19 Monday Apr 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, deck, family, garden, moments, nature, repair, rotten, son-in-law, steps, visit, widow
what a treat… my son-in-law stopped by this afternoon…
he checked out the rotten wood on the step and we figured out what is needed to make the needed repair…
of course we also looked at a few other problem areas…
then we had a cup of tea and a chat together on the deck… it was chilly and I wore gloves, but the sun was shining…
nice to have a visitor…
17 Saturday Apr 2021
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this left side photo came up in my memories from a year ago today… and the right side is how that avocado looks today…
I am a little worried about it because I’ve had to remove two leaves which curled and turned dark;-(…
16 Friday Apr 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, camera, charger, family, moments, photos, pictures, shopping, Technology, widow
I’ve been spending a bit of time with my Olympus camera, getting to know it again…
it had been sitting on the shelf for a long time because I had misplaced the charger…
my son-in-law was able to find one online for me and I recently received it…
I dug out the manual, read through it and have started to take more pictures… I never thought it worked as well as my Nikon, but maybe I didn’t give it a chance, lol…
we shall see…
14 Wednesday Apr 2021
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well, I now understand why my neighbour brought out his snowblower yesterday… that snow is deep and heavy…
I checked in with my shoveler, who isn’t available until tomorrow, but I couldn’t bear thinking about my mail person and any delivery people having to trudge through the snow… that meant I had to go out to the garage to get the shovel, which apparently got put away too soon, lol…
I was astonished at how deep the snow was as I made my way to get the shovel… then it took a while to clear a path to the back door… my back wasn’t enjoying the exercise…
I tiptoed through the house and out the front door to get the snow removed from the sidewalk before the mail arrived…
there was only a single swipe because that snow is so wet and heavy…
then I sat down with a cup of tea;-)…
13 Tuesday Apr 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, cacao tree, chocolate, flowers, jacaranda, lavender, Maui, memories, moments, nature, purple, vacation, widow
I’ve been looking back at photos from our trip to Maui two years ago… enjoying it a lot…
lovely to have reminders of that special time…
on this day, we visited a lavender farm where we walked through a garden filled wth beautiful flowers, many of which we couldn’t name…
we spent time at Maui Chocolate Coffee tours where we chatted with the farm owners, got to see cacao growing on trees, and tasted a chocolate drink…
and we saw jacaranda trees in bloom… they are purple;-)…
12 Monday Apr 2021
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it has been snowing off and on since early this morning… very depressing… I had to open the window to get this shot because all the windows were covered in water drops…
and then this box arrived in the mail…
the dahlias I ordered…
that perked me up;-)…
11 Sunday Apr 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, growing, memories, moments, morning glories, nature, patience, plants, poppies, wait, widow
this morning I sprinkled poppy seeds in the garden… hope they take… the poppies are always the first flower to bloom… they self-seed and some years there are just one or two and other years there are lots of blooms… it is amazing that they come back, even after the garden bed was completely dug up eight years ago…
I have also been enjoying the morning glory seedlings… I can hardly wait to plant them outside;-)…
I can see morning glories everywhere;-)…
10 Saturday Apr 2021
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, food, garden, moments, nap, nature, pond, potato salad, read, salad, Spring, squirrel, weather, widow
made my first potato salad of the season this morning and then spent the rest of the day in the garden…
apparently snow is coming so it just makes sense to be out there while it is nice…
napped in my rocking lounger and sat in one of my repaired chairs…
watched and listened to many birds… saw what might have been a purple finch, which stood on a chair to oversee the garden, but I didn’t take any pictures;-)… the sparrows and juncos were enjoying drinks of water when they weren’t searching for food… the red squirrel hopped all over the deck for some reason… it was fun to watch…
when I wasn’t watching the wildlife, I was reading a new book and eating potato salad;-)..
09 Friday Apr 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, fish, garden, grandson, gunk, leaves, moments, nature, pond, sump pump, weather, widow
even though it was chilly and overcast my grandson arrived this morning to clean up the pond… it was filled with a ton of decaying leaves…
our time didn’t start very well… the pump that worked perfectly in the fall when it came out of the water would not work… felt like we tried everything, but no luck… so, he had to run to the store to replace it, sigh…
eventually, after getting most of the water pumped out, he used the shopvac to suck up the majority of leaves from the bottom…
this technique worked well, but took quite some time, and was very smelly… then we rinsed it, and I filled it back up… he plans to come back, we will drain it again, and finish sucking up the gunk…
then we will fill it and get the waterfall flowing… I don’t think the fish will go in for another few weeks, when the chorine has dissipated and the water temperature has warmed up a bit;-)…
happy with our progress and looking forward to sitting and enjoying the beautiful sound…
08 Thursday Apr 2021
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