22 Friday Jul 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, box, flowers, happy, hooked, moments, nature, rain, subscription, Sweet Petals Farm, weather, widow
drove to Oak Street on Tuesday, just before the rain, to pick up my bouquet subscription…
I took a box that hooked into the seatbelt so that the flowers wouldn’t fall over… it worked perfectly…
such a treat to get fresh flowers every week… and they are lasting very well…
got a few photos as the drops started to fall…
17 Sunday Jul 2022
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Armstrong and Small, big girl pants, blessed, eye glasses, glasses, lenses, moments, optometrist, purple, slub, Technology, widow
in April I tried to get in to see my eye doctor at Armstrong and Small… I hadn’t been since 2019 and had noticed that my vision was not what it used to be… knew that I would need new glasses…
I was able to get an appointment for the beginning of June and was in the office for over two hours… my eyes were fine, but there was quite a bit of conversation about getting new glasses between my optometrist and the optician helping me with the glasses…
they ordered some frames and I went back about a week later to try them on… they looked good so we moved forward with ordering them…
I have nearly always had glass lenses, but they are nearly impossible to get now… after much discussion, plastic lenses, made in Canada, were ordered and would likely take about three weeks to arrive…
my current lenses have a slub on the right side… the purpose was to help my eyes focus as the prescription in the eyes is so different… we are going to try something else this time, so will see how it goes…
on Tuesday I got a call that the glasses were in and scheduled an appointment for Wednesday…
went in, had them adjusted, tested the magnetic sunglasses clip, and brought them home… loving the purple case, lol…
I am getting used to them and can see better, which is the most important thing;-)…
15 Friday Jul 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, car, drive, friends, Fry-Day’s, fun times, horses, hybrid, moments, nature, widow
went out for lunch on Monday with my BS buddies…
we took a drive in a couple of cars to Teulon for lunch and had a great time at Fry-Day’s… the battered mushrooms are absolutely delightful… we had hoped to eat on the patio but the sky did not cooperate, so it was inside for us…
on our way home I was able to catch a few photos of some sweet horses…
it was the first time I’ve ridden in a hybrid car and it was enjoyable… we stopped and picked up a few fresh veggies and I ended the day with some delicious beet greens…
good times with great people😊…
11 Monday Jul 2022
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the clematis along the driveway has been amazing this year…
it had tons of buds on it and has spread very nicely on the trellis…
looked stunning once they all started to open…
it was just beautiful, but the rain and wind have since knocked a lot of flowers off…
10 Sunday Jul 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, camera, car, family, garden, moments, motorcycle, napping, nature, rice, tired, weather, wet, widow
had quite the day on Wednesday…
I was dropped off by a friend for a doctor’s appointment and got my 2nd Covid booster…
my grandson picked me up and we ended up with subs for lunch…
we traded vehicles again, so he took back his motorcycle and left me with the car…
spent time in the garden while the house was getting cleaned…
put away the cushions and went in for a nap… slept through a thunderstorm and woke up to a soaking wet garden…
it occurred to me how tired I was when I spent five minutes after napping reaching around for my glasses before realizing I had my contacts in…
realized that I’d left my camera and book on the table on the back deck… and they were both soaked…
once I brought the camera and book in, I set them on towels to dry… the book did fairly well, but when I turned the camera on it was like looking through fog…
I used a baggie and the last of my rice to cover the camera and left it to sit for a few days…
this morning I removed it from the bag and was thrilled to see that there was no more fog… yay…
07 Thursday Jul 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, Hilda the Gardener, mandevilla, moments, nature, obelisk, unravelled, widow
on Monday morning, Hilda the Gardener came by to weed the garden…
I had dug a pot out of the shed and had purchased and put together an obelisk… nothing seems to come all made anymore, lol…
my plan was to have her take the mandevilla off the old obelisk and replant it with the new obelisk… this should make it much easier to to bring into the house and move around as needed…
the pot I had found wasn’t the right size so she had to move some coleus from a pot that would be a better fit…
then she unravelled the old one and planted it in the new pot with the obelisk…
my job was to wrap the vines around the obelisk…
once that was done she finished weeding the side garden…
it always looks wonderful after she has worked her magic;-)…
and just minutes after she left the rain started, lol…
06 Wednesday Jul 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, family, flowers, happy, moments, nature, subscription, Sweet Petals Farm, treat, widow
yesterday my grandson picked up my first bouquet of the subscription from Sweet Petals Farm that my kids gave me for my birthday…
it is for eight weeks of bouquets (July and August)…
he had my car and so went and collected them for me…
they are quite beautiful and smell delicious…
what a lovely treat…
05 Tuesday Jul 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, display, garden, moments, Technology, widow, wireless
happily, I figured out how to add the new wireless camera to the app on my phone…
and how to connect it to Google Home…
I even managed to get it to come up on one of the Displays;-)…
good day for technology, lol…
04 Monday Jul 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, camera, dissuade, fish, garden, moments, motion, nature, plants, pond, Technology, water lilies, widow
last Thursday night I think a raccoon (or more than one) came into the garden and attacked the pond…
they got at least two fish and tossed around the water lilies… they don’t care for fish scales, so end up leaving them on the ground… I found two piles on the stepping stones alongside the pond…
the fish were clearly traumatized and have barely come out from under the bridge…
after doing some research, I put down epsom salt all around the pond and hoped that would dissuade them from finding their supper in my garden…
I also put on the motion sensor at the back door and the one on the garage…
since then, they have come back a few times, although I am starting to wonder if it might be the coyote that has been wandering in this area… the plants have been disturbed, but I haven’t found any fish bits…
this Thursday I put up a new wireless camera to see if I can spot whatever has been coming by…
so far, nothing has been spotted…
02 Saturday Jul 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, friend, garden, moments, nature, planting, plants, pond, thin, wasp next, widow
Monday, a friend dropped off some alyssum and lobelia and Wednesday I got around to planting them…
opened the shed to discover a small paper wasp nest attached to the door… I used the recycling bin to hold the door open and went in carefully to find some pots…
happily there were no injuries and I pulled out a couple of pots and a hanging basket…
got each one filled and popped them over by the garden bed…
this was good as the beds look a little thin now that all the poppies have been removed, lol…
next project will be to get rid of the nest…
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