04 Saturday Jun 2022
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Thursday I was expecting a delivery from the drugstore so when the doorbell rang I wasn’t surprised…
but, it was the florist with a beautiful bouquet of flowers from a dear friend…
what a delightful surprise…
not long after, the anticipated delivery arrived… not nearly as exciting, lol…
02 Thursday Jun 2022
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Armstrong and Small, big girl pants, blessed, compartment, eye glasses, flowers, garden, glasses, house, lawn, mask, moments, widow
yesterday, I headed out to see the eye doctor and had to return to the house because I forgot my mask🤪…
I took out another one and put it into the glove compartment so if I forget again, there will be one available…
I was there for over two hours… apparently, my eyes and my current glasses are special, lol… the attention to detail and care of clients is quite amazing in these days of get ‘em in and get ‘em out… we also did some looking at new frames and discussed a number of possibilities for lenses…
as I drove up to the house, I found Hilda the Gardener just going into the garden with a beautiful hanging basket which she brought for me as a gift…
after she left I noticed that the lawn had been mowed, which was great as the grass had grown a lot with all the rain…
and the house got cleaned in the afternoon…
all in all, a pretty fine day…
01 Wednesday Jun 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, butterfly bush, dahlias, dynasty, flowers, garden, happy, milkweed, moments, nature, purple, weather, widow
great wander around the garden before the rain a few days ago…
excited to discover the milkweed is growing in the ground and in the planter where it did very well last year…
it appears that one of the dahlias may be poking through the soil…
and most exciting of all, the Monarch Dark Dynasty Butterfly Bush has new growth on it… this is huge as I’ve tried to overwinter them before without success…
right now only one of the pair shows any signs of buds, although that one came outside earlier than the other… fingers crossed…
31 Tuesday May 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, footstools, garden, moments, online, rest, shopping, Technology, widow
took me five hours, working off and on, to put together the new chairs, footstools, and table that I ordered a week or so ago and which arrived on Saturday…
had to take bits and pieces out of the large box that arrived on the front step, make a few trips to the back deck… and then drag the box to the back…
of course the directions were just pictures and it took me a while to decipher them…
biggest issue was working between the lattice on the sides of the chairs, but eventually I got it all done and had a lovely time resting on one of the chairs with my feet on the pull out footstool, lol…
needed that…
30 Monday May 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, dyson, grandson, moments, nature, rain, rehanging, Technology, weather, widow, windows
the rain helped me get a few jobs done around the house…
I’ve been putting off rehanging the curtains in the den and I finally got that done…
I also put the Dyson back together… my grandson had taken it apart and washed a filter inside… who knew there was one there… and now it works… yay…
even the living room windows were happy and they are lovely and shiny clean…
nice to check a few things off the list;-)…
28 Saturday May 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, expedition, family, garden, grandson, irrigation, moments, repair, shopping, time, widow
what a busy day we had on Thursday… didn’t even have time for a nap, although I did manage a short sit down in the garden before my grandson arrived…
he and I spent the day getting jobs done around the yard, and even a few in the house…
we ran out and were able to get all the necessary items at Canadian Tire, so it was a one stop shopping expedition…
things came out of and went into the shed… leaking hoses were repaired… an irrigation system semi-installed… pots moved… trellises put into a planter that had a bit of paint touch up done… and the fire pit problem solved…
what a treat it is to spend time with him… I try to savour every minute;-)…
27 Friday May 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, happy, moments, nurseries, plants, pond, purple, shopping, widow
well, well, well… went plant shopping with Hilda the Gardener…
basically it took the entire day and we went to five different nurseries…
what fun… she knows where all the best plants are at each location and has a great sense of what looks good together…
I was also happy to discover that three of them had pond plants and I was able to get a container with three different plants in it…
once we had purchased everything (lol) we had lunch out and discussed our plans…
planting is likely going to happen on Saturday, unless I decide to start on the planters around the deck… although I’m not sure I remember which plants are going where;-)…
just after we unloaded all the loot and I had come into the house it poured for about half an hour…
great timing on our part…
25 Wednesday May 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, duo, family, garden, memories, moments, nature, remembering, Rummy, Technology, test, widow
started my day with a Duo call from the kids in Ottawa… they have been without power since the wild storm on Saturday…
they were at the Canadian Science and Technology Museum testing wifi as she had a video meeting… the Museum is just a short walk from their house, has plugs all around the outside of the building (technology), and the wifi gave an excellent video call, so that was very handy… I was the test for the meeting, lol…
while they waited for the phones to charge she was teaching him how to play Rummy… it was the card game we played for hours as we sat in the hospital with my mom as she was dying… we laughed about him needing to know how to play when they sit at my deathbed… way in the future…
we talk most days, but don’t often video call… it is always lovely to see their beautiful faces… and it was fun to show them the garden…
wonderful way to begin the day…
22 Sunday May 2022
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big girl pants, Black Market Provisions, blessed, friends, fun, moments, provisions, shopping, The Oakwood, widow
went shopping with a friend a few days ago…
we went to Black Market Provisions and found a few fun things…
from there we had lunch at The Oakwood… I had salmon dill Eggs Benedict, which I’ve been craving recently, and my friend had a roast turkey sandwich… very nice…
we also checked out a few stores for some outdoor furniture that I’ve been looking at online… of course no one had it in the store…
was dropped off at home and had a nap…
all that shopping and being out and about was exhausting, lol…
21 Saturday May 2022
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apps, big girl pants, blessed, citizen scientist, dragonflies, Ducks Unlimited, flycatcher, garden, iNaturalist, learning, moments, nature, widow
I watched a Ducks Unlimited webinar a few days ago on dragonflies and damselflies…
it was interesting and I learned some new things about them… I also learned more about iNaturalist, a free app that I have on the phone…
up until now, I’ve usually used Merlin to search out a species, whether birds or other creatures… going forward I will try to use iNaturalist to record what I find… and I will be what they call a citizen scientist, lol…
recorded this little flycatcher… first time I’ve seen one of them;-)…
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