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disappointed…

27 Sunday Jul 2025

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I was disappointed today… plans had been made for weeks to have my middle grandson come and help the oldest prep and lay new carpet on the front steps…

I was up at 7:30… it was overcast, but not wet, and I took some nice photos of various morning glories…

then, it rained (which we needed) for most of the day… didn’t stop until around three… that of course destroyed all of the morning glory flowers🥺…

made me sad as I was looking forward to this project getting finished… it had already been delayed once and we’ve had the carpet and glue all ready for ages…

now we will have to wait for another opportunity to make the carpeting happen, sigh…

nineteen…

21 Wednesday May 2025

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it was mainly overcast and rainy last Thursday, so I spent most of the day inside…

being as the weather was not so great, I decided to work on a project that has been on the list for a while, lol…

first I printed out a list of JD Robb books that I found online…

next I removed all of the books I have and set them on my desk…

I cut some coloured paper to use as markers and compared the list with my books and inserted a sheet of paper where the missing books belonged… I also checked off which books were still needed…

the books went back onto the shelf and I then prepared a spreadsheet listing the whole series and marking which books I still need to complete my set…

happy to get the project completed…

now to send the list off to a friend and Globosapiens bookstore to see how many more we can find;-)…

once I find the remainder, there will need to be some reorganizing of the shelves, as I still need around nineteen, lol…

pumps…

16 Sunday Mar 2025

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Friday’s project was to clean out the pumps on each of the three fishtanks…

it always slips down towards the bottom of the list, but once I get going, it isn’t that difficult, and doesn’t take that long either…

usually I only do one or two, but this time I did all of them at the same time…

the pumps are now running beautifully, and I topped up the water in each one… usually I do the topping up on Mondays, but was just a bit sooner this time;-)…

matting…

06 Thursday Mar 2025

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had a fun time remembering the “installation” which a friend helped me install a number of years ago as I was making adjustments to them…

the installation consists of twenty-nine photos of water lilies which I had taken…

over the years a number of the pictures had slipped in the frames and I finally got around to removing them one by one and taping the photos to the matting before reinstalling them on the wall…

there had been wine and a lot of laughter as we worked away to get all the pictures up on the wall, lol…

this time my housemate was able to help with the pieces I couldn’t reach, lol…

happy to have this project completed…

desktop…

05 Wednesday Feb 2025

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finished up the card box project, woohoo…

went through all of them and had no difficulty moving excess to the pass-along box…

it is always interesting to me how one day it is a simple process to toss/give away things, and another day you can’t let go of anything…

I relabelled some of the dividers to make them fit with my types of cards…

a pile has gone into the pass-along box and the rest put behind the appropriate tab in the box…

happily there is still room left for additional cards, lol… and my desktop is clean and tidy once more…

job well done, if I say so myself;-)…

crammed…

01 Saturday Feb 2025

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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;-)…

rock…

06 Tuesday Aug 2024

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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…

niggly…

08 Saturday Jun 2024

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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;-)…

nearly…

23 Thursday May 2024

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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;-)…

messier…

06 Saturday Apr 2024

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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…