19 Friday Apr 2024
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African Violet, big girl pants, blessed, moments, over-watered, perk, plant, sad, water, widow
I’ve noticed that this African violet was looking very sad…
a few days ago, I picked it up to check it out and discovered it was sitting in 2 inches of water… poor thing was drowning, sigh…
it has already started to perk up;-)…
25 Monday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, fire hydrant, hose, hydrant, moments, Technology, testing, water, widow
on Friday a city (I think) truck came by and stopped in front of the house…
the person got out, undid something on the fire hydrant that lives in front of the cedar, and put a ten or twelve foot hose down it…
nothing happened… then they took out the hose, closed the hydrant and got back into the vehicle…
after a few minutes they drove away…
so the question is, does the hydrant work or not… kind of concerned 😟…
17 Sunday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, cold, garden, hose, hot tub, moments, nature, nozzle, plunge tub, shopping, water, weather, widow
recently I purchased a new set of nozzles for the hose after having looked for a long time for just the right ones…
today I used one to top up the hot tub and plunge tub…
this nozzle seems to have more pressure so the filling took way less time than previously;-)…
made me happy as it was a bit chilly out there…
14 Wednesday Feb 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, Costco, garden, groceries, hose, hose attachments, leaking, moments, shopping, water, widow
Tuesday we went to Costco and I got a new set of attachments for the hose…
sadly, the current attachment has been leaking for awhile and the hose doesn’t expand without an attachment…
hoping that all three will work well… fingers crossed…
11 Sunday Feb 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, evaporating, fish tanks, house, humidity, moments, nature, pumps, water, widow
spent some time topping up all three fish tanks…
the water is evaporating at a fast rate…
it seems like only a week ago that I had added a bit of water to each of them…
I guess the good news is that the humidity level in the house is good, lol… and the pumps are much quieter the higher the water level;-)…
29 Monday Jan 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, chemicals, chlorine, empty, experimenting, grandson, health, hot tub, Krevco, moments, nature, plunge tub, water, widow
the decision was made to empty the plunge tub and refill it with fresh water…
after a visit to Krevco to get some chemicals for the hot tub, we got information on what to use for the plunge tub…
we picked up liquid chlorine and will do some experimenting as to how much to add, and how often, lol…
we used the pump that usually empties the hot tub and then dumped the last bit… wiped it out and then spent a while refilling it…
cover and bungee cord went back on and it is ready for plunging…
at Krevco we saw a plunge pool… it was $10,000, 😳…
17 Wednesday Jan 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, chatting, houseplants, leaves, moments, nature, plants, water, watering, weekly, widow
Wednesday is watering day and it is a treat to wander around feeding the various plants… currently they all reside on the main floor in different rooms…
I enjoy taking the time to remove dead leaves, watch for new flower buds, turn them as needed, and move them around as they (and I) need…
and, of course, chatting with them the whole time, lol…
brings me such happiness;-)…
02 Tuesday Jan 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, health, hot tub, moments, nature, New Year's Day, plunge, selfie stick, Technology, tub, water, weather, widow
many people start their New Year’s Day with a cold plunge;-)…
I like to start with a hot tub… it was beautiful out, the sun was shining, there wasn’t much wind, and the chickadees were busy at the feeders…
a lovely way to begin the year…
I took out the fancy selfie stick and set it up to get a photo of me in the tub, even though Google told me it felt like -20° Celsius… which it didn’t, lol…
I did look at the plunge tub for a hot second as I walked past it, lol… if my housemate had been home I might have gone in…
that’s my story and I’m sticking with it;-)…
23 Thursday Nov 2023
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5°, big girl pants, blessed, garden, heater, moments, nature, plunge, Technology, tub, water, weather, widow
last week a big black tub landed on the deck…
a few days later, in the evening, it got filled up with water…
then a cover went over it… and a heater to keep the temperature at 5° Celsius was added…
now, after a shower, someone uncovers the tub and sits in it for 3 minutes, which seems like a long time, lol…
this is what I spotted this morning;-)…
I am going to give it a try on a Sunday morning… wish me luck…
30 Monday Oct 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, breaking, cold, fish, garden, goldfish, grandson, ice, moments, nature, plants, pond, pumps, snow, time, water, weather, widow, winter
Saturday, late in the afternoon, after breaking the ice on the pond, we caught twenty-one of the goldfish…
the pond water was filled with leaves and was rather brown and murky…
it was quite the job as, at one point, my grandson went into it barefoot with his pants rolled up to cut down the water lilies and grasses (I think it was about -12°C in the air)…
but that really helped catch a bunch of them that had been hiding under the lily leaves… they were moving slower in the cold, but still snuck out of the net… also, some of the catching was in the dark, lol…
then they sat in pails in the house for hours before getting moved into the three tanks…
we were careful to be sure to keep size and numbers similar in the tanks so that there is sufficient space for all of them…
we thought we had them all, but on Sunday we discovered five more, woohoo…
now, the pumps have been removed from the pond, and it is apparently going into the winter with water in it, lol…
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