18 Friday Feb 2022
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beginning, big girl pants, blessed, blooming, flowers, happy, moments, nature, opening, orchid, plants, purple, widow
had the opportunity to watch the beginning of the opening of one of the orchid buds…
in the morning…
through the afternoon…
and into the evening…
really, nature is spectacular;-)…
16 Wednesday Feb 2022
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big girl pants, deep, garbage bin, garden, moments, nature, path, shovelled, snow, weather, widow, wrangled
out in the snow again today…
after clearing a path to the back lane, I wrangled the garbage bin to a spot just outside the gate…
the drift there was about a foot deep so it took me a while to make a spot for the bin…
sure hope they empty it on Friday…
09 Wednesday Feb 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, melt, moments, nature, pond, rain, shovelling, snow, stuck, weather, widow
yesterday it rained… crazy eh…
I went out before it really got going to clear the snow in front of the patio door…
for the last week or so it has been stuck and only opened about six inches…
seemed like a good plan to deal with it before the rain, in case it freezes into ice back there…
took quite a while and a lot of effort to get the snow moved… it was much heavier and had more chunks in it… the hill next to the deck is high again, so I’ve had to walk along the path before throwing the snow into the garden…
but, got it done… there is still tons of snow on the deck although the rain and wind and warmer weather have certainly melted some of it…
it will be interesting to see how it is going to melt, or whether there will be more than one pond in the space..
04 Friday Feb 2022
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beloved, big girl pants, bins, drift, garden, moments, nature, path, sidewalk, snow, weather, widow
yikes, more snow stories…
put on long underwear, an extra vest, mitts over gloves, my Canada Goose jacket, and went out in the extreme cold to shovel a path to the garbage and recycle bins…
I had hoped to put them in the lane for pick up but there was just too much snow… hopefully, next week it will be a bit warmer so I can finish digging the path out all the way to the gate…
thankfully there is a bit of space in both bins so they should be fine for one more week…
there was a huge drift up against the back door and it took a while to get through it…
as I moved further into the yard, the path got narrower… it was cold out there…
it was just wide enough for me to carry out the bags, lol…
sure do miss my beloved, he would have shovelled and snow blowed a great path all the way to the lane, no problem… and had fun doing it, lol… he did love to play with the snowblower…
03 Thursday Feb 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, design, garden, hot tub, light, moments, nature, photos, retirement, shadows, snow, weather, widow
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about moments… as in, how easy it is to miss one…
this morning, the sun was shining through the patio doors and created a beautiful design on the side of the microwave… I spent time enjoying it and took a few photos… the shadows reminded me of the pictures I took during a photography class a number of years ago…
just a few minutes later I was in the kitchen and the design was gone… happy that I wandered in at just the right moment and had the chance to enjoy the sight;-)…
a bit later, I was walking on the spot and got to see a bunny running around the backyard… such a treat…
when I was in the garden, I spotted these lovely designs through the pergola and on the hot tub…
we won’t talk about the large amount of snow covering the hot tub;-(…
I am so blessed to have the opportunity to enjoy these…
30 Sunday Jan 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, closed, extreme cold, garden, hit tub, moments, nature, snow, water, weather, widow, winter
last night I had my first hot tub in many weeks…
we have had so much extreme cold and snow that I haven’t wanted to go out…
when I did want to, the cover was frozen closed… this has only ever happened a few times over the twelve years we’ve had it… this year it has already been three or four times…
when it has warmed up a bit… last night a balmy -23… the ice vanishes and the cover opens nicely…
it was quiet and peaceful… sigh, I have missed that;-)…
so, I went out again this morning… even got some pictures…
happy Sunday…
28 Friday Jan 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, driveway, family, garden, moments, nature, sidewalks, snow, toss, weather, widow, windrow
the kids came over on Tuesday to do some shovelling…
I am usually able to do the sidewalks and decks, but there is so much snow out there now that I can’t toss the snow high enough to get over the drifts, lol…
the driveway got cleared, which was nice, although as I don’t go anywhere, that isn’t so important these days…
part of the job was to level the tops of some of the piles in the back so I can manage again without the snow sliding back to where I had moved it from…
they were also able to widen the space where the windrow was at the front… it is much easier to walk to the front door now…
blessed to have the help;-)…
24 Monday Jan 2022
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23 Sunday Jan 2022
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activity, big girl pants, blessed, bunnies, garden, learning, moments, nature, photos, snow, squirrels, tracks, weather, widow
one of the things I enjoy after a snowfall is seeing the tracks that the bunnies, squirrels and birds make…
it is fairly obvious that one or more bunnies are living under the deck… they climb a snowbank and then head underneath… there is lots of space under there…
the squirrels have been running around on the deck… likely the red ones are chasing the other squirrels and birds away from their stash…
soon the bunnies will be able to eat directly from the front feeders because the snow is getting so high, lol…
it is wonderful to have such a great view of nature just by looking out the windows…
19 Wednesday Jan 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, coleus, garden, hopeful, moments, morning glories, nature, planting, plants, sticks, widow
on November 22nd I transplanted the coleus that had been rooting in water… and for a while they grew… then, they all died off…
yesterday I used the soil from one of the containers to plant some morning glory seeds…
also added three sticks so that when they grow there will be a place to climb…
hopefully they will do better than the coleus did…
