22 Tuesday Nov 2022
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bathtub, big girl pants, blessed, draining, Drano, moments, plug, replacement, washer, widow
the bathtub has been draining very slowly for a while now…
a suggestion had been to use Drano in it…
I finally climbed right in, and realized the stopper would unscrew…
then I discovered that the rubber washer had broken in two and was clearly the culprit…
it drained perfectly once removed…
now to get out and find a replacement for the washer…
25 Sunday Jul 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, fun, garden, Google Home, grandson, iPhone, link, moments, plug, pond, Technology, water, waterfall, widow
been wishing that I didn’t have to climb behind the planter every time I need to turn the waterfall on and off…
I decided to look online to see if there was something I could use outside to control the plug…
I was so excited to find a KASA TP-Link outdoor plug… KASA is part of my Google Home system, and the plug was reasonably priced…
my grandson picked it up for me and it was easy to add to my Google Home… well, he added it, lol… I can even add another item to the plug as it has two outlets…
this is going to make dealing with the waterfall so much easier, and I’ve been having fun turning it on and off;-)…
04 Thursday Jun 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, breakfast, butterflies, dragonfly, frog, garden, hot tub, moments, monarch, nature, plug, pond, widow
had the most wonderful morning in the garden…
when I went out for a hot tub first thing I realized the pump had stopped in the pond…
before I went in, I pulled the plug and then spotted a dragonfly sitting on a rock in the pond…
took my breakfast outside and sat and watched it for quite some time… wondering if it had come up from the water and was drying its wings…
it was windy and I watched two butterflies flit past… an orange one, maybe a monarch although it wasn’t close enough to confirm… and a black one… it had some yellow along the outside of the wings…
went into the house for a cup of tea and when I came back, noticed the dragonfly in the pond and thought it might be dead, but then its wings fluttered… I found a stick and pulled it out and set it down in the sun… after about half an hour it flew away;-)…
a short while later I saw my buddy the frog jump in and swim across the pond… and finally the fish came out from under the bridge…
30 Wednesday Jan 2019
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battery, big girl pants, brrr, cold, frozen, garage, hot tub, pictures, plug, weather, widow, winter
my, oh my… it has been crazy cold…
this morning while I was waiting for the car to warm up a bit, I took some pictures…
the cover of the hot tub is amazing… I haven’t been in it for a while, but it looks like it has turned into a cocoon to keep the heat in, lol…
it is so beautiful as everything is covered in ice…
I don’t usually sit in the car while it is running in the garage, but it was so cold that I felt Indi needed to warm up before we left… although the door was wide open it smelled, so I moved her onto the driveway for a few final minutes…
that’s when I got the pictures, lol…
last night when I left the office it was so cold that it felt like everything in the car was frozen, even though the battery had been plugged in all day…
rarely do we all plug in, but this morning I took this photo… clearly others felt it was cold as well…
21 Monday May 2018
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beloved, big girl pants, clematis, frame, garden, hot tub, plug, Shadow, shopping, trellis, widow
yesterday when we were out we picked up two trellises…
had to replace the sunshine frame that the clematis grew up on the wall at the side of the house… last year when the roofers were here it got broken in a couple of spots…
here is a photo from a while back that shows how it used to look…below the frame my beloved had placed chicken wire to help the clematis make it up to the frame, lol…
and this is how it looks today…
the timing was great because it is just starting to leaf out… it was funny to see the shadow of the frame on the wall when we took it off… you can actually spot the curve in the centre at the top of the trellises… should have taken a picture, lol…
also going to be easier to pull out and plug in the hot tub…
looks great;-)… might just pick up another clematis to add to it…
13 Wednesday Dec 2017
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app, big girl pants, colour, light bulb, plug, Smartpad, Technology, widow
this morning I remembered to take a few shots as I was using my BeeWi SmartPad app…
I find it so handy, particularly at night when I am heading upstairs and have my hands full…
I can turn it on from my phone downstairs before I head up… it also can change colour but I don’t really use that piece of it…
thinking I might get a few more of the light bulbs and maybe even one for a plug… not sure what else they have…
technology is such fun when it works, lol…
26 Thursday Jan 2017
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last night when I got into the house and opened the fridge it was not cold…
I wondered if I hadn’t closed the door, so closed it and left it for awhile… still not cold when I opened the door later… the lights were working but there wasn’t any motor noise…
was able to pull it out from the wall, but not enough to easily get behind it to unplug it… so I had to get a stool and climb over a counter and twist around…
eventually got it unplugged, but when it was plugged back in, still wasn’t working…
spent a bit of time taking stuff down to the fridge in the basement… so lucky to have that one… good exercise, lol…
now there is a giant white box in the middle of the kitchen that takes up a big portion of the room…
today I did some research and eventually got an appointment for someone to come and check it out tomorrow afternoon…
fingers crossed that it can be fixed…
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