08 Thursday May 2025
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aquasize, beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, enjoy, garden, hot tub, leaves, middle, moments, nature, ride, weather, widow
Wednesday morning, as I was waiting for my ride to aquasize, I realized that the trees across the creek were covered in leaves, woohoo;-)…
it was a beautiful day and I had a hot tub in the middle of the afternoon…
can’t even remember the last time I’ve done that…
what a treat… I am doing my best to enjoy every minute of these delightful days…
07 Wednesday May 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, dandelions, flowers, garden, lily of the valley, moments, nature, planting, poppies, signs, Spring, walk, weather, widow, wild rose
things are starting to pop…
on my walk a few days ago, I spotted a batch of dandelions… according to a gardener I follow, that means we can start planting😉…
the trees are greening, the wild rose is coming alive and the lily of the valley is popping up…
and I can almost see the poppies getting taller as I watch, lol…
how blessed am I to have the opportunity to enjoy all of these signs of spring;-)…
06 Tuesday May 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, chairs, deck, friends, garden, gathering, moments, move, muscles, nature, shade, sun, umbrella, weather, widow
moved the big umbrella from the garden onto the deck so that we would have shade for our gathering yesterday…
the weather station was suggesting it would be 30°C… which was a bit crazy as it had been maybe 23 or so the last few days…
used lots of muscles, but it was worth it as there was shade for everyone, although there was a bit of moving chairs around to stay out of the sun… and it was hot…
not sure if it will stay on the deck or not;-)…
05 Monday May 2025
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as I was sitting on the deck this afternoon, the leaves were budding…
I thought it had been happening last week, but then it stopped…
today the temperature rose so high it must have caused them to burst open and it felt like it was raining…
took this photo of the chair cushion before it got really covered… I had to put my drink into a thermos bottle because my glass kept getting bits dropped into it, lol…
04 Sunday May 2025
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big girl pants, bird feeders, blessed, change, deck, furniture, garden, moments, plants, pond, weather, widow
trying to decide how to change up the garden this year…
so far nothing much is happening, as we haven’t brought out the last bits and pieces of furniture…
washed down a few of the chairs and am trying one of them between the gate and garage door so I can have a good view of the pond and the bird feeders… not sure if this will work as the chair is quite wide;-)…
once the furniture and umbrellas are in place, there will need to be decisions made about where plants and pots will go…
and then new plants will arrive to be planted;-)…
03 Saturday May 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, cold weather crop, crop, garden, moments, nature, peas, planted, plants, Technology, trellis, weather, widow
a few days ago, after I read something about cold weather planting, I spent time in the side garden…
after I removed a trellis from the file cabinet planter, I fluffed the soil (lol), and then planted a row of peas…
some of the seeds were from last year’s crop and some new ones from a box…
can’t wait to see what happens with them;-)…
02 Friday May 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, door cam, goldfish, moments, nature, pond, raccoons, rings, spotted, Technology, widow
caught this activity on the door cam this morning… quite lucky because it only saves things for three hours…
not very clear, but the rings on the tail tell the story…
it was just a few days ago that I had a conversation with someone and we were discussing the good news that the raccoons hadn’t been around, sigh…
rather happy that the fish haven’t made it outside yet;-)…
01 Thursday May 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, bunnies, camera, croaking, driveway, frogs, garden, moments, movement, nature, pond, Technology, weather, widow
often, now as I lay in bed at night, I listen to the frogs at the creek croaking their little hearts out…
it is quite lovely to hear and reminded me that I needed to move the camera – which was facing the driveway for the winter – back to its spot on the deck, facing the pond…
made the move today, after I charged the battery…
it will be interesting to see if it catches those bunnies that have been tearing around the garden at night, lol…
29 Tuesday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, corms, dahlia, garden, humidity, moments, morning glories, plants, seeds, shoots, starting, weather, widow
on Saturday I brought up the dahlias and put them in the sun on the dining room table…
after doing some reading I put some of them in plastic containers to give them a bit of humidity…
we will see if that makes any difference…
happy that a number of them have already started growing…
I also started some morning glories… I was rather sad to discover that I hardly had any seeds, so I only put one in each of the containers…
looking forward to seeing some shoots in the near future;-)…
27 Sunday Apr 2025
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accomplish, at last, big girl pants, blessed, garden, gardener, Kingfisher Spa, memories, moments, nature, Technology, widow
had a bit of a giggle when this photo came up in my Facebook memories…
it was from 14 years ago when I was visiting my daughter in Courtenay and we had spent the day at Kingfisher Resort and Spa…
and yesterday, my own gardener was here;-)… just took a few years to accomplish…
and, of course, she isn’t here every day, or just my gardener, lol…
but, still…
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