02 Sunday Oct 2022
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spent time in the garden doing cleanup…
emptied soil from pots and stacked them in the shed…
repotted some pansies to bring inside, brought the butterfly bush into the basement and the hibiscus into the dining room…
after closing up the shed, I undid the bathtub pond pump and brought it inside to clean and put in the basement…
09 Thursday Jun 2022
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bathtub pond, big girl pants, blessed, bunny, garden, grass, moments, pond, pump, stability, water, wet-vac, widow
today’s project was getting the bathtub pond emptied, cleaned, filled, and the pump going…
I used the wet vac and it took a while, but eventually the tub was empty…
I brought out the pump and filter from the basement and put a large rock in it for stability… last year it kept falling over as the water rose… looks like a great fix…
sprayed it down and filled it with water… turned on the pump, and away it went…
I found a large round piece of Tyndall stone and set a basket with some pond grasses into the pond…
it looks good and sound excellent…
after it was all done and I was reading, a bunny friend had snacks and then stretched out for a rest under one of the chairs…
another beautiful day to enjoy…
17 Tuesday May 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, constant, Google Home, moments, pump, quiet, sound, Technology, widow
it is very quiet in the house…
the fish moved outside last week and a few days later I turned off and cleaned out both pumps and left them to dry…
the sound of the pumps has been a constant all winter, much like the grandfather clock, lol…
now it seems as though there is something missing…
happily, I’ve been playing music and the radio a lot on Google Home;-)…
I can listen in each room or on all of them at the same time… like stereo;-)…
06 Friday May 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, debris, garden, hammock, moments, pond, pump, water, waterfall, weather, wet-vac, widow
it has been a long, but productive, day and the weather has been amazing, around 22 Celsius…
I brought out the pump for the pond, hooked it up to a different hose and used it to empty the water… it doesn’t take too long with the big hose…
thanks to a great idea that my grandson had last year, I used the wet vac to suck up leaves and debris from the bottom… eventually I put on my water shoes, climbed in and got the last bits out…
I attached the pump to the waterfall and placed all the rocks back to hide it, hoping that there wouldn’t be any leakage, lol…
then ran the hose across the garden and filled the pond up… it took just over an hour and I finally plugged in and turned the pump on…
and it worked;-)… with no leaks…
we also got the hammock out and assembled, put up three umbrellas, and moved two of the chairs for the back deck out from the shed…
spent the whole day outside… how blessed am I…
03 Monday Jan 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, fish, fish tank, goldfish, grandson, light, moments, nature, pump, sucked, tank, Technology, water, widow
very happy that the pump on the small fish tank is working once again…
had to have it replaced as it just stopped a week or so ago…
I was able to use the old (and rather large) pump while waiting for the replacement…
happily, no fish were sucked up into the much larger and stronger system…
they are happy and enjoying the better light, as the big pump blocked a lot…
and I can see them much better;-)…
06 Saturday Nov 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, empty, garden, hose, hot tub, moments, pump, refilling, tense, time, water, widow
the weather was delightful and I spent a good portion of the day emptying and refilling the hot tub…
I got a new pump in the summer to use for removing the water from the tub… the hose was a bit on the short side, so had to use a table to get the water into the grass… it took 3 hours, including using a pail and dumping bucket after bucket… may be getting something that works a bit quicker next year;-(…
once it was empty, I ran the extendible hose up from the basement, through the screen door, over the deck, and filled the tub in just over an hour…
a few tense minutes when the electricity on the tub didn’t seem to want to start… but, at last, it started and will now be heating up for a few days…
won’t have to change the water out until Spring… glad that job is done…
23 Wednesday Jun 2021
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bathtub, big girl pants, blessed, cleaning, garden, goldfish, moments, nature, pond, pump, sunflower seeds, widow
on Sunday, I spent the majority of the day working on the bathtub pond…
started out emptying it with the watering jug… realized that was going to take too long and would be difficult to get as the water went down, so I used the shop vac instead…
as it filled with water I scooped it out and used it to water the grass seedlings around the garden…
then the shop vac sucked up a million sunflower seeds along with Virginia creeper remnants…
eventually I got in and removed the rocks and plant and also trimmed back some of the Virginia creeper… nice to have it cleaned up;-)…
ordered a new pump for this pond and waited a few days for it to arrive…
this morning I filled up the tub with water and got the new pump working… it is going to be excellent and shouldn’t get plugged up…
next, I think a few feeder fish might go into it…
31 Monday May 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, bunny, garden, grass, jobs, moments, nature, over, pump, rain barrel, waterfall, widow
today I took care of a few jobs in the garden…
I watered the grass seed twice and visited with my baby bunny buddy while I was at it;-)…
I levelled the water barrel, which was a fairly heavy job, but managed to get it done…
and finally, I cleaned the pump so the waterfall works better… every three or four days it gets clogged and needs to be cleaned out… when it is warmer, I sit on the bridge and clean it standing in the water… the water is still rather cool, so I’ve had others do it when they are over…
today, I put down a cushion and laid on it as I leaned way over the stones and was able to grab the bits and pieces stuck in the filter… almost immediately the sound of the waterfall improved… I was even able to get back up without too much difficulty;-)…
18 Wednesday Nov 2020
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air, big girl pants, calendar, clogged, fish, fish tank, goldfish, moments, new skill, pump, widow
had a problem with the fish tank last week…
one of my fish was floating and it was hard to see through the water…
I finally figured out that the tube linking the bottom of the tank with the pump was clogged and they weren’t getting enough air in the water…
managed to get it out, cleaned and reinserted… after a few scary minutes the water started to flow over the edge and it slowly cleared… the rest of the fish were much happier…
I did have a giggle when I realized that the parrot feathers plant had been completely eaten, so I removed it…
today, I had to take the same steps, although the tank was still clear… having the water lilies in the tank are clogging it up more often…
but an easy fix, now I know what to do… maybe I will add this to the calendar and clean it once a week to be sure they stay healthy;-)…
29 Thursday Oct 2020
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Saturday I cleaned the filters for the fish tank…
ugh… not my favourite job, but we’ve decided that this needs to happen monthly…
I am feeding the fish twice a day to be sure they are getting enough to eat… they are quite big now, lol…
that means that the tank can get murky and it felt like that was happening… as time goes on, I should be able to get the feeding down so that there isn’t excess food in the water…
a bit of a balancing act… it seemed to be getting clearer…
I also put some shelf liner behind the tank to see if I like how it looks…
the water pumping into the tank doesn’t seem to be flowing probably and I can’t figure out why, sigh…
yesterday I took down the liner as it blocked the light… and I changed out two of the three parts of the filter for new pieces because the tank is not clearing up…
can’t decide today if it has improved or not… will see what happens in the next few days, sigh…
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