can forget when we weren’t feeling well… but great to realize how good being healthy makes you feel…

getting a good night’s sleep is so beneficial to everything else you do…

so happy to be over whatever it was…