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tea…

08 Monday May 2023

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had a great time with my BS buddies…

we gathered in two vehicles and drove to Rosenort for our 1 pm High Tea reservation at Lily Stone Cafe…

what a delight… we climbed up stairs, went down a narrow hall, and into a beautifully decorated room ready for our tea…

we just happened to get this space, but for a 20% gratuity you can book one of the private rooms for your group… no one wore gloves, but there were pearls, jewellery, and some fancy clothes, lol…

there were so many teas to choose from it took us a while to decide, and everyone enjoyed their picks…

then the tiered stands with a number of items for us to devour arrived, and devour them we did;-)…

they were able to deal with a food issue for one of us, and everything we ate looked lovely and was tasty… although it didn’t appear like a lot of food, we were all full once we’d cleaned the plates…

from there we drove a few kilometres to Lily Stone Gardens where we toured the Gift Shop and the one open greenhouse…

I found a beautiful white dahlia that is now sitting next to the tubers, which I hope will encourage them to get growing, lol…

the drive took just over forty-five minutes each way, and even in the rain and overcast, it was enjoyable… lots of conversation and laughter in both vehicles…

what a wonderful way to spend an afternoon;-)…

murkiness…

11 Saturday Mar 2023

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well, that was a process;-(…

cleaning the pumps is not one of my favourite jobs, but I have gotten pretty good with it now that I have no choice, lol…

both tanks were getting murky which is the sign that the entire pump needs to be cleaned… that means the tube and the three different filters in each pump…

yucky, but necessary to get done… small one went fine… I don’t even make a face when I am rinsing them by hand whereas before I wouldn’t even consider touching them…

those big girl pants…

when I dealt with the big pump it was cleaned and put back without any issues…

but, when I plugged it back in nothing happened, sigh…

tried plugging it into a few other outlets, but no luck… brought it back into the kitchen, dumped the water out of it and removed the actual pump, which is quite tiny…

then I took the two pieces apart, used a Q-tip to clean both and rinsed it out without getting the outside of it wet…

got it back together, plugged it in and it worked, phew… when the pumps stop working it is rather worrisome because there is the concern about the stress on the fish in the tank…

now to see how long it takes to clear up the water and get rid of the murkiness…

curb…

25 Tuesday Oct 2022

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woke up to a thunderstorm yesterday… then had a nice walk, even in the wind and rain…

had to hang on to my hood so that it didn’t blow right off my head, lol… leaves were flying all over the place, but the rain had stopped…

when I came to a corner, the street was filled with water… up to the curb and edge of the tires on a nearby car…

when I walked by, maybe half an hour later, thankfully the water was all gone…

I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the walk…

flipped…

16 Sunday Oct 2022

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went outside and flipped the two rain barrels… one in the garden, and the new one next to the front flowerbed…

although we had drained both, they still had water inside, but once they were turned over, it poured out through the screen…

now they are ready for winter, sigh…

I learned a few years ago that not flipping them can cause serious consequences… lucky for me, the bottom of the one in the garden has returned to flat, lol…

drying…

01 Thursday Sep 2022

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Monday was a bit of a slower day with rain during the morning… we had breakfast out and I put the foodstuff back on the shelves while my son-in-law ran out to get a few things we needed…

then we took everything out of all the bottom cabinets, and while he washed the shelves and removed a few extra shelves in the back of two of them, I went through and set aside items for the giveaway boxes…

the frame and all the doors were primed and there were doors and drawers drying all over the place, lol…

banner…

31 Wednesday Aug 2022

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Sunday, now that the two coats of primer were on, the actual paint went onto the shelves and the doors… and because it was going to rain, we had to do the doors inside, rather than on the deck, lol…

then we got to relax as we waited for it to dry…

we checked out a few other projects and I put back the banner that had come down in the hall…

looks so much better now that the holes have been repaired…

hooked…

22 Friday Jul 2022

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drove to Oak Street on Tuesday, just before the rain, to pick up my bouquet subscription…

I took a box that hooked into the seatbelt so that the flowers wouldn’t fall over… it worked perfectly…

such a treat to get fresh flowers every week… and they are lasting very well…

got a few photos as the drops started to fall…

duel…

18 Monday Jul 2022

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there was quite a thunderstorm early Saturday morning…

it was the first day in a long time that I ate breakfast in the house as I’ve been doing a great job of being outside if it isn’t raining…

eventually it was dry enough to spend some time in the garden where I had a bit of a duel with the gray squirrels that have found a way to get to both of the slinky protected bird feeders…

and then, I spent a lovely time watching a monarch flit around the space, landing a number of times on the milkweed and then flitting around some more…

what a treat and how lucky was I to get to enjoy those moments;-)…

turkey…

14 Thursday Jul 2022

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had a good morning on Tuesday…

listened to house sparrows, chickadees and a few crows… I am just loving the sound ID on the Merlin app…

spotted the wild turkey that had been wandering the street yesterday, thanks to my neighbour knocking on the door…

and apparently the turkey frightened one of the neighbourhood bunnies…

there was no sign of the raccoons and the fish appear happy and all present… one of the biggest ones has been scraped up though… not sure if it was from the raccoon the night before last or from hiding under a rock, sigh…

the red and gray squirrels have been wandering around and threatening one another…

but the sun was out, except for a ten minute shower, and I was able to eat outside…

rehanging…

30 Monday May 2022

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the rain helped me get a few jobs done around the house…

I’ve been putting off rehanging the curtains in the den and I finally got that done…

I also put the Dyson back together… my grandson had taken it apart and washed a filter inside… who knew there was one there… and now it works… yay…

even the living room windows were happy and they are lovely and shiny clean…

nice to check a few things off the list;-)…