12 Wednesday Aug 2026
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big girl pants, busy, eclipse, Hilda the Gardener, moments, shopping, treats, viewed, widow
busy day…
Hilda the Gardener came by in the morning to do some tidying and trimming…
viewed a tiny portion of the eclipse…
went grocery shopping for some time away…
had fun making treats for the ‘away’ time…
and got a bit of time on the deck with my current book and something to drink😊…
09 Sunday Aug 2026
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blessed, friends, big girl pants, widow, lunch, moments, Pizzeria, Pizzeria Gusto
we went to Pizzeria Gusto for a delicious lunch to celebrate a birthday… last time we were there was 2017😊… and we still liked some of the same things…
the sun came and went as we sat on the patio and we all enjoyed the delicious food… two particular favourites were the
and the
which, besides being delicious was so pretty;-)…
everything else was also very tasty 😋 …
always a great time together…
08 Saturday Aug 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, bumblebee, flowers, garden, moments, morning glories, nature, pollen, widow
this morning, as I was looking at the obelisk filled with morning glories and cucumber vines, I watched a large bumblebee flitting from flower to flower…
I wasn’t able to get a photo of the bumblebee, but was very interested to see the pollen on the petals, after the bumblebee left each flower…
06 Thursday Aug 2026
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beans, big girl pants, coffee grounds, flowers, food, garden, growing, moments, nature, nitrogen, tomato plants, tomatoes, widow
great excitement the other day when I checked the giant tomato plants in the side garden…
I’d read that beans provide nitrogen, which tomatoes like so I planted them between the 3 tomatoes… then I also read that coffee grounds are good for tomatoes, so I dumped the weekly coffee grounds in there as well…
I think the tomatoes loved all of that, because they have grown huge… but, not a single flower was seen…
and then, I discovered numerous flowers on each of the plants… and even two marble sized tomatoes…
very happy, although there are very few beans coming along, lol…
05 Wednesday Aug 2026
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first thing the other day, I turned the mattress and changed all the bedding, including putting on a different comforter…
looked pretty good…
when the cleaners came they rearranged it and made it look so much nicer…
maybe I am too lazy to change up the pillows every time I make the bed😂…
02 Sunday Aug 2026
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anniversary, apartment, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, Chevelle, friends, memories, widow
yesterday marked fifty-six years since my beloved and I were married…
unbelievable that I have spent the last fourteen without him…
just last week I discovered that a young friend has moved into the apartment building where I lived with my parents at that time…
I can still remember looking down from the balcony and seeing our brown Chevelle, as the guys dropped it off that morning…
and bursting into tears of excitement;-)…
yesterday, I got this photograph looking down from their apartment balcony to where our car would have been that morning…
I spent some time looking for a photo that I was sure I had, of the decorated car from the balcony of our apartment, but could not find it, lol…
amazing that they are living there now😊…
01 Saturday Aug 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, family, fixed, garden, grandson, moments, temporarily, vinyl siding, widow
this morning my middle grandson arrived with a coworker to silicone the vinyl siding that he’d temporarily fixed a while ago…
they were here for less than fifteen minutes, and in that time fixed the siding and checked out an issue on the shed roof which he will come back to sort out when he has time…
and then, off they went 😊…
I certainly am blessed…
31 Friday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, birdseed, deer, gobbling, moments, nature, Technology, widow
for the longest time the deer were stopping by around 11 or 11:30 pm…
right now the feeders are empty because they have been gobbling up everything when they stop by…
for the last little while, they’ve been coming around 5:30 or 6:00 am… and the door camera has been capturing their visits…
apparently they continue to look to see if there are any seeds available for them…
30 Thursday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, deadhead, garden, moments, nature, plants, trimmed, unbearable, virginia creeper, water, weather, widow
up early on Wednesday to tidy the garden and water everything… even gave the new grass a dribble…
started with the hose and gave big drinks to all three pots in the front yard, and those in the garden…
then, while the irrigation system and drip hose did their thing, I filled a bucket with overly eager virginia creeper and did some deadheading…
finally, the cushions came out and I was able to sit, read, and enjoy the garden before it became unbearable outside…
29 Wednesday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, dwarf morning glory, envisioned, family, flowers, garden, nature, obelisk, plants, widow
I planted these morning glory seeds that my daughter sent to me from Ottawa as part of my Advent Calendar…
I didn’t read anything about them and envisioned they would grow up this obelisk…
apparently, they are dwarf morning glories…
and that means they don’t climb, lol…
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