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blizzards…

22 Monday Dec 2025

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we’ve had our first blizzards of the season… they sort of happened over two days…

Thursday, a good amount of snow fell and then the winds came… later the snow stopped and returned the next day with more wind…

I had to cancel two outings, so was able to stay home and watch through the living room window…

on day three my housemate spent over an hour shovelling the sidewalks and driveway… there was a lot of snow🤪…

thankfully, a neighbour a few houses to the north came with his snowblower and dealt with the area closest to the garage which saved another hour of shovelling…

the back door had about a foot of snow covering it and the deck… now it is all clear…

we will see how long that lasts;-)…

rosa…

23 Monday Jun 2025

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happy to discover that the red rose bush in the front garden has begun to bloom…

it came from my neighbour (and very good friend) who lived next door for many years…

it always makes me smile and remember the good times we had together over the years;-)…

brought a few in and put them in the den…

retractable…

24 Tuesday Sep 2024

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this morning, my former neighbour and friend came by, removed the front door, and took it to his house where he replaced the bottom board which had rotted…

we had put a sweep on the bottom of the door and rainwater had been going into it which caused the rot…

we stuck a table in the space, put a chair up against it on the inside, and closed the retractable screen while the door was gone…

I sat and read in the living room as it was a bit nerve racking to not have a door, lol…

and, of course, a meter reader came to the door and I had to call through the table for them to go to the back…

when the door returned a few hours later, a new sweep was put on, screwed in, and caulked so it won’t get water in and should last for as long as I do in the house, lol…

what a blessing to have friends and neighbours who can help deal with some of the issues that take place in the house…

anticipate…

09 Friday Aug 2024

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a few weeks ago a friend brought me some koi that a neighbour had given her for me… they are a fair bit smaller than the goldfish, but I anticipate they will grow quickly…

I’ve never had (or wanted) koi, so it will be interesting to see how it goes… this photo shows one of them (mainly black and white) amongst the much larger goldfish…

my fish are fairly tough… they don’t get any special treatment so we will see how the koi manage in that environment;-)…

an experiment…

bungee…

30 Thursday Nov 2023

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last spring the doorknob on the garage door seized up… the door hadn’t been closing properly for a long time as it had shifted… I’d been using a bungee cord to close it from the outside for ages, lol…

I had done research on how to remove the doorknob, but no matter what I did, couldn’t get it off the door…

eventually my neighbour came over and removed it although he had to hammer it off in the end, lol…

since then the bungee cord has been the way to keep the door closed…

I need a new door, but that didn’t make the project list this year, so I hadn’t done anything about fixing this…

last week we were at the hardware store, picked up a new doorknob, and on Monday while I was visiting with my friends, my grandson installed it…

woohoo…

moose…

03 Friday Nov 2023

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when we were cleaning out the basement back room in the spring, I came across some wood that my beloved had drawn moose on, but hadn’t cut out…

I took them over to my neighbour who has been working with a scroll saw for the last few years…

he brought them back a few days ago…

he did a great job but left the final sanding because he thought my grandsons might like to finish grandpa’s project;-)…

visible…

16 Saturday Sep 2023

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a neighbour is growing sunflowers…

for the longest time we couldn’t figure out what the plants were, lol…

they are as tall as their house and just recently the sunflower head became visible… obviously, these plants have enjoyed the weather…

beds…

17 Thursday Aug 2023

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Tuesday, our neighbour, who had moved away, came by to remove a couple of very large planters that were filled with great soil… they had been using them for their veggie gardens and decided to take the beds apart and shovel the soil into their trailer to reuse at the new house as they are renting this one out…

happily I was allowed three wheelbarrows full of the great soil…

then it had to be raked across the grass to help level it out…

looks bad now, but I am excited to see how it will look in a few weeks…

birdhouse…

28 Friday Jul 2023

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quite a while ago my neighbour brought me a birdhouse that he had made from leftover fence bits…

it was very cute but I left it on the deck and it fell over and the perch broke off… a friend was here and took it home so that her partner could repair it…

recently got it back and found a spot to hang it up…

looks nice… now to see if someone moves in;-)…