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01 Tuesday Aug 2023

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had fun on Saturday when Hilda the Gardener came to work in the garden… I’d been thinking a bit and had a few projects in mind… it is wonderful to have her here to do the heavy lifting;-)…

the creeping Charlie was removed from one of the beds and a few plants were moved around…

while she was doing that, I mixed soil and grass seed and filled a few low spots in the grass…

the lily of the valley and Virginia creeper were removed along the house in the veggie garden… I think we are going to add some hostas in this area… I am happy that we can separate plants rather than have to run out and buy new ones…

and the Virginia creeper around the gate was trimmed up…

we always like to take before and after pictures when we are working on some of the bigger projects;-)…

looks good…

nest…

31 Monday Jul 2023

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on Friday evening I brought the lounger onto the deck and put a number of comforters on it…

Friday night…

then, once it was dark I headed out for my version of camping, lol…

had a pretty good sleep and enjoyed looking at the stars whenever I woke up during the night… and there were no mosquitoes;-)…

Saturday morning…

the weather looked good and that went so well that I decided to sleep out again on Saturday night…

around 4:30 am drops began to land on me😳, and shortly thereafter all of the paraphernalia was on the kitchen floor and I headed upstairs to my bed, lol…

hopeful…

29 Saturday Jul 2023

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I am so happy that the hibiscus has a flower on it… this is the first one since the tree came outside…

it is so pretty and I am hopeful that there will be more in the near future…

these pictures were taken about two hours apart on Friday…

birdhouse…

28 Friday Jul 2023

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quite a while ago my neighbour brought me a birdhouse that he had made from leftover fence bits…

it was very cute but I left it on the deck and it fell over and the perch broke off… a friend was here and took it home so that her partner could repair it…

recently got it back and found a spot to hang it up…

looks nice… now to see if someone moves in;-)…

cork..

27 Thursday Jul 2023

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went to IKEA on Saturday… hadn’t been for ages…

it was fun to wander through the store and check out all the stuff…

was happy to replace the wisk that stopped working while my daughter was visiting… it is very handy for combining chocolate in warm or cold milk;-)…

the other item I found was a new jug for making suntea… the one I’ve been using didn’t have a lid and it was plastic…

this one is glass, but quite light and it has a cork stopper… it also fits very nicely in the fridge as it is much thinner than the plastic one…

I think it was a good purchase;-)…

loaf…

26 Wednesday Jul 2023

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in May, I was very happy to be able to get some veggie plants delivered from Jonathan’s Farm…

amongst them were some very nice beefsteak tomatoes, which for some reason I keep calling beefeater, lol…

I planted one in a pot on the deck and it produced a lovely large tomato which has gotten more beautiful by the day…

July 13, starting to turn…
July 18, nearly ripe…

last night I got a fresh loaf of bread and today I picked the tomato and made a delicious tomato sandwich…

yum, what a wonderful treat;-)…

barking…

20 Thursday Jul 2023

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we have new neighbours…

they seem like a lovely couple, but they have two dogs…

the dogs bark whenever they see or hear me in the garden… or if there is any activity in the area… if another dog barks, they bark, if someone goes down the lane they bark… if someone gets too close to the front of their house, they bark…

the former residents had a dog, but it was taught not to bark, and I knew the words they used, so I was able to reinforce their training… so it didn’t bark at me after a very short while…

I asked if there were any specific words to use to stop the barking, but apparently they don’t have any…

I am hoping that these dogs will eventually accept that I am not a threat and will stop with the barking whenever I move around the garden…

I have been trying to sit very still as I read or watch the nature around me…

wish me luck…

multiply…

19 Wednesday Jul 2023

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strange happenings with the milkweed…

I am very happy as they continue to multiply…

not too many caterpillars, and they seem to nest on the plants closer to a wall rather than the ones nearest to the pond… maybe there is more protection from predators there… too bad for me, as pictures are easier beside the pond, lol…

the odd thing is that the plants along the edge of the pond, all with the same origin, have produced two different coloured flowers…

the usual pink/purple flowers…

and these white ones which are turning yellow…

will be interesting to see what they do next year, lol…

vest…

18 Tuesday Jul 2023

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it was chilly on Saturday morning so I had on a vest and put my Assiniboine Park Conservancy blanket over my legs…

it is mid July;-(…

a few times later in the day, I had to put away all the cushions because it rained for short periods of time, lol…

and I kept that vest on all day…

iteration…

17 Monday Jul 2023

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the current iteration of the pond is ten years old…

hard to believe that much time has passed…

this is how it looked just as it was completed…

after it was finished, they had to come back and deal with leaking and runoff…nearly all of the plants have changed over time, lol… and I have changed the slate around the edge of the pond for large river rocks…

it still loses water when the waterfall is running and this year I have left if off for a good portion of the time… I also think the fish are out and about more when it isn’t running, lol… I do have a bubbler going all the time…

this year the water lilies are extremely happy… they continue to produce blooms daily, it is both amazing and delightful…

today, I turned the waterfall on and realized that I’d been missing it, and how well it dilutes other sounds in the neighbourhood…