19 Friday Dec 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, Fleurs de Villes, fourth, gift, moments, nature, Technology, The Leaf at Assiniboine Park, weather, widow
a few days ago I booked my fourth visit to Fleurs de Villes at The Leaf in January;-)…
it is always wonderful to see and I have given a number of friends tickets to go (with me of course)…
seems like a perfect Christmas gift for anyone who appreciates art, flowers, nature, and creativity… especially after looking out the window and seeing this, lol…
15 Saturday Nov 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, moments, nature, picture, remote camera, sharper, Technology, widow
I’m really happy with the newest outdoor camera…
the night picture is much sharper than the other cameras around the house…
kind of makes me want to change them all, lol…
13 Thursday Nov 2025
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big girl pants, deck, delightful, garden, moments, nature, plants, reading, sunshine, talking, time, watering, weather, widow
had a delightful morning yesterday…
spent time talking with the plants as they were watered and turned… a few are struggling with the move indoors but most are happy…
then I spent a glorious hour on the deck, in the sunshine, reading my current novel…
05 Wednesday Nov 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, clean-ish, family, garden, moments, nature, pond, pumps, water, weather, widow
cleaned out the first of the garden water pumps last week…
always happy when they are all clean-ish and packed away for the winter…
this morning I was able to pull out, clean and put away the last two…
all the jobs in the garden are done and it is now ready for the winter…
04 Tuesday Nov 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, fishtank, moments, nature, pail, pond, survives, water, water lily, widow
the water lily has been sitting inside the backdoor in a pail of water for over a week and the water is rather smelly, lol…
finally took it out of the pail and trimmed all the dead leaves… there was even a bud as it was trying to bloom again…
then it went into the biggest tank…
looks good, but we will see if it survives the winter as the fish may eat the whole thing🤪…
01 Saturday Nov 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, building, family, garage, garden, lawn furniture, moments, moving, organizing, persevered, project, shelves, tarp, tidying, weather, widow
finished up the project in the garage Wednesday evening…
I spent some time earlier in the day, moving as many boards as I could out of the way so the table was usable for sawing, lol…
it was rather chilly out there, but we persevered and finished the new shelves…
then we spent time organizing all the shelves along that wall…
in the end it looks very tidy… wonder how long it will stay that way…
on a roll, “we” then moved a few items from the garage and all of the lawn furniture into the shed…
the garden will look much nicer over the winter without all the furniture covered in a big tarp on the back deck…
29 Wednesday Oct 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, caught, counted, family, fish, garden, grandson, indoors, moments, nature, pond, water level, weather, widow
a few fish came into the house around Thanksgiving…
on Tuesday morning we went out to collect the rest, as it is seems to be getting cooler every day…
part of the process was to empty a good amount of water, particularly as the pond was as high as I’ve seen it, since we’ve had so much rain lately…
then it was fairly easy for my housemate to catch the remaining fish…
once they were in the tanks, I counted thirty, which is about right, so we were pleased that we’d got them all…
we will check the pond over the next few days to see if there are any stragglers that we missed…
21 Tuesday Oct 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, butterfly bench, flowers, garden, invasive, moments, morning glories, nature, plants, weather, widow
out in the garden and front yard on Sunday morning…
pulled out a huge clump of self-seeded morning glories in the front flower bed… the frost got them a few days before…
I can understand how they are considered invasive in BC… but they weren’t causing any problem in the flower bed and added some lovely flowers for the last month or so…
nearly filled one of the yard waste bags and then I swept up Virginia creeper branches on the bottom decks… the bag was pretty full by the time I was done…
final piece of work was removing all the morning glory vines from the butterfly bench…
still a few jobs to do to close down the garden for the season…
18 Saturday Oct 2025
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bachelor buttons, big girl pants, dehydrator, dragon, family, flowers, garden, grandson, housemate, moments, nature, pansies, petunias, plants, treat, weather, widow
last week we went through the garden and collected flowers from the pansies, bachelor buttons and petunias, as they will be a special snack treat for the bearded dragon, lol…
next they went into the dehydrator to dry…
took about twelve hours and then they were nicely dried and put into a bag for future snacks;-)…
hope the dragon likes them…
13 Monday Oct 2025
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begonia, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, moments, nature, pictures, shocked, spider, widow
I was a bit shocked when looking at the photographs that I’d taken this morning…
I had taken a few nice pictures of one of the fancy begonias that had come in from outside, which had surprised me with a lovely flower…
and when looking at the picture of the flower, I discovered a spider, yikes…
wonder if it is still there😱…
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