without…

18 Thursday Jul 2024

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it was twelve years ago today that I had surgery for a hernia and a hysterectomy… it took a while to get organized as two different surgeons were required to work together so that both issues could be taken care of at the same time…

it was particularly difficult because it was the first time I went through a serious health issue without my beloved there to support and look after me…

thinking back to that time, I realize how far I have come and how well I am doing now…

I still miss him every single day…

sail…

17 Wednesday Jul 2024

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I’ve been trying to figure out how to get another umbrella on the back deck to provide shade mid afternoon without a whole out of success…

I have an old umbrella, but no pole or stand for it… we went looking but weren’t able to find anything that might work and keep it stable…

in the end we purchased a 3-point sail… we also picked up a lot of rope to be able to connect the corners…

after considerable trial and error, we got it up and I think it is going to work quite well…

and it looks good;-)…

some…

16 Tuesday Jul 2024

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all of the rain has made some of the veggie garden plants quite happy…

the tomatoes are doing well and growing bigger each day…

the peapods are filling out rather nicely and I had my first peas… from just one pod, lol…

the beans are growing up the arch but don’t have any flowers yet and the cucumbers are very slow in flowering…

I think that I may need to plant more beans and even cucumbers… sadly the butternut squash seed did not produce…

and, finally the basil has started to fill the pot;-)…

walkway…

15 Monday Jul 2024

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we’ve tidied up the walkway between the pond and garden and I had swept the path a few days ago…

yesterday I looked at it and discovered that it was once again covered in dirt, sigh…

as I watched the sparrows having their dust baths it occurred to me what the problem was, lol…

today I swept it again, pretty much knowing that it won’t stay tidy for any length of time…

maybe I will put down that fancy magic sand that turns solid once it has water put on it…

it will be interesting to see how the birds respond…

comparison…

14 Sunday Jul 2024

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the clematis on the south side of the house has been outdoing itself this season… maybe it likes all the rain, lol…

I would say there are maybe a hundred buds or blossoms… and that is after two serious thunderstorms which knocked tons of petals off…

came across this photo from July, 2013…

at that point it was probably five or six years old… before this one we had probably planted five or six that all died…

nice to have the comparison as it is easy to forgot how much something has grown…

Wednesdays…

13 Saturday Jul 2024

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I do enjoy Wednesdays…

that is the day that some lovely young men come in the morning, and within about fifteen minutes, have mowed the front and back, trimmed everywhere, blown any grass from walkways, and left;-)…