01 Tuesday Sep 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, blooms, catch, magnolia, Mediterranean biome, moments, nature, scent, widow
one of my favourite trees in the Mediterranean Biome is the magnolia…
it blooms fairly regularly and can have only one flower blooming at a time or as many as six, which I spotted earlier this summer…
today, it had one glorious bloom above a spent flower…
magnolias smell delicious, although our tree is too high up to be able to catch the scent…
31 Monday Aug 2026
Posted in food, garden, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized, weather
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arch, big girl pants, blessed, garden, met, moments, scarlet runner beans, weather, widow
I’m so happy with how the plants are growing on the new arch…
the scarlet runner beans have been flowering for a while, but the actual beans have only just begun to appear…
the morning glories have now met up with the scarlet runners at the top of the arch…
it looks so nice from everywhere in the garden 😊…
30 Sunday Aug 2026
Posted in garden, life, moments, retirement, Uncategorized
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big girl pants, garden, hibiscus, mandevilla, moments, plants, pots, reorganizing, widow
spent a little time in the garden reorganizing the plant pots on the steps…
now the hibiscus is much more visible, as is the new mandevilla😊…
25 Tuesday Aug 2026
Posted in business, family, garden, life, retirement, Uncategorized
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big girl pants, blessed, family, garden, grandson, jigsaw, moments, project, rail, Technology, tools, toy, widow
in the final process of replacing the stairs to the side garden, we discovered we needed a jigsaw…
so, of course, we had to go shopping for a new toy, lol…
in the end we found a reciprocating saw which would work for the current project and a variety of future projects…
and I thought it was much cuter than a boring old jigsaw…
we have learned to always buy the same brand as our other battery operated tools😀…
and now, the deck, stairs and rail project is completed… yay…
23 Sunday Aug 2026
Posted in Uncategorized, life, food, garden, retirement
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garden, big girl pants, food, widow, moments, tiny, ripe, cherry tomatoes, spit, bad taste
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😂…
21 Friday Aug 2026
Posted in garden, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized, weather
19 Wednesday Aug 2026
Posted in family, garden, life, loss, moments, retirement, Uncategorized
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beloved, big girl pants, deck, family, garden, grandson, moments, pond, snoopervise, widow
while I was away for a few days, the back deck got replaced…
it was interesting how nervous I felt, not being there to snoopervise, lol…
luckily, I received photos and was able to check some of the work with the garden camera🤪…
once that deck was finished, they moved on to the stairs and small deck which leads into the side garden…
when I got home, I checked both spots out and am very happy with the final product…
one single board needs to be screwed in on the stairs by the side deck…
I am feeling a bit melancholy as these are the last of the decks that my beloved built… all the rest have been redone…
even when I had the pond rebuilt, I had them leave that deck just as it was…
time moves on…
18 Tuesday Aug 2026
Posted in food, garden, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized, weather
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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…
17 Monday Aug 2026
Posted in garden, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized
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big girl pants, blessed, coneflowers, garden, leggy, moments, nature, petunias, vases, widow
played a bit with a coneflower after I brought some into the house…
they last in a vase for a number of days, which is always good… they are very intricate…
I’ve also been bringing in some of the petunias as they get trimmed back… currently they are getting a bit leggy…
I’m not sure why I’ve never thought of them as cut flowers🤪…
16 Sunday Aug 2026
Posted in garden, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized
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ageratum, big girl pants, deadheaded, garden, moments, nature, pretty, spent, widow
had some fun in the garden… once I figured out how to raise the flower pot with the ageratum in it so I could trim out all the spent flowers…
it looks much nicer now, and I am feeling very accomplished, lol… every little job means more time to read😂…
now the butterflies will be able to find the lovely purple flowers without any problem…
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