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15 Friday Sep 2023

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we moved into this house in September of 1973… 50 years ago:-)…

this is rather astonishing to me, lol…

early on, there was a lot of red everywhere, inside and out… then we went to some light pink, gray, and finally to touches of purple…

the garden started out as a grassed square, then a space for a kid swing set, a small pool, a giant sandbox, a two story playhouse, and then plants and ponds…

so many changes, so many memories;-)…

what a life…

faded…

07 Thursday Sep 2023

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on Monday night, just before supper, I looked up and spotted a beautiful rainbow…

it faded and then a double one started up, and after it faded, there was a third one, with very bright colours…

what a treat…

reminded me of our time in Maui when we saw five different rainbows in an hour…

copper…

05 Tuesday Sep 2023

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months ago I put the copper pipe chimes together, that my beloved had made, using masking tape…

finally, I brought up the drill and found an appropriate bit…

took off the ugly green tape, put the top plexiglass piece into the clamp, and drilled six holes…

then I attached the six pipes to the top and hung it back up…

way to go me;-)…

goal…

20 Sunday Aug 2023

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as we declutter the basement, we have found a few things to move into other areas of the house… and our goal is to set the items up as they get moved, lol…

most recently, a light fixture that originally came from my parents’ apartment made its way into the den…

it got screwed into the wall, a smart bulb was added to it and connected to Google Home…

working nicely and it will be great for guests when the couch transforms to a bed;-)…

gifted…

14 Monday Aug 2023

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Sunday was International left-handers day…

made me laugh as I thought about the cute magnet that my son-in-law got for me a number of years ago…

it is certainly one of my favourites;-)…

apparently both my beloved and I were gifted…

sad about the kids, lol…

categories…

09 Wednesday Aug 2023

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had some fun the other evening when I watched a webinar on Mylio… it was a beautiful evening so I watched it on the deck…

I had tried the free version, and eventually bought the better one as I have so many pictures on my various pieces of technology…

one of the things it does is combine all your photos and remove duplicates… still working on that one, lol…

it also puts them in a calendar which can make finding them simpler than having to search through a bunch, guessing when the one you want may have been taken…

the photographer on the webinar mentioned that he no longer uses categories, because the program can find basically anything you ask for…

made me think I need to get back in there and play with it more;-)…

left-out…

08 Tuesday Aug 2023

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been looking through my photos and came across a few pond pictures which demonstrate how crazy the water lily has gone, lol…

this is it yesterday…

this was last year about the same time…

and the year before…

still not sure if it is the weather or a response to being left-out over the winter…

nervous…

30 Sunday Jul 2023

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this picture came up on my Facebook memories recently…

I can still remember that day… we were in Courtenay and drove up Mount Washington… there was no one else around as it was summer… we sat at the bottom of the ski hill for a very long time as we were both afraid of heights…

but we decided to go for it…

we got on the chairlift but the person didn’t put the safety bar down… we realized this as we were moving upwards… I think that the bars along the back and beside me, that I was holding onto for dear life, probably had dents from the grip I had on them😳…

there are no pictures because of the death grip… we were both terrified…

when we arrived at the top the staff person didn’t seem that worried about it, but did say they would ensure that the bar was put in the correct position when we descended…

there was still snow on the ground and the views were beautiful, but I was still nervous about going back down…

of course, we had no choice about going down… after being safely secured correctly, we made the trip down and I even enjoyed some of the views, lol…

but, once we made it back to town, we stopped and sat in a coffee shop for quite a while to let our nerves settle;-)…

an unforgettable memory, lol…

iteration…

17 Monday Jul 2023

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the current iteration of the pond is ten years old…

hard to believe that much time has passed…

this is how it looked just as it was completed…

after it was finished, they had to come back and deal with leaking and runoff…nearly all of the plants have changed over time, lol… and I have changed the slate around the edge of the pond for large river rocks…

it still loses water when the waterfall is running and this year I have left if off for a good portion of the time… I also think the fish are out and about more when it isn’t running, lol… I do have a bubbler going all the time…

this year the water lilies are extremely happy… they continue to produce blooms daily, it is both amazing and delightful…

today, I turned the waterfall on and realized that I’d been missing it, and how well it dilutes other sounds in the neighbourhood…

Village…

26 Monday Jun 2023

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Sunday morning we made sure to be up in good time to get to the Village Green Bakery at Victoria Beach…

they have the most delicious bread and yummy cookies…

you don’t want to be late or the good stuff might all be gone;-)…

we picked up a loaf of bread, a smile cookie, a coconut and oatmeal cookie, a double chocolate cookie, and two sausage rolls…

we sat in a lovely park and had a snack of some of the goodies and then checked out their beach…

home for a sandwich and then some reading and napping… couldn’t wait to take a picture of the whole loaf, lol…

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