31 Sunday Oct 2021
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so, there were some Halloween tricks, but no treats…
the kids were over this morning and we were working in the garden…
just after they left I was in the dining room and looked out the window to see this…
that would be snow pelting down like crazy…
of course, it is Halloween…
and a short time later it looked like this…
eventually it all melted…
29 Friday Oct 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, dahlias, dig, dry, flowers, garden, moments, shovel, tomatoes, trowel, weather, widow
a few days ago I brought in the tubers for two dahlias…
I wasn’t able to dig up the third one, so I went out this afternoon to see if I could get them out of the planter they were in…
I removed soil, and tried to dig around the tubers… my trowel just wasn’t strong enough to get them out… finally I got the shovel and after a ton of effort, was able to finally remove them… there are a lot…
I have brought them in to dry and will then bag in paper and store in the basement… hopefully they will turn into more Mick’s Peppermint in the spring…
and while I was outside working, my neighbour brought me a final pail of tomatoes… most are green and I’ve put them on the dining room table so they can ripen…
25 Monday Oct 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, dahlias, digging, Eveline, flowers, garden, moments, nature, plants, purple, tubers, weather, widow
spent time outside in the garden digging up some of the dahlia tubers…
although it was sunny, it was cool and it got windier as I worked… my fingers were cold inside my work gloves and I had a cup of tea to warm them up when I got in, lol…
I only ended up bringing in the tubers from two of them… one is still out there but I will finish digging it out in a few days…
these are the tubers from my favourite Eveline… there are quite a few pieces and it took a lot of work to get them out of the planter…
once they dry out I will take off the rest of the soil around them… then I will put them into paper bags in a dark and cool part of the basement…
there were two of these in one pot and they bloomed a lot and made me very happy… I hope that there will be more next summer…
and this clump came out in one piece… it is the Robann Regal and also had multiple blooms… I am hopeful that they will be viable in the spring…
the flowers were a bit smaller than I expected but the plant produced many blooms…
looking forward to bringing in the Mick’s Peppermint, which also bloomed beautifully…
24 Sunday Oct 2021
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23 Saturday Oct 2021
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I didn’t leave the house today and spent most of the day reading… I was enjoying a favourite author’s story and had trouble putting the book down, lol…
when I wasn’t reading I was making soup and meat sauce…
the soup is delicious… I used half of a roasted butternut squash, onion, celery and coconut milk… there is enough for two meals which is great… as we adjust to this colder weather I think soup will be a welcome treat…
the meat sauce used tomatoes from my neighbours, onion, oregano and ground beef… it made a lot and I will probably freeze a bit and use the rest with spaghetti…
it is always nice to have a few meals prepared and ready ahead of time;-)…
22 Friday Oct 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, furniture, garden, grandson, moments, nature, path, shed, sidewalk, stepping stones, walk, weather, widow
the weather has really gotten fall-ish…
this afternoon my grandson arrived to finish a few jobs around the yard, including putting away the lawn furniture and then he and his friend replaced the sidewalk stones along the front flowerbed… they had sunk way down into the grass over the years….
this is going to make walking from the driveway to the house much more stable and it will also be way easier to shovel once the snow arrives…
21 Thursday Oct 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, coleus, friends, garden, house, nature, plants, propagate, Spring, weather, widow
a few weeks ago I read that you could propagate coleus using their leaves, and have them as houseplants which could then go into the garden in the spring…
I didn’t have any in the garden but a friend did and I asked if they would give me a few clippings…
a week ago they dropped off a few types and I popped them into a glass and set it on the dining room table…
I did a bit more research and discovered that they needed to be much smaller than I thought…
so, I trimmed them up and put them back into the glass and set it on the table in the living room…
once they have roots I will transplant them into pots and enjoy them over the winter… eventually they will make a great addition to the side garden…
I also cut pieces from two of my indoor vines and set them in water as well… I have found a couple of tiny pots and plan to put them into the bathroom window;-)…
20 Wednesday Oct 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, hills, moments, moon, nature, text, toboggan hill, trees, view, walk, widow
got a call yesterday to check out the moon…
checked from every place in the house and garden, but it was too low for me to see…
by the end of the call I could see it above the trees, but it had returned to a normal view…
tonight I got a text suggesting I check it out again…
I put on my jacket and walked down to the toboggan hills at the end of the street, but still couldn’t see it, lol…
there is just no way to see the moon from here when it is on the horizon…
but, I had a nice little walk and got in the last of my steps… even though the current temperature is -2° Celsius…
18 Monday Oct 2021
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what a beautiful day…
our group met on the deck around the firepit in the late afternoon…
there were cheezies, shortbread cookies and pistachios to go along with the coffee and tea…
once the coffee was made, I set out blankets and cushions before everyone arrived…
this is the aftermath of our time together, lol…
it was so beautiful out that we didn’t use the blankets;-)… even at 8 pm, it was 17° Celsius…
on October 18!
and as a final treat, the sky did this;-)…
15 Friday Oct 2021
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acclimatized, big girl pants, blessed, bugs, deck, garden, moments, moving, nature, plants, widow
recently brought in two of my plants which had been on the deck for the last while…
the hibiscus spent the entire summer on the deck and when it came in it sat just inside the door as it acclimatized to the temperature and hopefully dropped any bugs… it took up a fair bit of room, lol… it was moved yesterday to the corner of the dining room and today has a bloom;-)…
the mandevilla had lived right in the garden and only recently started blooming… it was covered with a plastic bag and sat in the bathtub to suffocate any non-invited guests before moving into the dining room this morning…
it will stay there for a little while, but this may not be its final resting place…
we will see…
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