04 Saturday Jun 2022
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Thursday I was expecting a delivery from the drugstore so when the doorbell rang I wasn’t surprised…
but, it was the florist with a beautiful bouquet of flowers from a dear friend…
what a delightful surprise…
not long after, the anticipated delivery arrived… not nearly as exciting, lol…
03 Friday Jun 2022
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big girl pants, broken, bruises, edges, fell, garden, memories, moments, pond, shock, walk, widow
it was a year ago today that I fell into the pond…
I must say that I am still very careful when I walk around the edges of it…
wonder how long it will be before I am not so deliberate about moving in that area…
I can still feel the shock… and now I laugh when I think how I pulled my phone out of my back pocket, in the water, and dried it on my shirt even before trying to get out🤪…
the other memory involved the huge bruises that came up across my breasts days later from where I hit the waterfall rock… although they were a beautiful shade of purple… apparently I really hit it hard, lol…
02 Thursday Jun 2022
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Armstrong and Small, big girl pants, blessed, compartment, eye glasses, flowers, garden, glasses, house, lawn, mask, moments, widow
yesterday, I headed out to see the eye doctor and had to return to the house because I forgot my mask🤪…
I took out another one and put it into the glove compartment so if I forget again, there will be one available…
I was there for over two hours… apparently, my eyes and my current glasses are special, lol… the attention to detail and care of clients is quite amazing in these days of get ‘em in and get ‘em out… we also did some looking at new frames and discussed a number of possibilities for lenses…
as I drove up to the house, I found Hilda the Gardener just going into the garden with a beautiful hanging basket which she brought for me as a gift…
after she left I noticed that the lawn had been mowed, which was great as the grass had grown a lot with all the rain…
and the house got cleaned in the afternoon…
all in all, a pretty fine day…
01 Wednesday Jun 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, butterfly bush, dahlias, dynasty, flowers, garden, happy, milkweed, moments, nature, purple, weather, widow
great wander around the garden before the rain a few days ago…
excited to discover the milkweed is growing in the ground and in the planter where it did very well last year…
it appears that one of the dahlias may be poking through the soil…
and most exciting of all, the Monarch Dark Dynasty Butterfly Bush has new growth on it… this is huge as I’ve tried to overwinter them before without success…
right now only one of the pair shows any signs of buds, although that one came outside earlier than the other… fingers crossed…
31 Tuesday May 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, footstools, garden, moments, online, rest, shopping, Technology, widow
took me five hours, working off and on, to put together the new chairs, footstools, and table that I ordered a week or so ago and which arrived on Saturday…
had to take bits and pieces out of the large box that arrived on the front step, make a few trips to the back deck… and then drag the box to the back…
of course the directions were just pictures and it took me a while to decipher them…
biggest issue was working between the lattice on the sides of the chairs, but eventually I got it all done and had a lovely time resting on one of the chairs with my feet on the pull out footstool, lol…
needed that…
30 Monday May 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, dyson, grandson, moments, nature, rain, rehanging, Technology, weather, widow, windows
the rain helped me get a few jobs done around the house…
I’ve been putting off rehanging the curtains in the den and I finally got that done…
I also put the Dyson back together… my grandson had taken it apart and washed a filter inside… who knew there was one there… and now it works… yay…
even the living room windows were happy and they are lovely and shiny clean…
nice to check a few things off the list;-)…
29 Sunday May 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, dahlias, garden, gardening, moments, morning glories, nature, plants, pond, produce, time, widow
brought all the plants out of the garage the other day… I had put everything in after concern that the bunnies might stop by for an expensive dinner, lol…
I have decided that I will be in the garden as much as possible, whenever possible… what with the odd weather I think it will be important to enjoy each moment…
sat by the pond for awhile, although I had a blanket on, before doing a bit of planting…
put in three of my dahlias hoping they will produce again this year…
in the pot on the deck, planted an Eveline and added morning glories to grow up the trellis… this is my favourite dahlia and I’m happy to have two corms that look like they will grow… fingers crossed…
the second one went into the pot in the middle of the garden… last year it did amazing in this particular spot… will add something else to trail down a bit in this planter…
also planted two strawberry plants and a few morning glories in the Bundt pan on the table… hoping the morning glories will climb up the umbrella pole and greet me with many flowers in the morning…
the other dahlia went into a pot that is currently sitting on the deck, but it can easily be moved elsewhere in the garden… I put in two tubers and if them both come up, one will be moved…
of course that bit of planting still left a table full waiting for their new homes…
28 Saturday May 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, expedition, family, garden, grandson, irrigation, moments, repair, shopping, time, widow
what a busy day we had on Thursday… didn’t even have time for a nap, although I did manage a short sit down in the garden before my grandson arrived…
he and I spent the day getting jobs done around the yard, and even a few in the house…
we ran out and were able to get all the necessary items at Canadian Tire, so it was a one stop shopping expedition…
things came out of and went into the shed… leaking hoses were repaired… an irrigation system semi-installed… pots moved… trellises put into a planter that had a bit of paint touch up done… and the fire pit problem solved…
what a treat it is to spend time with him… I try to savour every minute;-)…
27 Friday May 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, happy, moments, nurseries, plants, pond, purple, shopping, widow
well, well, well… went plant shopping with Hilda the Gardener…
basically it took the entire day and we went to five different nurseries…
what fun… she knows where all the best plants are at each location and has a great sense of what looks good together…
I was also happy to discover that three of them had pond plants and I was able to get a container with three different plants in it…
once we had purchased everything (lol) we had lunch out and discussed our plans…
planting is likely going to happen on Saturday, unless I decide to start on the planters around the deck… although I’m not sure I remember which plants are going where;-)…
just after we unloaded all the loot and I had come into the house it poured for about half an hour…
great timing on our part…
26 Thursday May 2022
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on Tuesday, my grandson arrived with his bike in the back of the car…
he had spent hours over the weekend getting the inside and outside of Indi cleaned for me…
I had spent the morning finding space in the garage so that she would fit as she has returned home… very exciting…
looking good…
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