01 Saturday Feb 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, box, cards, crammed, decluttering, moments, project, sort, widow
started on a little project…
the plan is to sort through all of the cards so that they will fit into the card box…
this is going to be difficult as they were previously crammed into the box, lol…
now I will sort through all of the cards and decide which ones need to be given away…
decluttering is always a process, sometimes more difficult than others…
wish me luck;-)…
06 Tuesday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, digging, family, garden, garden bed, grandsons, heavy, help, moments, nature, plants, project, rock, rocks, weather, widow
doing the happy dance…
Monday, the weather was perfect for being in the garden and my middle grandson came over and worked on the most current project… the soil in this garden bed kept sliding down and covering the stepping stones…
he removed some miscellaneous rocks, dug a trench and then, with my oldest grandson, moved and placed large rocks, which were located all around the garden…
it was interesting to watch as they decided together which rock worked and looked best where…
with my direction, of course…
the rock wall looks good…
so pleased that this project, which has been on my list for quite some time, is now completed…
08 Saturday Jun 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, boards, deck, family, finished, garden, happy, moments, niggly, project, shovelling, widow
Friday, we spent some time finishing the bottom deck area…
in a section under the main deck there had been boards to hold the box of soil that was there for any planting requirements…
when the deck reconstruction was completed, it was decided we would finish this piece…
Friday afternoon a bit of shovelling took place to remove the dirt on the blocks and then the new saw was put to work cutting cross boards and then the pieces to fill in the deck area…
it looks great and the big dirt box can slide in and out easily… it sits back there to keep the soil from getting wet when it rains…
looks great and has finished off the deck build;-)…
yay, always happy when a project is completed without any niggly little bits left unfinished;-)…
23 Thursday May 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, deck, dirt, family, garden, gates, happy, moments, nearly, project, weather, widow
the work started on Saturday with three of us…
Sunday my housemate and I worked away at the process and Monday we were back to three strong… a ton of work was accomplished and the job was nearly finished…
Tuesday we worked on a few bits and pieces, including levelling the back gate…
after some clever thinking the sunburst gates were rehung…
Wednesday morning we attached the last board to the bottom deck… woohoo…
I filled the space below it with dirt, but will have to add a bit more as it settles;-)…
06 Saturday Apr 2024
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basement, big girl pants, bins, blessed, done, family, furnace, grandson, happy, messier, moments, organized, project, tidy, widow
months ago we made a concerted effort to clean, tidy, and organize the basement back room…
it got a bit messier when the furnace was replaced, lol, as containers close to it had to be moved…
after Christmas the holiday bins were sorted and put away neatly, but there were still many boxes and bins out…
the other night we finally got the project finished and it looks great down there;-)…
now to keep it that way…
16 Friday Feb 2024
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baking, big girl pants, blessed, cookie cutters, cutters, family, fun, holidays, memories, moments, project, shopping, sugar cookies, widow
over the last two or three weeks I’ve purchased a few different sets of Valentine cookie cutters as I’ve worked on a project…
the end result of the project didn’t turn out quite as well as I wanted, but after a lot of trial and error I was satisfied with the results…
so I decided to use the cookie cutters for their actual purpose, lol…
I made cookies for the first time in I don’t know how long…
I can’t even think of how many I have made over the years… I made them for every holiday for the girls’ classmates as well as for family and friends…
it was fun to make them again as I remembered so many I had previously produced…
they came out very nicely and we have been enjoying them…
05 Tuesday Dec 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, delicious, delivery apps, family, garage, gathering, moments, nature, pho, project, recommend, restaurants, supper, weather, widow
at our time together last Monday, it was lovely to have everyone in the room, with no technology required…
amongst our conversations, we talked about our favourite pho restaurants… it is always great to hear about spots that others recommend…
later my grandson and I worked away on the garage project even though it was rather cold out, lol…
when we came in, with frozen fingers, the pho we’d talked about earlier called to me;-)…
those delivery apps are very handy, lol…
it was just what those cold fingers needed;-)…
30 Thursday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, bungee, bungee cord, doorknob, family, garage, grandson, moments, neighbour, project, weather, widow
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…
09 Saturday Sep 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, family, garden, gate, happy, impediment, moments, project, shovelled, Spring, widow
finally the gate area got finished on Sunday… we got up and out early to beat the heat;-)…
a ton of dirt had been dug up, and a big chunk of cement removed a while back, so Sunday the area was levelled out, quarter down was poured and packed down, and blocks were laid where the garbage and recycling bins reside…
this will make it much easier to move them on recycling days;-)…
next, a spring was attached so that the gate will automatically close after being opened… I particularly wanted this as it opens into the lane and could be an impediment to a vehicle driving along…
the final piece of work involved extending the depth of the hole that the latch goes into… it will make opening and closing the gate simpler…
clover seed was sprinkled over the dirt to fill it in… it looks tidy and organized…
I am pleased that this project is finally completed.
15 Thursday Jun 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, busy, family, fencing, garden, grandsons, happy, helpers, moments, project, son-in-law, widow, working
the latest project around the house has taken a little while… we began discussing it in February, lol…
the actual work started on Thursday, June 8th, when my grandson and son-in-law took down the back fence as well as the small one in the front yard…
it involved hammering, using the car jack and a great deal of muscle… once it was down, all the pieces were loaded into a truck… then we moved soil, cleaned up the leaves from the cedars and Virginia creeper, and filled many bags of yardwaste…
midway through the day the lumber was dropped off, but had to be brought onto the driveway a few pieces at a time, and by the end of the day we were worn out, lol…
on Friday, my grandson met our handyperson at the hardware store where they rented an auger and picked up a big bag of screws and nails…
they used more muscle to get the old holes redug and finished the day with all posts installed…
Sunday, the oldest dug up excess dirt around the shed while we waited for the rest of the crew to arrive, including one of his brothers…
they worked well together and got the back fence 99.9% finished, with a nice wide gate and the framework up for the front portion of fence…
on Wednesday and Thursday my oldest grandson put the finishing touches on the fencing and both sections look great…
so pleased with the final result as well as how smoothly the process went and what great help we had from everyone…
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