cleaners…

07 Friday Nov 2025

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my tea towel on the stove, folded very nicely by the cleaners who were here a few days ago, reminded me of how blessed I am…

for years we couldn’t afford a cleaner…

but for the last number of years I’ve had a company come in once a month to do the basics which makes me feel like the house is mainly clean, lol…

I am ever thankful to my beloved who made this wonderful gift possible;-)… I continue to miss him every single day…

lantana…

05 Sunday Oct 2025

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began the process of bringing in the plants for the winter…

I have my usual ones, the mandevilla, hibiscus, lemon tree, and Japanese Maple…

I am also bringing in some additions… the new purple hibiscus, bacopa, a couple of begonias, silver falls, a dahlia, and lantana… we’ll see how they do, and where I am going to put them…

then there are the small Japanese maple and sapling that my housemate plans to make into bonsai, lol…

I have tried a setup in the window and will see how I like it;-)…

still have to find places for a few more;-)…

renting…

04 Friday Apr 2025

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it was a bit of a sad day today, even though the sun was shining;-)…

a moving truck arrived and took all morning to empty out the house next door…

I am going to miss my little buddy and his baby sister (oh yes, and their parents, lol), but they aren’t moving too far away and will be around as they are renting the house…

tool…

01 Saturday Mar 2025

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the other day, as my housemate was leaving the house, the handle for the front door came off in his hand…

he wasn’t able to fix it then and when he got home we discovered that we didn’t have the correct tool to make the repair…

happily, no deliveries arrived and I didn’t have to go out the next day, lol…

once he had the right implement, it only took a few minutes to fix the problem;-)…

now I’m not afraid to open the door;-)…

uninsured…

09 Thursday Jan 2025

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so, in today’s Canada Post mail, I received a letter from my house insurance company advising that a payment was due on December 14th…

the date on the letter was November 23rd…

I called my insurance company right away and paid the invoice over the phone…

my first question to my agent was whether the house had been uninsured since mid December…

thankfully the house was covered…

I have now entered the date for the next payment to be sure it doesn’t get missed, lol…

lighten…

31 Thursday Oct 2024

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made a trip to share some of our pass-alongs…

the trunk and some of the backseat were filled with items that will lighten the house, lol…

and then we found some books and a cute little casserole pan to bring home… I think it will be a perfect size…

we did leave more than we brought home, lol…

repair…

25 Wednesday Sep 2024

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well today there was another repair person in the house…

we had ordered a tushy to put on the toilet, but when he hooked it up my grandson encountered a leak he could not figure out how to fix…

we contacted NextGen who have recently located to a shop at Bruce and Albany…

Tony arrived just ninety minutes later and had the leak fixed and a second problem in the kitchen sorted out inside forty-five minutes…

he was a knowledgeable technician, explained as he went along, and cleaned up all the mess before he left…

now I have a fan blowing into the cabinet and am waiting for the space under the sink to dry out so I can put everything back;-)…

retractable…

24 Tuesday Sep 2024

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this morning, my former neighbour and friend came by, removed the front door, and took it to his house where he replaced the bottom board which had rotted…

we had put a sweep on the bottom of the door and rainwater had been going into it which caused the rot…

we stuck a table in the space, put a chair up against it on the inside, and closed the retractable screen while the door was gone…

I sat and read in the living room as it was a bit nerve racking to not have a door, lol…

and, of course, a meter reader came to the door and I had to call through the table for them to go to the back…

when the door returned a few hours later, a new sweep was put on, screwed in, and caulked so it won’t get water in and should last for as long as I do in the house, lol…

what a blessing to have friends and neighbours who can help deal with some of the issues that take place in the house…

flapping…

21 Saturday Sep 2024

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this afternoon the doorbell rang and it was my neighbour…

he and his helper had come to see if they could fix the two pieces of siding which have been flapping on the side of the house for ages…

he had already moved the plunge tub and wheelbarrow to get to the ladder which hangs on the outside of the garage and then he got right to work…

it took awhile to get both pieces back in place and he had a tool in his hand that I couldn’t quite make out, but after moving the ladder a number of times in both places, he got it done…