55th…

01 Friday Aug 2025

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today I’ve been giggling over a couple of things as I remember 42 years together, on what should have been our 55th wedding anniversary…

first thing I wandered the garden and took pictures of the morning glories…

some, where they were planted, and some that have just found a spot they like, lol…

I remember my beloved bringing me pictures of the ones blooming in the garden each day when he came to visit me in hospital around our fortieth anniversary…

he was just getting used to the camera on his phone, so it was a big deal for him to take the time to take pictures of flowers…

the second thing is the pond…

it has been leaking for ages, but only when the waterfall is running…

we had the leaking problem for a year or so before he died and it was driving him crazy, trying to figure out the problem…

finally, as I was reading on the back deck, two red squirrels were having a battle over one of the feeders… he and squirrels never got on, so it was funny to have them yelling at each other today…

rot…

18 Friday Jul 2025

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so disappointed when I picked the beautiful red tomato that was looking lovely on the vine…

when I turned it over, it had blossom end rot, sigh…

but so beautiful, lol…

fixing???

07 Monday Jul 2025

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we’ve been working on the pond to try and fix the leak that only seems to happen when the waterfall is running…

we purchased a new hose from a pond store and it took a while to get here… then we had to wait for a good day to work on it…

took extra help to pull the old hose and insert the new one… next a new connection to the pump had to be purchased and finally on Sunday evening the waterfall was turned on… the pump hadn’t been cleaned, but the water was coming through the waterfall much stronger that previously…

we thought the problem was where the water meets the deck on the deck side…

this how it looked at the end of Tuesday…

and it was still leaking, sigh…

this is how it looked on Thursday, although we may be getting closer to the problem…

coneflower…

03 Thursday Jul 2025

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the coneflower has finally bloomed… this one was planted on the south side of the house, next to the furnace vents… I think this is a much better spot than the pergola garden…

whenever the hose has been put out it has gotten water and has been growing nicely since it was planted…

not too long ago it produced a bud and it has slowly been opening over the last few weeks…

the petals still need to bend completely, but it is looking pretty good now;-)…

seeing it reminds me of how every year I would buy one, we’d plant it in the garden, and then in the spring my beloved would pull it out thinking it was a weed, lol…

memories 😉…

rosa…

23 Monday Jun 2025

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happy to discover that the red rose bush in the front garden has begun to bloom…

it came from my neighbour (and very good friend) who lived next door for many years…

it always makes me smile and remember the good times we had together over the years;-)…

brought a few in and put them in the den…

under-bench…

20 Tuesday May 2025

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I finally removed the under-bench lighting that hasn’t worked since before my beloved died… you can see it in this photo… it is the tube-like piece hanging below the bench and looks messy…

I hadn’t realized that he had fastened it with screws and was thinking what a huge job it was going to be to lay on my back and move around under the bench undoing it, two screws at a time…

then I got the bright idea to cut sections of it and pull it out…

woohoo, it worked perfectly and the deck looks much tidier now…

now to decide if I want to look for something similar to replace it, sigh…

brushing…

05 Saturday Apr 2025

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I was brushing my hair recently and thinking of my grandma…

she was a force to be reckoned with… she worked all her life and struggled with health issues for a good portion of that time… she played the piano like a pro and spent the last years of her life homebound and making regular calls to shut ins to keep them connected;-)…

this was her brush, which I use every now and then… she wore her hair about an inch long and brushed straight up;-)…

renting…

04 Friday Apr 2025

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it was a bit of a sad day today, even though the sun was shining;-)…

a moving truck arrived and took all morning to empty out the house next door…

I am going to miss my little buddy and his baby sister (oh yes, and their parents, lol), but they aren’t moving too far away and will be around as they are renting the house…