08 Wednesday Feb 2023
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backdoor, big girl pants, blessed, filled, garden, hose, hot tub, moments, scrunch, temperature, water, weather, widow
this morning, I dragged the hose up from the basement, out through the backdoor, and into the tub…
last night I had a great time in the hot tub, but had to scrunch down as the water was rather low…
only took about ten minutes to fill it up… now we will see if it gets up to temp by tonight;-)…
03 Friday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, family, fourteen, garden, grandson, hot tub, memories, moments, remembering, stress, time, trajectory, trauma, widow, work
my youngest grandson just turned fourteen…
brought back a number of memories as his birth changed the trajectory of my life…
because I refused to miss his birth, I ended up leaving a job I had been at for ten years, as the boss wasn’t pleased that I had taken away time from my position… a lot of trauma occurred over the next while and eventually I was walked out of the office…
one good thing that came out of that was the hot tub, as I was awarded a year’s salary due to my wrongful dismissal and purchased it with some of those funds…
there was huge stress and tension and the hot tub has helped with that for many years now;-)…
after a number of months I found the perfect position where I flourished for nearly ten years before my retirement…
lots of things to sift through…
this photo was taken in 2020, when I was still keeping my distance from everyone, but it does show him and the hot tub together, lol…
hard to believe it all began fourteen years ago…
03 Tuesday Jan 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, hoarfrost, hot tub, land, moments, nature, new year, snow, trees, water, weather, widow
started the year off with a lovely hot tub…
the trees were covered in hoarfrost and looked so nice…
I finally got a photo of the icicles hanging along the edge of the house…
I think they are there because of where the hot tub is located and I no longer sit at that end because I don’t want one to land on my head…
11 Sunday Dec 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, door, extendible, garage, garage door, garden, hose, hot tub, memories, moments, open, Technology, washer, water, weather, widow
it was around zero, so today’s project involved hooking up the extendible hose in the basement and then topping up the hot tub…
in the process of connecting the hose I had to go out to the garage for a washer… at which point I discovered that the garage side door wouldn’t open… I tried the key, as it seemed locked, but that didn’t work…
I went in through the overhead door and tried to open it from that side, but no luck there either…
in previous winters the problem had been that it wouldn’t stay closed, lol…
so, will have to see what happens in the next while, sigh…
26 Monday Sep 2022
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over the last week or so I’ve been making sure to have a hot tub each night…
I find that the quiet time in the water clears my mind and makes sleep come easier, last longer, and be more restful…
getting back into a habit is always a bit of a process, lol…
19 Friday Aug 2022
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one of today’s projects was to change the water in the hot tub…
started this morning… brought out the sump pump, hooked up a hose and then relaxed for an hour as it emptied out the water…
the next step was to wipe everything down and then use the wet vac to suck up the last of the water and grunge…
after I put away the vac, I spent another bit of time filling up the hot tub…
now I am waiting for the temperature to make it to the 102°C that I keep it at in the summer…
29 Wednesday Jun 2022
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big girl pants, bird feeder, blessed, bottom, drill, garden, hot tub, moments, nature, productive, projects, trimmed, virginia creeper, widow
two projects were completed on Monday…
the first involved putting a new bottom piece on one of my favourite bird feeders…
it is made of copper and the bottom rusted out… I found a plastic saucer and with a great deal of effort… including hammering and drilling… was able to attach it to the bottom of the feeder… it is going to work perfectly…
looks good and got hung up in a great spot that the birds like…
then I moved the one that had been there previously over beside the pond… and the one that had been by the pond over to the new hanger I attached to the garage last week… phew 😅…
I spent half an hour standing along the edge of the hot tub trimming the Virginia creeper, which was trying to cover the den window…
pleased with how it came out… this time I was clever and moved the hot tub steps over to make getting up and down much easier, lol…
always happy after a productive day…
08 Sunday May 2022
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what a lovely day… spent it in the garden…
began with a hot tub in the sunshine… used it the very first time thirteen years ago on Mother’s Day, so it seemed like an excellent way to start the day…
after breakfast, I raked up some of the leaves… well, it took a good portion of the day, as there were many reading breaks… it is a bit early, but after cleaning out the pond, I wasn’t too thrilled with all of the leaves blowing into it, lol… they went into a paper bag and I am hoping that any critters living in them will be able to escape from said bag…
even though there is no birdseed out, the white-throated sparrows have been singing all day, as they, the house sparrows and the Harris’s sparrow I spotted, wandered the freshly raked grass looking for goodies…
I was contemplating bringing out the goldfish, but think I will wait for some help catching them, lol…
there were numerous phone calls as well as texts reminding me of the special people in my life…
to top it all off, a bunny came and sat with me for about fifteen minutes…
we both had a relaxing time😊…
03 Sunday Apr 2022
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not long ago I wrote about all the bunny tracks in the fresh snow and wondering if it was one busy bunny or many…
a few nights ago, as I was starting to get out of the hot tub – I was feeling a bit lonely without my recent companion – I watched four little bunnies shoot through the gate beside the hot tub, hop down the path and across to the far corner of the garden…
and then they raced around the garden, onto the deck and up and down the snowbanks before hopping past me a few more times…
they were having a blast and so was I;-)…
once I came in, I spotted another one out the front window on the front sidewalk…
what a treat;-)…
I took these pictures today…
01 Friday Apr 2022
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on one of our daytime hot tubs, while my company was here, we spotted an eagle soaring above us… today a program on tv talked about an eagle birdcam on Gabriela Island, which reminded me…
it is very rare to spot one around here… the last time I remember seeing one was when I was in the hall at the university of Winnipeg as we were preparing for a work event…
unfortunately we didn’t have our phones, but here is the spot in the sky where we saw it…
tonight I took a photo of a big bird flying past, lol…
these ones come by quite often, and are much noisier…
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