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raked…

25 Sunday May 2025

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early this week the garden was aerated with a huge machine…

watching the young man muscle it around the space made it clear how big and heavy the machine was…

a few days later, after watering the grass to soften it, clover and grass seed was scattered…

then the spots that weren’t doing well were raked and levelled out…

the new rake worked beautifully… the old one had separated quite a while ago, but it was likely thirty or forty years old, lol…

since then the grass has been watered daily to encourage the seed to take…

all of the cushions are put away before the watering begins…

it is a process, as the sprinkler has to be moved five or six times to ensure every bit gets a good soaking;-)…

fingers crossed that it does better this year than it did last year…

housing…

24 Saturday May 2025

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the other day we discovered that the battery on the lawnmower was no longer working…

after figuring out how to get it out of the housing, we went to The Battery Man to replace it… $168 and it works again…

very happy about that because the grass was getting really long after all the rain…

grass was mowed, whipper snipped, and blown…

looks great;-)…

invited…

23 Friday May 2025

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what a treat;-)…

last Saturday I was invited out for lunch… it was cold and overcast, so a nice bright spot in a dull day…

we went to Sushi Cushi and had a lovely meal… we often over order, but this time we got just the right amount…

a fun time and I enjoyed every single bite;-)…

impatiens…

22 Thursday May 2025

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big girl pants, blessed, cold, flowers, garden, impatiens, moments, nature, plants, Shelmerdine, water lily, weather, widow

drove out to Shelmerdine last Friday, to pick up a water lily for the pond, and may have picked up a few other items, lol…

I picked up two different impatiens plants which I am going to put into the pond;-)…

also found a beautiful spiral begonia…

I found a variety of morning glory seeds, as well as some for cucumbers and beans…

once home they went into the garage because the temperature was threatening to go to 0°C…

and then I moved all the plants waiting to be planted into the garage…

found a small pail and covered the tomato which had already been planted…

since then the plants have all been moved outside and are doing well;-)…

nineteen…

21 Wednesday May 2025

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big girl pants, books, favourite, friends, GLOBOsapiens, JD Robb, missing, moments, need, nineteen, project, searching, series, Technology, widow

it was mainly overcast and rainy last Thursday, so I spent most of the day inside…

being as the weather was not so great, I decided to work on a project that has been on the list for a while, lol…

first I printed out a list of JD Robb books that I found online…

next I removed all of the books I have and set them on my desk…

I cut some coloured paper to use as markers and compared the list with my books and inserted a sheet of paper where the missing books belonged… I also checked off which books were still needed…

the books went back onto the shelf and I then prepared a spreadsheet listing the whole series and marking which books I still need to complete my set…

happy to get the project completed…

now to send the list off to a friend and Globosapiens bookstore to see how many more we can find;-)…

once I find the remainder, there will need to be some reorganizing of the shelves, as I still need around nineteen, lol…

under-bench…

20 Tuesday May 2025

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I finally removed the under-bench lighting that hasn’t worked since before my beloved died… you can see it in this photo… it is the tube-like piece hanging below the bench and looks messy…

I hadn’t realized that he had fastened it with screws and was thinking what a huge job it was going to be to lay on my back and move around under the bench undoing it, two screws at a time…

then I got the bright idea to cut sections of it and pull it out…

woohoo, it worked perfectly and the deck looks much tidier now…

now to decide if I want to look for something similar to replace it, sigh…

glitters…

19 Monday May 2025

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on May 9th, we found the chicken wire we’ve been looking for, to add to the arches in the side garden…

I am hoping this will make it easier for the peas, cucumbers, and beans to climb up and over the space;-)…

my housemate did a great job of zip tying it all around the arch, and it kind of glitters;-)…

peas were planted and have already popped through the soil…

forming…

18 Sunday May 2025

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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, forming, front yard, garden, grass, growing, leaves, lilac, moments, move, nature, weather, widow

a week ago the lilac was moved from the back garden to the front of the house…

grass was removed and a hole prepared by my housemate, and it was planted by Hilda the Gardener, and then thoroughly watered…

it hadn’t liked the spot where it had lived in the garden for the last ten years, but the bunnies did enjoy some of its bark over the winters…

happy to see new leaves forming along the branches…

hope it stays happy in its new spot…

pansies…

17 Saturday May 2025

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did a bit of planting on Wednesday, on one of the warm and sunny days, lol…

added pansies to a section of the bathtub area as well as two pots on the stairs… included a bit of alyssum in the pots… looking forward to the scent as I walk up and down the steps…

the tomato went into one of the planter boxes in the side garden… I tried to get the calla into a floating container, but it didn’t want to cooperate so I left it for a bit, lol…

fabrics…

16 Friday May 2025

Posted by sulis303 in food, garden, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized, weather

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big girl pants, fabrics, garden, hanging chair, moments, nature, shed, snack, squirrels, Technology, weather, widow

we spent a bit of time in the fall attempting to make the shed squirrel and bunny proof…

unfortunately that meant the squirrel or squirrels moved into the garage for the winter…

and, apparently, they really liked the fabrics on the hanging chair, sigh…

I guess I’m going to be looking for a new chair, and will make sure it goes into the basement for the winter;-(…

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