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attempts…

13 Wednesday Aug 2025

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the work on the pond waterfall area started in early June… when the first two fixes didn’t work we moved on to more serious attempts…

the water in the upper pond was removed, and all the gunk was vacuumed out…

a group of three attempted to lift out the waterfall rock… unfortunately, it broke in the process… one of us might have had a meltdown;-(…

next the remaining blocks were removed and a new liner was installed… then the blocks were put back in… a bit of a puzzle to remember where each one went, lol… possibly they should have been numbered;-)…

the next step involved filling cracks with foam and gluing down some of the rocks…

with help from a friend the main piece of the waterfall rock was carefully lowered back into its spot…

it took three of us, but the three pieces of the waterfall rock were joined together with special rock cement and we waited a week for it to cure…

then the flat rock portion was glued down and left to cure…

next the hose was put down inside the liner and the waterfall spillway was placed back into the waterfall rock… there were a lot of crossed fingers at that point…

finally, on Sunday night, August 10th the waterfall was turned on…

it was too late for a good picture, so this one was taken the next morning…

there is no leaking 🤪…

a great job by my housemate and various friends throughout the process as issues arose and heat and rain caused stoppages…

what a treat to hear the water running and not have to worry about adding water all the time;-)…

55th…

01 Friday Aug 2025

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today I’ve been giggling over a couple of things as I remember 42 years together, on what should have been our 55th wedding anniversary…

first thing I wandered the garden and took pictures of the morning glories…

some, where they were planted, and some that have just found a spot they like, lol…

I remember my beloved bringing me pictures of the ones blooming in the garden each day when he came to visit me in hospital around our fortieth anniversary…

he was just getting used to the camera on his phone, so it was a big deal for him to take the time to take pictures of flowers…

the second thing is the pond…

it has been leaking for ages, but only when the waterfall is running…

we had the leaking problem for a year or so before he died and it was driving him crazy, trying to figure out the problem…

finally, as I was reading on the back deck, two red squirrels were having a battle over one of the feeders… he and squirrels never got on, so it was funny to have them yelling at each other today…

fixing???

07 Monday Jul 2025

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we’ve been working on the pond to try and fix the leak that only seems to happen when the waterfall is running…

we purchased a new hose from a pond store and it took a while to get here… then we had to wait for a good day to work on it…

took extra help to pull the old hose and insert the new one… next a new connection to the pump had to be purchased and finally on Sunday evening the waterfall was turned on… the pump hadn’t been cleaned, but the water was coming through the waterfall much stronger that previously…

we thought the problem was where the water meets the deck on the deck side…

this how it looked at the end of Tuesday…

and it was still leaking, sigh…

this is how it looked on Thursday, although we may be getting closer to the problem…

freaked…

22 Wednesday Jan 2025

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Wednesday morning I went downstairs to do some laundry and found water following a path between the carpets in the back room…

the water was coming from under the hot water tank…

this freaked me out as in 2013 a leaky hot water tank flooded the basement… drywall had to be cut out, huge fans brought in and everything in the basement put into boxes and moved out while the remediation company returned the basement to normal…

two technicians arrived from a neighbourhood company and spent a day and a half in the basement and up a ladder to the top of the chimney…

after numerous issues – the wrong type of tank being delivered, too short a ladder, screws sticking out all the way down the chimney –

finally the new gas water heater is installed and working… throughout the process the technicians continued to find new ways to deal with the problems…

