23 Sunday Jul 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, bouquet, choose, flowers, friends, moments, nature, subscription, treat, veggies, widow, Wolseley Farmers Market
picked up this week’s bouquet subscription on Thursday…
thanks to my friend, after we stopped at the Wolseley Farmers Market where we picked up fresh veggies, we headed to River Heights to get the bouquet…
it is always fun to choose which bouquet to bring home…
such a treat…
19 Wednesday Jul 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, butterflies, caterpillars, change, colours, flowers, garden, milkweed, moments, monarch, multiply, nature, plants, pond, purple, widow
strange happenings with the milkweed…
I am very happy as they continue to multiply…
not too many caterpillars, and they seem to nest on the plants closer to a wall rather than the ones nearest to the pond… maybe there is more protection from predators there… too bad for me, as pictures are easier beside the pond, lol…
the odd thing is that the plants along the edge of the pond, all with the same origin, have produced two different coloured flowers…
the usual pink/purple flowers…
and these white ones which are turning yellow…
will be interesting to see what they do next year, lol…
18 Tuesday Jul 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cool, cushions, garden, July, moments, nature, rain, vest, weather, widow
it was chilly on Saturday morning so I had on a vest and put my Assiniboine Park Conservancy blanket over my legs…
it is mid July;-(…
a few times later in the day, I had to put away all the cushions because it rained for short periods of time, lol…
and I kept that vest on all day…
17 Monday Jul 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, changes, fish, garden, goldfish, iteration, leaks, memories, moments, nature, planting, plants, pond, remembering, rocks, Technology, ten, time, water lilies, waterfall, widow
the current iteration of the pond is ten years old…
hard to believe that much time has passed…
this is how it looked just as it was completed…
after it was finished, they had to come back and deal with leaking and runoff…nearly all of the plants have changed over time, lol… and I have changed the slate around the edge of the pond for large river rocks…
it still loses water when the waterfall is running and this year I have left if off for a good portion of the time… I also think the fish are out and about more when it isn’t running, lol… I do have a bubbler going all the time…
this year the water lilies are extremely happy… they continue to produce blooms daily, it is both amazing and delightful…
today, I turned the waterfall on and realized that I’d been missing it, and how well it dilutes other sounds in the neighbourhood…
14 Friday Jul 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, boiled, food, fresh, garden, happy, mango, moments, nature, shopping, summer, Tea, veggies, widow, Wolseley Farmers Market
my friend picked me up Tuesday and we went to Wolseley Farmers Market… first time this season…
so happy… fresh veggies…
also picked up a new mango tea to try…
cooked the potatoes and put them in the fridge to cool… popped country style spareribs into the oven and then boiled green and yellow beans, with snap peas… mixed in the potatoes and added butter… yum…
the first veggies of the season always taste so delicious 🤤…
13 Thursday Jul 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, bunny, chewed, connect, dig, family, garden, irrigation, irrigation system, moments, nature, oops, plants, rubber, teeth, tubes, water, widow, working
been trying to figure out why the irrigation system hadn’t been working properly…
no matter what I tried it kept sending water over the waterfall and nearly into the cushions on my chair…
we discovered that some of the smaller rubber tubes had been cut… possibly by bunny teeth;-)…
we were able to fix a few, but needed more tubing…
went to Lee Valley and picked up another of the systems so that it can also water the vegetable garden…
laid the main hose out in the sun to soften the curves and then stretched it out to see if it would go where I wanted it… looked like it would work fine…
we attached the new unit to the end of the main line so that it could send water to either the garden beds or the veggie section…
then the main hose was dug into the ground between the connection point and the veggie garden…
the hose was run along the back of the planters, holes were punched into it, the watering heads were added to each of the pots… another hole was made leading to the file cabinet planter and then the last bits were added…
it works perfectly and I am absolutely thrilled with the outcome;-)…
hmmm, wonder if we can figure out how to deal with the pots around the deck and in the centre of the garden🤪…
11 Tuesday Jul 2023
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air conditioner, big girl pants, blessed, cleaned, family, garden, gate, growing, handier, moments, nature, trim, virginia creeper, widow
we got a few of the projects off the list on Saturday…
the Virginia creeper had a haircut, thankfully, as when our neighbour came through the gate with his little guy, he had to duck under it, lol…
looks much tidier now…
we cleaned out the area around the air conditioner and attached the hose connectors on the side of the gate…
I think it is going to be much handier in the new spot…
10 Monday Jul 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cottage, fireflies, moments, nature, night, shooting stars, sky, stars, Technology, trees, weather, widow
as I was sitting in the hot tub on Saturday night and watching the few stars that I am able to see from there, I was reminded of a Saturday night we spent at the lake…
we went out, with blankets and warm clothes, and laid on the couch on the cliff deck and watched the stars through the tree canopy…
it was a beautiful night with few bugs and the sky was spectacular…
we saw satellites, constellations, and shooting stars… even some fireflies;-)…
and I even got a few photos with my iPhone…
08 Saturday Jul 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, family, favourite, garden, happy, home, moments, nature, pond, rug, weather, widow
pleased to get back to my usual schedule…
my daughter had been staying with friends and my grandson was working so I’ve had the house all to myself…
finally got everything put away from the trip and was able to set up the new chair cushions and the cute little rug I picked up…
I am loving how the garden is looking and have been spending as much time as possible in this, my favourite space…
07 Friday Jul 2023
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, book, chattering, garden, house sparrows, moments, nature, pond, reading, sparrows, widow
this afternoon, as I was sitting in the garden trying to read my book, dozens of house sparrows took over the space…
some were searching for sunflower seeds, some were getting drinks from the pond, while others were having dust baths…
and they were all chattering…
kept having to stop reading and watch to see what they were up to, lol…
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