10 Tuesday Jun 2025
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09 Monday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, drywall, family, fresh, grandson, happy, moments, paint, rain, sand, weather, widow
my middle grandson came over Sunday to help replace the carpet on the front steps… of course it poured so that didn’t happen…
instead he did a final sand of the drywall in the laundry area and gave it two coats of paint…
what a difference it makes, and it looks so fresh with the white paint…
today we put everything back… those dressers were heavy…
08 Sunday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, fountain, garden, grandson, moments, nature, peeling, planter, purple, sander, Technology, weather, widow
finally used my housemate’s electric sander to remove the majority of the peeling blue paint from what had been a fountain…
eventually it turned into a planter, but started peeling like crazy…
it has been sitting under the deck, where I could ignore it, for quite some time…
didn’t take too long once I got going to sand it down so it can be painted…
I do love purple, but the sun changes it to blue over time… still not quite sure what colour it is going to be… hmmm…
07 Saturday Jun 2025
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accessible, big girl pants, blessed, family, garden, leaves, moments, nature, overgrown, trim, virginia creeper, weather, widow
recently, as I was watching my grandson leaving the garage, I realized that he was having to struggle with all the virginia creeper that was attempting to take over the doorway, lol…
so, I brought out a pail, put on my gloves, and used the clippers to make the space a little more open…
from there I went to the side gate and did a fair bit of trimming as it was getting difficult to get to the tap and hose…
much more accessible now;-)…
then I had a sit down and did some reading, lol…
06 Friday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, bleeding hearts, blessed, blooming, flowers, iris, moments, nature, Technology, walk, weather, widow, wild rose, yesterday
saw some lovely flowers on my walk yesterday…
such a treat to see so many;-)…
and when I arrived home, the wild rose was blooming…
03 Tuesday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, clean, garden, gunk, moments, nature, plants, ponds, pumps, Technology, weather, widow
did some work on the small pond pumps, which are used to move the water in the bathtub pond and add more oxygen in the main pond…
climbed into the pond and brought the pump onto the edge of the deck and cleaned out all the gunk that was in it and then put it back into the pond…
brought up the second pump and after climbing into the bathtub pond, got it set in the correct spot so it wouldn’t send the water out of the pond… then it was turned on and that pond was topped up…
now there won’t be any issues with mosquitoes and I’m going to add a few more plants to that one…
the garden is coming along nicely…
01 Sunday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, deck, family, garden, grandson, leak, moments, muscle, pond, problem, puddling, repair, shopping, water, weather, widow
the pond has continued to leak but we thought we had the problem figured out…
water seemed to be puddling under a UV clarifier which was installed in the pond at the beginning, but which never accomplished its job and has been unplugged for a number of years…
we picked up a piece to connect the two hoses together and with a lot of cutting and muscle, were able to disconnect it entirely… so happy, thinking the problem had been solved…
turned the pump back on and watched water still coming out where the hose goes under blocks and the deck…
so, the issue appears to be that the six or seven feet of hose from the pump to the waterfall needs to be replaced… we are considering ways to accomplish this, which may involve removing a good sized piece of the deck to get at it, sigh…
and so it goes…
31 Saturday May 2025
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acclimate, big girl pants, blessed, fern, garden, hibiscus, housemate, indoor, Japanese Maple, mandevilla, moments, move, nature, plants, shade, weather, widow
I (and possibly my housemate) have been bringing out the indoor plants slowly, but surely…
first to come out was the Japanese maple… right now it’s sitting on the ledge that’s mostly shaded, for a few days…
next out came the hibiscus, and it went to the back under the trees, again where it’ll get shaded for the next few days before moving to its final spot…
orchids came out and filled up the little plant stand at the back, looks very cute with the begonias…
brought out a fern and another plant which I can’t remember the name of, that did really well in the top of the rain barrel, so we’ll see how that goes…
when the mandevilla comes out, it is going to sit along the path to the side garden to acclimate…
the lemon tree is still in the house… haven’t quite figured out where it’s gonna go and maybe a few other plants from in there are gonna come outside… we will see…
30 Friday May 2025
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art, Assiniboine Park Zoo, big girl pants, bison, bison on the boulevard, blessed, moments, nature, Toba Centre, weather, widow
today I had the opportunity to see the Bison on the Boulevard along Roblin Boulevard…
this art installation is amazing, looks wonderful and is in support of Toba Centre for Children and Youth…
I drove by a number of them and also saw a few closer up on foot…
in the background of a few of them you can see more on the other side of the road…
checked out this one at the entrance to the zoo on my way in, and this one as I was leaving…
reminds me of the polar bears and wolves… wonder where they will end up;-)…
29 Thursday May 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, cold, garden, moments, nature, plants, preparation, pump, water lily, weather, widow
the pond was filled and running for just over a week in preparation for the fish…
recently I had to climb in to place the water lily and sort out a problem with the second pump which wasn’t working…
took a few tries, but eventually it got going…
the water temp was really cold and when I got out my legs were bright red, lol…
I also topped up the water as it continues to leak a bit…
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