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reminder…

09 Wednesday Sep 2015

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went to my oldest grandson’s soccer game last night…

they are nearly done their games and it was nice to get to go to one very close to home…

while there got this shot of some geese on their way over…

  
been trying to get a picture of the geese in flight all summer but just haven’t been able to manage it… I just love the sound and sight of them honking and flying in formation… such a sign of spring and fall for me… still makes me stop and look up when I hear the sound…

half an hour later I was home waiting for my BS friends to arrive and looked out at this beautiful sky… went and got my phone right away and took a few shots and then just stood revelling in the moment…

  
read a comment recently on a friend’s Instagram feed about enjoying the moment, and just got an email from another about being in the moment and how important that is…

all of these things remind me of the importance of enjoying each moment and being in the present… I have been trying to do that for the last few years… always good to get a reminder…

special…

07 Monday Sep 2015

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here are a few flower pictures I’ve taken over the last while…

this shot of hydrangea was special to me because of the light…

 

this was in the Leo Mol Sculpture Garden and there were dozens of bushes filled with blossoms… quite beautiful…  
yesterday morning I took this shot of wild jolly jump-ups… they are so tiny and cute… could easily have been missed…

  
there are now three little patches of them in the grass in the garden… luckily they are right along edges so should survive mowing…

here is a shot of one of the morning glory buds preparing to open…

 
thought they looked like this the day before they open, but it seems they can stay like this for a few days… will be interesting to see if it opens tomorrow while I am home, lol…

this is a stalk from the calla which I cut off the other day because I thought it was done…

  
it is just stuck into a pot to dry the seeds out, and now it is blooming… pretty special…

this final photo is of one of the phone handsets in a bag of rice…

 
managed to drop it into the toilet yesterday… hopefully the rice will do its magic and dry it out…

busy…

06 Sunday Sep 2015

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had a fairly good sleepover night… little guy was still sick and got up at three for about an hour… saw this out the window…

  
misty… looked ethereal…

  
had a busy day… went to the Children’s Nature Playground at the park and spent a few minutes quietly watching the deer… we saw five in total…

  
great time on the swings… these round ones are very popular… the area was nearly empty so they could play on everything as much as they wanted…

  
then I spotted a few wasps on the butterfly weed… pretty good photo just with my iPhone…

  
on to the crow’s nest… this was the most popular slide for these two…

  
finally headed to the train for a ride… we chose the very back because the last time we took a ride on it with grandpa it was in this spot… here they are making a space for him…

  
the one down side was that apparently all the mosquitoes love this spot…

picked up groceries and had a quiet time when we got home… a bit later in the afternoon the older one mowed the back garden…

  
and the front yard… first time he has done this so we had a bit of a lesson…

 
he did a great job… after supper they headed home… 

writing this and then going to bed…

I am exhausted, but had great fun, lol…

persherons…

05 Saturday Sep 2015

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great fun at the zoo today… the little boys and I got to check out the barn and go on a lovely wagon ride at the new McFeetors Heavy Horse Centre...

  
the guide explained all about this powerful horse breed as we circled the new area…
  
our ride was excellent… we went and picked up some rain ponchos as it was misting on us a bit…  properly attired, we checked out a few other spots…

   
looking for butterflies… most of them were released last week…

 
but finding lots of caterpillars… Mr. Eagle Eyes even spotted a chrysalis…

  
unfortunately the littlest guy had a headache for a good portion of the day… when we got home, having walked from the Park, he napped for a bit…

  
this is a picture of the canna…

  
cannot see the hummingbird that came to it twice while we were in the garden… it was faster than I was…

here’s a picture of two of us taken by the littlest person…

  
was a bit cool by then, but happily rain didn’t start falling again until just after dark…

had its low points, but wonderful time spent together…

water…

04 Friday Sep 2015

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quite a day…

had to top up the water in the pond, so I spent a few minutes enjoying the fish… always makes me feel calm and relaxed…  

  

overcast when we headed to work… but still nice…

around two our fire alarm went off…

  
out we went, and across the street to the approved gathering spot… started to spit while we were out there… 

three fire trucks and two other fire vehicles arrived to check things out… work in the basement may have caused the alarm, so we were back inside within half an hour, once they were able to find the alarm panel and turn it off… that bell is very loud…

within five minutes of our return to the office the sky went black and the heavens opened…

  

picked up by my daughter and grandson and we went to The Burger Place for supper as the concert they were going to was cancelled due to the storm…

  
it was still raining and the puddles were amazing…

  
my daughter took this great shot of the corner where we were having our supper… one of George’s favourite places…

got home and was happy to discover that, although water had come into the basement, it had mainly been soaked up by the towels that I leave on the floor…

  
a bit had run across the floor to the drain, but nothing had gone as far as the carpet…

