06 Friday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, bleeding hearts, blessed, blooming, flowers, iris, moments, nature, Technology, walk, weather, widow, wild rose, yesterday
saw some lovely flowers on my walk yesterday…
such a treat to see so many;-)…
and when I arrived home, the wild rose was blooming…
05 Thursday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, dirty, haircut, moments, nature, plant, plants, pot, trim, Ultracuts, walk, widow
walked over to Ultracuts for a trim and on the way spotted a plant that had not been put into the soil in one of the big city planters…
I didn’t want to arrive at the salon with dirty hands so I decided to wait until I was on the way home…
when I did arrive back at the planter, it was clear that the plant had not been planted as it was just laying on the soil… I had wondered if a critter had maybe pulled it out of its spot…
I dug a hole and popped it in… hope it is happy now…
04 Wednesday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, brakes, car, family, garage, happy, Indi, moments, service station, Sturgeon Automotive, Technology, Uber, widow
my housemate took the car in this morning for new front brakes… we are trying out a garage that a friend recommended…
it took about four hours and then we got the call it was ready…
he had gone to work, so I ordered my first Uber to go and pick it up…
it came in about three minutes, was clean, and the driver was dressed professionally… seven minutes got me there…
the estimate and final bill for the new brakes matched and the car drives well… the brakes don’t feel any different…
happy to have found this new service station which is closer than Toyota;-)…
03 Tuesday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, clean, garden, gunk, moments, nature, plants, ponds, pumps, Technology, weather, widow
did some work on the small pond pumps, which are used to move the water in the bathtub pond and add more oxygen in the main pond…
climbed into the pond and brought the pump onto the edge of the deck and cleaned out all the gunk that was in it and then put it back into the pond…
brought up the second pump and after climbing into the bathtub pond, got it set in the correct spot so it wouldn’t send the water out of the pond… then it was turned on and that pond was topped up…
now there won’t be any issues with mosquitoes and I’m going to add a few more plants to that one…
the garden is coming along nicely…
02 Monday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, dahlias, food, garden, moments, nature, painted, plants, red rocks, sprouting, strawberry plant, widow
quite awhile ago the last of the plants made their way into the garden, either in pots, or the ground…
I’ve been watching daily to see if things are sprouting out of the planters… so far, three of the dahlias have popped up, but one has not, and it was the one I was most looking forward to, lol…
the strawberry that had gone into the ground in the fall has moved into a pot and has quite a few blossoms on it… as well as the beginnings of berries…
I painted rocks red to hopefully keep the birds from eating the berries before we get to them…
apparently the birds will go for the red rocks and decide that red things aren’t worth it, lol…
01 Sunday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, deck, family, garden, grandson, leak, moments, muscle, pond, problem, puddling, repair, shopping, water, weather, widow
the pond has continued to leak but we thought we had the problem figured out…
water seemed to be puddling under a UV clarifier which was installed in the pond at the beginning, but which never accomplished its job and has been unplugged for a number of years…
we picked up a piece to connect the two hoses together and with a lot of cutting and muscle, were able to disconnect it entirely… so happy, thinking the problem had been solved…
turned the pump back on and watched water still coming out where the hose goes under blocks and the deck…
so, the issue appears to be that the six or seven feet of hose from the pump to the waterfall needs to be replaced… we are considering ways to accomplish this, which may involve removing a good sized piece of the deck to get at it, sigh…
and so it goes…
31 Saturday May 2025
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acclimate, big girl pants, blessed, fern, garden, hibiscus, housemate, indoor, Japanese Maple, mandevilla, moments, move, nature, plants, shade, weather, widow
I (and possibly my housemate) have been bringing out the indoor plants slowly, but surely…
first to come out was the Japanese maple… right now it’s sitting on the ledge that’s mostly shaded, for a few days…
next out came the hibiscus, and it went to the back under the trees, again where it’ll get shaded for the next few days before moving to its final spot…
orchids came out and filled up the little plant stand at the back, looks very cute with the begonias…
brought out a fern and another plant which I can’t remember the name of, that did really well in the top of the rain barrel, so we’ll see how that goes…
when the mandevilla comes out, it is going to sit along the path to the side garden to acclimate…
the lemon tree is still in the house… haven’t quite figured out where it’s gonna go and maybe a few other plants from in there are gonna come outside… we will see…
30 Friday May 2025
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art, Assiniboine Park Zoo, big girl pants, bison, bison on the boulevard, blessed, moments, nature, Toba Centre, weather, widow
today I had the opportunity to see the Bison on the Boulevard along Roblin Boulevard…
this art installation is amazing, looks wonderful and is in support of Toba Centre for Children and Youth…
I drove by a number of them and also saw a few closer up on foot…
in the background of a few of them you can see more on the other side of the road…
checked out this one at the entrance to the zoo on my way in, and this one as I was leaving…
reminds me of the polar bears and wolves… wonder where they will end up;-)…
29 Thursday May 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, cold, garden, moments, nature, plants, preparation, pump, water lily, weather, widow
the pond was filled and running for just over a week in preparation for the fish…
recently I had to climb in to place the water lily and sort out a problem with the second pump which wasn’t working…
took a few tries, but eventually it got going…
the water temp was really cold and when I got out my legs were bright red, lol…
I also topped up the water as it continues to leak a bit…
28 Wednesday May 2025
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arborist, big girl pants, blessed, cold, gardens, moments, nature, plants, Technology, The Leaf, tree, weather, widow
had a surprise visit to The Leaf last week…
I was supposed to meet my adventure buddy for a walk around the English and Leo Mol Gardens… it was cold and windy and I may not have had the warmest clothes on, lol…
I walked over and found a tree trunk down across the path between the walking bridge and the entrance to the Gardens…
reported it to one of the gardeners who was working close to the entrance and they were going to notify the arborist…
once we met up, we decided to walk around The Leaf instead;-)… got the tickets online as we drove over and headed in…
it looked as though the gardeners had done a big pruning job and made a bit of space around the Tropical Biome… views of the water had been trimmed up nicely…
I often take photos of the same things, lol…
fun time, as always;-)…
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