08 Wednesday Feb 2023
Posted in garden, health, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized, weather
Tags
backdoor, big girl pants, blessed, filled, garden, hose, hot tub, moments, scrunch, temperature, water, weather, widow
this morning, I dragged the hose up from the basement, out through the backdoor, and into the tub…
last night I had a great time in the hot tub, but had to scrunch down as the water was rather low…
only took about ten minutes to fill it up… now we will see if it gets up to temp by tonight;-)…
02 Thursday Feb 2023
Posted in business, health, life, moments, nature, retirement, travel, Uncategorized, weather
Tags
amethyst, bedside, big girl pants, blessed, cleaners, happy, heart, Maui, moments, nature, purple, widow
to make cleaning easier I always put most of the items on the bedside table into the drawer before the cleaners arrive…
after they leave I bring the items back out…
I absolutely love the amethyst heart that I purchased for my birthday when we were in Hawaii…
it sits at the edge of the Google Display and makes me smile every time I see it;-)…
took it downstairs into the sunlight to get a good photo before returning it back to its spot;-)…
31 Tuesday Jan 2023
Posted in business, garden, health, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized, weather
Tags
big girl pants, blessed, cleaners, flowers, hibiscus, laundry, moments, nature, recycling bin, remembering, shovelled, sun, tidying, towels, weather, widow
had a busy day…
enjoyed the hibiscus which surprised me with a new flower yesterday and is still blooming, cozied up agains the wall;-)…
ran towels through the washer, folded and put them away…
it has been crazy cold here, but the sun was shining as I shovelled the snow to get to the garbage and recycling bins and then took out a ton of stuff, completely filling the recycle bin… will need to remember to put it in the lane for pickup day, lol…
did some tidying as the cleaners are coming tomorrow…
as I tidy I always remember how blessed I am;-)…
30 Monday Jan 2023
Posted in health, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized, weather
Tags
big girl pants, blessed, blocking, cold, furnace, moments, nature, shovelling, snow, vents, weather, widow, windy
went out on Friday and shovelled the sidewalk and the path to the furnace vents…
it was cold and blowy, but there was quite a bit of snow that needed to be moved…
didn’t take too long and there was a lot of snow by the vents…
glad I got to it…
29 Sunday Jan 2023
Posted in business, garden, health, life, moments, nature, Photography, retirement, technology, Uncategorized, weather
Tags
big girl pants, blessed, butterflies, flowers, garden, moments, Morpho, nature, plants, search, Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden, sunshine, Technology, widow
lots of butterflies in the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden… also many people…
the sun was shining so they were flitting about the whole space…
the blue Morpho butterfly is very sneaky and would not let me catch a single photo of it with the gorgeous blue when the wings are open…
next time I will take a video and then a still from that, lol…
the butterflies arrive as chrysalis from Costa Rica on a regular basis and are released into the space once they emerge…
so, each time you are in the Garden, there will likely be different varieties…
it is such fun to search for them in amongst the foliage…
27 Friday Jan 2023
Posted in business, garden, life, moments, nature, Photography, retirement, technology, Uncategorized
Tags
amaryllis, begonia, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, living wall, Mediterranean biome, moments, nature, plants, spiral, Technology, The Leaf, Tyndall stone, walk, widow
enjoyed the Mediterranean biome… as soon as I enter I am reminded of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights… I think it is all the Tyndall stone, the spiral walkway, and the industrial looking steel…
the living wall is huge and amazing…
and the spiral begonia was so pretty…
the amaryllis are stunning…
it is lovely to have such a beautiful space to visit during the winter months…
25 Wednesday Jan 2023
Posted in business, garden, life, moments, nature, Photography, retirement, technology, Uncategorized
Tags
Assiniboine Park, big girl pants, blessed, fans, flowers, garden, gardeners, happy, humid, moments, nature, photos, plants, pond, Technology, The Leaf, trees, tropical biome, visit, waterfall, widow
Tuesday was my third trip to The Leaf…
they are making improvements all the time… it looks like they may soon have machines so you can purchase your ticket without standing in line…
we had a lovely time walking through the biomes… it was quite warm and humid in the tropical biome and there weren’t too many people when we arrived around ten am… by the time we left, just before noon, the place was starting to fill up…
the gardeners were working in the space cleaning up fallen leaves and checking the temperatures around the various areas… had a lovely chat with one of them…
I seemed to focus on orange flowers this time;-)… and I was happy to see the coffee beans even though I don’t drink coffee, lol…
love the banyan tree and got shots of a few others… can’t wait to watch them as they grow… and I found a couple of banana trees…
the waterfall is adding a lot of humidity to the space…
got a nice shot of the other direction from just under the waterfall…
and a view from the catwalk…
looking forward to more visits and to watching the areas change and grow…
22 Sunday Jan 2023
Posted in garden, life, loss, moments, nature, retirement, technology, Uncategorized, weather
Tags
big girl pants, blessed, blurry, fish, garage cam, goldfish, in the garden, moments, nature, pond, raccoon, tail, Technology, weather, widow
I was surprised to see this on the garage cam yesterday morning…
it is a bit blurry, and at first I thought it was a cat, but then I recognized the tail…
thought these guys were gone for the winter, lol… although I don’t care if they come by when there aren’t any fish in the pond for them to eat;-)…
21 Saturday Jan 2023
Posted in garden, life, moments, nature, retirement, technology, Uncategorized, weather
Tags
big girl pants, blessed, blurry, cold, garage cam, garden, moments, nature, raccoon, snow, surprise, Technology, weather, widow
I was surprised to see this on the garage cam this morning… it is a bit blurry, and at first I thought it was a cat, but then I recognized the tail…
thought these guys were gone for the winter, lol… although I don’t care if they come by when there aren’t any fish in the pond for them to eat;-)…
20 Friday Jan 2023
Posted in business, garden, health, life, moments, nature, retirement, technology, Uncategorized
Tags
Assiniboine Park Conservancy, big girl pants, biomes, blessed, cacao, elevators, fish, flowers, garden, koi, moments, nature, photos, plants, pond, splash, Technology, The Leaf, time, water, waterfall, widow
spent an hour and a half wandering through The Leaf in the daytime…
we took ample time to search out the plants as we wandered through the tropical biome… and we found the cacao tree;-)…
the waterfall continues to over perform…
I am betting that there are people working very hard to figure out how to end up with less splash, lol…
I spent at lot of time on the bridge, watching the beautiful koi swimming around the pond… a lovely treat;-)…
there were a lot of people there, but it didn’t feel too crowded… we wore masks but the majority of others didn’t… since I was last in the space there have been large fans added, so there did appear to be a lot of noise, but once through the doors into the Mediterranean biome, it was quiet…
the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden was a much busier place with numerous butterflies flitting about… it is always fun to search for the ones that have landed and are blending in with the foliage… as visitors move through this area they are quiet and will sit and patiently watch the action…
there are two elevators to take you up to the canopy and the Butterfly Garden and only one was working… seems to slow the flow down a bit…
there was ample space for jackets in the coat room, many volunteers to answer questions and direct the flow of people, and lots of open space…
herbiggirlpants 