micro-climate…

02 Sunday Mar 2025

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spent a delightful hour on the deck in the sunshine…

last evening my housemate dug out one of the deck chairs from under the tarp so there would be a place to sit when the weather is cooperative…

I found a set of cushions in the garage and brought out my Assiniboine Park blanket…

pulled over a small table and put my current book on it…

I did have my winter jacket on, but the sun on my face as I was reading was wonderful;-)…

there is still lots of snow in the garden, but the deck is always its own little micro-climate…

I even filled up a few bird feeders…

tool…

01 Saturday Mar 2025

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the other day, as my housemate was leaving the house, the handle for the front door came off in his hand…

he wasn’t able to fix it then and when he got home we discovered that we didn’t have the correct tool to make the repair…

happily, no deliveries arrived and I didn’t have to go out the next day, lol…

once he had the right implement, it only took a few minutes to fix the problem;-)…

now I’m not afraid to open the door;-)…

freezing…

26 Wednesday Feb 2025

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for most of the winter the bedroom window has been closed all the time, partly because it was frozen shut and partly because it has been incredibly cold…

a few nights ago it was finally warm enough to open it and keep it open for the night…

and I also opened the screen door during the day for a little while to let some of that – not freezing – fresh air into the house;-)…

shorten…

23 Sunday Feb 2025

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finally made it to Vicki’s Alterations Tailor…

had washed the two new long dresses so they would be ready…

after putting them both on and having May mark where to shorten them, I paid for them and expect they will be ready sometime next week…

apparently many of their clients are wanting their alterations done right away as they are in vacation mode and leaving shortly for warmer climes…

arches…

21 Friday Feb 2025

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as you enter the Mediterranean biome there are dozens of amaryllis in various stages… some nearly done, while others are fully open… many with multiple petals…

absolutely gorgeous…

and then you step into the Babs Asper display area… twelve hundred orchids in one place;-)… heaven…

the Blooms in Winter display is so lovely, a perfect place to enjoy the beauty of orchids…

there are a number of arches to walk through and benches to sit on and enjoy the views…

orchids everywhere, beautiful shapes and sizes…

what a delight;-)…

can’t wait to go back;-)…

thinning…

20 Thursday Feb 2025

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had a wonderful time at The Leaf on Tuesday…

first I spent time at the registration desk where they had to make me a new card as mine had stopped working… apparently the website has been misbehaving a bit, so hopefully the new card will solve that issue;-)…

then we went through the biomes… there were a number of baskets of orchids throughout the Tropical biome…

very humid, and it was obvious that there had been a serious trim and thinning of many of the plants…

the cacao trees had been cutback and all the pods have been removed…

the koi were very active… while we were there one of the zoo keepers came along and fed them… clearly the fish were waiting for them, lol…

the dwarf banana is just starting with a new set of banana fingers…

my housemate pointed out the difference between the dwarf and regular bananas… the dwarf has the banana fingers coming out of the flower, whereas the full-size banana has a flower at the end and the fingers below…

there are always subtle changes in the Tropical biome each time I visit;-)…

stellar…

19 Wednesday Feb 2025

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went to the Park Cafe for breakfast and had a very nice time…

Richard was our waitperson and he did a wonderful job…

I had tea as we waited for our breakfast and it did seem to be taking a bit longer than usual, but not horribly…

when it came, Richard advised that they cooked my poached eggs to medium and he remembered that I had asked for very soft, so he had them redo them, which was why it took a bit longer…

he also mentioned at the end that I could have requested a grilled tomato instead of the hash browns which he saw that I hadn’t eaten…

it was the first time in ages that I felt we’d received stellar service at a restaurant…

he got a big tip;-)…

grape…

18 Tuesday Feb 2025

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my housemate treated me to fresh flowers…

lovely white and pink tulips, and a pot with daffodils, tulips, primrose, grape hyacinth and regular hyacinth…

sock a wonderful treat;-)…

flowers really do make me happy…

clothing…

15 Saturday Feb 2025

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yesterday, for Valentine’s Day, I wore a lovely red pullover that my beloved got me in Banff, many, many, years ago;-)… it is one of the few pieces of red clothing that I own…