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vivid…

01 Thursday Oct 2020

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a dear friend brought my favourite fish and chips, from Captain’s Table and we had a great visit…

after she left I went out, filled the garbage bin with more goodies from the garage, and set it out for tomorrow’s pickup…

then I wandered around the yard and took some pictures of the Virginia creeper… it is a vivid and glorious colour although many of the leaves have already dropped…

I’ve been contemplating how lucky I am to have the time to spend on such activities;-)…

deciduous…

28 Monday Sep 2020

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it was dull, cool and windy yesterday with a few sprinkles of rain…

I made soup… seemed like a good thing to do on what sure felt like a fall day…

as I went up and down working on it I took some photos of the garden…

hard to tell from these pictures that I don’t have any deciduous trees in my yard, lol…

cleaning up the leaves with the lawnmower isn’t that big a problem, but getting them out of the pond takes quite a while;-(…

looks like I won’t be working on that until Thursday when the weather might be a bit better…

Court…

27 Sunday Sep 2020

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spent a few minutes with the Centre Court dahlias that I brought into the house yesterday…

they have really opened up since they came in and I had a bit of fun taking pictures…

trying to decide whether I like the dark background or the light one…

what do you think;-)…

eavestrough…

25 Friday Sep 2020

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dragged the ladder onto the deck, hoping I could reach the eavestrough to clean it out…

had my pail ready and my gloves on, but the height was more than I could manage… was not prepared to take that last step…

moved the ladder over to the garage, set it up and it worked perfectly… was able to clean about four feet of the eavestrough… clearly it needs to be cleaned out more than once every eight years, lol…

will need helpers to clean the rest of it, but it already looks better after I cut down some of the Virginia creeper…

bagful…

22 Tuesday Sep 2020

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on Saturday my neighbours gave me a bagful of tomatoes;-)…

since then I’ve used them sliced and in a tomato, cucumber, bocconcini, cilantro and balsamic salad…

then there was a delicious toasted tomato sandwich which reminded me of the wonderful ones that my beloved made… it took me the longest time to figure out one of the reasons they were so delicious was the huge amount of miracle whip he put on them;-)…

today I finished them up with a day-long tomato sauce with spaghetti and a chicken leg and thigh…

what a great treat…

inside…

17 Thursday Sep 2020

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in preparation for the colder weather I’ve now brought in the three plants that live in the house…

last week the Japanese maple came in and settled back in beside the living room window… the leaf colours had already started to change…

a few days back, the mandevilla came in… I added fresh earth and sprayed it with insecticide to remove any creepy crawlers that might have wanted to take a trip…

it had been hanging outside and really wanted to lean forward… eventually three elastics helped make it stand up straight… hope it doesn’t decide to fall over in the dining room…

yesterday I brought the hibiscus inside…. excited to see it has buds on it;-)…

might also bring in a couple of others to see if they can survive the winter in the house…

and tonight I’ve covered the dahlias… the temperature is likely going to -4 Celsius… four of them have buds and I’m hoping they get to open… for two of them, it will be the first time they bloom and I am interested to see how they look…

wet-vac…

16 Wednesday Sep 2020

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my grandson came by to get the fish tank ready for the goldfish to come into their condo…

the pump had stopped working in the spring and we hadn’t dealt with it over the summer… he ran it over to the fish store and they discovered the problem and it is fine now…

the tank had lots of dirty water in it and we tried various disgusting methods to empty it… after a number of ideas failed, we brought in the wet-vac and it worked great…

it is now empty and all of the bits and pieces have been scrubbed and are waiting to go back in… next week he will bring some new purple gravel and we will get it set up…

likely around Thanksgiving we will bring the fish in;-)…

honk…

10 Thursday Sep 2020

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lately the geese have flown over the house honking at all times of the day… it is a sure sign that summer is nearing its end, and a sound that I love to hear…

walked over by the Park this morning with my daughter (on the phone) and watched geese going over…

also took a few photos of a pair of geese who were right beside the walkway and happy to pose…

they were not in the least perturbed by people walking so close to them… not sure if that is good or bad…

solution…

09 Wednesday Sep 2020

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the weather has taken quite a turn… for the last few days it has been mainly sunny but rather chilly…

so, I’ve barely been out to the garden, or the world… I’ve even done most of my walking on the treadmill…

a bit of a preview to what the next six or seven months are likely going to be…

and I’m not sure I’m liking it…

today I did go out and spray the hibiscus with a soapy solution which should remove any little bugs… I decided to only test the solution on one plant… just in case, lol…

will see how it looks tomorrow before I spray the rest;-)…