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misbehaving…

13 Monday Jan 2020

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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;-)…

Thermea…

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 ;-)…

draw…

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…

cliffs…

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;-)…

stuff…

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…

bucket…

19 Wednesday Jun 2019

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big girl pants, blessed, bucket, early, flowers, garden, photos, purple, walk, water, widow

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…

swallow…

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…

hose…

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…

low…

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…

halfway…

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…

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