09 Sunday Aug 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, friends, fun, kayak, learn new things, memories, moments, water, widow
had a great time learning to kayak this week…
for some reason I imagined that my legs would be uncomfortable, but that wasn’t the case at all…
I had a great instructor which made the whole process fairly smooth… of course the getting in and out was a process, but I had helpers;-)…
I really had fun and would like to do a bit more of it…
31 Sunday May 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, Chinese food, dredged, family, fish, frog, garden, grandsons, leaves, lunch, moments, mowing, nature, pond, supper, treat, visit, water, widow
sitting by the pond after my visitors have left and enjoying the last bit of sunlight…
my water shoes are on the deck because I went into the pond once again and dredged up another pailful of leaves… the fish are still not coming out, but I did see the frog hop by earlier in the day…
all three of my grandsons came by just after noon… I made them grilled cheese sandwiches with the wonderful La Belle Baguette whole wheat sourdough that was delivered yesterday…
the oldest left, the middle one mowed the grass, front and back, while the youngest watered plants and pulled weeds…
some days it is hard to realize he is eleven and can reach and do more things…
after the work was done, relaxing happened and visiting took place…
this was the first time I’ve had people in the house and the system was they had access to the basement for cooling down and using the washroom and I had the main floor… worked perfectly…
we ordered Chinese food for supper and it arrived just before the daddy, who had been at work all day… afterwards my downspout got fixed, a stair board tightened and then off they went…
it was a treat to see them and I enjoyed every minute… I missed my nap, but plan on making it an early night;-)…
16 Saturday May 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, family, garden, hose, losing, memories, moments, pond, vanishing, water, waterfall, widow
I’ve been watching the pond since a week ago Friday, when my son-in-law got it running…
for the last few years when the waterfall is going water vanishes from the pond in a slow but steady manner…
same thing this year… Tuesday it was quite low, but the temperature was near zero so I was afraid to use the outside hose to top it up, but I was also afraid to turn it off in case water froze in the pump and wrecked it…
it was still cold Wednesday, but I had to do something otherwise the pump was going to be sucking air and then die…
after removing a connector which had broken over the winter and reattaching the hose to the main tap, I was able to get the hose running slowly and then more quickly once I was sure it wasn’t full of ice…
took quite a while to fill the pond, but I sat in the sun with a jacket on and watched for birds, lol…
then I placed a thin rock behind the waterfall so that the water would fall directly into the pond and not onto the pads behind it…
I was very excited, because I think this might make a difference to the vanishing water…
yesterday I topped it up again, but it is losing water way more slowly…
going to watch and see what happens…
29 Saturday Feb 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, family, happy, home, memories, mentor, moments, practice, purple, water, watercolour, widow
over the last week or so I’ve been collecting things so that I can do some watercolour painting…
yesterday I gathered up all the equipment and sat down to paint…
when I did some of this at Christmas in Ottawa it was more difficult than I’d imagined it would be…
here at home I think it was even more difficult without my daughter’s mentorship, lol…
it was a fun hour, although I need to practice more;-)…
13 Monday Jan 2020
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basement, big girl pants, ceiling, fish tank, leaking, misbehaving, moments, solution, solution stressful, water, widow
went into the kitchen late last night and heard something dripping… thought it was outside, but then realized it was in the basement…
ran down to discover a ceiling tile on the floor, two wet couches, soaked carpet and water pouring down…
when I could move, I found towels and pails to put down and moved cushions into the basement bathtub…
went upstairs to the main floor and tried to figure out what was leaking… opened the front door to see if something was happening outside….
it was the pump in the fish tank… water was pouring out of it… I turned it off and put down more towels there and moved the pump to the main floor bathtub…
more towels on the floor and then up and down to be sure that all the dripping had stopped…
made for a stressful couple of hours… not sure what caused the problem, but had to leave it for the night…
must have run up and down the stairs a dozen times checking to be sure that no water was misbehaving…
tonight my grandson and I figured out that somehow the pump had tilted and the water had run down the back of it… we put a towel in the back and it has been working perfectly fine for five hours;-)…
20 Friday Dec 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, family, grandson, hot tub, massage, moments, nature, retirement, Thermea, treat, water, widow
had the most delightful day with my grandson…
we had breakfast at one of our favourite places, ran a few errands and spent six hours at Thermea…
went in when it was light, and left in the dark…
today was the first time I’ve had a massage there and it was lovely… I like the Swedish, gentle, ones… my grandson had the deep tissue one, lol… I think he might be bruised, but he was happy…
then it was on to the thermal experience… even the Polar pool a few times… we attended an Aufguss ritual, spent time in nearly all the saunas, sat by the fire, enjoyed both pools, had supper and spent more time in the cool pool and hot tub…
just like his mother, aunt and grandfather, he can find people he’s met before in any place he goes;-)… and had a lengthy chat with them…
what a wonderful day it has been… on our way home he treated me to a Dairy Queen ice cream cone – one of my favourites ;-)…
20 Tuesday Aug 2019
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big girl pants, draw, English Garden, garden, Leo Mol Sculpture Garden, lilies, pond, water, water lilies, widow
spent a lot of time with the water lilies in the Gardens… went from one to another, viewing and taking pictures… many of them had tiny frogs sitting on the lily pads…
water has always been important to me and it always draws me in…
wasn’t sure that the two lilies in my pond were going to have flowers, but I remained hopeful…
and this morning I spotted a bud;-)… woo hoo… excited to see the flower…
30 Tuesday Jul 2019
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big girl pants, boat, cliffs, family, fun, jumping, perspective, water, widow
a few days ago I put up a picture of the boys jumping from the cliffs that we had walked to…
today we rode over to the cliffs in the boat and I got more pictures to show the actual height…
all of the boys had fun jumping;-)…
28 Sunday Jul 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, camping, family, flowers, garden, hot tub, lake, pond, rocks, stuff, water, widow
started my day in the hot tub… rather quiet as the waterfall is turned off while awaiting repair, lol…
walked to the grocery store; consulted with Hilda the Gardener, who then did some amazing clean-up in the side garden and tidied the main garden; and packed up all my stuff for another few days of camping…
ended the day watching boys jump into the lake from a rather tall rock, which we climbed, and now we sit by the campfire…
did manage to get one flower picture as well;-)…
been a full day… think it might be an early night…
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…
