17 Thursday Oct 2024
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recently I picked up some frames to use with some dove cards that were just taped to the wall…
it only took us a little while to add nails and get the two bottom ones up…
then we had to use some ingenuity to attach the top one…
I am very pleased with the results;-)…
26 Sunday Nov 2023
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bathroom, big girl pants, blessed, hammering, injury, level, moments, Technology, toilet roll holder, tools, widow
tried again to level the toilet paper holder…
took a bit of time and a number of tools…
took it off the wall, unscrewed the fasteners, drilled the holes slightly bigger and then hammered in a little plastic piece before reinserting the screws;-)…
was slightly injured in the process…
maybe it will stay level…
21 Monday Aug 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, completing, digging, family, fence, garden, gate, grandson, level, moments, nature, rain, sky, weather, widow, wind
we’ve been working away at completing projects that have been started, but not quite finished;-)… I’m sure this doesn’t happen to anyone else, lol…
Wednesday, it was the back gate in the new fence…
the dirt was dug up under the gate area, two old concrete pads were discovered under a few inches of the dirt… they were removed and then some quarter down was laid, packed down, levelled, and new blocks put down, level with the lane… soil went into the spots on either side and some work on the slope up to the shed took place…
this is going to make the taking out and bringing in of garbage and recycling bins so much easier…
meanwhile the sky filled with threatening clouds, spots of sun, and then more of the “going to rain” cloud variety…
the project is not quite done, and just as we came in for lunch the wind went crazy and some rain started down…
good timing;-)…
17 Thursday Aug 2023
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beds, big girl pants, blessed, dirt, flower beds, garden, grandson, grass, level, moments, neighbour, rake, soil, widow
Tuesday, our neighbour, who had moved away, came by to remove a couple of very large planters that were filled with great soil… they had been using them for their veggie gardens and decided to take the beds apart and shovel the soil into their trailer to reuse at the new house as they are renting this one out…
happily I was allowed three wheelbarrows full of the great soil…
then it had to be raked across the grass to help level it out…
looks bad now, but I am excited to see how it will look in a few weeks…
03 Sunday Feb 2019
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big girl pants, evaporation, garbage, hose, hot tub, level, recycling, water, widow
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…
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