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micro-climate…

02 Sunday Mar 2025

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spent a delightful hour on the deck in the sunshine…

last evening my housemate dug out one of the deck chairs from under the tarp so there would be a place to sit when the weather is cooperative…

I found a set of cushions in the garage and brought out my Assiniboine Park blanket…

pulled over a small table and put my current book on it…

I did have my winter jacket on, but the sun on my face as I was reading was wonderful;-)…

there is still lots of snow in the garden, but the deck is always its own little micro-climate…

I even filled up a few bird feeders…

tool…

01 Saturday Mar 2025

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the other day, as my housemate was leaving the house, the handle for the front door came off in his hand…

he wasn’t able to fix it then and when he got home we discovered that we didn’t have the correct tool to make the repair…

happily, no deliveries arrived and I didn’t have to go out the next day, lol…

once he had the right implement, it only took a few minutes to fix the problem;-)…

now I’m not afraid to open the door;-)…

impossible…

28 Friday Feb 2025

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it was much warmer for a few days last week and when I went to check the doorbell camera one evening, it was impossible to see anything…

after cleaning the camera portion, it was much easier to see…

made me laugh as it hasn’t been working due to the cold weather…

strength…

27 Thursday Feb 2025

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to continue with the strength of the sun, I got this photo of one of the solar-powered lights…

it is one of four that I received from the Ottawa kids… I had put three away, but left this one out…

rather excited to see the lovely pattern of light on the deck;-)…

spring is really coming…

freezing…

26 Wednesday Feb 2025

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for most of the winter the bedroom window has been closed all the time, partly because it was frozen shut and partly because it has been incredibly cold…

a few nights ago it was finally warm enough to open it and keep it open for the night…

and I also opened the screen door during the day for a little while to let some of that – not freezing – fresh air into the house;-)…

shorten…

23 Sunday Feb 2025

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finally made it to Vicki’s Alterations Tailor…

had washed the two new long dresses so they would be ready…

after putting them both on and having May mark where to shorten them, I paid for them and expect they will be ready sometime next week…

apparently many of their clients are wanting their alterations done right away as they are in vacation mode and leaving shortly for warmer climes…

free…

22 Saturday Feb 2025

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the butterflies are free;-)…

the closed in piece is still in the centre, but the door has been removed…

butterflies were flitting about all over the space… yay…

there weren’t too many, but it may have been the end of the two week cycle…

so happy to see them free and all the people sitting in the space watching them…

filthy…

17 Monday Feb 2025

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I’ve been asking my grandson to get the car washed for ages…

he had numerous reasons why it didn’t happen, but they boiled down to the fact that it would just get dirty again…

I finally gave an ultimatum that it had to be washed… poor thing was filthy…

he went out Wednesday evening and brought Indy home clean… even though it was dreadfully cold, thankfully, none of the doors froze up…

she looks so nice;-)…

torpedo…

16 Sunday Feb 2025

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had trouble staying focussed on my book on Wednesday as there was a lot of activity across the way…

two workers spent the entire morning stringing a new wire…

it was so cold I felt bad for them, but they seemed comfortable as I watched…

the most interesting thing was what appeared to be a torpedo shaped object which one person pulled along the line… I think it was winding the new wire around the old ones…

my beloved would have been able to tell me exactly what it was and how it worked, lol…

but, all of those goings-on really made it hard to concentrate on my book;-)…

lens…

10 Monday Feb 2025

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went out for a hot tub on Sunday afternoon… and tested out my new toque…

can’t even remember the last time I was out in the daytime… it has been too cold at night and when it wasn’t the deck hadn’t been shovelled, lol…

I went out a few days ago and got the space cleared off so it was ready…

it was only -21°C and I had a lovely time, although the mitten that I had put the phone into got wet while I was taking pictures, lol…

sometimes the lens gets a bit foggy when taking pictures from the tub…

the mountain of snow is quite high and I am hoping we can move some of it because it is getting difficult to throw the snow over the top of it;-)…