17 Thursday Jul 2025
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APC, big girl pants, blessed, koi, learning, moments, nature, pond, professionals, The Leaf, tropical biome, water, widow
had a lovely few minutes in the Tropical Biome watching one of the animal care professionals feeding the koi ;-)…
they check on the fish a few times each day to feed, as well as count, them and do a quick overview to make sure they are all doing well…
it is always great to spend a few minutes and learn something new at each opportunity;-)…
16 Wednesday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, camera, eggs, fields, flowers, friend, fun, garden, happy, Miss Millie’s Flower Farm, moments, mug, nature, Nikon, picking, plants, time, weather, widow
this morning we drove to Miss Millie’s Flower Farm and had a lovely time in the fields…
my adventure buddy gathered flowers, and I gathered photographs with my Nikon… great fun for both of us…
of the 125 photos I took, I was very pleased with about 75…
the weather was perfect, overcast and cool, and there were few bugs… we had been there in August of 2022 and the mosquitoes had been voracious at that time…
the fields were not as far along due to the weather but it is a beautiful place to spend time in… so happy I remembered that taking pictures was more fun for me than gathering flowers;-)… and nice to get the camera out for a change;-)…
I also brought home some fresh eggs and a new tea mug (Sugar & Spice Pottery);-)…
15 Tuesday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, blossoms, buds, garden, hibiscus, mandevilla, moments, nature, plants, scraggly, weather, widow
great excitement over the last while when I discovered two different new buds…
the first one I noted was the tiny little buds on the mandevilla…
it had been looking very scraggly when it came out from the house…
and then, just a few days ago, I spotted a bud on the hibiscus;-)…
can’t wait to see the blooms as they open…
14 Monday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, bunnies, bunny, climbed, fun, moments, morning glories, nature, steps, weather, widow
while I was on a phone call, I looked out the window to see two bunnies…
one climbed up the front steps and I caught it on the way down, lol…
from there it went into the flower bed and ate the morning glory plant that had popped up in the mulch… happy it was one of the “wild” ones, lol…
then the two of them headed to the other side of the yard looking for treats…
a few minutes later a third one turned up…
what fun out the window;-)…
13 Sunday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, family, farmers, Farmers Market, food, fresh veggies, garden, grandson, moments, nature, peas, potatoes, treat, weather, widow
finally made it to a farmers market today… when I worked we would often get to the market which was either beside, or in, the Hydro building…
this is just a small one, located in the parking lot of a fairly close grocery store…
so excited to get peas, yay… and carrots, radishes, green and regular onions, garlic, asparagus, baby potatoes (both white and red), and dill…
so far I’ve had peas with my lunch and supper, lol…
next up will be potatoes with peas, carrots, asparagus, and dill… yum…
12 Saturday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, bird feeder, blessed, deer, doorbell cam, moments, nature, planter, scared, standoff, Technology, weather, widow
on Friday evening the doorbell cam advised there was an animal in the front yard (bit fuzzy)…
I ran downstairs to watch out the window and was quite happy watching the two deer…
until one started to eat the plants in one of the planters…
I knocked on the window but it didn’t scare it…
stared right back at me…
and as I watched them head to the hostas next door, I went outside to scare them away…
but they really didn’t want to go… they even started walking towards me, but after about a three minute standoff, they finally crossed the street and headed toward the creek…
11 Friday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, delicious, food, garden, happy, moments, nature, peas, pick, shelling, step stool, treat, weather, widow
this morning I picked the peas from the side garden;-)…
had to use the step stool to get the higher ones and my housemate picked the last couple that I couldn’t reach…
I spent a lovely fifteen minutes shelling them…
then boiled and ate them for lunch…
yum, what a treat;-)…
10 Thursday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, cheese, dad, family, food, lunch, memories, memory, moments, remembering, sandwich, sardines, widow
today, as I was making my lunch, I was reminded of my dad…
he loved sardines and would often make a sardine sandwich for his lunch when he was home…
when he worked he had a cheese sandwich every single day🤪…
back to the sardines, lol…
he would smash them up in a bowl with a fork and a bit of the oil from the container and then put the mix onto white bread…
I mashed mine up and then topped up some premium crackers with the mixture… tasty and went well with the cucumber, onion, tomato salad which I also made…
sweet memory;-)…
09 Wednesday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, delightful, lamb, moments, photograph, piccata, pickerel, Pine Ridge Hollow, restaurant, schmoo, shops, wandered, weather, widow
today, we celebrated one of our group’s birthdays by spending the afternoon at Pine Ridge Hollow…
we drove out in a hybrid electric car and spent a couple of hours wandering through all the shops…
we followed that up with an excellent dinner at the restaurant…
our meal started with beet chips and goat cheese ranch dipping sauce, oh my, so tasty…
four members of the group had pickerel piccata while I had the lamb shank…
my lamb was braised and flame-grilled, came with tabbouleh, fennel slaw, whipped labneh, and a drizzle of chermoula… I had to look up a number of the items on Google but they made a delightful combination;-)…
everyone’s meal was delicious and just a touch different than expected…
the birthday “girl” had schmoo, while others enjoyed the frozen lemon meringue…
we conscripted a fellow restaurant member as they were leaving to take our traditional photo…’you can see we were having a lot of fun;-)…
a leisurely drive home ended another of our special days…
08 Tuesday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, blooms, disintegrate, flowers, garden, happy, moments, morning glories, nature, plants, purple, starting, weather, widow
so happy to see that the morning glories are opening…
the butterfly bench hasn’t had any open lately but the planter by the backdoor has been blooming over the last few days… today there were three…
then, as I was driving out of the garage, I stopped the car, got out and took photos of the blooms by the large garage door…
the blooms don’t last long and if it rains they kind of disintegrate, so I wanted to be sure to get a photo of them;-)…
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