29 Wednesday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, dwarf morning glory, envisioned, family, flowers, garden, nature, obelisk, plants, widow
I planted these morning glory seeds that my daughter sent to me from Ottawa as part of my Advent Calendar…
I didn’t read anything about them and envisioned they would grow up this obelisk…
apparently, they are dwarf morning glories…
and that means they don’t climb, lol…
28 Tuesday Jul 2026
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the new arch has already produced enough purple beans for a meal;-)…
this makes me very happy as the tomatoes and beans in the side garden are doing nothing 😔…
I topped and tailed them, and then cut them into bite-sized pieces…
as they boiled, of course the colour dissipated, and they turned into green beans…
but, they were delicious and I enjoyed every last one…
27 Monday Jul 2026
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approval, big girl pants, friends, hat, Technology, wide-brimmed, widow
I ordered a wide-brimmed hat online on July 6th…
time went by and it didn’t arrive, so I began to think I’d made a donation to some online company…
today, it arrived… I was excited and happy to show my friends to see what they thought as I don’t usually wear hats other than ball caps, lol…
they approved and it is now resting on the tower fan🤭…
looks good…
26 Sunday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, caterpillars, chrysalises, garden, hamper, moments, monarch, nature, pop-up, widow
went out to get a couple of pop-up laundry hampers for the monarch caterpillars…
hope they protect them from the birds…
so far I’ve spotted three, which is about the correct number for the amount of leaves on the milkweed plants;-)…
and I’m hoping that they might end up building their chrysalises in them as well…
25 Saturday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, chocolate, chocolate-covered, family, grandson, macadamia nuts, sarong, sea turtle, spoiled, widow
my housemate was away on vacation and just returned…
I was treated to an absolutely beautiful kitchen towel that has a sea turtle on it…
a light and airy sarong…
and 3 boxes of chocolate-covered macadamia nuts…
Costco used to carry them in a big plastic jug, but they haven’t had them for ages…
talk about spoiled 😊…
24 Friday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, bloodwork, bruise, Dynacare, efficient, moments, Technology, widow
I have a doctor’s appointment next week which meant that this week I had to have bloodwork done…
Dynacare come to the house and the process takes about ten minutes…
this technician is one of my favourites…
he is quick, efficient and rarely leaves me with a bruise…
last time was quite different, lol…
23 Thursday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, cancer-free, core, difficult, exercise, moments, physiotherapist, surgery, widow
I’ve had my yoga mat out for a few weeks now… since I saw my physiotherapist…
for the first week I did a couple of exercises involving rocking my legs and lifting them to my chest… not too difficult and they seemed to help with the twisted knee…
then, the next week a new exercise involving my core came along…
this one seems more complicated and harder… which also makes it harder to get down and do them, lol…
but, this week marks 14 years since I had a hernia/hysterectomy surgery to deal with cancer of the uterus which made me cancer-free…
that puts a little thing like a difficult exercise into perspective, doesn’t it🤨….
22 Wednesday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, butterflies, caterpillars, garden, hamper, happy, interested, moments, monarchs, nature, widow
a number of monarchs (or the same one numerous times) have visited the garden and stopped to snack at the ageratum…
unfortunately, none appeared interested in the milkweed…
I’ve been checking it for the last week, but have not seen any eggs…
yesterday, when I was inspecting the plants which had a number of holes in them, I spotted two tiny caterpillars;-)… only got one in focus, lol…
today, they have already grown a lot…
so excited to see them;-)…
wondering if I need to put the hamper net, which is currently covering the strawberries, over this plant, so the birds don’t get them 🤔…
21 Tuesday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, family, grandson, moments, silicone, vinyl siding, widow
I was surprised today when my middle grandson arrived…
I had messaged him on Sunday about a piece of siding that looked to be coming off the house and I was worried it might come right down…
today, he stopped by on his way home from work to check it out and see if he could fix it…
with a little bit of ingenuity, he managed to get the piece of vinyl back up, although we will need to pick up a tube of silicone and he will come back and do a permanent fix…
my job, when anyone is on the ladder, is to hold the sides and make sure the bottom of it is flat, lol…
19 Sunday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, F1, garden, humming, moments, nature, power, quiet, Technology, widow
I was up at 6:30 to watch the F1 pre-race show, and then the race, when the power went out…
I reported it and then went outside to read, happy that the race would be recorded on the PVR…
it is always so quiet when this happens, and, as it was very early, there were few people or cars up and about…
enjoyed a delightful couple of hours in the cool weather, with my book, and the fish, who actually made noise as they were eating and searching for food in the pond…
usually you never hear them…
all of a sudden water came spurting out of the waterfall and the sound of air conditioners humming ended the quiet…
then it was time to make tea and breakfast and get back to the schedule…
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