03 Monday Jun 2019
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fun in the garden…
finally got around to planting the lobelia and alyssum… the weather may have turned the corner, although it was something like 4 degrees when I got up…
decided to plant in clumps, so all lobelia in some planters and just alyssum in others…
looking forward to watching them grow and seeing how they look…
02 Sunday Jun 2019
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out and about in the sunshine for a good portion of the day yesterday…
ran a few errands, grocery shopped, got the lawn mowed… and had a wonderful steak dinner…
trying a different method of running the water in the pond… currently I need to top it up every few days so I’ve only been turning it on when I am home and in the garden… hoping that this new system will show us if the water is evaporating or leaking through the hose…
01 Saturday Jun 2019
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blessed, clematis, ferns, flowers, garden, leaps, leaps and bounds, lily of the valley, memories, pictures
things are really growing in the garden…
and I don’t just mean the dandelions and grass, sigh…
the ferns are growing by leaps and bounds…
the lily of the valley are starting to bloom… they smell lovely, but they don’t like to stay in one spot… if I was starting a garden I would only put them in a place where they are surrounded by concrete…
and the clematis is happily climbing up the trellis…
31 Friday May 2019
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lots of activity next door…
a few days ago a number of lower branches from the evergreen had been removed and left in the front yard…
last night when I arrived home they were starting to remove some siding… it was noisy and dusty, but so hot out that I had to leave the window open…
today when I drove into the driveway I had to maneuver past two wheelbarrows to get into the garage…
they have been removing siding all afternoon… happy I am not on holiday, lol…
30 Thursday May 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, bunnies, dandelions, lawn, moments, pictures, widow
yesterday morning, when I was leaving for work I spotted two bunnies in the grass on the front lawn, but never took any pictures…
I did spend a few minutes sitting and watching them…
I am so blessed in so many ways, and the ability to sit still for a few moments and enjoy a bit of nature is one of them…
this morning another one was in the grass… got a few pics…
do ignore the dandelion filled lawn… it should be getting trimmed on Sunday;-)…
I hear that the bees are really happy to have the flowers from which to gather pollen…
I’m all there for the bees;-)…
29 Wednesday May 2019
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this morning I turned the furnace off as the weather has really improved…
this was the view out the front door a few minutes ago…
and this was the view out the back… so happy that it is warm enough to have the screen open…
l really love the screen protectors… haven’t walked through the screen even once, lol…
28 Tuesday May 2019
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as I was walking home last night I stopped by the creek and watched the mallard couple for quite a while…
they were swimming up and down the creek calmly…
was so busy enjoying the moment that I didn’t take any photos…
but I have this one from last week, when a mallard popped out of the water at the Duck Pond…
cute, eh…
27 Monday May 2019
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26 Sunday May 2019
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big girl pants, blooms, family, flowerbeds, flowers, garden, grandson, moments, poppies, rocks, widow
today my grandson came over to move the rocks out of the flowerbed in an effort to make it easier for when the gardener is able to start work…
while I was over there I checked out the couple of poppies that have come up… we used to have many, many poppies in the garden, but over the last few years there have been fewer and fewer…
looks like there will be a couple of flowers… pretty exciting…
might be the last ones;-(…
25 Saturday May 2019
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addictive, big girl pants, cleaning, garden, Spring, tv, virginia creeper, widow
I think Spring has finally hit me…
spent time cleaning a cabinet and shelf unit in the bathroom…
also did a bit of work in the garden…
cut back some of the Virginia creeper… always feel such satisfaction trimming it, and find it rather addictive, lol… sometimes it is hard to stop…
and then, while I was watching some tv, I touched something on the remote and the screen misbehaved for a while… eventually I unplugged everything and when it started up again it was fine… not that I am addicted to tv…
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