27 Sunday Sep 2020
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big girl pants, camera, Centre Court, court, dahlia, flowers, garden, moments, nature, pictures, widow
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;-)…
25 Friday Sep 2020
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beloved, big girl pants, eavestrough, family, garden, leaves, moments, nature, pond, remembering, virginia creeper, widow
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…
22 Tuesday Sep 2020
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bagful, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, garden, moments, nature, sauce, tomatoes, treat, widow
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…
17 Thursday Sep 2020
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big girl pants, dahlias, flowers, frost, garden, hibiscus, inside, mandevilla, moments, nature, weather, widow
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…
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;-)…
12 Saturday Sep 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, Bruce Park, flowers, garden, health, moments, nature, traffic, walk, water, weather, widow
walked through Bruce Park the other day…
much less people traffic than the area around Assiniboine Park… quiet and peaceful…
got to see water flowing, flowers blooming and shaded green spaces…
lovely…
10 Thursday Sep 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, Canada geese, end of summer, family, geese, health, honk, moments, nature, photos, sky, walk, widow
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…
09 Wednesday Sep 2020
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;-)…
08 Tuesday Sep 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, happy place, Highlights, Instagram, memories, moments, nature, pictures, plants, pond, sanctuary, Stories, widow
recently it was pointed out to me that I don’t show much of my garden on Instagram…
that is because I usually focus on close ups of the flowers in the garden, lol…
when I joined Instagram my focus was photos of flowers and I have continued to concentrate on that theme over the years with the odd picture of critters and chocolate included…
this is rather funny as I spend most of my days in this renewing space…
a few days ago I took a number of photos in the garden once all the cushions were out and then put them up in my Stories…
it was a fun process and I had to relearn how to do a few things;-)…
now there are Highlights of the garden… of course the funny thing is that the garden is not at its best as we are moving into Fall… maybe next year I can start earlier in the season so others can see this sanctuary throughout the entire summer…
I love my garden and wonder how this crazy summer would have been without it…
06 Sunday Sep 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, mandevilla, moments, nature, patience, pictures, plants, time, widow
I searched through my photos and it looks like August 11 was the first time I took a photo of the buds on the mandevilla… this was the first time this summer that this houseplant has even started to get buds…
this morning, 26 days later, the first bloom is open…
they take an incredible amount of time to open;-)…
patience;-)…
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