31 Saturday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, Canada geese, Fall, garden, geese, honking, moments, nature, overheard, sound, widow
as I’ve been sitting in the garden reading and enjoying the birds and bunnies around me, I’ve been hearing the Canada geese as they have begun to fly overhead…
I do love listening to their honking to one another as they head north or south, depending on the time of day…
of course, the sad part is that means fall is coming, sigh…
29 Thursday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, close, Cooper’s, garden, hawk, moments, nature, surprise, visit, widow
was on the deck reading last evening when a Cooper’s Hawk flew onto the ledge about six feet in front of me…
moved too fast for me to get a photo, but this is where it was…
it flew to the top of the garage, sat there for a few minutes, and then on to the neighbour’s yard…
hope the little birds are okay…
26 Monday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, bites, blessed, bruises, compost, food, garden, moments, nature, plants, ripe, squirrels, tomatoes, widow
it’s been fun watching the tomatoes grow over the season…
last week they started to turn orange and then red…
a few, closer to the bottom of the planter, were taken off the plant, had a few bites out of them, and I found them on the ground…
I decided to leave them there and a few days later discovered they were completely gone… just an outline left on the stepping stone, lol…
today I went out to pick the ripe ones only to discover that they all had large bruises on them…
decided to compost them, sigh…
25 Sunday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, cover, delicious, food, garden, hamper, moments, nature, plant, plants, pollinated, strawberries, strawberry, tasty, treat, widow
the strawberry plant, from last year, is doing very well…
we found a hamper at the store on July 5th, after either the birds or squirrels had eaten the ripe strawberries before we got to them, lol…
I kept the cover on them until a few ripe ones were ready to eat and then after we had those ones, I took the cover off so that the flowers could be pollinated…
as a number of yellow/green berries started to appear, the cover went back on the plant…
on Thursday I could see the ripe berries, through the screen…
removed the cover and picked three beautiful strawberries…
they were so sweet, yum…
20 Tuesday Aug 2024
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19 Monday Aug 2024
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barefoot, big girl pants, birds, blessed, bunnies, dust, garden, moments, nature, stepping stones, sweep, weather, widow
have added sweeping the stepping stones to my morning routine…
the darn birds and bunnies continue to have dust baths and since I have been barefoot outdoors for the last while, the clumps of dirt are irritating my feet, lol…
18 Sunday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, lilies, moments, nature, neighbourhood, walk, weather, widow
went for a walk around the neighbourhood on Tuesday morning… it was a cool and sunny day…
apparently I was caught up by lilies on the walk, lol…
I did catch a few other flowers…
that was fun;-)…
17 Saturday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, breakfast, Bruce Park, ditched, family, grandson, moments, nature, the "A", trailer, walk, widow
had breakfast with my grandson at the “A” a few days ago…
it was a nice walk there and back…
we had the breakfast special, our usual…
on our way home we had a good look at a trailer that has been sitting near the end of the street…
it has been there for a long time… we are wondering if it has been ditched…
15 Thursday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, crayons, daughter, family, garden, moments, paper, rubbings, time, widow
had fun documenting my daughter’s activities as she made various rubbings in the garden for a book she is making;-)…
she has been doing this all the way from Vancouver Island…
she wandered around the garden using sheets of paper and the side of different coloured crayons…
some of the rubbings worked beautifully, others, not so much… she also took a few items to add into the book…
but I am sure that the finished product will be beautiful;-)…
12 Monday Aug 2024
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