23 Saturday May 2020
Posted in garden, moments, nature, Uncategorized, weather
it has been very hot the last few days and the forecast keeps mentioning rain and possible thunderstorms…
had a few sprinkles in the night, but no real rain…
tonight the sky changed rather drastically in about 45 minutes…
took these photos out the front window… looked like it was going to pour... but then it cleared…
and these were out the back…
once again there were some sprinkles, but not a good rain… hoping for a good soaking… maybe later…
22 Friday May 2020
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beloved, big girl pants, dandelions, flowers, garden, gardening, leaves, moments, mowing, nature, pond, sunshine, widow, yard work
as I look at the dandelions blooming in the front yard and think about the yard work that needs to happen I am really missing my beloved…
he did not appreciate the dandelions and was often out digging or spraying to get rid of them, lol…
I don’t care and figure they will get cut down when the grass is mowed… I also remember all the times that kids and grandkids have brought them to me as gifts;-)…
he also spent hours in the garden, weeding and tidying and rearranging…
he loved playing in the pond;-)… it would not have near the number of leaves in it currently were he around, lol…
21 Thursday May 2020
Posted in business, garden, life, nature, technology, travel, Uncategorized
today as I was sitting outside, I took this photo of the tree next door as it is budding out…
so happy to watch this transformation from bare branches to a canopy of leaves…
another thing I’ve noticed over the last few days is the number of planes leaving the airport… there are many more than there have been for weeks… hard to believe that people are travelling, although the planes might all be filled with mail and parcels, lol…
20 Wednesday May 2020
Posted in family, garden, life, nature, Uncategorized
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angel trumpet, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, datura, flowers, garden, gardener, memories, morning glories, nature, planters, seedlings, walk, widow
so excited this morning to discover these two little seedlings… they are morning glories…
once I’ve put out the cushions for the furniture, I walk around and check all of the pots that I have planted…
I’d been worried that the morning glories weren’t going to come up… at the same time I also planted some datura in pots in the front yard and they haven’t come through yet… but now I am hopeful that they still might…
we’ve grown both morning glories and daturas for many years… I am looking forward to seeing some this year, particularly as the garden may be the only place I travel to, lol…
most of the dahlias and tomatoes are doing nicely… it looks like a couple of the dahlias aren’t going to make it…
waiting for plants from Shelmerdine to arrive and make their way into the ground… they were a birthday gift from the kids in Ottawa…
I enjoy planting pots and planters but hope to have the items that are going into the ground planted by Hilda the Gardener;-)…
19 Tuesday May 2020
Posted in garden, life, loss, nature, Uncategorized
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big girl pants, cutie, elm, flower, garden, memories, missing, moments, name, purple, shady, walk, widow
another great day…
while I was on a walking tour around my space, I spotted this little cutie in the shade garden…
of course the shade garden is no longer shady as the elm that provided that shade was removed a number of years ago…
I still miss it… and clearly I need a new name for this garden, lol…
18 Monday May 2020
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arrangement, big girl pants, bird feeders, blessed, family, garden, grandson, inukshuk, nature, oriole, personal shopper, shade, shopper, sun, sun shirt, widow
I spent the day in the garden… I stayed in the shade but eventually put on my sun shirt and a pair of long pants to be sure I didn’t get too much sun, as I was feeling it, even in the shade…
I’d sent my grandson a list of things I needed from various stores… currently our deal is that he has the use of my car and acts as my personal shopper;-)… he spent a good portion of the morning gathering things I haven’t been able to order online and then brought them to me in the afternoon…
we put away all of the goodies, made some adjustments to the bird feeders – excited to see if the slinky keeps away the squirrels – and had a wonderful visit… nice to have someone to talk with in person (at a safe distance)…
I was very clever and made an oriole feeder;-)… apparently they like oranges…
after supper he put the Inukshuk back together for me, as it had been in pieces, lol… too heavy for me to lift…
am blessed to have such a great kid in my life;-)…
17 Sunday May 2020
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, deck, frog, garden, lunch, memories, moments, nature, pond, supper, waterfall, weather, widow
had a lovely day in the garden…
set out the cushions, tidied a bit, and then read, napped and watched a few birds…
moved from chair to chair as I followed the shade and ate lunch and supper outside…
spotted the frog for a brief minute… it has been calling for days and this was the first time I was able to see it;-)…
16 Saturday May 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, family, garden, hose, losing, memories, moments, pond, vanishing, water, waterfall, widow
I’ve been watching the pond since a week ago Friday, when my son-in-law got it running…
for the last few years when the waterfall is going water vanishes from the pond in a slow but steady manner…
same thing this year… Tuesday it was quite low, but the temperature was near zero so I was afraid to use the outside hose to top it up, but I was also afraid to turn it off in case water froze in the pump and wrecked it…
it was still cold Wednesday, but I had to do something otherwise the pump was going to be sucking air and then die…
after removing a connector which had broken over the winter and reattaching the hose to the main tap, I was able to get the hose running slowly and then more quickly once I was sure it wasn’t full of ice…
took quite a while to fill the pond, but I sat in the sun with a jacket on and watched for birds, lol…
then I placed a thin rock behind the waterfall so that the water would fall directly into the pond and not onto the pads behind it…
I was very excited, because I think this might make a difference to the vanishing water…
yesterday I topped it up again, but it is losing water way more slowly…
going to watch and see what happens…
14 Thursday May 2020
Posted in garden, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized
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big girl pants, bird feeders, birds, chickadees, eat, flowers, garden, hand, moments, nature, seeds, treat, widow
recently spent most of the day in the garden watching the comings and goings at the bird feeder…
my goal this summer is to teach the chickadees to eat from my hand…
starting by putting food out close to my chair and sitting fairly close to the feeder so they get used to me being there…
had a few conversations with the squirrels who kept coming to eat, but I encouraged them to leave… later, I noticed two at the feeder… making up for lost time I guess…
saw juncos, song sparrows, nuthatches, and finches, but no chickadees, lol…
11 Monday May 2020
Posted in business, life, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized
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big girl pants, camera, connectivity, exciting, iPhone, memories, moments, Nikon, photos, pictures, Technology, widow, wifi
I’ve had my current Nikon camera over a year and a half… one of the reasons I upgraded, rather than repair my previous camera, had to do with technology…
newer cameras connect with computers and phones in a much simpler manner so I figured that it made sense to have those options…
sadly, just weeks after I obtained it, that technology stopped working… I went and spoke with the people at the camera store… they offered a few suggestions, which I tried a few times, but the wi-fi and bluetooth would just not work…
I gave up because it was very frustrating and I had tried everything they suggested…
I’ve been a bit disappointed in the quality of my photos and using the camera less… to get photos from the camera I would have to remove the memory card and plug it into either my computer or iPhone…
a few days ago, as I was taking some photos out the front window, I noticed a new icon at the bottom left of the screen… right away I pulled out my phone and connected to the app which was still on my phone…
I was beside myself, because now it was working… and also had a message advising they had fixed a problem with remote connectivity… so, not only can I copy pictures to my iPhone remotely, I can take pictures using my phone as the shutter release button… this is very handy when taking some photos as you don’t move the camera when depressing the button…
this is the first camera photo using the iPhone to take it…
yay, excited to see what else it will do for me…
