01 Sunday Sep 2024
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beans, big girl pants, blessed, delicious, garden, moments, nature, plants, stepstool, stool, tomatoes, top and tail, widow
I picked beans for my supper a few days ago and had to use the step stool again, lol…
I also brought in the last tomatoes although they weren’t ripe…
I still have to cut the tomato plants down, but haven’t quite got to that piece of work…
it is always an enjoyable and relaxing job to top and tail the beans before cooking them…
and they were delicious…
26 Monday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, bites, blessed, bruises, compost, food, garden, moments, nature, plants, ripe, squirrels, tomatoes, widow
it’s been fun watching the tomatoes grow over the season…
last week they started to turn orange and then red…
a few, closer to the bottom of the planter, were taken off the plant, had a few bites out of them, and I found them on the ground…
I decided to leave them there and a few days later discovered they were completely gone… just an outline left on the stepping stone, lol…
today I went out to pick the ripe ones only to discover that they all had large bruises on them…
decided to compost them, sigh…
25 Sunday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, cover, delicious, food, garden, hamper, moments, nature, plant, plants, pollinated, strawberries, strawberry, tasty, treat, widow
the strawberry plant, from last year, is doing very well…
we found a hamper at the store on July 5th, after either the birds or squirrels had eaten the ripe strawberries before we got to them, lol…
I kept the cover on them until a few ripe ones were ready to eat and then after we had those ones, I took the cover off so that the flowers could be pollinated…
as a number of yellow/green berries started to appear, the cover went back on the plant…
on Thursday I could see the ripe berries, through the screen…
removed the cover and picked three beautiful strawberries…
they were so sweet, yum…
22 Thursday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, De Luca's, food, friend, lunch, moments, pizza, vegetarian, widow
went to De Luca’s on Portage Avenue for lunch the other day…
ordered the vegetarian mushroom, spinach, and cheese pizza, along with half of a shared Greek salad…
it was delicious…
and I brought some home which I had for lunch the next day…
so good;-)…
21 Wednesday Aug 2024
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adventure, bagel, big girl pants, blessed, Bothwell Cheese, buddy, cream cheese, friends, happy, market garden, moments, shopping, treat, widow
yesterday, on an excursion with my adventure buddy, we picked up bagels from Fromagerie Bothwell…
we also visited St. Leon’s Gardens where we both filled our bags with delicious fresh produce…
I had also been gifted some salmon cream cheese by that same friend…
today, for lunch, I had a toasted everything bagel with salmon cream cheese, onion, and fresh radishes and cucumbers…
it was delicious…
17 Saturday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, breakfast, Bruce Park, ditched, family, grandson, moments, nature, the "A", trailer, walk, widow
had breakfast with my grandson at the “A” a few days ago…
it was a nice walk there and back…
we had the breakfast special, our usual…
on our way home we had a good look at a trailer that has been sitting near the end of the street…
it has been there for a long time… we are wondering if it has been ditched…
14 Wednesday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, daughter, dog, family, friend, friends, garden, macaroni and cheese, moments, pancakes, trip, visit, whirlwind, widow
my daughter came to town and was here for about 12 hours between Saturday and Sunday…
she was passing through, helping a friend drive from B.C. to Ontario… the friend, her dad, and their dog spent the night with us…
we had supper when they arrived, enjoyed some garden time that evening and the next morning and then they headed off after breakfast;-)…
both meals were requested and it was fun to make her favourite macaroni and cheese and satisfy her friend’s desire for pancakes…
such a treat to see her and meet this friend who I’ve heard much about, but never had the opportunity to meet…
it was a whirlwind…
10 Saturday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, growing, memories, memory, moments, nature, orange, plants, red, ripe, Technology, tomatoes, weather, widow
this memory came up in my feed on Thursday… it was from a year ago and clearly the tomatoes were ripe and nearly ready to eat…
this one is from the garden this Thursday…
obviously these ones are quite a ways behind, lol…
08 Thursday Aug 2024
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author, big girl pants, blessed, books, family, Fern Michaels, grandparents, grandson, happy, library, moments, Nora Roberts, reading, stair, supper, treat, visit, widow
we went to the oldest grandson’s other set of grandparents the other day for supper and had a lovely visit…
before we left I had access to their library where I got a bunch of books by an author that I had just discovered – Fern Michaels… the shelves looked much tidier before all the books came out, lol…
she also had two new Nora Roberts books I have been waiting for…
we filled a grocery box, woohoo…
I added them to the stair library in order and now I have reading material for the remainder of the summer;-)…
what a wonderful treat;-)… once the Olympics are over I will get down to some serious reading…
05 Monday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, moments, nature, nylon, pantyhose, plants, stalk, tied, tomato, veggie garden, weather, widow, wind
went out to the veggie garden the other afternoon to see how everything was doing… it had been a much cooler day…
I’ve been spending most of my time in the house in front of the tv…
discovered that a stalk on one of the tomatoes had bent right over, I think from the wind…
I found a stick, put it in alongside the injured stem and then tied a nylon strip (from pantyhose) to the stick in a few spots…
I am hopeful that it will recover because there are two nice looking tomatoes on it…
fingers crossed…
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