I am pleased with the final result;-)…

leaking…

14 Wednesday Feb 2024

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Tuesday we went to Costco and I got a new set of attachments for the hose…

sadly, the current attachment has been leaking for awhile and the hose doesn’t expand without an attachment…

hoping that all three will work well… fingers crossed…

leak…

05 Monday Jul 2021

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silly waterfall continues to leak so I am now turning it off at night…

it had been working perfectly until I fell in and messed it up…

the nights are much quieter…

between it and watering the grass every day my water bill is going to be a bit high, lol…

tonight as I was doing a final walk through, I heard running water and realized that water was pouring out of the neighbour’s hose… gave them a quick call and they were able to get it stopped…

airlock…

26 Saturday Sep 2020

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have been having some problems with the hot tub leaking for quite some time, but wasn’t certain that the water wasn’t just evaporating with the hot weather we’d been having…

finally it was clear that there was a problem so I called up the company I deal with and made an appointment…

a fellow came out on Monday morning and discovered water dripping from a portion of the pump… he thought it would be about forty dollars for the part which needed to be replaced… he worked for well over an hour and then advised that the entire pump needed to be replaced because the new piece wouldn’t fit in properly as they are now made slightly differently…

we contacted a supplier and my son-in-law went and picked up the new one so that the repair person could return the next morning to hook it up…

sadly, that didn’t happen… I made numerous calls to the store and was advised that they would pass along the message, but no one came… finally I called and asked for an actual appointment so that someone would turn up…

two fellows turned up the next morning and set about installing the new pump… they also fixed the loose jets (with silicone) so they don’t keep shooting the water out of the tub when the water level goes down a bit…

they advised the silicone needed twenty-four hours to cure and that the tub should work fine after that….

cleaned it out and partially filled it to just below the jets and waited for the point where I could finish filling it and turn it on to heat up…

after I filled it up and turned it back on, the pump made noise but the water did not move… I called again and a few hours later the guys came back and fixed an airlock in the pump… then it started to heat up…

I am going out for a hot tub soon;-)…

misbehaving…

13 Monday Jan 2020

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went into the kitchen late last night and heard something dripping… thought it was outside, but then realized it was in the basement…

ran down to discover a ceiling tile on the floor, two wet couches, soaked carpet and water pouring down…

when I could move, I found towels and pails to put down and moved cushions into the basement bathtub…

went upstairs to the main floor and tried to figure out what was leaking… opened the front door to see if something was happening outside….

it was the pump in the fish tank… water was pouring out of it… I turned it off and put down more towels there and moved the pump to the main floor bathtub…

more towels on the floor and then up and down to be sure that all the dripping had stopped…

made for a stressful couple of hours… not sure what caused the problem, but had to leave it for the night…

must have run up and down the stairs a dozen times checking to be sure that no water was misbehaving…

tonight my grandson and I figured out that somehow the pump had tilted and the water had run down the back of it… we put a towel in the back and it has been working perfectly fine for five hours;-)…

hose…

02 Sunday Jun 2019

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out and about in the sunshine for a good portion of the day yesterday…

ran a few errands, grocery shopped, got the lawn mowed… and had a wonderful steak dinner…

trying a different method of running the water in the pond… currently I need to top it up every few days so I’ve only been turning it on when I am home and in the garden… hoping that this new system will show us if the water is evaporating or leaking through the hose…

warm…

04 Thursday Jun 2015

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spent a few minutes this morning pulling grass out of a flower bed and topping up the water in the pond…

sun was shining all day and it was warm…

when I got home I sat outside for a while and talked with my daughter about my upcoming visit…

the pond was looking good…

  
and the fish appeared happy… lots of chasing around so maybe we will have babies before too long…

  
things are starting to bloom…

  
a bit amazed that the Veronica is blooming before the poppies… sadly it looks like there will only be seven poppies… the first summer after George died we must have had fifty blooms…

glad to have spent time in the garden before organizing supper… have to take every opportunity to be outside when there is a nice day…

  
the planters around the deck are doing nicely… first time I’ve had this colour lobelia… looks good…

the pond may still be leaking a bit but I am thrilled with the sheet of water falling from the rock… think I will run a hose under the deck and just below the grass to the edge of the pond… then when it needs to be topped up, it will be a simple turn of the tap to fill it…

feeling more energy and getting the odd job done during the week, which has been unusual for quite some time…