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top-up…

26 Saturday Feb 2022

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well, I am a happy camper…

the hot tub has needed a top-up for a number of weeks, but every time it has been warm enough, or not snowing, the lid has been frozen shut…

and the less water in it the more the jets run and more water evaporates…

today I was able to go out and open it… yay… it took nearly fifteen minutes to top it up so I was pleased to get it done…

I’m not exactly sure that I can open both covers enough to get in it, but at least it has enough water for awhile…

the extendable hose works perfectly… it runs up the stairs and out the door easily so the filling part is simple…

there is a lot of snow out there, lol…

fallen…

21 Monday Feb 2022

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after all these days of snow I hadn’t felt like that much had fallen…

this was the garden Saturday at 3:06 pm…

and this was the same spot yesterday at 7:40 am… the gazing ball on its stand is no longer visible…

I guess more came down than I thought, lol…

the last few years we haven’t had much snow, but we appear to be making up for that now… a number of reports are suggesting that we’ve hit some records…

in this photo from yesterday, you can see how high the snow is on the railing… and the lovely drifts along the sidewalk…

knee-deep…

20 Sunday Feb 2022

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got up at 5:30 am to watch the Olympics closing ceremony…

while I was cozied up in the bed, I could hear the furnace turn on and then off, and on and off, and on and off… I knew immediately what the issue was…

for the last three days we have been under a blizzard warning… I hadn’t thought that much snow had fallen, but I was wrong…

put on leggings, socks and my outer gear and went out the front door with a shovel and a straightened coat hanger… over the last years I have learned how to clean out the vents and be sure there is no snow inside them…

the snow was knee-deep in many places and I didn’t shovel, I just climbed through…

the vents weren’t visible except for a small hole where the exhaust vent was still blowing out air… the intake was under about eight inches of snow…

only took about ten minutes to dig them out… the snow was tossed into the middle of the driveway because there isn’t anywhere else to put it… did a quick swipe with the hanger and headed back in…

once I was in the house I could hear the furnace working… yay…

climbed back under the covers and watched the rest of the show, although about half an hour later my legs started to feel cold…

another example of those big girl pants, lol…

one-sided…

19 Saturday Feb 2022

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the violets are doing well…

I moved one that was rather one-sided and put it onto the living room table… it straightened out nicely…

another is in the front window now and I hope it will straighten out as well…

the third has a few blooms on it and has started a new plant on the side…

nature is quite wonderful… so happy to have the time to watch each little step…

goosebumps…

17 Thursday Feb 2022

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got a message today from someone who I had given a recommendation of places to visit on Vancouver island…

I had suggested Cathedral Grove in MacMillan Provincial Park… they thought it was amazing…

it is one of my favourite places ever…

within steps of the highway all traffic noises are gone and the walk through the giant trees is meditative and soul filling…

these pictures are from a visit with my beloved in the summer of 2011…

still gives me goosebumps when I remember what a special place it was…

wrangled…

16 Wednesday Feb 2022

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out in the snow again today…

after clearing a path to the back lane, I wrangled the garbage bin to a spot just outside the gate…

the drift there was about a foot deep so it took me a while to make a spot for the bin…

sure hope they empty it on Friday…

vents…

15 Tuesday Feb 2022

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I’m trying to laugh at the snow… it is that or cry, lol… laughing seems more sensible…

when I was out shovelling the sidewalks a few days ago, I walked up the driveway to check on the furnace vents…

and found them nearly covered with snow…

took a few minutes to get them cleared by tossing the snow into the middle of the driveway as I don’t need to get a car in and out of it… and there is nowhere else to throw it…

I was getting out of my jacket and heard a sound… when I turned and saw that one of the amaryllis had fallen off the table… there was mud on the carpet so I quickly picked it up… only to discover that the stalk had bent over and the blooms were hanging down… I got scissors, cut it and put the blossoms into a vase… after sweeping up the dirt I got a few pictures…

I guess it was getting too heavy to hold its head up;-(…

lots of activity… after that I had some time reading in the sunshine…

and, of course, more snow has fallen since then…

highlighting…

11 Friday Feb 2022

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enjoyed some lovely time in the living room this afternoon with the sun shining in, highlighting the amaryllis flowers…

the first one started blooming around January 17th and right now has four blooms on its second stalk…

the three that arrived and were planted on January 21st are doing well… of them, one is down to its last bloom and one is just thinking of opening…

happy they have stretched out their growth… they have brought much joy and I have spent time with them every day…