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…
09 Monday Jul 2018
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big girl pants, blessed, budding, datura, flowers, garden, hibiscus, moments, pictures, plants, purple, water, widow
had a lovely time in the garden this morning…
instead of walking on the treadmill I watered all the pots and planters one by one with a bucket… I find this very helpful because it ensures that each one gets the correct amount of water…
the daturas are looking stunning… seems like I couldn’t get enough pictures of them this morning… lots of buds and opening flowers…
the mandevilla continues to tease me by slowly getting closer to opening every day…
and the big excitement was the hibiscus beginning to open… took the open shot when I arrived home after work… it is so much happier in this space, just about four feet from where it was… amazing what finding just the right spot can do for the plant’s happiness;-)…
06 Wednesday Jun 2018
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so happy this morning as I was able to top up the pond easily…
over the winter the connection at the wall had broken so that only one hose could be hooked up instead of the two I need…
this meant that every time the pond needed water I had to drag out the hose to fill it and then drag it back to put it away… which usually ended up with my hands black from the hose and smelling like rubber…
looked for quite a while to find a replacement and eventually found one last week… on Sunday my grandson was over and hooked it up for me…
excited when I arrived home tonight and found the fish out and about in the pond…
happy they are finally more comfortable and connecting to the space…
23 Wednesday May 2018
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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…
07 Saturday Apr 2018
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big girl pants, emptied, filled, fixed, happy, heating, hot tub, knee, moved, tricky, water, widow
today the hot tub got fixed… I am so happy…
this afternoon I was able to go out and attach the hose to drain it… this process takes about three hours…
managed to do this without kneeling down, which was great because my knee is still sore…
process was a bit dicey because I didn’t want water to freeze in the tub and wreck it…
my son-in-law stopped in on his way home from work…
he moved the hot tub out from the wall, had to remove one of the panels, was able to fix a broken fastener and finally screw the replacement arm in place…
he pushed it back up against the wall and I started to fill it… amazingly it didn’t even take an hour to fill up…
sometimes the pump doesn’t start as easily as it should, but today it got going perfectly… now it is heating…
because it is plugged into a regular output it takes quite a while to heat up… likely won’t be at the correct temperature for a few days…
looking forward to getting into it soon;-)…
08 Wednesday Nov 2017
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big girl pants, dark, fix, hot tub, repair, Technology, temperature, water, widow
hot, or not…
last night when I got home I had to add water to the hot tub as the repair person advised they couldn’t test it until it had more water in it…
so there I was at 6:30 pm topping it up… in the dark… at 6:30, sigh…
got hold of them again today and spoke with a different repair person who was able to explain it to me a little more clearly…
apparently the heater needs to be replaced… hopefully they will be here tomorrow…
not a cheap repair but they are confident this will fix the problem…
looking forward to being able to go out without having to wonder whether the temperature will be 103 or ???…
08 Friday Sep 2017
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2017 Ottawa day 9, beauty, big girl pants, breakfast, chocolate, family, fun, Gatineau Park, hike, massage, memories, nature, Nordik, Ottawa, Pink Lake, spa, water, widow
had a sleep in and then gathered everything we would need for the day and headed out…
stopped at McDonald’s for breakfast and sat next to a fireplace… getting pretty fancy there… then drove to Gatineau Park for a 2.1 km hike around Pink Lake… which is not pink at all (named after the Pink family, apparently)… it is actually very green…
started out with chocolate and ended with a selfie to show we were still alive and well, lol…
then it was over to Nordik for a day at the spa… a spectacular spot to relax and regenerate… we dipped in pools, heated up in steamy saunas, ate delicious food, had massages, and sat around fires…
started the day beside a fireplace and ended it beside one… pretty cool…
all in all a wonderFULL day…
