22 Monday Feb 2021
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beautiful, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, blue jay, grandson, moments, widow, wood, woodworking
my middle grandson brought me a beautiful picture that he made in woodworking class at school last year…
it is a blue jay made from different woods… he did a great job… my beloved would have been very proud…
I’ve put it on the credenza in the dining room… will need to decide if I will leave it there or not…
21 Sunday Feb 2021
Posted in garden, life, moments, nature, retirement, travel, Uncategorized
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big girl pants, blessed, change, garden, hearts, memories, moments, pictures, purple, squares, table, widow
spent time today putting away all the hearts and refreshing the living room table…
often at this time of year I would be filling it with rocks and shells, but that seems a little early…
I gathered up all the silver and purple ornaments and took them downstairs…
then I put some Chihuly calendar pictures in the four squares and added a few other items… one square has my gardening books as I’ve been looking through them to work on the garden design for the summer…
another has a few of my favourite children’s books in it, and some cards with fun pictures of time on Maui…
the third one holds my new pouch and postcards…
the last one has items to read… magazines, my tablet and kobo… and some butterfly things…
looks good and makes me happy…
19 Friday Feb 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, fish, fish tank, goldfish, moments, nature, pond, suspended, watching, widow
I’ve been watching the fish more lately and have come to realize that they have favourite places to rest…
one little one looks like it is stuck under a rock on a regular basis… makes me think of how they always rest under the bridge in the garden…
it is interesting to watch them suspended in the water, often for quite some time…
18 Thursday Feb 2021
Posted in health, life, moments, nature, Photography, Uncategorized
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big girl pants, blessed, bunny, creative, fire pot, flowers, moments, nature, roses, teapot, time, widow
I’ve been trying to do something creative most days…
today I cut back all the roses and made a few different arrangements with them…
I liked the look of this Japanese teapot…
this is a fire pot so it was fun to use it in a different way…
here is what they looked like before the rearrangement…
lots of fun…
on my way out of the kitchen after doing the flowers I spent time walking on the spot and watching a bunny on the deck snacking at the saucer where I had just put some seed…
it was nice to see that the sparrows came right up to the feeder, even when the bunny was there… the squirrels always chase everyone else away… they are greedy, lol…
17 Wednesday Feb 2021
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avocado, big girl pants, flowers, garden, Japanese Maple, mandevilla, moments, nature, plants, repotting, transplant, widow
recently I had fun repotting a few plants…
used soil from a dead plant that was in the basement…
first up was the avocado… it has been looking a bit sad and after doing some research it seemed like time to increase the size of the container… good thing because it was root bound…
it is also getting leggy, and I am trying a technique to get it to bush out a bit more… we shall see…
next was the Japanese Maple… the kids brought it from BC when they moved to Ottawa so it has been in the same pot for eight years…
it took a lot of muscle to remove it, and for a few minutes I thought I’d have to cut it out, lol… no rocks, so I used coffee filters for the bottom…
it has many tiny roots and it took a knife to scarify it so that it will grow better in the new container…
finally, I planted a piece of the mandevilla which had accidentally been cut off and put into water to root…
it looks cute and we will see how it does;-)…
14 Sunday Feb 2021
Posted in garden, life, loss, moments, nature, Photography, retirement, Uncategorized, weather
I’ve been spending a lot of time watching all the critters in the front yard and garden…
it is amazing to watch them fly through, under, and around… they sometimes hover near the feeders if there is a lineup…
other times they swoop between the bench and deck on their way to the saucer under the table…
today I tried to catch a photo of them flying, but that didn’t work, lol…
still, it is a treat to be able to watch and enjoy their antics…
10 Wednesday Feb 2021
Posted in food, garden, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized, weather
tonight I popped outside to fill the feeders on the deck… I didn’t think I needed my gloves, but didn’t take into account the outside door handle…
I did have on my toasty warm boots which I have now put under the fish tank to keep warm…
so much better than in the front landing…
09 Tuesday Feb 2021
went out to fill the feeders this afternoon… it is so cold out that I didn’t want the birds to run out of food…
started with the front feeders… only took a few minutes to fill one and put out fresh suet in the other…
then I went through the house and out the back… filled the first feeder and took the second into the garage to fill it… by then my fingertips felt very cold… I had hoped to add more to the first feeder, but my fingers were numb… clearly I had the wrong gloves on…
I quickly added seeds to the feeders on the deck and came in…
took a long time for my fingertips to warm up…
07 Sunday Feb 2021
cut the blooms off the hyacinth plants yesterday morning… when I walked into the living room they were all hanging over the edges of their pots…
put the purple ones in the bathroom…
the yellow ones went on the ledge between the kitchen and dining room…
moved the pots into the dining room garden… a bit of additional green looks good… that garden is getting bigger;-)…
now the scent is everywhere on the main floor…
05 Friday Feb 2021
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big girl pants, flowers, garden, moments, nature, perennials, section, shade, weather, white, widow
spent a lovely time today going through books searching for the best perennials to add to one section of the garden…
I’ve been thinking that a spot where I’ve been putting annuals yearly would be a good place for some perennials, but now I need to figure out which one, lol…
they need to be short and fill in the space around the hostas and ferns that are already there… and, I would like them to flower as long as possible… that is going to be the trick…
quite a few options to contemplate;-)…