  

probably didn’t need to top up the pond, lol…

follow…

03 Thursday Sep 2015

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been getting a few more followers lately…

each one makes me so happy… still haven’t figured out how to thank people for following me… need to study up a bit to see how to use some of the widgets available I think…  


have over 230 followers as some follow by email… 

always fun to check the stats… for a while I couldn’t see them on my phone, but eventually I figured it out… 

these days I rarely use the computer to check and write my posts… 

was just talking with someone who also mentioned that they do everything on their phone… nothing on their laptop or computer…

I still use the computer for a few things, particularly if I have pictures on my camera that are going to be part of my post… 

was speaking with someone recently and we talked about what makes one post receive more likes than another… we didn’t come to any conclusion… seems like something that I don’t imagine as that interesting gets a lot of attention and something else that I think will get lots of attention, gets very little…

thank you for liking and/or following me… I appreciate it:-)…

  

gardening…

29 Saturday Aug 2015

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made myself bacon and eggs for a treat this morning… used Campfire brand bacon which reminded me of our breakfast around the campfire just last Saturday…

then I headed out into the garden where I spent most of the day… the morning glories were lovely, although the large ones didn’t open today, lol…

  
dragged out the lawnmower and mowed… what an improvement… looked like an overgrown meadow before… this new Black and Decker model is battery powered and plugs in when done… had to scrape down the inside when I was done because it had been damp earlier…

put seed in the feeders… trimmed back some of the sad looking plants and pulled out others in overgrown areas… the birds were happy with new snacks…

  
took out a pail full of water hyacinth from the pond…

  
now I can see the fish again… and discovered five baby fish… 

  

maybe there have been two or three batches of them because there is one black one which is the biggest with two coloured ones about the same size and finally another teeny black one… the black ones are actually gold but appear black in the water…

spent time relaxing after the gardening… read my book, watched the birds and had a lovely nap to the sound of the waterfall…

  
also made chicken soup and walnut pesto…

  
wonderful summer day…

delicious…

25 Tuesday Aug 2015

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last night I prepared another five pounds of beans… this time, yellow ones…

  
the great news was that I was sitting on my bed watching tv as I prepped them… my son-in-law came by and replaced the dead one and then carefully explained how this particular one works… let’s hope I remember all the instructions, lol…

can even set the sleep timer from the main remote control… for the previous one I had to use two remotes… I am very happy…

got my big pasta pot and blanched all of the beans for three minutes…

  
not sure why I didn’t use this pot for the green beans… sped up the process nicely…

  
cold bath and then into bags…

  
filled eleven bags and also had a lovely bowl filled for my supper…

  
they were very tasty and I also had fresh beets… such a delicious time of the year…

creatures…

22 Saturday Aug 2015

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after supper last night at the campsite, all the boys and dogs went for a walk to the beach to catch frogs…

it was dark and nearly eleven when a skunk came to visit we three women as we sat around the campfire…

one ran into the tent, another climbed on top of the picnic table… I sat in my chair as the skunk came and sniffed my toes before moseying along to the next site…

was going to take a picture but decided not to in case it got nervous and sprayed, lol…

at 1 am it started to rain… at about 2:30 the thunder and lightning show started… shortly after that lightning blew the electricity at the site with a huge bang… for two hours the light flashed, thunder rolled and rain poured down… can’t even think of a time when I was in the midst of such a storm… made for a long night…

this morning we saw geese at the beach when we went for our cell phone connection fix…

  
had a lovely breakfast cooked on the fire…

  
bacon, pancakes and eggs was wonderful… soon after that the heavens opened again and it poured…

we gave up, packed, and headed home… saw a mommy deer and her twins as we left the campground…

  
now we are back in the city, camping out at my daughter’s new house which is pretty much an empty construction zone, lol…

and have two dogs laying here keeping us company…

  
gonna make s’mores soon…

disappointing…

18 Tuesday Aug 2015

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picked up by my daughter and grandson after work today…

we wandered around Rona for a while and then went to The Keg for dinner... lobster summer… disappointing tonight…

  
my lobster was tasty and the steak was well done, but there wasn’t too much of it… the coleslaw wasn’t to my taste… had a bit of an Asian flavour to it which didn’t feel like it went with the rest of the food on the plate… felt like the prices have gone up and the standards have gone down… too bad as I’ve always felt you could get a good meal there…

then we went to Dairy Queen for dessert… my favourite thing is really just a small soft ice cream cone… but we were taken in by the cute little ice cream cupcakes…

  
sigh, should have got the ice cream cone…

always good to try new things, but sometimes it is best to stick with what you know, lol…

final disappointment of the evening… my daughter looked at the tv and came to the same conclusion as I had… it is dead… good news is they probably have one I can use…

great to spend time with them…