16 Thursday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cover, deck, extra, family, garden, grandson, lawn furniture, moments, nature, tarp, tarpaulin, weather, widow
used the tarp from the extra wood to cover the lawn furniture on the back deck…
didn’t take long at all with two people…
it is a really large tarpaulin so we tucked all the excess under the legs…
14 Tuesday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, exercise, expandable, garden, hose, hot tub, moments, pliers, run, top up, weather, widow
yesterday was a beautiful day… the sun shone and the temperature made it to 6° Celsius…
took the opportunity to top up the water in the hot tub…
now that the hose is hooked up in the basement it is a bit of a process…
the hose comes upstairs and just reaches to the outside of the door… then it has to be turned on with pliers at the tap at which point it expands so I can reach the hot tub…
takes a while to fill it to above the top hole on the filter, then I run downstairs and close the tap, again with the pliers… and run back up as the hose starts to contract before it yanks out of the tub… and finally taking the hose downstairs and hanging it up for the next time…
so I did get a bit of exercise;-)…
10 Friday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cold, garden, moments, nature, postcard, shovelling, snow, trees, weather, widow
much as the snow can be a pain, it is also beautiful… especially if you don’t have to be somewhere and drive through it, lol…
the view out the windows were delightful on Thursday morning…
the snow clung to the trees and made it look like a postcard outside…
and the squirrels were busy at one of the feeders… if you look closely you will see the three in this picture…
I went out and shovelled the sidewalks and got a few photos while I was out there…
such a blessing to be able to be home, able to shovel, and enjoy the beauty;-)…
30 Monday Oct 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, breaking, cold, fish, garden, goldfish, grandson, ice, moments, nature, plants, pond, pumps, snow, time, water, weather, widow, winter
Saturday, late in the afternoon, after breaking the ice on the pond, we caught twenty-one of the goldfish…
the pond water was filled with leaves and was rather brown and murky…
it was quite the job as, at one point, my grandson went into it barefoot with his pants rolled up to cut down the water lilies and grasses (I think it was about -12°C in the air)…
but that really helped catch a bunch of them that had been hiding under the lily leaves… they were moving slower in the cold, but still snuck out of the net… also, some of the catching was in the dark, lol…
then they sat in pails in the house for hours before getting moved into the three tanks…
we were careful to be sure to keep size and numbers similar in the tanks so that there is sufficient space for all of them…
we thought we had them all, but on Sunday we discovered five more, woohoo…
now, the pumps have been removed from the pond, and it is apparently going into the winter with water in it, lol…
28 Saturday Oct 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, colours, home, look out, memorable, moments, nature, photos, sky, time, weather, widow, window
the sky today has been a beautiful canvas of colour and light…
woke up and saw this gorgeous view… had to run back and get my iPhone so I could take a few pictures…
this was just after eight am;-)…
and tonight around seven pm…
both memorable;-)… what a treat to spend a few moments enjoying the beauty…
27 Friday Oct 2023
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adrenaline, appointment, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, dentist, family, garden, grandson, hidden, moments, nature, photos, pretty, ride, shovelling, snow, spare, taxi, trees, walk, weather, widow
this morning I got up early as I had a dentist appointment and my grandson was going to drive me down before he went to class…
it was dark and there was a lot of snow out there…
I put on a vest, dug out a hat and gloves, and made sure I had cash for the taxi…
it lightened up before we left and I went out to start cleaning off the car… there was easily six or seven inches of snow on it…
made it to my appointment, and when it was done walked to the Delta Hotel to get a taxi…
got a few nice photos of snow-covered trees on the short walk…
as I was riding along in the taxi, I realized that I didn’t have a house key😳…
thankfully, after my beloved died and I was on my own in the house, I put a spare key in the backyard for just such an occasion…
and, I was able to get through the snow and collect it, lol…
I unlocked the door and put the key back before shovelling the front sidewalk and steps and the back deck and hot tub area…
got that adrenaline going, in the taxi, and in the yard;-)…
24 Tuesday Oct 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, friend, garden, growing, ledges, moments, morning glories, nature, pale blue, plants, vines, weather, widow
popped over to a friend’s place to pick some seed pods from her pale blue morning glories before they were pulled up for winter…
she hadn’t been able to see any pods, so I said I would come and pick them and show them to her…
we had a laugh when I got there because they are very late growing and haven’t even started any pods yet…
so, we picked a few pieces of the vine and I brought those home to see if I can get the plants started in the house…
I even brought one of the all-white ones…
we shall see what happens, lol… those west facing window ledges do come in handy…
22 Sunday Oct 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, blower, feeder, garden, grandson, irrigation, leaves, moments, nature, prep, pump, put to bed, stacked, time, weather, widow
spent the morning in the garden…
we blew out the irrigation system, and put the caps in a clear bag on the side of the fridge so I can see them and remember where they are come spring, lol…
we stacked lawn furniture and got it ready for the tarp which will go over it in the next week or so…
we used the leaf blower to move many of the elm leaves into the flower beds so bugs and other things have a place to over-winter…
we moved flower pots under the deck and into the shed… and took apart the hammock stand to go in there as well…
two umbrellas came down, but because it had rained not long before we started our work, they went into the garage open to dry before making their way to the shelves…
we hooked up one of the bird feeders so I can get to it from the deck once the snow starts…
the pump came out of the bathtub pond and made it into the house, was cleaned and is ready for storage…
phew…
17 Tuesday Oct 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, blower, cake, deck, food, friends, garden, gathering, happy, home, leaves, moments, nature, October, sun, sweeping, time, treat, weather, widow
because it was another gorgeous day, our Monday gathering took place on the deck for one last time…
I moved the furniture, swept all the leaves off, cleaned the glass table, and put cushion covers on the chairs…
as I was sweeping the lower deck, it occurred to me that I could have used the leaf blower, lol… oh well, good exercise, lol…
and, we were treated to a freshly baked Bundt cake;-)… yum…
the sun shone and it did cool off a little, but we were very comfortable… what a treat in the middle of October…
16 Monday Oct 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, dahlias, disconnected, garden, moments, nature, plants, pots, prep, taps, tubers, weather, widow
Sunday was a beautiful fall day…
we disconnected the hose at the tap, undid the three connections to the pond, irrigation system, and hose (which was then hooked up in the laundry room for the winter)… still have to blow out the irrigation lines…
then I spent quite awhile digging out the three dahlias and repotting the begonia… will see if it will act like a houseplant over the winter…
put the dahlias in an empty pot and will leave them in the garage for a few more days to dry out before relocating them into the basement…
moved pots off the steps and deck… that big pot was interesting to move, but I got it done… once the garage has been tidied up the obelisk will move there…
then I spent a few hours reading in the afternoon sunshine;-)…
happy to have accomplished more of the “w” prep, lol…
