17 Thursday Sep 2026
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04 Friday Sep 2026
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it was a beautiful day, so I decided to do my exercises beside the pond…
when I rolled out the mat, the top end went into the water, so I had to wait for the mat to dry, lol…
what a treat to listen to the water falling and watch the sky and trees overhead while I went through the steps…
my housemate took a video, after I was done, of a few of each of the exercises…
01 Tuesday Sep 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, blooms, catch, magnolia, Mediterranean biome, moments, nature, scent, widow
one of my favourite trees in the Mediterranean Biome is the magnolia…
it blooms fairly regularly and can have only one flower blooming at a time or as many as six, which I spotted earlier this summer…
today, it had one glorious bloom above a spent flower…
magnolias smell delicious, although our tree is too high up to be able to catch the scent…
31 Monday Aug 2026
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arch, big girl pants, blessed, garden, met, moments, scarlet runner beans, weather, widow
I’m so happy with how the plants are growing on the new arch…
the scarlet runner beans have been flowering for a while, but the actual beans have only just begun to appear…
the morning glories have now met up with the scarlet runners at the top of the arch…
it looks so nice from everywhere in the garden 😊…
28 Friday Aug 2026
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big girl pants, camera, lunar eclipse, moments, nature, settings, Technology, tripod, weather, widow
last night there was a partial lunar eclipse and, since it was lovely out, I sat on the deck with my camera and tripod and got a few pictures…
had some fun with different settings on the camera…
I spent about an hour and a half enjoying the show and only went in once it had reached the peak and my camera battery died, lol…
27 Thursday Aug 2026
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big girl pants, eagle eyes, fun, lizards, moments, nature, plants, The Leaf, tiny, tropical biome, widow
one of the fun things about volunteering at The Leaf has been seeing how many little lizards we can spot on a shift…
one of our colleagues has eagle eyes and knows all the spaces where they might be… that has encouraged many others to search for them as we move through the biomes…
I had a great day recently and spotted six, all in the Tropical Biome 😊…
the last one is teeny tiny and I’ve spotted it a number of times…
and a colleague spotted a cute frog the other day🙂…
22 Saturday Aug 2026
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beach, big girl pants, blessed, cottage, early, moments, nature, quiet, shore, shore birds, water, weather, widow
every morning, while at my friends’ cottage, when I woke up, I would walk down and sit on the steps leading to the beach…
usually I’d spend an hour or so watching and listening to the waves…
it was always fun to watch the shore birds as well as the gulls and pelicans in the early morning quiet…
the first and last thing I did was to run down to the beach to say hello and goodbye😊…
21 Friday Aug 2026
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20 Thursday Aug 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, cottage, dishes, eating, friends, fun, moments, nature, reading, snake, vacation, widow
I spent a delightful five days with friends at their family beach cottage…
delicious food, great company, naps, lots of conversation, and I was in the lake, at least once, up to my neck…
spent lots of time on the beach, early in the morning, on my own, and all together on a few days…
we walked a good portion of the beach a few times with our newly prepared walking sticks…
and walked the road to the pump, which had a snake handle…
there was also a real snake😳… which had me stomping and speaking loudly as I walked along where it had been seen…
weather was nice, lots of sunshine, a bit of wind and some rainy/overcast times… so, a bit of everything…
my particular expertise is washing the dishes…
other than that it was all about reading…
we did play ladder golf, a new game to me, (although I may have seen my grandsons play a version of it a number of years ago), which was fun…
what a treat 😊…
18 Tuesday Aug 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, mistake, moments, morning glories, nature, plants, purple beans, scarlet, scarlet runner beans, widow
I am really pleased with the new arch we installed in the spring…
the scarlet runner beans have made it to the top on one side and the morning glories have made it on the other side…
so far I’ve had three cucumbers and two feeds of purple beans from it😊…
the one thing I did wrong was plant too many seeds on the one side, lol… I will use less next year…
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