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allium…

06 Wednesday May 2026

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just after I took this photo of a beautiful allium, a visitor asked me what it was…

then I had a lovely conversation with another visitor who was telling me about the allium that grew in her garden outside of the city… she said they grew six feet tall and took over the garden…

made me laugh as I shared how this was one of my beloved’s favourites and no matter what we did, they would not grow for us…

we ended the conversation noting that, in our experience, some plants will or won’t grow for certain people, lol…

testing…

04 Monday May 2026

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the chair covers have not really been doing their job so the cushions have been inside the patio doors and kind of clogging up the kitchen…

I am testing using both covers on one chair to see if that will protect the cushions and keep them dry…

fingers crossed…

we will see how it works out;-)…

pump…

03 Sunday May 2026

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spent time in the garden on a lovely day…

used the pond pump to empty the water on top of the tarp and then took the tarp off the pond…

took a few minutes to lay it out on the grass to dry out…

we moved a few planters to new places and will see if they stay in those spots…

did a little bit of raking of leaves, but there is still a lot to do…

and also spent some time reading in one of the chairs which recently came out of the shed…

April…

29 Wednesday Apr 2026

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last night was my first in the hot tub for a really long time…

a screw had come loose on the left side cover and it took quite a while before we were able to screw it back in… then it needed to be filled and it took me ages to get that done…

looking for photos of it, I found this note about the day the hot tub arrived —- April 29, 2009…

and this one from my first hot tub on Mother’s Day, 2009…

the area around the tub has changed a lot since its arrival…

these photos reminded me when the right hand cover came off and was repaired…

these photos were taken on April 28, 2023…

apparently, the end of April has been an important period for the hot tub…

next up will be emptying the tub and figuring out if we can make the right side more stable for opening and closing…

blew…

26 Sunday Apr 2026

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sat out on the deck on Thursday morning…

it was fairly warm, but windy…

I took my slippers off to get some sun on my feet and had one foot on a slipper, but crossed my leg with the other…

all of a sudden the second slipper blew right off the deck, lol…

I hopped on down, brought it back up onto the deck, and slid both of them under my foot;-)…

tails…

25 Saturday Apr 2026

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went for a walk to the English Garden on Thursday morning… it was so windy that I couldn’t wear my hat, and my scarf ended up with the tails blowing behind me…

had a little break beside Sargent Sundae as I waited for my walking buddies…

hadn’t been yet this spring so it was interesting to see the state of the gardens as it has not been long since the snow melted…

the gardens were clean and tidy, but not much was growing yet, lol…

we did come across some photographers who were looking for birds;-)…

the most fun was counting the frogs by the pergola… in just a few minutes I saw at least twelve…

got all my steps in between walking to, around, and home from the Gardens…

shed…

23 Thursday Apr 2026

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had a great day in the garden yesterday… at last it was nice enough to put the cushions back on the deck…

sat on the top deck reading in the sun for ages… eventually I had to move to the lower deck to sit in the shade because it was so hot…

I tried to open the shed to bring out the rest of the lawn furniture, with no success…

but, I turned over the water barrel and yard waste bin, and emptied pots into the yard waste bin…

then there was sitting, lunch, and reading for the remainder of the afternoon…

once my housemate arrived home, he got the shed open and brought out some of the furniture…

summer is coming 😊…

yank…

13 Monday Apr 2026

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well, had a surprise Sunday morning…

I opened the patio door to feel the temperature, and realized it had rained during the night…

and apparently there had been a strong wind as I discovered that one of the chairs on the deck had blown over and down the steps on the far side… the footstool was the only thing still on the deck…

went out and brought up the chair… had to yank one of the cushions out of the snow…

brought the cushions into the house, as well as the footstool, to dry out, sigh…

didn’t put the cover back on the chair… don’t want it to fly off the deck, lol…

pleased that I dealt with this early, as the next time I looked out it was raining;-)…