25 Monday Nov 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, fluffy, light, minutes, moments, nature, seven, shovelling, snow, weather, widow
only took seven minutes to shovel the front sidewalk and a path to the driveway…
didn’t need to shovel to the neighbours as Canada Post isn’t coming right now…
a nice start to the season, the snow was light and fluffy and there wasn’t too much of it ;-)…
22 Friday Nov 2024
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big girl pants, black, blessed, construction, entertained, fence, moments, truck, weather, widow
have been entertained over the last few days as a fence was being constructed across the street…
it took a while to figure out which house it belongs to…
the crew of two arrived before nine yesterday and worked until about four… they took many breaks to sit in their truck and warm up, lol… it was chilly…
they had an interesting machine which pounded the metal poles into the ground… there were two heights… then they built the frames and covered the tall section with black strips… at that point I realized the fence belonged to the house directly across from me, the fence on the other side of their property is also black…
after they cleaned everything up they ended their day, and I assumed the job, lol…
I thought it was interesting that the front section was just chain link, but maybe it would let the snow blow through…
then, this morning the truck was back and they added the black strips to the short section of the fence…
now I think it is really done, lol…
20 Wednesday Nov 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, family, favourite, flowers, garden, living room, moments, nature, sections, table, Technology, things, widow
it was time to redo the living room table, but I wasn’t quite ready for the full-on Christmas ornaments…
once I thought about it for a while and decided to fill the four sections with some of my “favourite things” I sat and made a list of what those things were to me at the moment, lol…
my list included: family, friends, garden, flowers, books, animals, nature, photography, holidays, technology, rocks, seashells, and crafts…
so I went around the house and found items that represented all of those things… after putting a red and green tablecloth in the bottom I found spots for all of the things…
I’m pleased with how it turned out;-)…
14 Thursday Nov 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, cacao trees, daughter, doorbell, family, koi, moments, nature, ring, surprise, Technology, The Leaf, time, treat, widow, Yasuragi
what a wonderful surprise I received this morning;-)…
as I was taking my poached eggs out of the water, I heard the doorbell ring… I was expecting a parcel so wasn’t surprised, but when I opened the door, my daughter was standing in front of me…
she had come to town to attend a concert with one of her friends and had planned to include a day with me;-)…
what a super treat…
we quickly booked a trip to The Leaf so she could see her beloved cacao trees… we had a great time there, checking out the trees, watching the koi, and realizing how much growth has taken place since we were last there together in June…
she was able to get a few nice shots of the koi which she shared with me.
we enjoyed time in the Yasuragi display and read up on all the bonsai, including new ones which hadn’t been there the last time I visited… the stories behind them are very interesting…
spent a few minutes with the butterflies…
it is sad that they are still in the netted enclosure and not flying freely around the space…
one last wander to see the cacao trees and koi, a bit of fun in the gift shop, and then we headed home…
some relaxing time together and then I dropped her off at the airport to head home…
I am blessed;-)…
13 Wednesday Nov 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, dirt, fern, garden, lemon tree, mess-making, moments, nature, plants, pot, transplant, widow
Saturday’s project was to transplant the lemon tree and the fern…
had to run out to the garage to get gloves and into the basement for a pail and spoon, lol…
after a bit of digging and mess-making the two plants were in their new pots, trimmed, fertilized, and watered…
the fern was absolutely jammed into the pot and took quite a bit of work to get it thinned out, cut back and set into its new home…
it was much simpler to put the lemon tree into the larger pot and add some soil… it looks good;-)… I cannot remember when I started this, maybe this spring or last spring, lol…
hopefully they will both thrive…
12 Tuesday Nov 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, lights, moments, nature, nearly, snowflake, solar, Technology, tree, trees, weather, widow
Friday afternoon I took out the solar small Christmas tree lights and put them into one of the flower pots…
wanted to be sure the pics would be able to go into the nearly frozen soil…
I also filled the snowflake with solar mini lights…
they came out very nicely…
11 Monday Nov 2024
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the other day I had to clean one of the fish tank pumps…
it was a bit dicey to get the pieces that needed to be cleaned out, but I managed it… hope it will be simpler next time, lol…
the fish appear happy and the tank has already started to clear up…
07 Thursday Nov 2024
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, cold, complaining, garden, hot tub, moments, nature, Toque, water shoes, weather, widow
well, last night, when I went out for a hot tub, I put on my water shoes and toque…
the toque always reminds me of my beloved;-)…
when I’d gone out the night before and climbed up the steps in my bare feet, they were cold;-(…
and so it begins…
I was feeling bad about needing them already, but when I looked at previous times I’d started wearing them it had been towards the end of October, so I guess I shouldn’t be complaining…
06 Wednesday Nov 2024
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almost-open, big girl pants, blessed, bloom, blossom, flowers, food, hibiscus, mandevilla, moments, nature, plants, surprise, treat, widow
in the process of moving the hibiscus and mandevilla, an almost-open bloom fell off…
the next morning I discovered that it was starting to open, even though it was laying in the dirt…
I grabbed it and put it in water and then spent the day watching as it opened and then began to close…
what a lovely treat…
I also found at least five buds on the plant… can hardly wait to see more flowers…
05 Tuesday Nov 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, clinging, corms, dahlias, dirt, flowers, garden, moments, nature, paper bags, plants, tubers, weather, widow
brought the dahlia tubers up from the basement to finish putting them to bed for the winter…
I cleaned off the last of the dirt that was clinging to them, separated them by type, cut off miscellaneous bits, and divided them up…
once they were in paper bags, they went into a box to be stored in the basement and the leftover bits and dirt made their way to the garbage bin…
happy to get that job done and hopeful they will all start to grow come spring;-)…
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