improvement…

29 Saturday Apr 2023

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big girl pants, blessed, empty, fill, garden, grandson, hot tub, improvement, Krevco, lid, moments, move, pump, repairs, Spring, water, widow

on Friday we emptied, moved and cleaned the hot tub, put it back and refilled it… this time I used a larger hose that I have and it emptied the tub in fifteen minutes… usually it can take hours, so this was a great improvement…

I am always happy when the jets start up after the refill, because sometimes it takes a few tries to get them working… happily, they started right away…

unfortunately we could not replace the arms as the screw for one of them would not come out…

we also left the seal for them to look at, and hopefully repair or replace…

so I have a call in to Krevco to see about having a technician come out and see what they can do…

can…

28 Friday Apr 2023

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Wednesday is the day I water my plants… I have quite a few, lol…

I combine tap water with some banana skin water and wander around the living room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom, and den, with constant trips to the kitchen to refill the watering can…

I have had this watering can forever and have repaired the handle a few times as I enjoy the feel of this one…

seeing all of the blooms on the African violets and orchids, and the lovely purple anthurium blossom brings me so much happiness and makes me smile…

and currently, there are the seedlings that need attention as well…

it is quite a meditative experience and I enjoy the weekly time spent doing this…

lane…

20 Monday Mar 2023

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on Saturday I went out to top up the hot tub…

the weather app was suggesting it was -21 out, but the sun was shining and there wasn’t any wind in the garden…

was able to slide the one side open without taking it right off… worked fine…

while the water was running, I brought in the recycling bin from the lane…

and I found a suet feeder in the garage and put a frozen block of homemade suet out in the front yard…

nice to be outdoors for a little while… Spring is coming…

murkiness…

11 Saturday Mar 2023

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well, that was a process;-(…

cleaning the pumps is not one of my favourite jobs, but I have gotten pretty good with it now that I have no choice, lol…

both tanks were getting murky which is the sign that the entire pump needs to be cleaned… that means the tube and the three different filters in each pump…

yucky, but necessary to get done… small one went fine… I don’t even make a face when I am rinsing them by hand whereas before I wouldn’t even consider touching them…

those big girl pants…

when I dealt with the big pump it was cleaned and put back without any issues…

but, when I plugged it back in nothing happened, sigh…

tried plugging it into a few other outlets, but no luck… brought it back into the kitchen, dumped the water out of it and removed the actual pump, which is quite tiny…

then I took the two pieces apart, used a Q-tip to clean both and rinsed it out without getting the outside of it wet…

got it back together, plugged it in and it worked, phew… when the pumps stop working it is rather worrisome because there is the concern about the stress on the fish in the tank…

now to see how long it takes to clear up the water and get rid of the murkiness…

foam…

08 Wednesday Mar 2023

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dug out an old watering jug so that I could set the vase of flowers into it and fill it with water so the floral foam inside the vase could soak up all the water it needed…

took a while, but after half an hour or so I was able to get it out with a bit of finagling…

it is amazingly difficult to add fresh water to the container every day, lol…

scrunch…

08 Wednesday Feb 2023

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this morning, I dragged the hose up from the basement, out through the backdoor, and into the tub…

last night I had a great time in the hot tub, but had to scrunch down as the water was rather low…

only took about ten minutes to fill it up… now we will see if it gets up to temp by tonight;-)…

elevators…

20 Friday Jan 2023

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spent an hour and a half wandering through The Leaf in the daytime…

we took ample time to search out the plants as we wandered through the tropical biome… and we found the cacao tree;-)…

the waterfall continues to over perform…

I am betting that there are people working very hard to figure out how to end up with less splash, lol…

I spent at lot of time on the bridge, watching the beautiful koi swimming around the pond… a lovely treat;-)…

there were a lot of people there, but it didn’t feel too crowded… we wore masks but the majority of others didn’t… since I was last in the space there have been large fans added, so there did appear to be a lot of noise, but once through the doors into the Mediterranean biome, it was quiet…

the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden was a much busier place with numerous butterflies flitting about… it is always fun to search for the ones that have landed and are blending in with the foliage… as visitors move through this area they are quiet and will sit and patiently watch the action…