daturas…

10 Monday Apr 2023

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finally got the seeds into the soil…

so far, there are morning glories as well as purple and white daturas planted… last year I didn’t remember to start any of the daturas, so am excited to see how they will do this year…

started with plastic wrap on top, but then I found some glass in the basement which covers the pots nicely…

I am turning the light on first thing in the morning, and off just before I head to bed;-)…

now to wait for some sprouts…

pallet…

03 Monday Apr 2023

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big girl pants, blessed, bonus, chairs, deck, delivery, garden, happy, moments, pallet, planter, widow

was making my morning tea the other day, when I looked outside and noticed a delivery truck slowing down and stopping in front of the neighbours’ house…

kept watching, to see what they were getting, lol… then he pulled out a pallet with four chairs on it…

they were for me, but there were vehicles in front of the house so they had to park that little bit further…

the driver got them down and brought them up the driveway, but felt he couldn’t carry them along the path between the driveway and house because it wasn’t shovelled to the ground… so he left them there…

I put my coat on, went out, cut away the plastic holding them to the pallet, and carried them in, two at a time… then I brought in the pallet… at which point my grandson came up the basement stairs to see what was going on, lol…

I am very happy to get them because I’ve been looking for replacements since the fall for the 13 year old ones on the deck which have given up the ghost… all the ones I had seen couldn’t be delivered so I was very happy when I found these on sale the other day… and there was no delivery fee;-)…

I think I will make a planter with the pallet… bonus…

glove-free…

02 Sunday Apr 2023

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on Thursday we walked instead of going to aquasize…

we had breakfast at the Park Cafe where we waited a few moments before getting our table…

I had falafel eggs Benedict without the English muffin and it was very tasty…

after that, we drove over and walked around the outside of the Diversity Gardens on the road which was clear of snow and ice… we went through the Gardens as well where most of the paths were snow free… it was cold, but basically the only frozen things were our fingers, lol… particularly when I was glove-free taking photos…

we enjoyed our half hour walk and are looking forward to more such walks as the weather improves;-)…

arched…

30 Thursday Mar 2023

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well, that was fun;-)…

ordered an arched trellis online and it arrived a few days ago… I was a little worried because the package was taped up a lot and I wondered if all the pieces were going to be inside…

I hadn’t planned to put it together until the snow was gone, but was a bit worried about missing pieces and what I would do if I didn’t sort it out till later…

when it was undone, some of the bags appeared to have been opened and then re-closed… and, there were no instructions…

took a while, but after looking at the information from the link where I bought it, it came together nicely…

currently it is in three pieces… the two sides and the arch… not sure I could get it outside if I join it all together… the final two cross pieces and screws are waiting to finish it up…

might take the pieces out to the garage and finish it, or just wait for the snow in the side garden to melt so I can put it in its new home…

sure hope it fits the way I want…

grow-light…

29 Wednesday Mar 2023

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been working on the seedling project… this is interesting because I had decided not to start any this year, lol…

not long ago I picked up a grow-light and finally got it up in the den…

for the last few weeks I’ve been collecting toilet paper rolls and cutting them down to be seed containers…

spent time putting them in the bins to keep them together, and filling them with soil…

next will be wetting them down so they will be ready for seeds in a week or so…

getting excited for spring and time in the garden…

winding…

28 Tuesday Mar 2023

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noticed the other day that the mandevilla has been sprouting new leaves at the top… must be sensing spring…

and they have started winding up the line that the pictures hang from…

took some time on Sunday to climb up and unravel the pieces and get them wound around the obelisk…

going to have to keep a closer eye on it to be sure it doesn’t do that again…

would have been a disaster if I had turned it within noticing, lol…

layers…

21 Tuesday Mar 2023

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shovelled a path across the upper deck on Sunday morning… that way I was able to adjust the solar motion sensor… the squirrels had tipped it down on their trips back and forth…

it has been many, many, weeks since the deck had been shovelled… and in that time, the sun has frozen a number of layers so it was a bit difficult to get it cleared…

later in the afternoon I noticed that a lot of the remaining snow where I shovelled had melted away… so I made another pass…

this time I left a bit of snow to melt there…

my photos suggest that it looked like this in March of 2021… hard to believe, lol…

lane…

20 Monday Mar 2023

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on Saturday I went out to top up the hot tub…

the weather app was suggesting it was -21 out, but the sun was shining and there wasn’t any wind in the garden…

was able to slide the one side open without taking it right off… worked fine…

while the water was running, I brought in the recycling bin from the lane…

and I found a suet feeder in the garage and put a frozen block of homemade suet out in the front yard…

nice to be outdoors for a little while… Spring is coming…

elusive…

19 Sunday Mar 2023

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had a fun time in the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden at The Leaf on Thursday… it wasn’t too cold outside and bright so there was lots of activity…

a fair number of people were in the space and there were many butterflies…

apparently I was enamoured with the orange ones, lol…

this little one sat and offered different poses;-)…

and, of course, I tried to catch the elusive Blue Morpho… there were quite a few of them, but what makes it elusive is that you need to catch it in flight to capture the blue colour, lol… but I did get a partial shot;-)…

at least you can see some of the blue…

spending time in this space sure does make me happy;-)…

wall…

18 Saturday Mar 2023

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had another great visit to The Leaf on Thursday…

we arrived about 10:45 am and it felt like we walked into a wall of moisture… clearly the humidity level has gone up considerably since we were last here…

there were a good number of people in the space, but it didn’t feel crowded…

the waterfall is still spilling into the walkways, but it seemed at a lesser degree…