07 Saturday Mar 2026
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03 Tuesday Mar 2026
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big girl pants, conversations, evaporates, fish condos, humidity, moments, nature, Tupperware, water, widow
I am always surprised as to how much water evaporates in the house on a regular basis…
Monday mornings I add about twelve litres of water to the fish condos as the water has gone down a significant amount since the previous week…
I have a Tupperware container that lives under the kitchen sink and is filled with water for the plants…
the plants get watered on Wednesdays weekly, but the tanks are topped up on Mondays…
the reason it is Monday is that my friends come every Monday afternoon and the less water in the tanks, the more noise the pumps make, and the loud noise can disrupt our conversation…
cannot interrupt important conversations, especially if one of us is on the phone…
08 Sunday Feb 2026
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big girl pants, cold plunge tub, family, garden, happy, hot tub, ice, moments, nature, project, topped up, water, weather, widow
it was a lovely day so we spent some time on the deck, in between Olympic events…
first project was to top up the hot tub and clean all the ice off of it…
next, we emptied, cleaned, and filled the cold tub… a new pump has gone into it to keep the water moving…
it is always amazing how long it takes to fill up tubs, particularly in the cold, lol…
but, the jobs are done;-)…
29 Thursday Jan 2026
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27 Tuesday Jan 2026
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spent some time with the fish recently, cleaning the front glass on the three tanks…
the sunlight causes algae to grow along the front of the tanks, so every now and then they need to be cleaned…
the fish often think they are getting a treat as the mag-float cleaner moves along the front, lol…
the good news was that we’ve had a good deal of sunshine lately;-)…
17 Wednesday Dec 2025
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aquasize, big girl pants, blessed, continuity, exercise, friend, moments, warm, water, weather, widow
went to our last aquasize for the year on Tuesday…
the weather was warm, which always makes going out more fun;-)…
it is always a great time, even if we are worn out at the end of the class, lol…
we’ve had to miss a few times due to other activities, and we are going to change to Thursdays in the new year which means we shouldn’t miss any…
being there every week will also provide some continuity and keep us more fit…
05 Wednesday Nov 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, clean-ish, family, garden, moments, nature, pond, pumps, water, weather, widow
cleaned out the first of the garden water pumps last week…
always happy when they are all clean-ish and packed away for the winter…
this morning I was able to pull out, clean and put away the last two…
all the jobs in the garden are done and it is now ready for the winter…
04 Tuesday Nov 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, fishtank, moments, nature, pail, pond, survives, water, water lily, widow
the water lily has been sitting inside the backdoor in a pail of water for over a week and the water is rather smelly, lol…
finally took it out of the pail and trimmed all the dead leaves… there was even a bud as it was trying to bloom again…
then it went into the biggest tank…
looks good, but we will see if it survives the winter as the fish may eat the whole thing🤪…
10 Friday Oct 2025
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well, it took lots more time, and water, to get the houseplants watered Wednesday morning, lol…
seems there are a great many of them;-)…
I’ve had to rearrange some of the ones that are now in the window so that I still have a good view of the bird feeders…
especially these days as the birds prepare for migration and are very busy getting their meals…
03 Friday Oct 2025
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big girl pants, black netting, blessed, clogging, falling leaves, moments, nature, pond, Technology, tight, water, waterfall, widow
climbed into the pond twice on Wednesday…
the leaves have been falling and clogging up the pump every few days…
this is getting to be a pain so I spent the first time cleaning out the filter and pulling up leaves from the bottom…
the second time I cut back all the reeds to be sure the sun could get to the new bud, hoping that the weather cooperates so it can open… I also hoped it would help make the netting easier to cover the pond…
last year we put down green netting over the pond to try to catch the leaves, but it looked terrible and I took it off…
this year we have a new plan… we got black netting and pulled it tight over the pond covering everything from the waterfall to the furthest edges of the pond…
it is really hard to see the netting except around the edges where it is doubled up and it was already catching the never-ending falling leaves….
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