23 Tuesday Jul 2024
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beans, big girl pants, blessed, cook, food, garden, green beans, lunch, moments, nature, shopping, summer, supper, trimmed, widow
yesterday a friend brought me a large bag of fresh green beans…
this morning while I was watching a tv show I trimmed them all and put some into two pots…
I cooked the first batch for my lunch…
then the second for supper, with a few leftovers for tomorrow…
they were delicious…
I do love fresh veggies;-)…
20 Saturday Jul 2024
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, cottage, fun, garden, hawk, moments, nattering, nature, remembering, song, sounds, squirrels, widow
had a bit of a giggle as I was sitting on the deck eating breakfast and listening for bird songs…
when we were at the cottage we would hear a huge variety within just a few minutes…
of course that was also at migration time so I’m not sure how many you might hear now…
here, I can hear house sparrows, chickadees, the odd crow, squirrels yelling, and recycling/garbage trucks going up and down the lane, lol…
it has also been quieter lately because there is a Cooper’s Hawk hanging around, which makes for some very quiet times when all the birds and squirrels go into hiding…
you know it has left the area when all of a sudden large numbers of sparrows start getting drinks and gathering seed from the feeders, nattering the whole time…
19 Friday Jul 2024
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, bunnies, garden, miffed, moments, nature, sanctuary, squirrels, sun, weather, widow
this morning as I was sitting in the garden quietly reading my book, birds, squirrels and bunnies wandered through…
they are used to me sitting out there and don’t really mind me particularly as they pretty much know that I have no plans to hurt them…
although this morning I was a little miffed with the squirrels because they have figured out a way to get onto the two bird feeders that I thought were safe from them, sigh…
but all in all, a wonderful garden sanctuary;-)…
18 Thursday Jul 2024
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, family, health, hernia, hysterectomy, memories, moments, remembering, surgeons, surgery, widow, without
it was twelve years ago today that I had surgery for a hernia and a hysterectomy… it took a while to get organized as two different surgeons were required to work together so that both issues could be taken care of at the same time…
it was particularly difficult because it was the first time I went through a serious health issue without my beloved there to support and look after me…
thinking back to that time, I realize how far I have come and how well I am doing now…
I still miss him every single day…
16 Tuesday Jul 2024
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basil, beans, big girl pants, blessed, cucumbers, garden, moments, nature, peas, plants, rain, some, tomatoes, veggie garden, weather, widow
all of the rain has made some of the veggie garden plants quite happy…
the tomatoes are doing well and growing bigger each day…
the peapods are filling out rather nicely and I had my first peas… from just one pod, lol…
the beans are growing up the arch but don’t have any flowers yet and the cucumbers are very slow in flowering…
I think that I may need to plant more beans and even cucumbers… sadly the butternut squash seed did not produce…
and, finally the basil has started to fill the pot;-)…
14 Sunday Jul 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, clematis, comparison, family, flowering, flowers, garden, growth, moments, nature, plants, purple, remembering, weather, widow
the clematis on the south side of the house has been outdoing itself this season… maybe it likes all the rain, lol…
I would say there are maybe a hundred buds or blossoms… and that is after two serious thunderstorms which knocked tons of petals off…
came across this photo from July, 2013…
at that point it was probably five or six years old… before this one we had probably planted five or six that all died…
nice to have the comparison as it is easy to forgot how much something has grown…
12 Friday Jul 2024
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air, air conditioner, barbecue, Barbie the Barbecue, big girl pants, blessed, delicious, garden, grandson, hot, moments, nature, option, weather, widow
it has been very hot here for the last few days, with no rain, woohoo…
last night’s supper was pork tenderloin with potatoes, onions, and mushrooms and asparagus…
all cooked on Barbie the Barbecue…
nice to have an option for preparing supper in this heat…
sadly, it appears that the air conditioner has shared its last cooling;-(…
11 Thursday Jul 2024
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my hair goes along fine and then all of a sudden it has grown like crazy…
Wednesday night it hit that it is too long phase and I marched into the bathroom and started cutting…
for years I cut it myself and then it got more difficult to get the back shaped properly so I started going to get it done…
now I usually go to Ultracuts but I also chop it off every now and then, lol…
it isn’t that big a deal as it is curly so hides any huge mistakes;-)…
came out fine this time…
08 Monday Jul 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, cascading, filter, garden, moments, pond, pump, waterfall, weather, widow
on Sunday, I put out all the cushions as there was no rain in the forecast;-)…
the waterfall was running very slowly so I climbed into the pond and cleaned out all the muck that had accumulated in the filter of the pump…
then I trimmed up some of the plants in one of the floating baskets as the fish swam around my legs, completely unconcerned…
now the waterfall is cascading beautifully;-)…
06 Saturday Jul 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, develops, food, garden, moments, nature, plants, shade, shade garden, tomato plants, veggies, weather, widow
this morning I spent some time in the veggie garden… formerly known as the shade garden, lol…
there are peas starting to fill out the pods and the bean and cucumber plants are stretching up to the arch…
I’ve been doing some reading on tomato plants and decided to trim back the bottom leaves to give them more air…
I was surprised at how many branches were removed…
I guess we will see what develops…
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