19 Wednesday Jun 2019
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early this morning watered all the plants in the garden with a bucket… it meant that I got lots of steps in and did a bit of weight training, lol…
summer is nearly upon us…
so enjoy the time to wander around the space and enjoy the beauty…
morning is my best time… by the end of the day I am often just interested in vegging out in front of the tv…
10 Monday Jun 2019
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big girl pants, close, garden, lucky, overflow, pond, poppies, shopping, swallow, top up, water, weather, widow
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…
02 Sunday Jun 2019
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big girl pants, hose, lawn, leaking, pond, productive, steak, water, widow
out and about in the sunshine for a good portion of the day yesterday…
ran a few errands, grocery shopped, got the lawn mowed… and had a wonderful steak dinner…
trying a different method of running the water in the pond… currently I need to top it up every few days so I’ve only been turning it on when I am home and in the garden… hoping that this new system will show us if the water is evaporating or leaking through the hose…
23 Thursday May 2019
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big girl pants, creek, low, snow, walk, water, water level, widow
on my walk home tonight I stopped at the creek and spent a few minutes looking it over…
the water level is very low…
doesn’t seem that long ago that there was water everywhere…
after all the snow, it seems amazing that everything is so dry now…
20 Wednesday Mar 2019
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beloved, big girl pants, footwork, halfway, hose, hot tub, moments, moon, splash, warm, water, widow
hadn’t been in the hot tub for weeks… Sunday it was warm and I headed out… when I opened the cover I discovered that the water was only about halfway up the side… it was at the correct temperature so I got in and sat on the floor so that I was mostly under water…
then the jets came on and I got splashed… a lot… didn’t stay in too long after that…
dried off and figured out how to get water into it… had to do some fancy footwork to get the vent open so I could run the hose through it…
last night I was out for a hot tub under the nearly full moon… so nice… might have heard some geese…
what a treat to be back there…
03 Sunday Feb 2019
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big girl pants, evaporation, garbage, hose, hot tub, level, recycling, water, widow
this morning I finally made it out for a hot tub… it has been crazy cold here and I just didn’t have the energy to get out there…
when I opened the lid I discovered that a lot of water had evaporated and the jets were shooting through the air… which, of course, leads to more evaporation, lol…
usually, when the water level is low, once I am in the tub, I use up enough space to stop the jets from overshooting, but not this morning…
needless to say, I didn’t stay out too long…
once I was dressed I went out and put water in… it is a bit of a process… have to put a hose through the dryer vent, then go outside and put the hose into the hot tub, usually using one side of the cover to hold it in place… then it is back downstairs to turn on the water, using a pair of pliers to turn it because my fingers aren’t strong enough… back outside to be sure the water is going in and not spraying the wall…
while I was waiting for it to fill, I took out the recycling and garbage… also had a few minutes to take some photos of the frost on one of the windows in the garage…
when it was full, back downstairs to turn off the water, run up and push the hose back into the basement, close the cover and run down to hang up the hose and connect the vent back up to the dryer… good exercise, lol…
18 Tuesday Sep 2018
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big girl pants, boat, BOATsmart, daughter, exam, mail, moments, skills, son-in-law, studying, water, widow
was so excited yesterday with the mail…
in it was my BOATsmart licence;-)… I worked hard the last week of August to get it after my daughter sent me the link…
when we went camping on the long weekend it was great fun to let my son-in-law know that I had passed the exam…
now for the real life practice…
looking forward to next summer as I work on my boating skills;-)…
31 Friday Aug 2018
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big girl pants, calm, camping, family, Friday, fun times, Labour Day, long weekend, moments, Opapiskaw, water, widow
Labour Day long weekend… last camping trip of the year…
three of us grocery shopped, hooked up the trailer, filled up with gas, and hit the road for Opapiskaw…
when we arrived we set up the trailer and fetched the boat from a friend’s seasonal site… the other two arrived a bit later…
we are now working on supper, doing some relaxing and exploring… a few of us played catch and some went for a walk to check out the water… it was so calm…
hope it is like that when we want to go wakeboarding and kneeboarding tomorrow, lol…
trying to figure out how I can take some of the rocks home, although they are a bit big…
now to walk down by the water so I can post this;-)…
21 Tuesday Aug 2018
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big girl pants, blessed, blooms, grandson, happy, mandevilla, morning glories, saved, waiting, water, widow
so happy that the morning glories were saved…
while I was away my grandson came by a few times and watered them… they are in small planters so need lots of water…
I’d been waiting for them to flower for weeks and the first bloom only came out the day before I left on vacation…
they are blooming in and amongst the mandevilla which is also blooming like crazy…
flowers sure do make me happy…
17 Tuesday Jul 2018
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big girl pants, cement, family, flowers, garden, happy, mandevilla, moments, pictures, purple, supper, treat, water, widow
started my day watering planters on the deck and getting a shot of the second mandevilla flower…
from there it was off to work, where my colleague replaced the seat on my office chair… so happy and comfortable;-)…
at lunch workers were putting down cement on the Millennium Library ramp and I so wanted to put my footprints into it…
but, I didn’t…
ended the day with the most delicious dinner… summer in a bowl… new potatoes from the local grocery store, with small beets and purple beans from my daughter’s garden… what a wonderful treat… that first meal of fresh vegetables is always memorable… no meat required…
