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damaged…

20 Friday Aug 2021

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for the last week or so I’ve been wondering why the hibiscus is getting all these yellow leaves… I’d been watering it and had even given it some banana peel water…

this afternoon, between rainfalls, I put a chair up alongside it as the wind is supposed to get crazy tomorrow and I didn’t want it to blow over again…

and spotted this…

this is very sad… I hope I will be able to remove the broken portion and that the other two stems will remain healthy…

it may have been damaged during the big storm last week… the tree had blown over and I didn’t check the stem when I put it back up… too bad, maybe it could have been repaired…

pain…

19 Thursday Aug 2021

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I’ve been thinking about health a lot lately…

possibly it has to do with updating my Will, but I also think it is about being well…

for the longest time my hip was bothering me when I would go to stand up from a chair… I knew it was going to hurt, so was very tentative as I stood…

I also didn’t want to go see my physio person because of covid, so I just suffered through…

recently I realized that it wasn’t nearly as sore as it had been…

it always amazes me how quick we forget a pain that has been ongoing once it stops…

it seems to take longer to recover from aches and pains these days, but I am so pleased once I realize things are better;-)…

earbuds…

13 Friday Aug 2021

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received my new earbuds…

two or three weeks ago my pretty Samsung Earbuds just stopped working… all of a sudden they wouldn’t pair with my phone… of course they were not under warranty… the service department suggested I have them repaired locally but the local people advised they would have to send them away… it was going to cost $55 if they sent them away and I decided not to have them repaired… and it wasn’t clear how much the repair might cost…

I thought about it for quite a while and did a ton of research before deciding on these ones…

I want them mainly for phone calls which meant there weren’t that many options and ones that would be comfortable in my ears…

I finally ordered them on Wednesday, and they were delivered on Friday;-)…

they were easy to pair with my iPhone and music sounds good…

will have to see how they are on phone calls…

wish me luck;-)…

twenty-one…

10 Tuesday Aug 2021

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today, my grandson turns twenty-one…

apparently I am getting lax in my old age as I haven’t been taking as many photos as usual…

these are three of the most recent ones with him in them, lol… but they cover the important things…

in this first one he is cleaning out the hot tub for me… he often comes over and looks after various household and garden jobs…

currently he has my car and here he driving me home after my first Covid-19 vaccination where he kept me company through the entire process… and suggested we get an ice cream treat…

this last one is him heading out in the car after delivering items off for me… he runs errands for me and drops off bits and pieces whenever needed…

what a wonderful time these twenty-one years have been…

he is a wonderful support…

blower…

09 Monday Aug 2021

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busy time in the garden on Saturday…

my grandson came, whipper snipped, trimmed the weeds in the driveway, and blew all the leaves and detritus… we do like the blower, which can also act as a vacuum… everything looks tidy… he also helped get one of the bubble machines going…

a bit later Hilda the Gardener spent time weeding and tidying so that the garden looks well cared for… it is always such a treat to see how lovely everything looks after she’s been here…

meanwhile, I had lightly fertilized the plants that are heavy feeders, filled bird feeders and pulled out a few weeds in the new grass…

bubbles make me happy…

dry…

03 Tuesday Aug 2021

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was watering the plants when I spotted movement in the pond…

when I looked more closely, I realized that a dragonfly was struggling in the water…

I was able to get it out of the water and set it down where it could dry out…

it wasn’t moving so I thought that it took too long to lift it out…

I checked on it a few times and it was very still…

later I went over, and happily, it had flown away;-)…

yay;-)…

everyday…

01 Sunday Aug 2021

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the Olympics have been a distraction as this day has come closer – what would have been our 51st wedding anniversary…

I’ve spent the day thinking of some moments with my beloved…

the everyday things: changing up the configuration of the ponds; working in the garden as it changed over the years; caring for his lawn, trimming the Virginia creeper, fixing whatever needed attention; making the world’s best French fries, fried egg sandwiches and salads; driving the girls and I everywhere; reading and playing with our grandsons; cleaning the garage, packing the car, barbecuing; the strength of his hands that could wring out a cloth so it was dry, massage a sore neck, scrub a pot perfectly clean, and gently hold my hand when we were out walking…

so many little things…

I’ve been remembering our 40th anniversary… I was in the hospital for an extended period of time and he came every day and brought me pictures he had taken of whatever morning glories had opened on that particular day… I took this photo just yesterday…

he also sent me a basket filled with 40 roses… each night they had to be moved into the hall because their scent was so strong I couldn’t sleep with them in the room, lol…

a friend recently lost his partner and has decided to refer to their anniversary as the first celebration of their 41 years together… what a lovely way to describe it…

today I am also enjoying the sentiment of this beautiful card which I recently received in the mail…

what a blessed life I have lived;-)…

damselfly…

11 Sunday Jul 2021

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had some fun watching dragonflies around the pond…

caught one as it was having a rest on the grass in the pond…

also watched one dive-bomb the water as it apparently dropped eggs into the water…

I still haven’t been able to spot any of the eggs when this happens…

also spotted a cute little damselfly sitting on that same grass, but didn’t get a picture…

relations…

01 Thursday Jul 2021

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today…

I signed a petition…

read a book – 21 Things You May Not Know About The Indian Act... one of the Appendices included the 94 recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada…

put orange sarongs on both doors (the only orange I have)… they darkened the space, so every time I walked by them I was reminded of my focus for today…

listened to “A Day to Listen”… yesterday I heard a few of them on the radio, but today took the time to hear all of them…

made donations to The Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack Fund and Indigenous Residential School Survivors Society…

thought long and hard about what we/I must continue to do to make right relations…

although it was a new and sad way to spend Canada Day, I learned a great deal… and I will not forget…

clump…

29 Tuesday Jun 2021

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the daisies have crossed the garden a number of times over the years…

this year there are none… this is very sad…

I noticed that there was a clump in the neighbour’s front yard… I think they travelled a bit farther than before…

I’m hoping they come back to the garden next year;-)…