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board…

24 Sunday Jun 2018

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productive day… up early and out by eight for a walk to the Park…

it was overcast and cool… nice for walking… the English and Leo Mol Gardens were empty except for a few gardeners and me…

by the time I left there were runners, dog walkers and families flooding the space…

music was coming from the Lyric as I headed along the path and I wondered what was happening today… as I crossed the bridge and saw everyone with at least one dog, it came to me that it was PawsInMotion, lol…

once home, I finished my grocery list and went to Safeway to pick up a few things for tonight and the coming week…

my son-in-law and youngest grandson arrived for supper and a visit… everyone else in the family was busy…

after dinner my son-in-law cut down the piece he had found to make my new cutting board… the one I’ve been using had come out of their house when they moved in and remodeled their kitchen nearly three years ago… it was a bit narrow and short… my previous one, which George had made, had gone into the garbage as it was completely worn out…

this new one fits perfectly… it is quite dark so likely it is going to take a while for me to get used to it;-)…

but I am very happy because a new board has been on my what I would like list since at least two years ago Christmas, lol…

can’t rush a good thing…

motor…

08 Friday Jun 2018

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Tuesday morning I texted my son-in-law to see if he could stop by and check out the dishwasher…

the day before it had stopped working… the powdered soap was still in it and it looked like it had run without water…

I had tried to turn it off and on without success so had contacted him as he is very good with small motors…

it took a few days for me to wash everything that was in it… I don’t mind washing dishes… except glasses, never feel as though they get clean…

he didn’t make it over until this afternoon… at first he thought it was dead, but then he fiddled with a few things and discovered something was stuck and once he popped it back down the dishwasher worked…

it just finished running through a cycle…

yay;-)…

jacket…

21 Wednesday Mar 2018

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yesterday was the official first day of Spring… this is what I saw out the windows and door this morning…

I did get to wear my lighter jacket as it is getting warmer, but unfortunately it was overcast all day, which is always a downer for me…

after a long day, partly due to the fact that I slept poorly last night, for supper I did get to have a few of my favourite rice rolls that a colleague surprised me with…

my son-in-law took this fabulous photo of the moon tonight in Ottawa at his Astronomy class where they got to spend time with a big telescope…

a bit jealous because my shots of the moon never look like this… obviously the sky wasn’t overcast there, lol…

motion…

02 Friday Feb 2018

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every time my son-in-law is here at Christmas I ask him about putting in the type of switch that they have in their bathroom…

it is a motion sensitive switch which comes on automatically when you walk into the room… it is very cool and I keep thinking how great it would be to have something like that here… he reminds me each time that the switch needs to be inside the bathroom and mine is on the wall outside…

I guess I want it enough that I conveniently forget that I can’t have it, lol…

after Christmas he installed my Nest smoke detector which was a gift from the other kids… he also put in a Nest thermostat…

I am slowly getting used to both of them…

the smoke detector has a feature where it lights up in the dark if there is any motion, so it is starting to feel like a friend when I need to get up and go downstairs in the night…

weird…

Nest…

03 Wednesday Jan 2018

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so the smoke detector was installed on Thursday afternoon… and I am loving it… a cute little ring of blue (a nightlight) appears when I walk under it… so far no alarms, which is good, nor has it talked to me yet…

on Friday my son-in-law went out and found the Nest thermostat at a good price and on Saturday he began the process of installing it…

it was a long complicated piece of business… by 7 pm that night, it was 63 degrees Fahrenheit in the house because after the first install, and putting back the original thermostat, the furnace refused to circulate any heat… the furnace service people came out around 8 pm and discovered that a fuse had blown, so they went back to the shop and brought a new one and installed it… this particular fellow didn’t know how to install the Nest product so we left it so that the house could warm up… it was rather chilly…

on Tuesday my son-in-law tried again, after he had gone out and bought more fuses, in case we blew another one in the process of hooking up the new thermostat…

once again, the new one wouldn’t work so he reinstalled the old one… he walked over to the furnace company’s office and left a message for the owner to give us a call… a while later we heard back and they figured out that there needed to be another wire…

which meant that the drywall ceiling in the basement hall had to come down so he could run the cable… he removed it and cleaned everything up beautifully, but by then it was too late to move to the next step…

today, while I was at work, he was able to pull the wire (without cutting into the plaster in the hall, yay), connect everything, and set the temperature, because it finally worked perfectly…

we added it to my app and I can now change the temperature from my phone… although it does say it is -8 outside, whereas the weather app says it is -22, lol…

seemed like such a simple little job, but he didn’t stop until it was done;-)… I sure am blessed…

bite…

19 Tuesday Dec 2017

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did a few jobs around the house this morning and then went out for lunch with my son-in-law…

caught him mid-bite… this would make my colleagues laugh as I am always taking pictures of them eating lunch with their mouths open, lol…

we popped into Costco and picked up a few last minute things… always happy to shop there with him because I usually pick up heavy items…

after he left I spent some time admiring the amaryllis… over the last number of weeks I’ve taken quite a few pictures as it has grown…

a nap, and then, I picked my kids up at the base and brought them home;-)…

happy holidays…

clock…

06 Sunday Nov 2016

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sun came up early even though the time turned back an hour…

much of the technology in my house changes by itself… even the bedside clock…

still have to change the microwave and my watch…

no problem with the microwave… 

the watch, on the other hand, was a big problem… tried everything… even going online looking for a manual, but no luck…

it is the correct time now… because my son-in-law stopped by on his way home from work… he showed me what he did… we’ll see if I can remember next time it changes, lol… 

he also changed the timers on the various lights so they come on at the right time…

all set…

outside…

20 Friday Nov 2015

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last night when I got home the bathroom window looked cool…

  
the glass blocks were covered in snow on the outside…

not sure if there wasn’t any wind during the night, or whether I was just so exhausted that I didn’t hear the flapping siding… had a good sleep and didn’t even need my Fitbit to tell me that, lol…

woke up with a stuffy head and sore throat, but felt better as the day progressed…

got this shot of the drift in front of the garage as we were leaving for work…

  
glad I didn’t need to take my own car because it might not have made it through…

am so blessed with my great kids… my son-in-law stopped by on his way home from work at 7 pm to shovel so that I can get out tomorrow…

  he did the whole driveway…
  
even the backyard… so I can get out to the hot tub:-)…

and my grandson has agreed to do the shovelling again this winter… this weekend he is out of town, thus the son-in-law…

well I guess winter has arrived… 

condo…

01 Saturday Nov 2014

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last night when the boys came by after going out for Halloween, Jeff put the new top on the stove…

IMG_9132.JPGof course there were no directions, but he figured it out and it now looks great and works perfectly…

they came over late this afternoon and he and the boys started catching the fish to bring them into their winter condo…

IMG_9130.JPGhe worked for an hour and a half… the boys lasted about twenty minutes, lol…

IMG_9131.JPGthe last few fish didn’t want to be caught, even though there was ice on the top of the pond, but he wasn’t giving up…

IMG_9128.JPGwe now have thirty fish in the tank…

IMG_9129.JPGhappy to have the company back in the house…

treats…

22 Tuesday Apr 2014

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this morning I put on my newest dragonfly… it was a gift from one of our group who spent some time in Cuba recently…

20140422-214158.jpglooks lovely and was a great treat…

often when we pick up a treat for one another we kind of have one person in mind for each item, but we usually put them out for everyone to choose… usually the right person gets the treat we had imagined they would like… of course we have been together for close to thirty years…

mid-morning my son-in-law arrived with treats that the Easter Bunny left for me at their house…

20140422-220155.jpgmight have eaten a few of them this evening…