shrank…

03 Sunday Oct 2021

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had a bit of a giggle the other day… I was folding towels and facecloths from the dryer…

I looked at this one and thought oh no my favourite towel lost its colour and is more mauve now… and that was okay, purple and all, but odd…

when I picked it up from the other items, I thought that it also shrank…

at that point I realized it was actually a hand towel that came from the lavender farm in Maui… and it did have mauve stripes…

here is a photo of my favourite towel… not sure why it is the favourite as I have other, purple ones, but this is definitely the most used…

and now I am going out to the hot tub with that very towel…

cooked…

02 Saturday Oct 2021

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over the last three or four days I have cooked a lot in the kitchen…

I produced a beautiful corn chowder with some leftover corn on the cob…

then I made zucchini-basil soup with most of my basil and added a bit of chicken to the recipe as well…

and finally I free-styled Calico beans… didn’t have as many canned beans in the house as required nor any molasses, but it came out great anyway, lol… and it was nice to have some of my dahlias around…

there is certainly lots of choice in the fridge just now…

will be putting a few of them into the freezer for lazy days…

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…