landmarks…

03 Tuesday Sep 2024

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went for a ride on one of the Winnipeg Waterways Tour boats yesterday morning…

while we waited to board, saw some ducks and geese and had to take a few pics, lol…

our driver, Pete, shared lots of interesting facts, many I wasn’t aware of, as we travelled along the Assiniboine and Red rivers…

it was fun to see some of the city landmarks from the water…

I was happy to get a few nice photos of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights…

and this one from the back of it…

a lovely treat;-)…

sprinkled…

02 Tuesday Jul 2024

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Monday, while supper was cooking on Barbie, the barbecue, my housemate sprinkled grass seed over the non-grassed areas in the garden…

it had been raining off and on all day and was supposed to continue all day today…

after putting down the grass he used the last of the soil to cover everything and then raked it over…

now I have been directed to water every single day unless it rains;-(…

replaced…

27 Thursday Jun 2024

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not too long ago (well, it was mid-April) I watched a crew take down one of elms up the street…

in the Fall they had taken another one down close by…

last week Hydro came and marked gas lines and left yellow flags in front of two houses next to me…

this morning I watched as a number of pieces of equipment came by… the first dug two holes on the boulevard and went away… a little while later another few trucks came and planted a tree in each of the holes… then a protective barrier went around the bottom of each of them…

it will be interesting to see if they will come and water them until they get established…

not quite sure what type of tree they are but very happy that the elms have been replaced;-)…

ventured…

20 Thursday Jun 2024

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our first whole day at the cottage was low key…

the sun came out occasionally, but the wind was busy the entire day and there was a fair amount of rain…

we ventured out a few times to watch the waves and listen to the birds…

in between, we read and napped and watched nature take its course out the windows…

my daughter got this lovely shot on her new Galaxy android… between the raindrops, lol…

it take wonderful pictures…

unpack…

17 Monday Jun 2024

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well, after grocery shopping and packing up what felt like tons of stuff, we set off on our adventure…

we have returned to the superb Airbnb that we spent a week at last year…

it took about two and a half hours from leaving the house to sitting on the deck with tea and a refresher…

didn’t take very long to unpack the groceries and our personal stuff… then we headed to the upper deck to enjoy the scenery and our drinks…

as I sat there I listened to the waves gently lapping the shore, and heard the warblers, vireos, and sparrows singing in the trees nearby… and we’d already watched a couple of ducks working on their afternoon snacks as a pelican fly by…

what a delightful treat this time together is;-)…

class…

02 Sunday Jun 2024

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yesterday my memories reminded me that eleven years ago, we went on a cruise and ended up in Seattle where we took a glassblowing class… it was great fun…

we had to wear cotton, which explains my delightful outfit, lol…

I made a purple float for the pond and it came out very well…

later I took a photo of that same float in the pond… oddly, it sat lower in the water than the others, so I got it out and discovered it had water in it…

I couldn’t figure out where the water was getting in so brought it into the house and set it on a yogurt container on the counter, hoping it would drain out…

somehow I moved and knocked it off the container… and it broke into many pieces…

🥺…

quicker…

25 Saturday May 2024

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at 5:30 Tuesday night l started to change the water in the hot tub…

a bit late to start the process, but that was how the day had gone, and it really needed to be done…

turned it off, brought up the pump, connected it to the large hose and within twenty minutes it was almost empty… it is so much quicker with the larger hose…

next I had to climb in and scoop out the last of the water and give it a good wipe down… that part always takes time, usually half an hour or so…

finally, after putting in the new filter, the water started to go in…

forty-five minutes later it was full and ready to be turned back on…

plugged back in and by Thursday morning it was ready for chemicals… it takes about five different ones, which go in one every twenty minutes or so, to get it ready for jumping in;-)…

had a nice time in the hot tub that evening, especially after all the work that had gone on over the last week…

tonight I enjoyed another visit to the tub and although it was overcast, it wasn’t raining or windy, lol… yay…