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pumps…

16 Sunday Mar 2025

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Friday’s project was to clean out the pumps on each of the three fishtanks…

it always slips down towards the bottom of the list, but once I get going, it isn’t that difficult, and doesn’t take that long either…

usually I only do one or two, but this time I did all of them at the same time…

the pumps are now running beautifully, and I topped up the water in each one… usually I do the topping up on Mondays, but was just a bit sooner this time;-)…

pliers…

14 Tuesday Nov 2023

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big girl pants, blessed, exercise, expandable, garden, hose, hot tub, moments, pliers, run, top up, weather, widow

yesterday was a beautiful day… the sun shone and the temperature made it to 6° Celsius…

took the opportunity to top up the water in the hot tub…

now that the hose is hooked up in the basement it is a bit of a process…

the hose comes upstairs and just reaches to the outside of the door… then it has to be turned on with pliers at the tap at which point it expands so I can reach the hot tub…

takes a while to fill it to above the top hole on the filter, then I run downstairs and close the tap, again with the pliers… and run back up as the hose starts to contract before it yanks out of the tub… and finally taking the hose downstairs and hanging it up for the next time…

so I did get a bit of exercise;-)…

lane…

20 Monday Mar 2023

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

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on Saturday I went out to top up the hot tub…

the weather app was suggesting it was -21 out, but the sun was shining and there wasn’t any wind in the garden…

was able to slide the one side open without taking it right off… worked fine…

while the water was running, I brought in the recycling bin from the lane…

and I found a suet feeder in the garage and put a frozen block of homemade suet out in the front yard…

nice to be outdoors for a little while… Spring is coming…

top-up…

26 Saturday Feb 2022

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well, I am a happy camper…

the hot tub has needed a top-up for a number of weeks, but every time it has been warm enough, or not snowing, the lid has been frozen shut…

and the less water in it the more the jets run and more water evaporates…

today I was able to go out and open it… yay… it took nearly fifteen minutes to top it up so I was pleased to get it done…

I’m not exactly sure that I can open both covers enough to get in it, but at least it has enough water for awhile…

the extendable hose works perfectly… it runs up the stairs and out the door easily so the filling part is simple…

there is a lot of snow out there, lol…

swallow…

10 Monday Jun 2019

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turned the hose on to top up the pond again yesterday… maybe the wind has been evaporating the water more quickly because it wasn’t particularly hot…

then I got focussed on a few other things… was on my way to the garage to go grocery shopping and decided to check out the poppies before leaving…

when I got over there I realized that the water was still going… turned it off just as it was going to swallow up the bridge…

yikes… that was close…

hope…

23 Wednesday May 2018

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big girl pants, garden, hope, pond, reading, summer, top up, water, widow

been spending a bit of time each morning reading before heading off to work…

this morning, instead of reading I was in the garden, topping up the pond… clearly it has been hot and the water has been evaporating…

it was lovely to spend the early morning outdoors listening to birdsong and running water…

of course, the hope is that I won’t have to do this too often, lol…

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