on Friday Dynacare came out to the house and took some blood for my next doctor’s appointment in a few weeks… the appointments are in four hour blocks and they arrived within half an hour of the start time…
hoping that my A1C remains in a good place as I continue to be careful about my eating habits… I am always nervous that the numbers may have gone up…
the technician was in and out of the house inside of ten minutes… for the first time they used a pillow to raise my arm to make the process simpler for them…
they are very good at what they do and once again there was barely a bruise…
happy to have the test done… no point in worrying anymore as I will find out in a week how I am doing;-)…
quite a while ago my neighbour brought me a birdhouse that he had made from leftover fence bits…
it was very cute but I left it on the deck and it fell over and the perch broke off… a friend was here and took it home so that her partner could repair it…
recently got it back and found a spot to hang it up…
on Wednesday I took all the ornaments off the trees in the living and dining rooms… the dining room one looked a little lonely and empty as it sat on the table…
the ornaments ended up on two tables and are still there, lol… but I have washed out a bin and it is drying as I write this…
Thursday I brought up the box that the trees live in and was able to squash them in…
then I taped it closed and was able to get it downstairs but not onto the shelf where it lives… will have to wait for someone else to lift it up;-)…
have been having some problems with the hot tub leaking for quite some time, but wasn’t certain that the water wasn’t just evaporating with the hot weather we’d been having…
finally it was clear that there was a problem so I called up the company I deal with and made an appointment…
a fellow came out on Monday morning and discovered water dripping from a portion of the pump… he thought it would be about forty dollars for the part which needed to be replaced… he worked for well over an hour and then advised that the entire pump needed to be replaced because the new piece wouldn’t fit in properly as they are now made slightly differently…
we contacted a supplier and my son-in-law went and picked up the new one so that the repair person could return the next morning to hook it up…
sadly, that didn’t happen… I made numerous calls to the store and was advised that they would pass along the message, but no one came… finally I called and asked for an actual appointment so that someone would turn up…
two fellows turned up the next morning and set about installing the new pump… they also fixed the loose jets (with silicone) so they don’t keep shooting the water out of the tub when the water level goes down a bit…
they advised the silicone needed twenty-four hours to cure and that the tub should work fine after that….
cleaned it out and partially filled it to just below the jets and waited for the point where I could finish filling it and turn it on to heat up…
after I filled it up and turned it back on, the pump made noise but the water did not move… I called again and a few hours later the guys came back and fixed an airlock in the pump… then it started to heat up…
had decided to stay in the house to be sure I’d be there when Purolator arrived with a parcel…
apparently they tried to deliver it a few weeks ago… they didn’t leave any notification, so it wasn’t until I went searching for the tracking number that I discovered they had been here… it was interesting as I have a note on the front door advising to go to the back door if I’m not in the house… not sure how I missed it…
last week I called and spoke to someone who advised the parcel was waiting at the depot… after we talked she arranged for them to bring it back on Tuesday…
when it was delivered at 11:30 the driver said he’d been away on vacation and the person who filled in for him wasn’t very experienced… he even apologized for the mixup…
we had a nice chat about the datura seedpod on the plant by the front door, lol…
yesterday I went for a doctor’s appointment… had arranged to get my car back from my grandson who has been using it while I’ve been staying home…
it was the first time in three months that I have entered a building that wasn’t my house, lol…
this was also the first time I’ve worn my mask and had it on the whole time I was there…
had to manage a few new processes… only one door is used to enter and exit the building… and it wasn’t the one I was used to… got in a few extra steps…
the process for bloodwork is basically the same – waiting… although there are way fewer chairs, the gate is partially closed, and there was sanitizer everywhere…
I did giggle looking at the chairs in all the waiting rooms… to ensure separation, for every chair you could sit in, two or three were turned to the wall… looked like a snake, lol…
the other thing that made me giggle was the fact that my iPhone didn’t recognize me with my mask on, lol… if I am going out more, I might need to add me with a mask on for it to recognize me, lol…
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