24 Friday Oct 2025
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went to The Park Cafe and met up with two friends…
we had a lovely breakfast and then a couple of us took a quick walk through the English and Leo Mol Gardens…
it was cool out so we didn’t dawdle… still a few beautiful colours out there…
then I walked across the bridge to where I’d parked the car…
21 Tuesday Oct 2025
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out in the garden and front yard on Sunday morning…
pulled out a huge clump of self-seeded morning glories in the front flower bed… the frost got them a few days before…
I can understand how they are considered invasive in BC… but they weren’t causing any problem in the flower bed and added some lovely flowers for the last month or so…
nearly filled one of the yard waste bags and then I swept up Virginia creeper branches on the bottom decks… the bag was pretty full by the time I was done…
final piece of work was removing all the morning glory vines from the butterfly bench…
still a few jobs to do to close down the garden for the season…
18 Saturday Oct 2025
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bachelor buttons, big girl pants, dehydrator, dragon, family, flowers, garden, grandson, housemate, moments, nature, pansies, petunias, plants, treat, weather, widow
last week we went through the garden and collected flowers from the pansies, bachelor buttons and petunias, as they will be a special snack treat for the bearded dragon, lol…
next they went into the dehydrator to dry…
took about twelve hours and then they were nicely dried and put into a bag for future snacks;-)…
hope the dragon likes them…
13 Monday Oct 2025
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I was a bit shocked when looking at the photographs that I’d taken this morning…
I had taken a few nice pictures of one of the fancy begonias that had come in from outside, which had surprised me with a lovely flower…
and when looking at the picture of the flower, I discovered a spider, yikes…
wonder if it is still there😱…
10 Friday Oct 2025
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well, it took lots more time, and water, to get the houseplants watered Wednesday morning, lol…
seems there are a great many of them;-)…
I’ve had to rearrange some of the ones that are now in the window so that I still have a good view of the bird feeders…
especially these days as the birds prepare for migration and are very busy getting their meals…
06 Monday Oct 2025
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yesterday, as I was reorganizing the plants that have come in from outside, my housemate helped me with the monstera plant…
he brought it with him when he moved into the basement and had it down there for a while, but had to move it to the main floor as it wasn’t thriving…
It isn’t my favourite plant, but when all the plants were being moved around, we trimmed it and attached it to a pole and it looks much better…
in the same corner, I put one of the ferns that had been in the garden and was much happier than when it went outside… hope it continues to thrive there;-)…
05 Sunday Oct 2025
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began the process of bringing in the plants for the winter…
I have my usual ones, the mandevilla, hibiscus, lemon tree, and Japanese Maple…
I am also bringing in some additions… the new purple hibiscus, bacopa, a couple of begonias, silver falls, a dahlia, and lantana… we’ll see how they do, and where I am going to put them…
then there are the small Japanese maple and sapling that my housemate plans to make into bonsai, lol…
I have tried a setup in the window and will see how I like it;-)…
still have to find places for a few more;-)…
03 Friday Oct 2025
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climbed into the pond twice on Wednesday…
the leaves have been falling and clogging up the pump every few days…
this is getting to be a pain so I spent the first time cleaning out the filter and pulling up leaves from the bottom…
the second time I cut back all the reeds to be sure the sun could get to the new bud, hoping that the weather cooperates so it can open… I also hoped it would help make the netting easier to cover the pond…
last year we put down green netting over the pond to try to catch the leaves, but it looked terrible and I took it off…
this year we have a new plan… we got black netting and pulled it tight over the pond covering everything from the waterfall to the furthest edges of the pond…
it is really hard to see the netting except around the edges where it is doubled up and it was already catching the never-ending falling leaves….
29 Monday Sep 2025
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Raven the cat stopped by for a visit to supervise as we were working on the pond waterfall……
the only problem is that the squirrels yell for most of the time, lol…
happily, the waterfall is running again…
28 Sunday Sep 2025
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