nineteen…

21 Wednesday May 2025

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it was mainly overcast and rainy last Thursday, so I spent most of the day inside…

being as the weather was not so great, I decided to work on a project that has been on the list for a while, lol…

first I printed out a list of JD Robb books that I found online…

next I removed all of the books I have and set them on my desk…

I cut some coloured paper to use as markers and compared the list with my books and inserted a sheet of paper where the missing books belonged… I also checked off which books were still needed…

the books went back onto the shelf and I then prepared a spreadsheet listing the whole series and marking which books I still need to complete my set…

happy to get the project completed…

now to send the list off to a friend and Globosapiens bookstore to see how many more we can find;-)…

once I find the remainder, there will need to be some reorganizing of the shelves, as I still need around nineteen, lol…

under-bench…

20 Tuesday May 2025

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I finally removed the under-bench lighting that hasn’t worked since before my beloved died… you can see it in this photo… it is the tube-like piece hanging below the bench and looks messy…

I hadn’t realized that he had fastened it with screws and was thinking what a huge job it was going to be to lay on my back and move around under the bench undoing it, two screws at a time…

then I got the bright idea to cut sections of it and pull it out…

woohoo, it worked perfectly and the deck looks much tidier now…

now to decide if I want to look for something similar to replace it, sigh…

fabrics…

16 Friday May 2025

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big girl pants, fabrics, garden, hanging chair, moments, nature, shed, snack, squirrels, Technology, weather, widow

we spent a bit of time in the fall attempting to make the shed squirrel and bunny proof…

unfortunately that meant the squirrel or squirrels moved into the garage for the winter…

and, apparently, they really liked the fabrics on the hanging chair, sigh…

I guess I’m going to be looking for a new chair, and will make sure it goes into the basement for the winter;-(…

crop…

03 Saturday May 2025

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a few days ago, after I read something about cold weather planting, I spent time in the side garden…

after I removed a trellis from the file cabinet planter, I fluffed the soil (lol), and then planted a row of peas…

some of the seeds were from last year’s crop and some new ones from a box…

can’t wait to see what happens with them;-)…

rings…

02 Friday May 2025

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caught this activity on the door cam this morning… quite lucky because it only saves things for three hours…

not very clear, but the rings on the tail tell the story…

it was just a few days ago that I had a conversation with someone and we were discussing the good news that the raccoons hadn’t been around, sigh…

rather happy that the fish haven’t made it outside yet;-)…

croaking…

01 Thursday May 2025

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often, now as I lay in bed at night, I listen to the frogs at the creek croaking their little hearts out…

it is quite lovely to hear and reminded me that I needed to move the camera – which was facing the driveway for the winter – back to its spot on the deck, facing the pond…

made the move today, after I charged the battery…

it will be interesting to see if it catches those bunnies that have been tearing around the garden at night, lol…

completely…

30 Wednesday Apr 2025

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Indi is seven years old today…

hard to believe that all this time has gone by…

and she is finally completely mine, lol…

now to get those pretty wheels back on;-)…

connected…

28 Monday Apr 2025

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it was time to change the water and filter in the hot tub…

once I brought out the pump and connected it to the hose, I started the process at 10:20 am… twelve minutes later the pump came out and I emptied the last little bit of water with a pail and cloth… that took another twenty minutes…