20 Sunday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, garden, inside, moments, morning glories, nature, smoky, tv, weather, widow, windows
another smoky day here…
all the windows were closed overnight and all of today… I miss the fresh air…
was only outside for a few minutes this morning to check on the morning glories;-)…
rest of the day was in front of the tv, lol… athletics, gymnastics, and binge watching shows…
19 Saturday Jul 2025
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activity, big girl pants, bird feeders, blessed, bunnies, dust baths, garden, interruptions, moments, moving, nature, sparrows, squirrels, weather, widow
a delightful day in the garden… the weather was perfect… sunny, but not too hot…
I moved around the garden, following the shade and reading my book;-)…
although, there were constant interruptions as sparrows, squirrels, and bunnies kept me looking up from my reading…
the sparrows have dug holes in the spaces between the stepping stones along the edge of the pond… two or three of them are at least an inch or so deep… the birds really enjoy dust baths…
one squirrel spent ages trying to figure out how to get to the seeds in the squirrel-proof feeder…
happily it never figured it out…
not sure if there were one or two bunnies, lol… one spent quite some time under the bird feeder amongst the iris leaves scoffing down any fallen seeds…
and maybe the same one, or another, having a nap in the grass…
lovely to have so much activity in the space…
16 Wednesday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, camera, eggs, fields, flowers, friend, fun, garden, happy, Miss Millie’s Flower Farm, moments, mug, nature, Nikon, picking, plants, time, weather, widow
this morning we drove to Miss Millie’s Flower Farm and had a lovely time in the fields…
my adventure buddy gathered flowers, and I gathered photographs with my Nikon… great fun for both of us…
of the 125 photos I took, I was very pleased with about 75…
the weather was perfect, overcast and cool, and there were few bugs… we had been there in August of 2022 and the mosquitoes had been voracious at that time…
the fields were not as far along due to the weather but it is a beautiful place to spend time in… so happy I remembered that taking pictures was more fun for me than gathering flowers;-)… and nice to get the camera out for a change;-)…
I also brought home some fresh eggs and a new tea mug (Sugar & Spice Pottery);-)…
14 Monday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, bunnies, bunny, climbed, fun, moments, morning glories, nature, steps, weather, widow
while I was on a phone call, I looked out the window to see two bunnies…
one climbed up the front steps and I caught it on the way down, lol…
from there it went into the flower bed and ate the morning glory plant that had popped up in the mulch… happy it was one of the “wild” ones, lol…
then the two of them headed to the other side of the yard looking for treats…
a few minutes later a third one turned up…
what fun out the window;-)…
13 Sunday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, family, farmers, Farmers Market, food, fresh veggies, garden, grandson, moments, nature, peas, potatoes, treat, weather, widow
finally made it to a farmers market today… when I worked we would often get to the market which was either beside, or in, the Hydro building…
this is just a small one, located in the parking lot of a fairly close grocery store…
so excited to get peas, yay… and carrots, radishes, green and regular onions, garlic, asparagus, baby potatoes (both white and red), and dill…
so far I’ve had peas with my lunch and supper, lol…
next up will be potatoes with peas, carrots, asparagus, and dill… yum…
11 Friday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, delicious, food, garden, happy, moments, nature, peas, pick, shelling, step stool, treat, weather, widow
this morning I picked the peas from the side garden;-)…
had to use the step stool to get the higher ones and my housemate picked the last couple that I couldn’t reach…
I spent a lovely fifteen minutes shelling them…
then boiled and ate them for lunch…
yum, what a treat;-)…
10 Thursday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, cheese, dad, family, food, lunch, memories, memory, moments, remembering, sandwich, sardines, widow
today, as I was making my lunch, I was reminded of my dad…
he loved sardines and would often make a sardine sandwich for his lunch when he was home…
when he worked he had a cheese sandwich every single day🤪…
back to the sardines, lol…
he would smash them up in a bowl with a fork and a bit of the oil from the container and then put the mix onto white bread…
I mashed mine up and then topped up some premium crackers with the mixture… tasty and went well with the cucumber, onion, tomato salad which I also made…
sweet memory;-)…
09 Wednesday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, delightful, lamb, moments, photograph, piccata, pickerel, Pine Ridge Hollow, restaurant, schmoo, shops, wandered, weather, widow
today, we celebrated one of our group’s birthdays by spending the afternoon at Pine Ridge Hollow…
we drove out in a hybrid electric car and spent a couple of hours wandering through all the shops…
we followed that up with an excellent dinner at the restaurant…
our meal started with beet chips and goat cheese ranch dipping sauce, oh my, so tasty…
four members of the group had pickerel piccata while I had the lamb shank…
my lamb was braised and flame-grilled, came with tabbouleh, fennel slaw, whipped labneh, and a drizzle of chermoula… I had to look up a number of the items on Google but they made a delightful combination;-)…
everyone’s meal was delicious and just a touch different than expected…
the birthday “girl” had schmoo, while others enjoyed the frozen lemon meringue…
we conscripted a fellow restaurant member as they were leaving to take our traditional photo…’you can see we were having a lot of fun;-)…
a leisurely drive home ended another of our special days…
08 Tuesday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, blooms, disintegrate, flowers, garden, happy, moments, morning glories, nature, plants, purple, starting, weather, widow
so happy to see that the morning glories are opening…
the butterfly bench hasn’t had any open lately but the planter by the backdoor has been blooming over the last few days… today there were three…
then, as I was driving out of the garage, I stopped the car, got out and took photos of the blooms by the large garage door…
the blooms don’t last long and if it rains they kind of disintegrate, so I wanted to be sure to get a photo of them;-)…
06 Sunday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, breezy, early, fans, finches, garden, hot tub, moments, nature, qualifying, quiet, Technology, weather, widow
lovely start to the day on Saturday, with a 4:30 am hot tub… it was cool, sky was just beginning to lighten, birds were singing, and clouds drifted above…
back to sleep for a while and then got to watch qualifying for Sunday’s F1 race at Silverstone…
and one of my favourites got pole position…
was able to turn off the fans and open all the windows to get some fresh, cool, air into the house, which was wonderful after the last few days of sizzling heat…
out in the garden I spotted a house finch couple enjoying snacks at one of the feeders…
the rest of the day was quiet and peaceful…
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