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18 Friday Aug 2023

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last night I ran around the house gathering all the boxes for a Big Brothers Big Sisters pickup today…

had all the boxes in the dining room and marked as required…

set the alarm to be sure I was up at 7:30 to put the boxes on the front steps…

made sure they were all on the steps before 8 but then when the boxes weren’t picked up by noon, I went back and reread the email from them…

apparently they are coming next Friday, not today… oops…

so I went out and brought all the boxes back in, lol…

potted…

13 Sunday Aug 2023

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had some fun on Thursday…

had breakfast out and then we went to Home Depot, found plants, pots, and rocks… then it was on to Rona to check for different pots, and back to Home Depot to pick up the first one, lol…

when we got home the plant light that had been ordered had arrived…

at last, everything was potted, put together, and set up;-)…

I think it was a good birthday for the twenty-three year old;-)…

fritz…

11 Friday Aug 2023

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the dryer has been on the fritz for a week or so… we’d tried a few things, but nothing made a difference…

I sent a message to Hameed Appliance Repair on Wednesday and this morning Ron arrived and had a look…

he was able to replace a piece (even for this old dryer) and got it working;-)…

he advised we needed to change the vent tube, so we went to Home Depot again, lol… we’ve been there a number of times in the last few days…

now the tube has been replaced, the dryer is back in its spot, and laundry is being done;-)…

categories…

09 Wednesday Aug 2023

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had some fun the other evening when I watched a webinar on Mylio… it was a beautiful evening so I watched it on the deck…

I had tried the free version, and eventually bought the better one as I have so many pictures on my various pieces of technology…

one of the things it does is combine all your photos and remove duplicates… still working on that one, lol…

it also puts them in a calendar which can make finding them simpler than having to search through a bunch, guessing when the one you want may have been taken…

the photographer on the webinar mentioned that he no longer uses categories, because the program can find basically anything you ask for…

made me think I need to get back in there and play with it more;-)…

rainwater…

05 Saturday Aug 2023

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spent the first part of this morning watering everything…

while the irrigation system was looking after the veggie patch and pond garden, I used the rain barrel at the front to water the planters out front…

I’ve been lazy and have been using the hose most of the time, but I did enjoy using the rainwater from the barrel… and I’m pretty sure the plants were happy;-)…

quartet…

21 Friday Jul 2023

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the other night we went to a Candlelight Concert at the Planetarium… fun to get out…

a string quartet played music from Queen as well as a few opera pieces…

it was lovely and we enjoyed it…

we also decided we’d like to attend one of the actual planetarium shows, lol…

iteration…

17 Monday Jul 2023

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the current iteration of the pond is ten years old…

hard to believe that much time has passed…

this is how it looked just as it was completed…

after it was finished, they had to come back and deal with leaking and runoff…nearly all of the plants have changed over time, lol… and I have changed the slate around the edge of the pond for large river rocks…

it still loses water when the waterfall is running and this year I have left if off for a good portion of the time… I also think the fish are out and about more when it isn’t running, lol… I do have a bubbler going all the time…

this year the water lilies are extremely happy… they continue to produce blooms daily, it is both amazing and delightful…

today, I turned the waterfall on and realized that I’d been missing it, and how well it dilutes other sounds in the neighbourhood…

raspberries…

15 Saturday Jul 2023

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on Thursday we made waffles…

we had to get milk, raspberries, and whipping cream… although, not being clear, I was presented with a can of already whipped cream, lol… we chose raspberries instead of strawberries, as they are both of our favourites…

the recipe calls for separating the eggs, beating them, and folding the whites in at the end…

the most complicated piece was figuring out which bowls to use…

they came out great and we even froze a few to try reheating in the toaster…

next up will be grilled cheese;-)…

stars…

10 Monday Jul 2023

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as I was sitting in the hot tub on Saturday night and watching the few stars that I am able to see from there, I was reminded of a Saturday night we spent at the lake…

we went out, with blankets and warm clothes, and laid on the couch on the cliff deck and watched the stars through the tree canopy…

it was a beautiful night with few bugs and the sky was spectacular…

we saw satellites, constellations, and shooting stars… even some fireflies;-)…

and I even got a few photos with my iPhone…

abundance…

27 Tuesday Jun 2023

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there were so many birds at the cottage we stayed at…

after hearing them on the Merlin sound app, I decided not to worry about getting photos of them… my goal was to spot as many as I could while we were there…

I think I saw most of them, except the black and white warbler…

we also saw many pelicans, gulls, eagles, hummingbirds, and at least one heron;-)…

what a wonderful abundance of feathered friends…