20 Wednesday Sep 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, compost, garden, moments, nature, neighbour, shovel, veggie garden, wheelbarrow, widow
spent some time in the veggie garden shovelling the compost that I received from my neighbour into the planters…
happy to empty the wheelbarrow and get it back next to the garage…
18 Monday Sep 2023
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, feeder, flowers, friends, garden, hummingbird, hummy, moments, nature, purple, salt, sugar, syrup, widow
I’ve spotted the hummingbird a number of times in the garden over the last few weeks… I have basically given up trying to get a photo, lol…
last Sunday I was in the living room on the phone with my daughter and looked out the window to see the hummy shoot by…
that made me go out to the garage to find the hummingbird feeder, bring it into the house, make syrup and fill the feeder… took it out and hung it in the garden near the purple flowers it seemed to like…
I sat out for awhile to watch for it, but nothing…
the next day, my buddies were here and when one tasted her coffee she spit it out… apparently I had put salt in the sugar bowl… which had also been what I used to make the syrup for the feeder… no wonder nobody showed up to drink from it…
brought the feeder back in, made real syrup, and put it outside…
maybe the hummingbird will come back, but it looks like it may have headed south;-(…
17 Sunday Sep 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, buds, cover, flowers, frost, garden, ghost, mandevilla, moments, nature, plants, protect, weather, widow
Monday and Tuesday night I went out and covered the mandevilla as there was a chance of frost…
it looks like the rest of the week will be warmer so rather than start the process of bringing the plant in, it seemed better to protect it and keep it outside for the next week…
it has been filled with blooms and looks wonderful… unfortunately, once it comes into the house the unopened buds will likely fall off…
but, it looked a lot like a ghost in the garden…
09 Saturday Sep 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, family, garden, gate, happy, impediment, moments, project, shovelled, Spring, widow
finally the gate area got finished on Sunday… we got up and out early to beat the heat;-)…
a ton of dirt had been dug up, and a big chunk of cement removed a while back, so Sunday the area was levelled out, quarter down was poured and packed down, and blocks were laid where the garbage and recycling bins reside…
this will make it much easier to move them on recycling days;-)…
next, a spring was attached so that the gate will automatically close after being opened… I particularly wanted this as it opens into the lane and could be an impediment to a vehicle driving along…
the final piece of work involved extending the depth of the hole that the latch goes into… it will make opening and closing the gate simpler…
clover seed was sprinkled over the dirt to fill it in… it looks tidy and organized…
I am pleased that this project is finally completed.
08 Friday Sep 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, brightening, class, floats, flower pot, flowers, found, garden, glass, lost, moments, pond, Seattle, water lilies, widow
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;-)…
06 Wednesday Sep 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, leaves, moments, nature, plant, pothos, purple, repotted, rootball, water, widow
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…
05 Tuesday Sep 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, chimes, copper, drill, family, garden, masking tape, memories, moments, pipe, plexiglass, sound, widow
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;-)…
02 Saturday Sep 2023
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, flowers, friends, garden, happy, hummingbird, moments, nature, nectar, plants, shade, time, weather, widow
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…
01 Friday Sep 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, deeper, falling, flowering, flowers, garden, grandson, hole, mandevilla, moments, nature, plants, weather, widow, wind
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;-)
31 Thursday Aug 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, drive, eavestrough, extension, friend, garden, grandson, happy, Home Hardware, moments, Selkirk, shopping, sunburst, water, widow
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;-)…
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