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13 Friday Sep 2024

Posted by sulis303 in business, life, moments, retirement, technology, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, email, faster, goodbyes, internet provider, loyalty, moments, moved, MTS, Shaw, Technology, widow

I have been a loyal MTS customer for 51 years…

over the last number of years I have been able to have a bit of a discount but they have come to the place where they are not providing anymore subsidies…

on top of that, the area I live in can only get 50 mbps, which is not really sufficient for all my Google Home units, tv, streaming, video games, etc…

one of the biggest changes has been the fact that I needed to change my email address, which I have had since email began (when dinosaurs strolled the earth)… a new address was set up many months ago, and slowly I have shared that information with others… over the last few weeks we have notified all of the organizations I am connected to as well…

today, I changed my provider to Shaw, who apparently can give me 1000 mbps, for less money…

so I am saying my goodbyes to MTS…

I didn’t want to make the change but felt there were no options… it was difficult as I am loyal to companies that I am connected to, but unfortunately MTS no longer seem to value longtime customers…

Tony, the technician, was here for over three hours and came across a number of complications, of course… but he was pleasant and got it done…

the Googles are all happy and changed over without any action needed on our part, woohoo…

and, I am beginning to learn how to use the new tv remote;-)… those big girl pants, lol…

above is the pile of things that we now have to send to MTS, by mail apparently…

stripped…

01 Monday Jul 2024

Posted by sulis303 in garden, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized, weather

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big girl pants, blessed, caterpillars, garden, leaves, miffed, milkweed, moments, moved, nature, plants, stem, stripped, widow

yesterday I moved five monarch caterpillars from one area of milkweed, where all of the leaves had been devoured across the path to the group that were caterpillar-free…

this picture is before every single leaf had been gobbled up…

I used a stick to move them because I didn’t want to get injured, lol…

at least one of the caterpillars was miffed because it opened its mouth wide and felt like it was hissing at me…

I guess they also travelled on their own, because today I discovered eleven on those plants… and I moved another one that seemed to be trying to eat the stem of the stripped milkweed…

hope there are enough leaves to get them to the correct size to move into the chrysalis phase;-)…

50…

15 Friday Sep 2023

Posted by sulis303 in family, health, life, loss, moments, retirement, Uncategorized

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50, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, changes, family, flowers, garden, happy, house, memories, moments, moved, plants, pond, purple, remembering, widow

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…

moved…

03 Monday May 2021

Posted by sulis303 in business, garden, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized, weather

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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, garden, Hilda the Gardener, moments, moved, planning, planters, plants, widow

had a great time in the garden on Friday, planning the steps to get it beautiful…

spent the time with Hilda the Gardener and we discussed flowers, beds, and watering options… what is needed and where to locate plants… we even moved a few planters around in the front… i am now looking for two more black ones to add in… a bit later I moved the ones out that are going into the garden…

she will be back this week to start the spring cleanup process…

fixed…

07 Saturday Apr 2018

Posted by sulis303 in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, emptied, filled, fixed, happy, heating, hot tub, knee, moved, tricky, water, widow

today the hot tub got fixed… I am so happy…

this afternoon I was able to go out and attach the hose to drain it… this process takes about three hours…

managed to do this without kneeling down, which was great because my knee is still sore…

process was a bit dicey because I didn’t want water to freeze in the tub and wreck it…

my son-in-law stopped in on his way home from work…

he moved the hot tub out from the wall, had to remove one of the panels, was able to fix a broken fastener and finally screw the replacement arm in place…

he pushed it back up against the wall and I started to fill it… amazingly it didn’t even take an hour to fill up…

sometimes the pump doesn’t start as easily as it should, but today it got going perfectly… now it is heating…

because it is plugged into a regular output it takes quite a while to heat up… likely won’t be at the correct temperature for a few days…

looking forward to getting into it soon;-)…

moved…

12 Sunday Nov 2017

Posted by sulis303 in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, declutter, family, furniture, guest room, living room, moved, widow

a lot of furniture was moved today… seemed simple…

it was that little thing where to make one change you had to make another and then another… thankfully my son-in-law and grandson were up for the job and made it happen…

ended in the living room… I am very happy with the outcome… need to change out the plants and the items in the drawers of the table…

this is the tv/guest room now…

and finally this is the downstairs look…

although when I am on the treadmill I face the tv, this does point out that I need to get some art up on these walls, lol…

now some decluttering and it will be all good…

neighbour…

20 Sunday Nov 2016

Posted by sulis303 in family, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, celebrate, empty, family, friend, garden, move in, moved, neighbour, widow

since we’ve lived in our house, there have been four owners of the house next door…

when we moved in, the young couple were newly adoptive parents and then had another little one inside of eight months, so moved to a larger house close by…  we became friends and she cut my hair for years after they left…

then came our dear friend Ellen and her husband… they lived in the house for about 25 years and became family… looking after the girls, giving us breaks at mealtimes, babysitting on a regular basis when we went bowling, sharing meals, being a sounding board… we built a gate in the fence between our yards, lol… really missed her when they moved to a seniors complex… she died not long after that in 2009 and we spent a wonderful afternoon in the garden with friends celebrating her life…

then an older single woman moved in for about a year, followed by two young men… cousins who were both pilots… last year one got married and they recently had a baby… we didn’t connect that much with any of them…they moved out on Saturday…. 

the house is empty as it waits for the next owners to arrive…

wonder who will move in… hope we connect…

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