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constant…

17 Tuesday May 2022

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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;-)…

earbuds…

13 Friday Aug 2021

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received my new earbuds…

two or three weeks ago my pretty Samsung Earbuds just stopped working… all of a sudden they wouldn’t pair with my phone… of course they were not under warranty… the service department suggested I have them repaired locally but the local people advised they would have to send them away… it was going to cost $55 if they sent them away and I decided not to have them repaired… and it wasn’t clear how much the repair might cost…

I thought about it for quite a while and did a ton of research before deciding on these ones…

I want them mainly for phone calls which meant there weren’t that many options and ones that would be comfortable in my ears…

I finally ordered them on Wednesday, and they were delivered on Friday;-)…

they were easy to pair with my iPhone and music sounds good…

will have to see how they are on phone calls…

wish me luck;-)…

fright…

09 Friday Oct 2020

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last night I went downstairs to go out for a hot tub… could hear a buzzing noise that seemed to be coming from under the cupboard near the stove…

I ran water wondering if something was stuck in the pipe, or if the pipe was getting ready to explode…

couldn’t decide whether I should call my son-in-law and was thinking I should find a flashlight to look at the pipes…

then I opened the drawer and the sound was even louder, yikes… by now my heart was pounding…

after I opened the drawer it occurred to me that the sound was coming from the little IKEA wisk… I had tried to use it for hot chocolate about an hour before and it didn’t work so I figured it needed a new battery… I just put it back but wasn’t sure if the button was on or off but assumed it didn’t matter as it was dead…

eventually my heart rate returned to normal;-)…

skewer…

14 Monday Sep 2020

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spent a good portion of the afternoon in the garden… I was particularly watching the birds as I thought I’d spotted a rose-breasted grosbeak at the feeder from inside the house…

it was a lovely time… lots of bird and fish watching…

one of the things I’ve noticed is that the waterfall sounds different depending on how clear the line is…

when there is no debris in it it is quiet…

when there is algae and the odd stick in it, the sound is much louder…

I usually have a large skewer behind it that I use to clean the waterfall mechanism, but it appears to be gone… wondering if a crow came by and took it, lol… today I used a twig that had come down from the elm tree next door…

garden…

23 Tuesday Jun 2020

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after the busy day yesterday with the boys here, today I spent a fabulous time in the garden…

the grass is beautifully manicured and the sound is quite wonderful… the waterfall looks great and I am so happy to have it running at full capacity again thanks to my son-in-law… even the rocks have been placed perfectly to cover the new pump…

the pump in the bathtub pond looks and sounds lovely as well… it was a little cool but the wind wasn’t blowing so it felt calm…

to top things off, a house finch couple stopped by for lunch…

because I am not leaving the house, this time in the garden is even more special and I am enjoyed reading and listening to the sounds in the garden…

what a blessing retirement is proving to be…

planes…

21 Thursday May 2020

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today as I was sitting outside, I took this photo of the tree next door as it is budding out…

so happy to watch this transformation from bare branches to a canopy of leaves…

another thing I’ve noticed over the last few days is the number of planes leaving the airport… there are many more than there have been for weeks… hard to believe that people are travelling, although the planes might all be filled with mail and parcels, lol…

noise…

26 Saturday Oct 2019

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been laughing off and on for days…

all of a sudden, a few days ago, it sounded like the computer was making a noise each time I received a text message or phone call on my iPhone…

it was kind of creeping me out…

a few nights ago, while I was on the phone with my daughter I heard it again and then I heard something fall…

that’s when I started laughing because I realized that it was the old Fitbit which I had put on the shelf in the hall and hadn’t disconnected…

it was vibrating and responding to each text and call and eventually vibrated right off the shelf…

found it on the stairs, lol…

fumes…

20 Wednesday Feb 2019

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for the last two days there have been big trucks sitting outside of my office window… the noise has been rather stressful and we’ve also been overpowered on occasion by exhaust fumes…

so today when I arrived home, checked the mailbox and discovered a container filled with my favourite homemade shortbread cookies I was so pleased…

I ate three before even making it to the kitchen, lol…

friends are gifts;-)…

forest…

01 Wednesday Aug 2018

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been thinking of forests a lot lately…

after being in Cathedral Grove, BC, it has felt like we don’t really have many forests around here…

but when I walk through the forest in the Park I remember how special and rejuvenating trees are… it always seems extra peaceful and other sounds are blocked out…

took this shot looking up through the tree in the Leo Mol Garden… can never remember what the name of this particular tree is, although it is one of my favourites…

this photo is from July 2011 in Cathedral Grove…

we had a memorable time while visiting Courtenay and surrounds… it was a very special time and it was our last anniversary…

watered…

26 Tuesday Jun 2018

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this morning I watered the baskets in the front flower bed by hand…

I could have used the hose but decided to use a jug and walk back and forth from the kitchen sink…

purpose was twofold… be sure each planter got enough water… and get some steps in…

then I watered a few plants on the deck, adding some leftover milk, which, according to the internet, provides additional nutrients and means I don’t have to toss out the sour milk…

once that was done, I spent about fifteen minutes in the garden enjoying the peace and soaking up the sound of the waterfall…

the datura looked lovely as I sat in the lounger… a special moment…