30 Wednesday Apr 2025
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Indi is seven years old today…
hard to believe that all this time has gone by…
and she is finally completely mine, lol…
now to get those pretty wheels back on;-)…
29 Tuesday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, corms, dahlia, garden, humidity, moments, morning glories, plants, seeds, shoots, starting, weather, widow
on Saturday I brought up the dahlias and put them in the sun on the dining room table…
after doing some reading I put some of them in plastic containers to give them a bit of humidity…
we will see if that makes any difference…
happy that a number of them have already started growing…
I also started some morning glories… I was rather sad to discover that I hardly had any seeds, so I only put one in each of the containers…
looking forward to seeing some shoots in the near future;-)…
28 Monday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, connected, empty and fill, filter, garden, hot tub, moments, pump, Technology, time, water, weather, widow
it was time to change the water and filter in the hot tub…
once I brought out the pump and connected it to the hose, I started the process at 10:20 am… twelve minutes later the pump came out and I emptied the last little bit of water with a pail and cloth… that took another twenty minutes…
once the new filter was in, I brought out the hose from the basement, repaired a piece of it, and hooked it back up to the outside tap…
filling the tub took about an hour and a half and just after 1 pm, the electricity was back on and the heating up process began…
it took just over a day to heat to 103°C…
27 Sunday Apr 2025
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accomplish, at last, big girl pants, blessed, garden, gardener, Kingfisher Spa, memories, moments, nature, Technology, widow
had a bit of a giggle when this photo came up in my Facebook memories…
it was from 14 years ago when I was visiting my daughter in Courtenay and we had spent the day at Kingfisher Resort and Spa…
and yesterday, my own gardener was here;-)… just took a few years to accomplish…
and, of course, she isn’t here every day, or just my gardener, lol…
but, still…
26 Saturday Apr 2025
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beds, big girl pants, blessed, cleanup, debris, fluffing, garden, Hilda the Gardener, moments, nature, planning, weather, widow
first day of garden cleanup…
Hilda the Gardener arrived and spent the afternoon removing leaves and debris from around the garden and fluffing the beds…
even though not everything got done, it makes such a huge difference to how the garden looks…
took this photo before Hilda arrived…you can see the difference under the main deck;-)…
I was sitting on the back deck for the first time this year… woohoo;-)…
looking forward to many wonderful moments in this sanctuary…
25 Friday Apr 2025
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had a bit of a performance outside when I happened to look out the window this evening;-)…
funny bunnies;-)…
24 Thursday Apr 2025
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Assiniboine Park, big girl pants, blessed, blown over, cut, garden, moments, nature, pergola, plants, shocked, trees, weather, widow
on a recent walk to the Park and around the gardens I was rather shocked to see how many trees had been removed throughout the forest between the walking bridge and the gardens as well as in the gardens…
there were still trees that had fallen or been blown over…
and it appeared that the pergola in the Leo Mol pond area had been completely rebuilt or else it had been sandblasted…
lots of changes since I was there in the Fall;-)…
22 Tuesday Apr 2025
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I received a letter from Manitoba Health the other day…
in it was my new health card, woohoo…
I’d been planning to give them a call as I had gone online and filled out the application what seemed like many weeks ago, lol…
it looks great and I was quick to pull the old paper one out of my wallet and put in the new plastic one…
21 Monday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, birthday, blessed, cards, family, flickers, flowers, food, friends, geese, gifts, google, grandson, lobster, moments, Technology, treats, whoever, widow
on Friday, woke up to geese honking as they headed out looking for something to eat… and spotted flickers in the field across from the house;-)…
opened the beautiful cards and gifts from friends and family I’d been saving over the last few days, and laughed at Google singing to whoever was having the birthday, lol…
received a gorgeous purple handmade book, filled with photos of the garden and a book about monarchs with things I didn’t previously know… going to have to read that more thoroughly…
tried to vote, but the lineup was long, so headed out for breakfast at The Pancake House…
decided to vote Saturday when I would have more time…
friends arrived with cards and flowers and we had a lovely visit… the neighbour stopped by and gave an update on the house next door and collected Easter books for the littles…
received many texts and phone calls and had fun watching some F1 on tv…
cookies and hot cross buns arrived as I was reading in the living room, so I had to eat one of the hot cross buns, yum…
supper was steak and lobster, with fries and asparagus;-)… followed by a blizzard, yum…
what a delightful day it was…
20 Sunday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, birthday, blessed, feet, flip flops, gentle, happy, holding, moments, pedicure, purple, tanned, treat, wax, widow
had a lovely pedicure on Thursday as one of the celebrations for my birthday…
a day early but, like many places, they were closed for Good Friday;-)…
Joy was gentle and did a wonderful job of holding my feet securely as she worked so I didn’t kick her at all… those sensitive feet, lol…
as a special treat, I had the paraffin treatment, which is always delightful…
and because I wore my flip flops, she put them on first and then put on the polish… very clever…
had lots of time to sit and let the polish dry before heading home…
and am very happy with the fresh toes on my already slightly tanned feed;-)…
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