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stepped…

13 Sunday May 2018

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big girl pants, breakfast, cushion, datura, daughter, family, fiddle diddle, hot tub, Mother's Day, photos, plants, restaurant, stepped, treat, widow

had a lovely Mother’s Day…

was up early, as usual, lol, and went out to have a hot tub… spent a little while sorting out how to get a shot of me in the tub… it has been nine years since I stepped into this hot tub for the first time, on Mother’s Day in 2009… what fun to figure out how to get the shot…

met up with my daughter and family for breakfast out… usually we would have supper at home, but the younger boys have soccer practice at 6… there was a long line as we waited but the salmon benedict I ordered was delicious… it has a spinach sauce and is served on a scone, yum…

at the end of the meal she and I received a chocolate treat… when I ate it a little while ago it reminded me of a fiddle diddle cookie my friend Lisa makes… delicious…

had a text and call from my older daughter while I was waiting to be picked up after breakfast…

then my son-in-law took us moms to a number of plant stores where we wandered around and picked up a few goodies…

I was particularly happy to find a purple datura and a pretty dahlia… my plan is to leave the plants on the dining room table for a few weeks rather than put them out and bring them in, depending on the weather…

besides the plants, I got a pretty outdoor cushion, a blue-y purple pot, and purple morning glory seeds…

had planned to make roast chicken with stuffing for my dinner, but after all that running around, decided that ordering in would be a nice treat, lol…

and it was;-)…

second…

28 Saturday Apr 2018

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the hot tub was at 104 this afternoon… so I quickly changed my plans and spent a bit of time enjoying the warmth…

this is the second time it had made it to that temperature since I got home… it hasn’t been that warm in months…

on Tuesday evening I was in it for a while too… although the temperature went down rapidly once I got in…

apparently now I need a new spa pack and they guarantee that this is going to fix the problem… it if doesn’t I am going to have to take some drastic steps because this has gone on way too long…

I miss my nightly relaxation…

slippers…

15 Sunday Apr 2018

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so very happy this morning when I was able to step into my slippers without thinking… for days I’ve had to lean on something and concentrate on my knee as I would slide my foot into the slipper…

while grocery shopping I treated myself to some flowers to celebrate my birthday week;-)…

didn’t arrange them that well, but might take some to the office and ask a friend to make them more beautiful… and tomorrow night I will ask another friend to do something with the ones I leave at home…

to top the day off, my grandsons came for dinner and helped with a few jobs around the house, including filling and hanging the feeder in the garden…

if the hot tub ever gets to temperature I will be able to watch the birds, lol…

and after the busyness of the day, my knee is feeling good… yay…

iced…

14 Saturday Apr 2018

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the silly hot tub is still not working properly… spent some time at the store and have a few more things to try… the temperature was 101 when I left home and when I returned it was 98… not really the direction I was hoping for, sigh…

spent some time with my leg up and iced it before being picked up to go to our last PTE play of the year…

leg is feeling good and the play was funny…

fixed…

07 Saturday Apr 2018

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today the hot tub got fixed… I am so happy…

this afternoon I was able to go out and attach the hose to drain it… this process takes about three hours…

managed to do this without kneeling down, which was great because my knee is still sore…

process was a bit dicey because I didn’t want water to freeze in the tub and wreck it…

my son-in-law stopped in on his way home from work…

he moved the hot tub out from the wall, had to remove one of the panels, was able to fix a broken fastener and finally screw the replacement arm in place…

he pushed it back up against the wall and I started to fill it… amazingly it didn’t even take an hour to fill up…

sometimes the pump doesn’t start as easily as it should, but today it got going perfectly… now it is heating…

because it is plugged into a regular output it takes quite a while to heat up… likely won’t be at the correct temperature for a few days…

looking forward to getting into it soon;-)…

jump…

22 Friday Dec 2017

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and so the ongoing saga of the hot tub continues…

yesterday I spoke with the technician from Krevco… we were on the phone for nearly half an hour… we went over all his previous ideas, a few times… then he asked me to send him pictures of the readout a few times over the next few days…

the temperature in the hot tub continues to jump between 104 and somewhere in the 80s… no pattern… I’ve been recording the temperature for days and had sent the chart to them last week…

after our very long conversation my daughter and I went out for our evening hot tub and as we were opening the cover, one of the arms snapped…

haven’t heard back from the technician… so on top of the temperature fluctuations not sure I can open the tub on my own, sigh…

hope that Krevco is open next week;-(…

calling…

10 Sunday Dec 2017

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early this morning I went out for a hot tub… for the last few days the temperature in the tub has read 104 so I’ve had a few excursions out there…

I don’t usually have the phone when I am in the hot tub, but a bird was calling and I wanted to record the sound so my birdwatching friends could listen and identify it… it was a beautiful morning and besides the bird there were a few squirrels flitting about…

a bit later I ran out to get some grocery shopping done… perfect timing because the store had very few people in it… took quite a few trips to get everything into the house…

got all the stuff put away and prepared for my company to arrive…

my dear friend, who I haven’t seen in ages, came to help decorate for Christmas… we had such fun…

while I was hanging some ornaments in the dining room window caught this little guy on the rail of the front steps…

once we were done my friend headed home and I put all of the unused things back into the bins and carried them downstairs…

certainly was a full day… and the house looks wonderful…

let the celebrating begin…

hot…

28 Tuesday Nov 2017

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had a wonderful hot tub tonight… the stars were bright and it was very quiet… because the temperature has been so warm there wasn’t even the sound of skating in the rink at the community club, because the ice is likely melted…

been a while since the tub has been working properly, so it was great to go out and have it hot, lol…

when I came back in I made some hot chocolate with coconut milk and a few squares of a coconut Lindt bar… topped the snack off with some almonds…

I’m slowly reintegrating items into the bedroom and I started with this little vignette…

always fun to reorganize a space, but it can be a bit of work…

tomorrow a new mattress will be arriving which should help with my sleep…

looking forward to having the space all set up and comfortable… one little step at a time…

surrounded…

23 Thursday Nov 2017

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big girl pants, fish, hot tub, moments, pictures, planting, plants, problems, surrounded, tv, widow

last night I took a few pictures of the paper whites and the amaryllis… they are all starting to really move as they stretch up to the light…

hopeful that they will produce some flowers close to the holidays… am trying to take time every day to enjoy their growth…

tonight I took a few pictures… the plants, the fish, and the view from my seat on the couch…

this is not my usual spot but the tv in the bedroom is behaving very badly so I am watching in the main floor tv/guest room, lol…

seems like a lot is going on around me these days… dealing with the car accident and driving a rental car that has amazingly touchy brakes… issues with the hot tub not working properly after being repaired… trying to find a reasonably priced mattress… and now the silly tv…

the good news is that I am surrounded by flowers;-)…

growing…

16 Thursday Nov 2017

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took a few shots of the amaryllis and paper whites tonight…

they are both starting to sprout and grow up… will be interesting to see if they actually bloom…

also enjoyed a few minutes with the flowers…

then I headed outside for a late night hot tub… Krevco came and replaced the heater on Friday… when I opened the cover the temperature was 90… rather disappointing, sigh…

guess I’ll be giving them a call tomorrow…

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