All done............

 with actually a couple of days to spare.......

It was a mystery one that daughter and grand daughter picked up for me.  It's not really my cup of tea, but I did enjoy doing it.  I will hang it up for Halloween.........now to start on the next project, which I think will be the Christmas cross stitch sew along.  Plus I have some good books to read and review.......

Before and After........

 This is what is looked life before

There were more piles around the side of the house

Hubby used his leaf blower to suck them up and mulch them.

Four full bags and one partial bag later......

It looks a whole lot better.

Well probably until tomorrow and more will drop........

By the way the garden waste bags from Costco are the best I find, followed by Home Depot ones.  I buy them in packs of 25 from Costco and they generally last all year.  It helps that the leaf blower mulches the leaves, so less bags used.

That time of year.....

 We have had a couple of very hard frost's which means the heating is on a little more now.  It also means that the cold will have killed the mosquito's!!!  So it's that time of year to remove the screens from the windows for the winter.

This is a close up of a screen, we have them over every window that opens to prevent the flies from coming in.  As I said this is a close up, we can see out of the windows clearly with them up.

Also removing the screens makes wiping the condensation up from the bottom of the window each morning easier.  We get maybe an inch until it gets super cold.

I will say you it was a lovely sunny bright, but cold morning on Monday.

I do store the screens either in the basement or in the spare bedroom.   However I have to wash them first.  I have put them in the bath tub so that Tuesday morning when I have a shower, I can scrub them while in the shower........multi-tasking!!!

Do you remove your screens for winter if you have them?

I totally agree.............

 

You're welcome!!

Busy week this past week........

It was one of those weeks when I got a lot of little things done that you probably can't see.  Those things that only you can see.

Did a fair bit of fall clean up in the yard.  Had three large bags to go out for yard waste which was good.  Hubby been raking up the leaves and shredding them.  However with two huge trees in our yard, which have barely dropped their leaves, there will be a lot more to rake up {{{SIGH}}}  However those big red and yellow maples are spectacular this time of year.

Got some stuff listed on Facebook Marketplace.  Also got some more Christmas stuff/decorations sorted out.  Some thrown out, some listed and some donated.  This is a job that's been wanting to be done for a while.  I ended up donating two large garbage bags of stuff.

Had some test results back this week, both positive and negative.

Car had to have a sensor replaced in it.  A long, boring, and VERY ANNOYING story which I can't be bothered to retell here.  Suffice to say, I LOVE the car but hate the service department at our local garage!!  Overpriced, never on time and if I hear the words, "it could be the gas cap," one more time I will scream...LOL  They use the excuse of you not putting the gas cap on correctly as a reason for the check engine light coming on.  In our case it was nothing to do with that, and we told them that numerous times!

Had my yearly cleaning at the dentist.  Funny thing is that I have never had a clean bill of health in years when going to the dentist.  I usually walk out of there with a list of issues.  Now I don't have benefits and are paying out of pocket, I had no issues what so ever!!  Cost me under $250 as well.  I have said this before and have witnessed this myself, if you have benefits they will charge you extra and I believe come up with "issues" that have to be fixed right away!

I went in with toothache earlier in the year and told them I didn't have benefits.  They discounted my bill by $100.........😕

Of course it's a big week in Toronto for the Blue Jays baseball team, that's all over our news.  I am not a baseball fan in general, but do hope they do well, as everyone is excited about it.

No reading at all these past couple of weeks, as I am trying to complete a Halloween themed diamond art project I was gifted, before the end of the month.  Let's just say it will be touch and go if I can finish it in time!!

Let's hope I can be as productive this upcoming week.

Do you remember the tale of Jimmy?

If not re-read this post too remind yourself.

Son has a pizza oven in his back yard.  To cut a long and not overly interesting story short, he had a second one that he sold to his co-worker.  His co-worker came over to see son's pizza oven.  Son has a specially made cover for his, just like a BBQ cover, he removed the cover, and his co-worker says, "what's that?" And steps back abruptly.  Son looks at the pizza oven and see's this:

It's Jimmy Junior!!!!

This one is a lot smaller than the original Jimmy and remember the pest removal guy did say Jimmy wouldn't be coming back.......😉  How this raccoon had managed to crawl under the cover and then make it's way up into the oven is beyond me.  

Now apparently raccoon's have a tendency to poop when frightened.  So son and family had to get this one out without frightening it.  When it went dark they kept flashing a light into the oven until it got fed up and left.  It was covered in soot, as was the pizza oven.  Son is now putting it in the garage for the winter, after he has burned all the soot out and cleaned it out.

I told son that when his co-worker said "what's that?"

He should have said, "that's supper!!" 😂

Told son if he's going to invite us over for pizza, the first thing I am going to ask, is what flavour are you making!!!  

Son, does however make really good pizza's in that oven, very tasty.

I swear it's wildlife central over at his house...............

A new to me product....

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Have you seen this in your stores?  I saw it a while ago and decided to give it a go.  I rarely use fabric softener, and occasionally I find that the towels have an odour even after I have washed and dried them, so thought I would try this.

My verdict: I love it.  One benefit I have found which I wasn't expecting was that my clothes are drying faster in the dryer.  Prior to using this the towels were taking forever to dry.  It doesn't have an overpowering scent either, which I like, but may just get scent free next time, as I do plan on continuing using this.  I did pick mine up from Wal Mart, but am guessing you can get it at all major stores, and even Amazon.

I have just had a thought though.  I am guessing white vinegar would work as well; then I had a look again on Amazon and saw this:

Do you use this product and if so what did you think?