10 Wednesday Aug 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, camping, garden, moments, mosquitoes, nature, sleepout, widow
had a sleepout on the deck a few nights ago…
quite a few mosquitoes, so I didn’t go out until around eleven, and by then they were mostly gone… and there were none around in the morning…
this was my cozy little nest…
there weren’t a ton of stars, but the ones I saw were bright…
always fun to go camping, lol… and the washrooms are excellent;-)…
09 Tuesday Aug 2022
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08 Monday Aug 2022
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the squirrels run right past me when they are chasing one another and ignore me when I am on either of the decks…
apparently I have become just another object in the garden, lol…
and today we caught this red squirrel climbing up the inside of the slinky a couple of times to get to the bird feeder…
sure are smart little devils…
07 Sunday Aug 2022
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the other day I swept the steps between the pond and back garden so that I could walk along them in my bare feet…
yesterday I noticed that they were covered with dirt again…
today I watched the birds having dirt baths, all the way along the walk, lol…
solved that mystery;-)… and thinking there is no point in sweeping it again…
05 Friday Aug 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, bouquet, family, flowers, moments, subscription, travelling, widow
I’ve been enjoying my flower bouquets…
last week’s is still doing rather well in the living room…
and this week’s has been travelling around with me in the garden…
such a wonderful treat;-)…
04 Thursday Aug 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, butterflies, caterpillars, eggs, flowers, friends, garden, luck, moments, nature, parsley, photos, plants, swallowtail, widow
besides being my support group, my friends bring me good luck…
I’ve only spotted swallowtail butterflies two or three times so far this summer and two of those were when they were over…
a few days ago I caught this long shot of one on the deck…
and then I found eggs on both of my parsley plants… which I only buy for the butterflies;-)…
maybe, just maybe, there will be caterpillars…
then I spotted this one… they sure move quickly, lol…
woohoo…
03 Wednesday Aug 2022
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I’ve been enjoying my time reading in the garden…
the one issue has been a lack of steps, lol…
recently, I’ve set a timer for twenty minutes of reading and then five minutes of walking, either around the garden or in the spot…
I’ve had some success with a few days of over ten thousand steps… which makes me happy…
now there is no guilt whatsoever about spending the entire day reading😊…
31 Sunday Jul 2022
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I’ve been spending a good deal of time watching the fish as they swim around the pond in their school…
they are doing well and growing nicely…
I made a hoop for the water hyacinth (handyperson me!) and it is filling quickly…
part of the reason I gathered it together was to provide a safe haven for any babies that might turn up…
and, just yesterday, I spotted one tiny little goldfish swimming close beside the hoop… excited to see if more show their little faces…
30 Saturday Jul 2022
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, chance, family, fear, heights, lake, memories, moments, Mount Washington, new things, pictures, wakeboard, water, widow
this picture came up on my Facebook memories a few days ago…
it was a reminder of the frightening ride we had on the chairlift at Mount Washington eleven years ago…
we sat at the bottom of the chairlift for a long time… both of us had a fear of heights… but we decided to do it…
we got on the lift and started up, but the person who helped us didn’t put the bar down…
I felt so scared that I may have bent the side and back bars on the chair, lol… when we came down they were careful to make sure all the safety features were in place…
we were proud of one another;-)…
this photo came up too…
it was from a few years ago when my kids tried to get me up on a wakeboard…
we tried for what felt like hours to do it… one was in the water with me and one was driving the boat carefully… it just never happened…
but, once again, I was pleased that I had taken the chance and tried new things, lol…
my beloved would have laughed and laughed, although he didn’t love being on the water…
29 Friday Jul 2022
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big girl pants, bird feeder, climb, garden, moments, nature, slinky, squirrel, widow
I watched as one of the little red squirrels figured out how to climb the slinky on the pole by the garage… it made a cool sound as the squirrel climbed it like a ladder…
so, I reset the solar light that was holding it down so it is loose and hope that will keep the squirrel from getting up there again…
and look what I spotted;-)…
these pictures are a little fuzzy, but when the squirrel was flying up and down the slinky, they were moving very quickly…
