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brightening…

08 Friday Sep 2023

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while I was searching for a plant pot in the garage recently, I came across my pond floats…

been wondering where they were, lol…

my beloved found three for me a number of years ago, and the purple one I made when we went to a glass blowing class in Seattle…

they would have looked nice with all the water lilies, but now they are brightening up the pond instead of the flowers;-)…

rootball…

06 Wednesday Sep 2023

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had some fun on the deck…

brought out the pothos vine from the dining room… it had overgrown its container and really needed to be repotted…

pulled out one of the purple pots that I bought from the Dollar store months ago and filled it with compost and soil…

before setting the plant in, I loosened the roots which were circling the rootball… centred it in the new pot and filled it up with soil… gave it a good water and wound the vines around the pot…

and finally, moved it back to its spot on the shelf;-)…

I think it will look better in a few weeks when the leaves turn to the light…

copper…

05 Tuesday Sep 2023

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months ago I put the copper pipe chimes together, that my beloved had made, using masking tape…

finally, I brought up the drill and found an appropriate bit…

took off the ugly green tape, put the top plexiglass piece into the clamp, and drilled six holes…

then I attached the six pipes to the top and hung it back up…

way to go me;-)…

nectar…

02 Saturday Sep 2023

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had a wonderful day Monday…

it was overcast but I put out all the cushions and set up the chairs for the afternoon gathering with my buddies…

then I sat quietly in the garden as a sweet little hummingbird flew around gathering nectar from a few flowers… it particularly liked one of the hanging baskets that has deep purple flowers… it came and went a number of times before heading off to its next destination…

of course I didn’t have the camera out so the photos I got with my phone were pretty bad, lol…

after lunch my friends arrived and we had a great visit together… these days I make suntea and we always have pistachios as a snack, maybe with some chocolate;-)…

once everyone left, I followed the shade around the garden, enjoyed my book and the visit from one of my bunny friends…

I am certainly savouring these beautiful days in the garden…

deeper…

01 Friday Sep 2023

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a few days ago my grandson dug the hole deeper where the mandevilla has been residing for most of the summer… it lives in the house during the winter months and has just started to bloom…

it has also been blowing over fairly regularly and I’ve had to bungee cord it to the upright umbrella on really windy days so it wouldn’t fall over again… I had dug the hole to what I thought would work, but it wasn’t deep enough, lol…

Thursday, the wind was very strong and the mandevilla stayed put with no leaning or falling at all;-)

extension…

31 Thursday Aug 2023

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went for a drive to Selkirk with a friend and found the eavestrough extension that I’ve been looking for…

once at home we extended it, drilled holes in the bottom, and laid it out along the back of the pond garden…

a few twist ties and the trough portion came down straight along the sun’s rays and then was hooked into the extension…

we might straighten it out a bit more once everything dies back in the garden, but by next spring it won’t be visible at all and will put rainwater all along the garden;-)…

allée…

30 Wednesday Aug 2023

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on Sunday we went for a walk around Assiniboine Park to catch Pokémon… apparently it was a special event around the world… it was hot and sunny…

there were people everywhere… many of them with their heads down, focussed on their phones, with cords connecting to power packs in their pockets, lol…

we walked around the allée that circles the Diversity Gardens… it was fully shaded and there were many people along the way…

from there we walked across the Park to the English and Leo Mol Gardens… it was a long way, lol… we stopped now and then for a rest and sip of our water, and got to walk down one of my favourite paths…

it has been months since I’ve been to the Gardens, so it was a treat… besides all the people, there were lots of flowers in bloom with beautiful water lilies, and frogs, in the English Garden…

the cricket fields had some good items as we headed back to the car…

nice to enjoy a walk, although my feet were a little tired;-)…

pods…

26 Saturday Aug 2023

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the volunteer purple datura in the front garden has grown huge over the summer…

when I was out watering the other day I noticed that many of the seed pods had already popped open so I went out and collected some for next year…

this one is a shade of mauve and opens upwards rather than hanging down…

the flowers are also quite small…

the seeds have already started to pop out into the bowl and I will let them dry a bit more before putting them into an empty pill bottle to store for the future… and I will be sure to label them;-)…

in a pot in the garden there is another white datura… this flower is much bigger and also opens up rather than down…

I will save some of those as well, being careful of the prickly bits, lol…

warped…

24 Thursday Aug 2023

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there has been a loose board on the lower deck for quite some time now, which has tried to trip people up for ages…

it was a bit warped and we had tried screwing it down at the two ends, but clearly the wood underneath was not in good condition in those spots… recently, the hose got stuck in it, lol…

finally, I lifted it right up and checked underneath only to discover that the screws in the middle were too short, so I brought out the drill and screwed in much longer ones…

and now it is no longer moving… yay me;-)…

claws…

22 Tuesday Aug 2023

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last week I watched a hawk chase a sparrow down the lane… I didn’t hear any screeching, so was hopeful that the sparrow made it to safety…

on Saturday, I was quietly sitting on the back deck, drinking my tea and reading when I heard a kerfuffle…

suddenly, a juvenile Cooper’s hawk came off the shelf in the pergola by the driveway gate… it had a sparrow in its claws…

it flew to the ledge on the main deck with its prize… after sitting there for quite a few minutes I walked over to get it to leave the garden… I got very close to it before it finally decided to fly up to the wires above the deck, and then, away…

the whole time it was in the garden the sparrows and chickadees were sounding the alarm…

hope it doesn’t come back again…