23 Sunday Aug 2026
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bad taste, big girl pants, cherry tomatoes, food, garden, moments, ripe, spit, tiny, widow
I took this photo on Wednesday…
I can’t remember what these tiny tomatoes are called but they are very cute…
today I took one off the plant and bit into it…
it clearly isn’t ripe because I spit it out almost immediately after biting into it…
hope they taste better when they are fully ripe…
although I’m not sure how to tell that😂…
20 Thursday Aug 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, cottage, dishes, eating, friends, fun, moments, nature, reading, snake, vacation, widow
I spent a delightful five days with friends at their family beach cottage…
delicious food, great company, naps, lots of conversation, and I was in the lake, at least once, up to my neck…
spent lots of time on the beach, early in the morning, on my own, and all together on a few days…
we walked a good portion of the beach a few times with our newly prepared walking sticks…
and walked the road to the pump, which had a snake handle…
there was also a real snake😳… which had me stomping and speaking loudly as I walked along where it had been seen…
weather was nice, lots of sunshine, a bit of wind and some rainy/overcast times… so, a bit of everything…
my particular expertise is washing the dishes…
other than that it was all about reading…
we did play ladder golf, a new game to me, (although I may have seen my grandsons play a version of it a number of years ago), which was fun…
what a treat 😊…
18 Tuesday Aug 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, mistake, moments, morning glories, nature, plants, purple beans, scarlet, scarlet runner beans, widow
I am really pleased with the new arch we installed in the spring…
the scarlet runner beans have made it to the top on one side and the morning glories have made it on the other side…
so far I’ve had three cucumbers and two feeds of purple beans from it😊…
the one thing I did wrong was plant too many seeds on the one side, lol… I will use less next year…
14 Friday Aug 2026
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yesterday, we went to Dairy Queen to get blizzards to support the Children’s Hospital Foundation…
it was all for the children… you have to do whatever is needed to be supportive 😂…
09 Sunday Aug 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, friends, lunch, moments, Pizzeria, Pizzeria Gusto, widow
we went to Pizzeria Gusto for a delicious lunch to celebrate a birthday… last time we were there was 2017😊… and we still liked some of the same things…
the sun came and went as we sat on the patio and we all enjoyed the delicious food… two particular favourites were the
and the
which, besides being delicious was so pretty;-)…
everything else was also very tasty 😋 …
always a great time together…
06 Thursday Aug 2026
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beans, big girl pants, coffee grounds, flowers, food, garden, growing, moments, nature, nitrogen, tomato plants, tomatoes, widow
great excitement the other day when I checked the giant tomato plants in the side garden…
I’d read that beans provide nitrogen, which tomatoes like so I planted them between the 3 tomatoes… then I also read that coffee grounds are good for tomatoes, so I dumped the weekly coffee grounds in there as well…
I think the tomatoes loved all of that, because they have grown huge… but, not a single flower was seen…
and then, I discovered numerous flowers on each of the plants… and even two marble sized tomatoes…
very happy, although there are very few beans coming along, 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…
15 Wednesday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, cucumbers, flowers, garden, moments, morning glories, nature, peapod, reading outside, sweet pea, widow
had a quiet day… only outside for a little while as it was overcast and spit a fair bit…
but did get some reading in… also got to see more morning glories on the deck…
also ones that I planted on the new trellis, and flowers on more of the cucumbers there;-)… so far the morning glories have all been purple 😂…
and I spotted a number of bachelor buttons in the side garden…
and the biggest surprise was the cute little sweet pea flower, next to an actual peapod, woohoo…
things are moving along😊…
13 Monday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, nature, netting, ripening, strawberries, weather, widow
I’ve been watching the strawberries, which have been under netting so that I get the berries, not the birds or squirrels, lol…
on Sunday I took the netting off and collected the dozen berries that were ripe, although two weren’t completely finished…
I did remove them and have them in the window to finish ripening…
took off the stems and added some whipped cream to them for a tasty dessert after supper…
the plant has a number of flowers on it so that’s why the netting needed to come off, so that insects could pollinate them…
delicious… I haven’t had that many at once since I started growing them a few years ago…
I think they are enjoying the spot they are in this year😊…
06 Monday Jul 2026
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I use my immersion blender all the time, particularly when I make smoothies… I have had it for a very long time…
I’ve noticed recently that the blades seem dull and when it finishes, there are still bits of whatever is being blended left…
a few years ago I purchased a new immersion blender, because the old one was making rather odd noises… but it continued working so I put the new one on the shelf…
recently, I dug it out of its box and the cute measuring cup that came with it…
then, sadly, I disposed of the old one…
now I have to see how well I like the way it works🤔…
