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crashing…

30 Sunday Jun 2024

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the other day my grandson came to the door and said something had happened to my plants… he heard a crash as he was showering and came out to the shower caddy that we had installed in January laying in pieces on the floor with bits of orchids everywhere…

I was so shocked I didn’t even take a picture of the carnage…

it took a while to pick up the plants, sweep up the broken bits, and dump out the soil…

then, we ignored it for a few days, lol…

when we put it back up, we decided to use strapping and screws…

I still need to replace the one broken pot…

hopefully this time the whole shelf won’t come crashing down, lol…

hung…

02 Thursday Nov 2023

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nearly a year ago, my eldest grandson and I began working away in the garage… he has a very organized mind…

a few weeks later, we cleaned out a spot and moved the shelves further along the wall…

the next time we worked in it, after purchasing additional hardware, we attached hooks and hung up a number of garden and winter tools… like items were gathered together and placed on the shelves… we came in when we started to get cold…

we spent another few hours another day working away in the space… more tools were hung on the other side of the space, the garbage bin was filled with broken, unusable items, two boxes were filled with giveaway items and the bench had much more space…

great strides were made each time we were in there and we were able to get the car in when it was home over the winter…

then we didn’t do anything more, because it got warm and the car didn’t need to live inside…

so, maybe it got filled up with other stuff, lol…

over the summer, it was great to be able to find tools without effort…

disaster…

17 Friday Feb 2023

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my grandson and I have been working away in the basement…

we have now been through all of the boxes from after the 2013 hot water tank flood… apparently I didn’t really need the stuff that was in them… we have tossed out, recycled, and packed up a huge amount to give away to the pass-me-over folks…

we even went deep under the stairs and discovered lots more stuff that has nearly all been dealt with…

looked like a bit of a disaster down there, but it is coming along… always interesting how the process moves from stuff everywhere, to more stuff everywhere, to finally organized… apparently it was so bad, I didn’t even take photos of the worst period, lol…

the space was nearly emptied, an item was sold, a few things will be going online for sale, items were given to a small business that helps women starting fresh… and there was a big pile of things for donation… besides filling the garbage bin, a large collection of items is in the garage waiting for the next few garbage days…

we have done a great job and I am thrilled to have this all done;-)… a great stress has been removed from my shoulders…

pail…

02 Saturday Apr 2022

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I’ve been careful to hold this pail on the bottom as well as with the handle because I’ve wondered how long it will hold… I use it to add water to the fish tanks when they are a bit low…

today I got the answer…

this morning, I was on my third trip and just as I went to pour it into the big tank, it snapped and water went everywhere…

what a mess… drapes, wine bottles, tiles, front of drawers, the floor… everything was soaked… and one of the tiles broke… I am going to have to see if there is one left in the garage that size…

so, everything that could be moved was, the water was sopped up and the space was left to dry… tomorrow I will put everything back…

guess I will be looking for a new pail, lol…

whisperer…

08 Thursday Aug 2019

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for the last few weeks my desk has been a bit messed up as I had loaned out a small rolling filing cabinet…

this meant that all my plants, mainly orchids, ended up on the desktop, making it a bit crowded…

today, I got the cabinet back and our amazing plant whisperer reorganized the space… she remembered exactly how it should look, which was good because I couldn’t remembered what went where…

looks amazing now… and the space has a much calmer feeling;-)… ahhh…