bungee…

30 Thursday Nov 2023

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big girl pants, blessed, bungee, bungee cord, doorknob, family, garage, grandson, moments, neighbour, project, weather, widow

last spring the doorknob on the garage door seized up… the door hadn’t been closing properly for a long time as it had shifted… I’d been using a bungee cord to close it from the outside for ages, lol…

I had done research on how to remove the doorknob, but no matter what I did, couldn’t get it off the door…

eventually my neighbour came over and removed it although he had to hammer it off in the end, lol…

since then the bungee cord has been the way to keep the door closed…

I need a new door, but that didn’t make the project list this year, so I hadn’t done anything about fixing this…

last week we were at the hardware store, picked up a new doorknob, and on Monday while I was visiting with my friends, my grandson installed it…

woohoo…

air…

28 Tuesday Nov 2023

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as the holiday season approaches, I’ve been thinking about friends who are going through difficult times…

seems the air is filled with illness… many are dealing with infections and some, even more serious stuff…

feeling like I should be doing more to support them, but not sure how to do that other than sending thoughts and prayers their way…

it also feels like it is becoming less safe away from the house, and I am moving back into hermit-ville…

plunge…

23 Thursday Nov 2023

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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…

F1…

21 Tuesday Nov 2023

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I had a nap in the afternoon and went to bed a little early Saturday night so I could get up to watch the F1 race from Las Vegas… usually the races are much earlier in the day, but this was a night race…

set my alarm for midnight and got up without a problem…

found a snack and drink and curled up in bed to watch the race…

stayed awake the entire time and enjoyed the action…

then I may have slept in a bit, lol…

vibe…

18 Saturday Nov 2023

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I’ve been thinking about changing the comforter on my bed for a while now…

Monday, at bedtime, I decided to make the transition, lol…

now it has a cozy winter vibe;-)…

glimmer…

17 Friday Nov 2023

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so excited to see how the sparkle lights work…

the hope was they would work with the wooden lamp standard that we discovered up in the rafters of the garage (since its discovery, I’ve added extra garland to fill it out)…

I’d been waiting for some sunshine since they arrived and on Sunday afternoon the sun finally came out…

I rushed out and set them in the planter on the front step to gather power… then, once it was dark, I hurried out to see how they looked…

nothing, not a glimmer;-(…

on Monday, I searched through the box and found the directions, lol… apparently you need to attach the stand to them before they can work… and, that they can work in a window in the house… so I was outside again and connected them to the fastener…

fingers crossed…

that still didn’t work, sigh… yesterday I took one of them and looked carefully on the back and really pushed the on/off button…

well, that worked… took quite a while to wrap two sets around the lantern post but I am pleased with the results;-)…

and we got it outside…

extra…

16 Thursday Nov 2023

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used the tarp from the extra wood to cover the lawn furniture on the back deck…

didn’t take long at all with two people…

it is a really large tarpaulin so we tucked all the excess under the legs…

ache…

15 Wednesday Nov 2023

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went for my second Shingrix shot… wasn’t looking forward to it as the first one made my arm ache for days…

I knew that I would also be getting weighed and have my blood pressure checked which was a bit of a stress… happy to see a new scale that digitally records weight, in both kilograms and pounds… should be more accurate, lol…

the good news is that I’ve lost five pounds (with another ten to go) and the blood pressure wasn’t too bad…

I always park as far away from the clinic as possible so I can get extra steps, and enjoyed my walk to and from the office…

what a beautiful day… 5° Celsius, on November 14th, woohoo…

pliers…

14 Tuesday Nov 2023

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yesterday was a beautiful day… the sun shone and the temperature made it to 6° Celsius…

took the opportunity to top up the water in the hot tub…

now that the hose is hooked up in the basement it is a bit of a process…

the hose comes upstairs and just reaches to the outside of the door… then it has to be turned on with pliers at the tap at which point it expands so I can reach the hot tub…

takes a while to fill it to above the top hole on the filter, then I run downstairs and close the tap, again with the pliers… and run back up as the hose starts to contract before it yanks out of the tub… and finally taking the hose downstairs and hanging it up for the next time…

so I did get a bit of exercise;-)…