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…
26 Saturday Apr 2025
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beds, big girl pants, blessed, cleanup, debris, fluffing, garden, Hilda the Gardener, moments, nature, planning, weather, widow
first day of garden cleanup…
Hilda the Gardener arrived and spent the afternoon removing leaves and debris from around the garden and fluffing the beds…
even though not everything got done, it makes such a huge difference to how the garden looks…
took this photo before Hilda arrived…you can see the difference under the main deck;-)…
I was sitting on the back deck for the first time this year… woohoo;-)…
looking forward to many wonderful moments in this sanctuary…
25 Friday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, bunnies, fight, moments, nature, performance, widow, window
had a bit of a performance outside when I happened to look out the window this evening;-)…
funny bunnies;-)…
24 Thursday Apr 2025
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Assiniboine Park, big girl pants, blessed, blown over, cut, garden, moments, nature, pergola, plants, shocked, trees, weather, widow
on a recent walk to the Park and around the gardens I was rather shocked to see how many trees had been removed throughout the forest between the walking bridge and the gardens as well as in the gardens…
there were still trees that had fallen or been blown over…
and it appeared that the pergola in the Leo Mol pond area had been completely rebuilt or else it had been sandblasted…
lots of changes since I was there in the Fall;-)…
18 Friday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, cleaning, clogging, fish, glass, goldfish, moments, nature, pumps, tank, water, widow
Wednesday, I spent time cleaning two of the pumps…
Thursday was glass cleaning day, lol…
luckily it didn’t take too long and now the tanks look so much better;-)…
seems to me the pumps are clogging up more quickly than previously;-(…
17 Thursday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, friends, garden, gauge, moments, plants, Shelmerdine, solar, treat, widow, workshop
went to Shelmerdine with friends on Sunday…
after checking out all the plants, we sat in on a workshop about using all your outdoor space…
and I won a prize;-)… because it is almost my birthday… woohoo…
a rain gauge with solar flowers;-)…
lovely to be in a space filled with so much greenery…
and the flowers lit up after a sunny afternoon;-)… gotta find just the right spot for this in the garden…
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