04 Friday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, house, moments, move, neighbours, renting, sad, truck, widow
it was a bit of a sad day today, even though the sun was shining;-)…
a moving truck arrived and took all morning to empty out the house next door…
I am going to miss my little buddy and his baby sister (oh yes, and their parents, lol), but they aren’t moving too far away and will be around as they are renting the house…
22 Friday Nov 2024
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big girl pants, black, blessed, construction, entertained, fence, moments, truck, weather, widow
have been entertained over the last few days as a fence was being constructed across the street…
it took a while to figure out which house it belongs to…
the crew of two arrived before nine yesterday and worked until about four… they took many breaks to sit in their truck and warm up, lol… it was chilly…
they had an interesting machine which pounded the metal poles into the ground… there were two heights… then they built the frames and covered the tall section with black strips… at that point I realized the fence belonged to the house directly across from me, the fence on the other side of their property is also black…
after they cleaned everything up they ended their day, and I assumed the job, lol…
I thought it was interesting that the front section was just chain link, but maybe it would let the snow blow through…
then, this morning the truck was back and they added the black strips to the short section of the fence…
now I think it is really done, lol…
07 Tuesday May 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, concrete, dirt, family, garden, landfill, moments, neighbours, rocks, shovels, truck, weather, widow
this morning there was lots of activity in the lane…
many tools were used… the sledgehammer, two types of shovels, a broom and pails…
a lot of broken concrete, rocks, stones, and soil were gathered, piled into the back of a truck and then taken to the landfill…
but, it is much tidier and with a bit more work done to it, will be much more useful for placing yard waste;-)…
all that activity brought out a few neighbours as well, lol…
06 Wednesday Dec 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cleanup, family, foray, garage, grandson, lumber, memories, moments, truck, widow, wood
back at it in the garage… our last foray out there, a few weeks ago, involved dumping everything onto the floor to be sorted…
this time we went through and put items back up in the rafters that seemed like good things to keep… I let a lot go, although I know many people who might have wanted some of the bits, lol…
then we put the excess lumber (from the fence build) up there… it had been under a tarp along the edge of the driveway since June when the fence was finished…
everything else on the floor was loaded into the back of the truck and driven away…
there were still a number of items on the floor that needed to find homes…
we “finished” in the garage late Sunday afternoon…
the floor was finally cleared and vacuumed and there was a lot of dust from the wet-vac, lol…
the bench got slightly rearranged as we still need more work done there, lol… and then Indi made it into the space…
woohoo;-)…
29 Tuesday Aug 2023
Posted in family, health, life, moments, retirement, Uncategorized
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big girl pants, blessed, declutter, delivery, family, furniture, give away, happy, happy camper, living room, moments, normal, resided, sectional, truck, widow
I have had this six piece sectional couch for close to thirty years (according to my daughter)…
it had resided in the living room, and for the last number of years, in the basement family room…
a few years ago I brought up three pieces for the living room again, as the hide-a-bed was moved into the den…
in the recent decluttering process downstairs, the three remaining pieces needed to find a new home… two came up to the living room and one was already in the back storage room… the living room was overflowing, lol…
I thought about putting two in the office, but that was really going to fill up that small room…
so I decided to give them away… my daughter was very proud;-)…
a few days ago they were stuffed into the truck and delivered to someone who could use them…
between that, and the chair being fixed, the living room has returned to normal and I am one happy camper;-)…
01 Monday May 2023
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bench, big girl pants, blessed, clean, dump, family, garage, garage floor, garbage, grandson, moments, organize, remove, snowblower, space, truck, widow
Friday we accomplished a lot…
we sorted through all of the stuff that got put into the garage when we were cleaning out the basement, and piled the items onto the driveway which were for the dump…
a truck arrived, was filled with the collection, and headed out… when it got back the snowblower was lifted in, with help from a neighbour, and away it went to someone with a large driveway…
then we started to reorganize the items that were left and make space in the garage for the car and the motorcycle…
took quite a while and lots of organizing, but eventually space was made…
and the car and motorcycle fit;-)… maybe the next project will be to wash the car, lol…
a start was made on the items still on the workbench, including the million screws, lol…
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