19 Monday Aug 2024
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barefoot, big girl pants, birds, blessed, bunnies, dust, garden, moments, nature, stepping stones, sweep, weather, widow
have added sweeping the stepping stones to my morning routine…
the darn birds and bunnies continue to have dust baths and since I have been barefoot outdoors for the last while, the clumps of dirt are irritating my feet, lol…
15 Thursday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, crayons, daughter, family, garden, moments, paper, rubbings, time, widow
had fun documenting my daughter’s activities as she made various rubbings in the garden for a book she is making;-)…
she has been doing this all the way from Vancouver Island…
she wandered around the garden using sheets of paper and the side of different coloured crayons…
some of the rubbings worked beautifully, others, not so much… she also took a few items to add into the book…
but I am sure that the finished product will be beautiful;-)…
14 Wednesday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, daughter, dog, family, friend, friends, garden, macaroni and cheese, moments, pancakes, trip, visit, whirlwind, widow
my daughter came to town and was here for about 12 hours between Saturday and Sunday…
she was passing through, helping a friend drive from B.C. to Ontario… the friend, her dad, and their dog spent the night with us…
we had supper when they arrived, enjoyed some garden time that evening and the next morning and then they headed off after breakfast;-)…
both meals were requested and it was fun to make her favourite macaroni and cheese and satisfy her friend’s desire for pancakes…
such a treat to see her and meet this friend who I’ve heard much about, but never had the opportunity to meet…
it was a whirlwind…
12 Monday Aug 2024
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10 Saturday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, growing, memories, memory, moments, nature, orange, plants, red, ripe, Technology, tomatoes, weather, widow
this memory came up in my feed on Thursday… it was from a year ago and clearly the tomatoes were ripe and nearly ready to eat…
this one is from the garden this Thursday…
obviously these ones are quite a ways behind, lol…
09 Friday Aug 2024
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anticipate, big girl pants, blessed, experiment, fish, friend, garden, goldfish, grow, koi, moments, nature, neighbour, pond, widow
a few weeks ago a friend brought me some koi that a neighbour had given her for me… they are a fair bit smaller than the goldfish, but I anticipate they will grow quickly…
I’ve never had (or wanted) koi, so it will be interesting to see how it goes… this photo shows one of them (mainly black and white) amongst the much larger goldfish…
my fish are fairly tough… they don’t get any special treatment so we will see how the koi manage in that environment;-)…
an experiment…
07 Wednesday Aug 2024
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, corms, dahlias, flowers, garden, happy, hues, Lilystone Gardens, moments, nature, pink, plants, purple, surprise, treat, weather, white, widow
I have been so excited…
for a number of years, I’ve been overwintering dahlia corms, but haven’t had tons of luck… sometimes I know what they are and other times they are a surprise when they get put away…
one white one has proven very prolific and it has produced at least a dozen blooms so far this year in three different pots…
these are about the size of my palm…
a delightful feathery one that I purchased last year at Lilystone Gardens has come back nicely and has a number of blooms and buds in one pot…
each bloom is bigger than my hand…
these have all been white so I was particularly excited to see one come up in a pot that looked like it was pinky/purple…
it is a bit smaller than the white pompom-looking ones, but stands out in all its pink and purple hues…
nature is so amazing…
06 Tuesday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, digging, family, garden, garden bed, grandsons, heavy, help, moments, nature, plants, project, rock, rocks, weather, widow
doing the happy dance…
Monday, the weather was perfect for being in the garden and my middle grandson came over and worked on the most current project… the soil in this garden bed kept sliding down and covering the stepping stones…
he removed some miscellaneous rocks, dug a trench and then, with my oldest grandson, moved and placed large rocks, which were located all around the garden…
it was interesting to watch as they decided together which rock worked and looked best where…
with my direction, of course…
the rock wall looks good…
so pleased that this project, which has been on my list for quite some time, is now completed…
05 Monday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, moments, nature, nylon, pantyhose, plants, stalk, tied, tomato, veggie garden, weather, widow, wind
went out to the veggie garden the other afternoon to see how everything was doing… it had been a much cooler day…
I’ve been spending most of my time in the house in front of the tv…
discovered that a stalk on one of the tomatoes had bent right over, I think from the wind…
I found a stick, put it in alongside the injured stem and then tied a nylon strip (from pantyhose) to the stick in a few spots…
I am hopeful that it will recover because there are two nice looking tomatoes on it…
fingers crossed…
01 Thursday Aug 2024
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basil, big girl pants, blessed, cream cheese, cucumber, garden, moments, peas, picked, plants, sandwich, sourdough, widow
this morning I went to the garden to harvest some peas…
while I was out there I discovered that the cucumber I saw on Monday had grown like crazy… apparently they like crazy heat, lol…
I collected the peas, some basil, and the lovely cucumber…
decided on a cucumber sandwich for lunch… with some fresh sourdough and cream cheese…
after peeling the cucumber, I used the mandolin to make thin slices…
enjoyed the sandwich in the garden with coleslaw I’d made on Tuesday;-)…
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