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dressers…

26 Tuesday Aug 2025

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big girl pants, blessed, clean, cut, drawers, dressers, family, fishtanks, fixed, friends, moments, normal, open, paint, plywood, projects, repair, sort, widow

a big project over the last week was fixing the three dresser drawers along the inside wall so that they would open…

a while ago, a pump was leaking from one of the tanks and the water ran down the front of the drawers… the other problem was the weight of the tanks on the dresser…

we started by emptying the water in two tanks and then removing them… after that the three drawers were yanked out, lol…

a 2×6 went under the corner of the dresser to raise it up a bit, and then the edges of the three drawers were cut down a little which means they will open easily in the future…

while the drawers were out, I went through them one-by-one (as well as the three next to them) and made piles for saving, giving away, and garbage… then each of the six drawers was reorganized… that was like a whole different project, lol…

then we got help to pick up a piece of plywood to go on the top of the dressers, it was cut, after which the pieces were painted and put on top of the dressers…

after all that work, the fishtanks were cleaned, and then put back (another project, lol)… in the next few days, they will be filled with water and the pumps started to clean the water before the fish come in…

at last the living and dining room have been returned to normal;-)…

broke…

17 Tuesday Jun 2025

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quite a while ago, the hose connecting the washer to the drain broke… we had another flood, sigh…

we had someone in to figure out how to fix it, only to discover we needed a new drain hose… the technician siliconed the old pieces together while we wait for the new hose to arrive… for the first few times I stood and watched when the washer ran, just to be sure the hose didn’t pop off…

then we had to decide if the drywall needed to be replaced, but in the end decided on a paint job as there were no signs of water marks…

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it now has the new hose and freshly patched and painted walls;-)…

puddling…

01 Sunday Jun 2025

Posted by sulis303 in business, family, garden, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized, weather

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big girl pants, blessed, deck, family, garden, grandson, leak, moments, muscle, pond, problem, puddling, repair, shopping, water, weather, widow

the pond has continued to leak but we thought we had the problem figured out…

water seemed to be puddling under a UV clarifier which was installed in the pond at the beginning, but which never accomplished its job and has been unplugged for a number of years…

we picked up a piece to connect the two hoses together and with a lot of cutting and muscle, were able to disconnect it entirely… so happy, thinking the problem had been solved…

turned the pump back on and watched water still coming out where the hose goes under blocks and the deck…

so, the issue appears to be that the six or seven feet of hose from the pump to the waterfall needs to be replaced… we are considering ways to accomplish this, which may involve removing a good sized piece of the deck to get at it, sigh…

and so it goes…

tool…

01 Saturday Mar 2025

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big girl pants, blessed, deliveries, doorknob, family, house, housemate, moments, repair, tool, weather, widow

the other day, as my housemate was leaving the house, the handle for the front door came off in his hand…

he wasn’t able to fix it then and when he got home we discovered that we didn’t have the correct tool to make the repair…

happily, no deliveries arrived and I didn’t have to go out the next day, lol…

once he had the right implement, it only took a few minutes to fix the problem;-)…

now I’m not afraid to open the door;-)…

burner…

25 Tuesday Feb 2025

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big girl pants, burner, cooking, element, family, moments, mother-in-law, repair, stove, Technology, widow

my favourite, and most used, burner on the stove stopped working all of a sudden…

I called Hameed Appliances, was sent a form to complete, and got an appointment the next day…

