28 Tuesday Apr 2026
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big girl pants, cloudy, four hours, helpers, hot tub, moments, move, neighbours, professional, reading, u-haul, widow
spent the morning between reading and watching the move-out next door…
luckily, there were lots of helpers, although it still took four hours to fill the u-haul, two trucks, and two cars before they left…
an hour or so later, as the sky was clouding over, a hired crew came to move the hot tub to its new home…
next up will be seeing who moves in;-)
26 Monday Jan 2026
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big girl pants, cold, door, hibiscus, locations, mandevilla, moments, move, nature, plants, weather, widow
moved a couple of the bigger plants this morning…
swapped the hibiscus and the mandevilla… the mandevilla has been looking very sad, possibly because of the cold air coming in when the front door opens…
took a few moments to shake off the dead leaves, and then sweep them all up…
the hibiscus didn’t really want to move, even though it is on a rolling platform…
the mandevilla rolled across the floor without any problems…
fingers crossed that both of them will be happy in their new locations…
31 Saturday May 2025
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acclimate, big girl pants, blessed, fern, garden, hibiscus, housemate, indoor, Japanese Maple, mandevilla, moments, move, nature, plants, shade, weather, widow
I (and possibly my housemate) have been bringing out the indoor plants slowly, but surely…
first to come out was the Japanese maple… right now it’s sitting on the ledge that’s mostly shaded, for a few days…
next out came the hibiscus, and it went to the back under the trees, again where it’ll get shaded for the next few days before moving to its final spot…
orchids came out and filled up the little plant stand at the back, looks very cute with the begonias…
brought out a fern and another plant which I can’t remember the name of, that did really well in the top of the rain barrel, so we’ll see how that goes…
when the mandevilla comes out, it is going to sit along the path to the side garden to acclimate…
the lemon tree is still in the house… haven’t quite figured out where it’s gonna go and maybe a few other plants from in there are gonna come outside… we will see…
18 Sunday May 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, forming, front yard, garden, grass, growing, leaves, lilac, moments, move, nature, weather, widow
a week ago the lilac was moved from the back garden to the front of the house…
grass was removed and a hole prepared by my housemate, and it was planted by Hilda the Gardener, and then thoroughly watered…
it hadn’t liked the spot where it had lived in the garden for the last ten years, but the bunnies did enjoy some of its bark over the winters…
happy to see new leaves forming along the branches…
hope it stays happy in its new spot…
06 Tuesday May 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, chairs, deck, friends, garden, gathering, moments, move, muscles, nature, shade, sun, umbrella, weather, widow
moved the big umbrella from the garden onto the deck so that we would have shade for our gathering yesterday…
the weather station was suggesting it would be 30°C… which was a bit crazy as it had been maybe 23 or so the last few days…
used lots of muscles, but it was worth it as there was shade for everyone, although there was a bit of moving chairs around to stay out of the sun… and it was hot…
not sure if it will stay on the deck or not;-)…
04 Friday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, house, moments, move, neighbours, renting, sad, truck, widow
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…
19 Saturday Oct 2024
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bathtub, big girl pants, blessed, condo, garden, goldfish, inhabitants, moments, move, nature, pond, rock, school, water, weather, widow
today the three fish in the bathtub pond moved into their winter condo… one of the rocks that had been in that pond was also brought in to provide a tunnel for the fish…
the tanks have been filled and running since September 30th, although the biggest one has a lot of algae in it so these fish will be testing whether it is ready for inhabitants…
we will likely wait another week or so before moving the rest of the school…
so far, they appear happy;-)…
11 Thursday May 2023
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again, arms, big girl pants, blessed, bolt, chemicals, empty, fill, fourteen, garden, grandson, happy, hot tub, Krevco, memories, moments, Mother's Day, move, widow
early Monday morning I unplugged the hot tub again and put the pump in to empty it…
with the new hose it only takes about fifteen minutes… so much better than the old two hour procedure…
Mike from Krevco arrived later and moved the tub away from the wall… then he spent a good half hour trying to remove the bolt in the broken arm…
eventually both arms were attached and the lid was back on… yay…
once my grandson got home in the evening we were able to get the hot tub back into the correct spot… sounds easy, but if it isn’t in just the correct place, the lids won’t open… but we got it into place and then it took an hour and a half to fill…
a slow process, but done… then it was restarted and will take quite a while to come up to temperature as it is plugged into an outlet, not hardwired, lol…
tonight I have been adding the start-up chemicals, with twenty minutes between each addition, and am looking forward to a lovely late evening time in it;-)…
Sunday (well, Mother’s Day) will mark the fourteenth year since I had the first dip in it;-)…
I truly am blessed…
29 Saturday Apr 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, empty, fill, garden, grandson, hot tub, improvement, Krevco, lid, moments, move, pump, repairs, Spring, water, widow
on Friday we emptied, moved and cleaned the hot tub, put it back and refilled it… this time I used a larger hose that I have and it emptied the tub in fifteen minutes… usually it can take hours, so this was a great improvement…
I am always happy when the jets start up after the refill, because sometimes it takes a few tries to get them working… happily, they started right away…
unfortunately we could not replace the arms as the screw for one of them would not come out…
we also left the seal for them to look at, and hopefully repair or replace…
so I have a call in to Krevco to see about having a technician come out and see what they can do…
08 Friday Jul 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, moments, move, nature, plants, purple, rearranged, shade, widow
moved a few planters and a chair on the lower deck…
haven’t decided if I like it or not…
and then this morning I rearranged again… I put the dahlia by the door and moved the begonias and columbine to the back of the garden where they will get the necessary shade… I may end up moving that planter beside the rain barrel, but will need help to get it up there…
guess I will live with it for a while and see…
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