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mound…

25 Saturday Sep 2021

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had a great time with Hilda the Gardener this afternoon…

we discussed plans for the next month or so, and for the spring…

she moved some soil for me and I finished filling up the new raised bed…

she also brought the mandevilla up onto the deck… it will be coming into the house before too long..

she moved baby’s breath, silver mound and milkweed to what I hope will be better spots…

and removed some of the weeds in the side garden…

it always makes me happy to see the difference once she’s been here…

songs…

24 Friday Sep 2021

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so blessed to get to spend time in the garden watching the birds…

yesterday, there were house sparrows, white throated sparrows, chickadees, nuthatches, juncos, and even a couple of blue jays…

lots of chatter, songs, dust and water baths… also they are gobbling up the birdseed and had many trips to drink from the pond…

only saw a couple of squirrels, lol…

side…

23 Thursday Sep 2021

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busy time in the garden…

last night we moved the filing cabinet raised bed from the garage to the side garden…

today on this beautiful, mostly sunny, day, I lifted and repositioned a number of the rocks in that area to sit around it… some of them were rather large and heavy, lol… I have collected them from all over Manitoba…

I think the area looks good and plan on filling the raised bed with bits of wood and soil to get it ready for spring…

cut…

21 Tuesday Sep 2021

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the dahlias have been producing beautiful flowers for weeks…

cut and brought these ones in today…

nice to have flowers around in the house…

ballot…

20 Monday Sep 2021

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I received my vote by mail ballot at the end of August…

once I knew who was running in my area I filled in the ballot with the first and last name of the person I decided on and filled all of the various envelopes being sure to follow all the directions…

eleven days ago I gave the envelope to my wonderful mail carrier who dropped it into the mail for me…

think I have now voted in all the ways you can, lol… at the polling station, at an advance poll, and now by mail…

begonia…

16 Thursday Sep 2021

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yesterday I went around the garden and gathered all of the open dahlias and one of the begonia flowers…

made a lovely little bouquet…

I am happy to see that the begonia has stayed fresh looking…

on this rainy day I have enjoyed these flowers…

they look great on the new coffee table;-)…

ear…

09 Thursday Sep 2021

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I went for a walk… outside… in the neighbourhood… no idea when I did that last…

walked with my daughter in my ear…

didn’t go too far, up to and around Bruce Park… it was lovely to see flowers, the creek, and get some photos…

felt fine at the end… only met a few people and they weren’t close to me…

secateurs…

08 Wednesday Sep 2021

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decided the Virginia creeper over the hot tub was starting to creep too much towards the water…

grabbed my secateurs and a pail… moved the steps to the other side of the hot tub and climbed up…

was careful not to fall as I climbed onto the cover and along the edge to get to the window…

happy to get back on the ground when it was done…

looks much tidier now…

and I am still in one piece;-)…

mow…

04 Saturday Sep 2021

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this morning when I looked outside the sun was shining and it was a nice temperature…

but, the grass was so tall I didn’t want to go into the garden… since we’ve had a bit of rain and cooler weather it has grown like crazy and my grandsons hadn’t been able to come over and mow for me…

I decided that I would mow it myself… I did buy a lawnmower that starts easily and doesn’t have any cords for just this situation…

so, I moved furniture, mowed, whippersnipped, put furniture back, brought out cushions and finally sat down with a cup of tea to enjoy the space…

it looked spectacular;-)…

and I spotted a water lily bud… yay…

fisher…

30 Monday Aug 2021

Posted by sulis303 in camping, health, life, moments, nature, retirement, travel, Uncategorized, weather

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gorgeous early morning start as a fisher was out to begin their day…

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