buds…

spent the time with Hilda the Gardener and we discussed flowers, beds, and watering options… what is needed and where to locate plants… we even moved a few planters around in the front… i am now looking for two more black ones to add in… a bit later I moved the ones out that are going into the garden…

she will be back this week to start the spring cleanup process…

juncos…

02 Sunday May 2021

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spent the most wonderful hour in the garden…

it was chilly, but I’d seen numerous birds at the feeders so I moved a lounge chair next to the garage door, wrapped myself up in a blanket and sat still and watched for the visitors coming to the feeders…

there were juncos, white throated sparrows, maybe a song sparrow, a couple of chickadees, and either male and female purple or house finches… they were all over the feeders and on the ground…

there were also two mice… which is okay, as long as they are outside…

I was thrilled to sit and watch and didn’t take out the camera until just before I came in…

this is one of my favourite pictures…

unplanted…

01 Saturday May 2021

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today I took my dahlias, from The Dahlia Expert, out of the box and set them on the counter under the lights…

I’ve had them for a few weeks but hadn’t organized which pots they will be going into so they were just waiting in the box, unplanted…

this afternoon I watched a YouTube video that suggested setting them out in the light without soil or water… thought it was worth a try;-)…

if it works it will save a lot of carrying onto the deck and back inside every day until the weather reaches the sweet spot…

vinyl…

27 Tuesday Apr 2021

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a week or so ago, the doorbell rang and a person asked if I wanted my vinyl siding fixed as they had noticed a couple of loose pieces…

I was thrilled, as in the fall my son-in-law and a neighbour had both tried to fix a couple of pieces on the front…

this person was working on a house down the street and came back on Saturday to do the fixes…

they also added more flashing to the garage so that the water won’t drip down behind the eavestrough…

so happy to have these pieces of siding put back into place and that I won’t have to listen to flapping in the wind anymore;-)…

raised…

24 Saturday Apr 2021

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I’ve been looking to install a raised bed garden at the side of the house, in the previously known as shade garden… it has changed since the neighbour’s elm tree came down…

this is clearly not the time to build anything with wood which has tripled in price in the last year…

I found these cute planters with trellises attached and ordered three…

they are very cute and I plan to grow some cucumbers and tomatoes in them… maybe some peas and beans… we will see…

I’ve brought four of the pots inside and will transplant the cucumbers in the next few days… they can continue growing and then just get plopped into the planter (if and) when the weather warms up, lol…

tape…

24 Saturday Apr 2021

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prepared the last five solar lights that my grandson had picked up for me…

I’ve put them all into a flower pot until the weather settles down and the ground is frost-free… at which point they can go into various areas of the garden…

the cap on one wasn’t closed and it took me a while to figure out how to fasten it… once I had it fixed, I went and found one that had seemed to have a similar problem from the first batch I received…