regular…

10 Monday Oct 2022

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so much to be thankful for…

this year my daughter was here in March and my son-in-law in August…

I spent hours in the garden…

met my friends on a regular basis in the garden all summer… previously, we haven’t met very often during that time as everyone was busy…

saw, texted, and spoke on the phone with many friends… made a new one and enjoyed getting to know them…

worked on changes in the vegetable garden… grew peas, beans, cucumbers, and tomatoes…

was visited by monarchs and swallowtails and a beautiful little hummingbird…

enjoyed bouquets of flowers all summer, thanks to a birthday subscription from the kids…

had many projects completed, in the house and the garden…

life is very good…

colours

06 Thursday Oct 2022

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went for a walk the other day and enjoyed the colours…

the trees were looking so beautiful…

I came across these Halloween decorations just waiting to be turned on…

I bet they will look great when they are blown up…

I had a lovely time…

responded…

03 Monday Oct 2022

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my hair went from being fine… to unmanageable, in what felt like a minute, about last Wednesday… I nearly tried out the freshly sharpened scissors, but managed to hold off until this morning when I walked over to Ultracuts to get it dealt with… had to wait for a bit, so went for a walk, rather than sit inside…

the weather was nice, particularly as it was supposed to rain all day…

along the way I spotted some murals and got a nice shot of this one…

pleased with the cut…

on the way home I passed a person and said good morning… it wasn’t until I was a few steps past them that I realized it was one of my neighbours…

I laughed as I thought of how my beloved would have responded… he would have turned back, called out their name, and had a half hour conversation…

I just kept walking, lol…

bud…

13 Tuesday Sep 2022

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so excited last Wednesday to discover a water lily bud… I had pretty much given up hope of seeing one this year…

throughout the day I took photos as it worked towards opening…

it was at its peak on Saturday…

today it is getting ready to slide under the water… as the next bud begins to open…

what a wonderful treat as we move into cooler weather…

talk about blessed…

redoing…

08 Thursday Sep 2022

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my bouquet subscription has come to an end and I came across this post I had written about my birthday bouquet…

I had an enjoyable time redoing it… this is how it looked on my birthday…

I removed the roses once they were spent…

it was time to do something new and this is what it became on May fourth…

used a cute teapot and a small glass for the next life of the bouquet…

added some of the statice to a container that was already filled…

and finally, used the container the flowers came in to set a cute new plant I recently purchased…

it is always such fun to change out the flowers as the bouquet ages, lol…

some great memories;-)…

tad…

02 Friday Sep 2022

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Wednesday, the kids met us for breakfast and then came by to pick up a few items from the giveaway collection…

while they were here, they pulled down some wayward Virginia creeper along the garage and moved some unsightly cord off the pond bridge…

then they ran over to Nestor’s to get me a shubunkin to add to the pond… there weren’t any available, so they came home with this beauty…

which was a tad bigger than I expected, lol… they all seem to be getting on fine in the school so we are good;-)…

stroll…

24 Wednesday Aug 2022

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on Monday morning we went to the Park Café for breakfast with my BS buddies and then took a stroll around the English and Leo Mol Gardens…

my son-in-law and I walked over and met the rest of the group inside the restaurant… it was wonderful to finally get there, as it had been a long time… breakfast was tasty and my favourite server mentioned how she had missed seeing me😊…

it was the first time I’ve been back in the Gardens for at least a few years and they were full of colour and blooms…