Ron, who has been here previously, arrived and had a look… to replace the piece with a new element was going to cost $500, so I am waiting to see if they might have access to a used element…

otherwise, I am going to leave it, thinking of my mother-in-law, who used to cook on a little stove that only had two usable burners… she could produce a meal with 3 vegetables, potatoes, and a roast, without any problem, lol…

we will see what I can do;-)…

repair…

25 Wednesday Sep 2024

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big girl pants, blessed, grandson, help, house, leak, moments, NextGen, repair, sink, technician, toilet, tushy, water, widow

well today there was another repair person in the house…

we had ordered a tushy to put on the toilet, but when he hooked it up my grandson encountered a leak he could not figure out how to fix…

we contacted NextGen who have recently located to a shop at Bruce and Albany…

Tony arrived just ninety minutes later and had the leak fixed and a second problem in the kitchen sorted out inside forty-five minutes…

he was a knowledgeable technician, explained as he went along, and cleaned up all the mess before he left…

now I have a fan blowing into the cabinet and am waiting for the space under the sink to dry out so I can put everything back;-)…

drum…

22 Sunday Sep 2024

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belt, big girl pants, blessed, drum, dryer, family, grandson, Hameed Appliances Repair, moments, repair, Technology, widow

on Tuesday, September 11, the dryer stopped working… they had been here almost exactly a year ago to repair it the last time it stopped working… at that time it needed a belt somewhere in the back…

my grandson took a look and discovered that the belt that goes around the drum had broken… he looked on YouTube and figured he could fix it if we got the part…

I contacted Hameed Appliances Repair by email and asked if we could just get the part or whether they needed to come out to fix it…

they were quick to respond and agreed to drop off the part the following Monday once they received it…

$30 later, and six days without a dryer, the part was delivered to the house…

we were very happy, but when my grandson looked at it he realized it wasn’t the correct belt…

this time he contacted them by phone as I wasn’t sure what was wrong with the one we got, lol…

after a conversation with them, including sending photos, they ordered a different belt and it was delivered on Friday…

as soon as my grandson got home he headed to the dryer and with me holding the top open, and him following a YouTube video, he had it attached in about fifteen minutes…

and it is working perfectly… now he says he is an appliance repair person, lol…

eventually we realized that my description hadn’t been clear enough and they had sent the same belt that was used to repair it the first time…

even though it took quite a while to get it all sorted out, I was pleased that they hadn’t insisted that they needed to come out and fix it;-)…

knob…

27 Tuesday Aug 2024

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today, as we were heading out to do a few errands, the doorknob came off in my grandson’s hand as he was locking the door…

so, besides the planned errands, we also went to Home Depot to get a new handle for the door…

I was very happy that this happened when he was home as I wasn’t sure that I could fix it…

once we returned home, my fancy screwdriver came out, pieces were removed from the door…

the new pieces were installed…

and voila, a beautiful new handle on the door…

it feels much sturdier, and although the handle is a bit stiff, I think the door is closing and locking better;-)…

belt…

06 Monday May 2024

Posted by sulis303 in business, family, health, life, moments, retirement, technology, Uncategorized

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belt, big girl pants, blessed, dryer, family, grandson, Hameed Appliance Repair, moments, oven, pump, repair, Ron, squished, Technology, washer, widow

last August the dryer had issues and Ron from Hameed Appliance Repair came out and was able to repair it, even though it was very old…

in March, the oven needed a new element and Ron came to our rescue again…

Friday the washer quit, sigh, and I contacted them for an appointment… heard back that they would be here Tuesday morning… once again Ron came, figured out the problem, ordered, picked up, and installed a pump and belt… all within an hour… it was a difficult job as the washer was squished into a very small area… a small box of broken bits and a found sock are all that is left of the process…

I have been very happy with the quick response from the business and the excellent work they have provided;-)…

I must say it feels like I’ve been wearing those big girl pants way too much recently…

Pi…

14 Thursday Mar 2024

Posted by sulis303 in business, food, life, moments, retirement, technology, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, blessed, broken, family, food, hungry, moments, oven, Pi, pizza, problems, repair, supper, Technology, widow

today was Pi day, lol, so we decided to bake a frozen pizza for supper… it wasn’t cooked after the correct amount of time, nor after more time… eventually we realized that the oven wasn’t heating…

tried using the frypan, but that did not work…

so, then we ordered…

it was tasty, particularly after we’d been trying to have supper for a long time, lol…

now to figure out why the oven isn’t working…

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