04 Saturday Jul 2026
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arch, big girl pants, blessed, climb, garden, growing, moments, morning glories, nature, widow
the plants on the new arch are just taking off…
the morning glories have just begun to climb up along the deck side and I am hoping for many flowers before too long…
the other side has a number of plants growing… cucumbers and beans, including scarlet runners…
I am hoping they might invite the hummingbirds to the garden…
I may have planted too many🤪…
03 Friday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, family, garden, housemate, invisible, moments, nature, trimmed, virginia creeper, weather, widow
apparently, the virginia creeper is the happiest plant in the garden…
it is growing by leaps and bounds…
along the garage it has been trying to make its way back into the eavestrough and it also thinks it should get to the hot tub, lol…
the baskets were nearly invisible on the other side of the garden…
my housemate was able to get it all back under control in just a few minutes… looks so much better now…
it will probably look like that again in a few weeks😊…
02 Thursday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, growing, happier, lemon, lemon tree, moments, nature, new leaves, widow
the lemon tree is very happy outside…
it has new leaves sprouting all over… much happier than when it went out last year…
all this from a seed out of a kitchen lemon… I can’t, for the life of me, remember when it was first planted;-)…
01 Wednesday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, blossoms, coneflower, driveway, garden, happy, nature, period, widow
it always amazes me how much better plants do in the place they like…
a perfect example is the coneflower…
previously we had tried one in the bed by the pond and it died off…
last year we planted one along the driveway, beside the chimney… it had two flowers, which made me very happy…
this year I counted at least a dozen blossoms… looking forward to seeing them as they open…
the blossoms are different sizes, so they should open over a period of time;-)…
clearly they like the strong sun in that spot and are very happy 😁
29 Monday Jun 2026
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this pesky knee is being a bit of a pain, so on Sunday I didn’t spend any time getting steps…
made for a quiet day, although with the rainy and overcast weather it was fairly easy to lay around reading and napping…
I also got to watch the F1 race in Austria…
that was fun…
27 Saturday Jun 2026
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was out for a hot tub a few nights ago… I had twisted my knee, woke up around 2, and went out to soak in the heat…
as I was preparing to slowly and carefully step out of the tub, I looked over and watched a chubby skunk toddle about two feet from me, on its way to the back lane…
using this old picture, I was kitty corner from where I am in this photo… the skunk came through the gate and was just a foot away from the bottom step when I saw it👀…
reminded me of an encounter with another skunk in August of 2015:
after supper last night at the campsite, all the boys and dogs went for a walk to the beach to catch frogs…
it was dark and nearly eleven when a skunk came to visit we three women as we sat around the campfire…
one ran into the tent, another climbed on top of the picnic table… I sat in my chair as the skunk came and sniffed my toes before moseying along to the next site…
was going to take a picture but decided not to in case it got nervous and sprayed, lol…
that was quite a memorable experience;-)…
25 Thursday Jun 2026
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we bought a new net which we hope will act as a better filter for the pond, so that, hopefully, we won’t have to climb into the pond as often to clean the pump…
right now we have some plants sitting on top of it to kind of disguise it…
if it works well, we will see if we can cut it down just a bit, so it isn’t above water level…
fingers crossed that it does the job;-)…
24 Wednesday Jun 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, drooling, family, grandson, knives, moments, new, old, sharpened, shopping, widow
took four of my most used knives in to be sharpened… and was advised they weren’t really worth sharpening…
made me sad as two of them were wearever knives that were my mom and dad’s… which did make them likely sixty or seventy years old…
so, then I bought some new ones… had fun with the salesperson who had lots of questions and made me hold many knives…
lucky for me, they were all reasonably priced, unlike those that my housemate has… the staff were drooling over his collection, which they had just sharpened and were the reason we were there, lol…
23 Tuesday Jun 2026
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so, the other day my adventure buddy brought me some beautiful peonies and they looked and smelled delicious…
what I didn’t know about peonies is that they guzzle water like crazy and just possibly they ran out of water…
I added more water when I realized what had happened, but most of them didn’t perk up…
eventually, I tossed out the very dead ones and cut back the few remaining…
and I also put some of the dead ones into a small vase to put in the den because they still smelled delicious…
a few buds went into a small container and they have opened;-)…
22 Monday Jun 2026
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ageratum, big girl pants, garden, moments, monarch, monarch butterfly, nature, plant, widow
spotted a monarch butterfly in the garden…
it was very interested in the ageratum…
and I’m very happy as there are two of these plants in the garden;-)…
woohoo…
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