10 Monday Aug 2026
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09 Sunday Aug 2026
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blessed, friends, big girl pants, widow, lunch, moments, Pizzeria, Pizzeria Gusto
we went to Pizzeria Gusto for a delicious lunch to celebrate a birthday… last time we were there was 2017😊… and we still liked some of the same things…
the sun came and went as we sat on the patio and we all enjoyed the delicious food… two particular favourites were the
and the
which, besides being delicious was so pretty;-)…
everything else was also very tasty 😋 …
always a great time together…
08 Saturday Aug 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, bumblebee, flowers, garden, moments, morning glories, nature, pollen, widow
this morning, as I was looking at the obelisk filled with morning glories and cucumber vines, I watched a large bumblebee flitting from flower to flower…
I wasn’t able to get a photo of the bumblebee, but was very interested to see the pollen on the petals, after the bumblebee left each flower…
07 Friday Aug 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, family, garden, goldfish, koi, nature, overwintered, plants, tiny, water lily, widow
the water lily that had overwintered in the house had been nearly completely eaten by the fish, likely the three koi…
I divided the lily into two and put them in little pots and sank them to the bottom of the pond…
one has been pulled out of its pot and eaten…
the second one has finally begun to send up teeny tiny leaves…
pretty sure there won’t be any flowers this year…
06 Thursday Aug 2026
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beans, big girl pants, coffee grounds, flowers, food, garden, growing, moments, nature, nitrogen, tomato plants, tomatoes, widow
great excitement the other day when I checked the giant tomato plants in the side garden…
I’d read that beans provide nitrogen, which tomatoes like so I planted them between the 3 tomatoes… then I also read that coffee grounds are good for tomatoes, so I dumped the weekly coffee grounds in there as well…
I think the tomatoes loved all of that, because they have grown huge… but, not a single flower was seen…
and then, I discovered numerous flowers on each of the plants… and even two marble sized tomatoes…
very happy, although there are very few beans coming along, lol…
30 Thursday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, deadhead, garden, moments, nature, plants, trimmed, unbearable, virginia creeper, water, weather, widow
up early on Wednesday to tidy the garden and water everything… even gave the new grass a dribble…
started with the hose and gave big drinks to all three pots in the front yard, and those in the garden…
then, while the irrigation system and drip hose did their thing, I filled a bucket with overly eager virginia creeper and did some deadheading…
finally, the cushions came out and I was able to sit, read, and enjoy the garden before it became unbearable outside…
29 Wednesday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, dwarf morning glory, envisioned, family, flowers, garden, nature, obelisk, plants, widow
I planted these morning glory seeds that my daughter sent to me from Ottawa as part of my Advent Calendar…
I didn’t read anything about them and envisioned they would grow up this obelisk…
apparently, they are dwarf morning glories…
and that means they don’t climb, lol…
28 Tuesday Jul 2026
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the new arch has already produced enough purple beans for a meal;-)…
this makes me very happy as the tomatoes and beans in the side garden are doing nothing 😔…
I topped and tailed them, and then cut them into bite-sized pieces…
as they boiled, of course the colour dissipated, and they turned into green beans…
but, they were delicious and I enjoyed every last one…
26 Sunday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, caterpillars, chrysalises, garden, hamper, moments, monarch, nature, pop-up, widow
went out to get a couple of pop-up laundry hampers for the monarch caterpillars…
hope they protect them from the birds…
so far I’ve spotted three, which is about the correct number for the amount of leaves on the milkweed plants;-)…
and I’m hoping that they might end up building their chrysalises in them as well…
19 Sunday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, F1, garden, humming, moments, nature, power, quiet, Technology, widow
I was up at 6:30 to watch the F1 pre-race show, and then the race, when the power went out…
I reported it and then went outside to read, happy that the race would be recorded on the PVR…
it is always so quiet when this happens, and, as it was very early, there were few people or cars up and about…
enjoyed a delightful couple of hours in the cool weather, with my book, and the fish, who actually made noise as they were eating and searching for food in the pond…
usually you never hear them…
all of a sudden water came spurting out of the waterfall and the sound of air conditioners humming ended the quiet…
then it was time to make tea and breakfast and get back to the schedule…
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