startle…

16 Tuesday Apr 2024

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on Monday’s walk I focussed on checking out the trees as on Sunday I watched a webinar on bird nests and eggs…

this is down by the creek and if you look closely at the bottom of the trees, you can see where the beaver has been busy…

was excited to discover a mallard couple in a puddle in a field…

wasn’t able to get too close because I didn’t want to startle them but had a lovely few minutes watching them;-)…

also collected many Pokémon items…

raking…

15 Monday Apr 2024

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spent a good portion of the day on Sunday in the garden raking up leaves… there were a lot of them as well as dead cedar bits…

I know it is a bit early for the bugs, but I want to be able to sit on the back deck…

I left an old garbage can filled with some of what I’d picked up open so the little critters could still get out;-)…

what a difference this has made… it still needs another good going over, but I can now sit comfortably on the back deck and think about how it is going to look with flowers and the fish in the pond…

walking…

14 Sunday Apr 2024

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Friday morning I put on my runners and went for a walk… first time in months as I’ve been worried about snow and ice…

I also took a book to drop at the Little Library on the next street…

I didn’t take my usual path as I wanted to collect Poké balls while I was out… went up to Portage, down the next street and then detoured past an area that had lots of Pokéstops and collected various items along the way… finished along another main drag until I was back at my street…

might do that again as I continue to walk further each time I go out…

interesting that I didn’t take a single photo, lol…

nice to be checking out the neighbourhood again and looking forward to getting to the Park soon;-)…

veggie…

12 Friday Apr 2024

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it appears that Thursday is our order-in/treat night…

sometimes it is frozen pizza, other times something gets picked up or ordered in;-)…

yesterday’s treat was wonton soup from Alfy’s…

it was tasty and I had leftovers for lunch today…

we also got some tempura shrimp and veggie spring rolls…

I like treat night;-)…

phenomenon…

09 Tuesday Apr 2024

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reorganized the chairs on the deck on Monday to face the sun…

then I brought out blankets for each one so we would be comfortable while we had our eyes to the sky…

everyone brought their eclipse glasses from October, when we saw nothing due to clouds…

coffee was ready, snacks were brought out and my friends arrived an hour early for our regular Monday gathering…

at first the clouds covered the activity but eventually we got to see some of the eclipse…

this was one of the two photos I took… I held the glasses over my iPhone’s lens and one of my friends pushed the button, lol…

it was fun to be together and enjoy this phenomenon…

another great experience with these wonderful women, one who was on FaceTime, lol…

detritus…

08 Monday Apr 2024

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Sunday, I removed the tarp covering chairs and tables on the back deck and laid it out on the driveway to dry…

then I moved the furniture and swept the deck… there seems to be way more cedar detritus than usual… all of it went into the beds under the cedar trees…

then I partially set up the chairs and table on the deck…

eventually the tarp was folded and put away…

there is very little snow left in the garden, but it is still rather wet…

now to wait for the area to dry up so I can put the chairs in their usual locations…

messier…

06 Saturday Apr 2024

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months ago we made a concerted effort to clean, tidy, and organize the basement back room…

it got a bit messier when the furnace was replaced, lol, as containers close to it had to be moved…

after Christmas the holiday bins were sorted and put away neatly, but there were still many boxes and bins out…

the other night we finally got the project finished and it looks great down there;-)…

now to keep it that way…

carts…

05 Friday Apr 2024

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went for dim sum on Wednesday… can’t even think of the last time I had it…

it was supper time and they worked from a menu, not just having the carts going around…

spent a few minutes with their fish…

as per usual we ordered too much, but that meant I had a lovely leftover lunch on Thursday…

it was delicious both times…

ended the evening on our way home with a cone from Dairy Queen…

yum;-)…

sarongs…

04 Thursday Apr 2024

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time to update the living room table…

I decided on sarongs in each square and then books from various trips for me to enjoy during this birthday month…

ran the sarongs through the wash to get rid of any wrinkles and then filled in the squares… went with purple and orange… purple for me, and orange for my daughter, with whom I went on many of the trips, lol…