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14 Friday Jan 2022

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this year my Christmas project was Post-It notes made with one of my photos on them…

took a while to decide on just the correct picture… in the end I chose a picture of a poppy that I took in the garden this summer… my Ottawa kids did some work removing the background for me…

always happy when I am able to use one of my photographs for a project…

I also produced cards with four different winter pictures to go with them…

working with my art always fills me with happiness…

crew…

13 Thursday Jan 2022

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recently watched an interesting Cornell Lab webinar about chickadees and learned something about squirrels…

gray squirrels hide their food – one seed, peanut, or acorn – at a time, with each item in a different place… and they remember where each bit is…

red squirrels hide theirs in one spot…

now it makes more sense to me as to why they scare birds and other squirrels away from any of the feeders as they consider them to be their property, lol…

this little red guy was at it this morning, chasing away the crew of sparrows…

and a bit later, this gray one was sharing the deck happily with the sparrows;-)…

maybe the red one was having a nap, lol…

chickadees…

12 Wednesday Jan 2022

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spent time in the garden on a beautiful warm day… we’ve been under extreme cold warnings for what seems like forever… shovelled a path to the garbage can and back gate… also cleaned the area around the hot tub…

finally cleaned off a good portion of the upper deck so I can get to the bird feeder… it was difficult to get the snow and old seeds out of the feeder, but I managed…

and just a few minutes later the chickadees were back for fresh snacks…

that made me happy…

sucked…

03 Monday Jan 2022

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very happy that the pump on the small fish tank is working once again…

had to have it replaced as it just stopped a week or so ago…

I was able to use the old (and rather large) pump while waiting for the replacement…

happily, no fish were sucked up into the much larger and stronger system…

they are happy and enjoying the better light, as the big pump blocked a lot…

and I can see them much better;-)…

quarter…

02 Sunday Jan 2022

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received three more amaryllis bulbs and got right to getting them in the soil…

used a coffee filter in the bottom of the pot and then added the soil that came with each one…

they look cute all lined up in the sunshine;-)…

as with this one in the living room, which has a bud on it now, they will have a quarter turn each day…

extreme…

31 Friday Dec 2021

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this morning there was an extreme cold warning, so I put on two pairs of pants, a vest, my purple Canada Goose jacket, mitts, and headed to the end of the sidewalk…

last night the snow plows cleaned the street so there was quite a pile of snow left at the street end of the sidewalk…

it must have been about two feet deep and two feet across… I was thrilled to discover that it wasn’t full of ice chunks and had not frozen into a solid clump…

once again, they did a great job of the driveway… it didn’t need any touching up at all…

only took ten minutes and I was rather proud of my work…

hoping the mail carrier would bring me some fun mail;-)…

and should there be anyone first footing tomorrow, the sidewalk will be clear;-)…

fade…

30 Thursday Dec 2021

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had a photo shoot with my bouquet of flowers…

I’m happy that I’ve taken lots of shots since I received them as they are starting to fade…

got out the actual camera and had a fun time… light was good and tunes were playing…

flowers make me happy;-)…

runners…

29 Wednesday Dec 2021

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my middle grandson arrived yesterday afternoon to do some shovelling…

he made a path from the house to the garage… and then to the back lane… all around the hot tub… and the top deck…

there was a lot of snow and it hadn’t been touched since Thursday…

he, of course, arrived with runners on his feet, lol… he had good gloves but his hands got cold, so for part of the job, he used grandpa’s garbage mitts that I had brought outside…

the driveway got a quick shovel as well as the sidewalks… they had been shovelled and snow blowed twice by the neighbour…

search…

26 Sunday Dec 2021

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so happy to finally have an amaryllis…

I’ve had my grandson on the search for some for weeks…

he finally came across one and dropped it off…

it has a pot and soil, but I decided to put it in water and set it inside the snowflake…

looking forward to watching it grow…