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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…

peapod…

15 Wednesday Jul 2026

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big girl pants, blessed, cucumbers, flowers, garden, moments, morning glories, nature, peapod, reading outside, sweet pea, widow

had a quiet day… only outside for a little while as it was overcast and spit a fair bit…

but did get some reading in… also got to see more morning glories on the deck…

also ones that I planted on the new trellis, and flowers on more of the cucumbers there;-)… so far the morning glories have all been purple 😂…

and I spotted a number of bachelor buttons in the side garden…

and the biggest surprise was the cute little sweet pea flower, next to an actual peapod, woohoo…

things are moving along😊…

everywhere…

14 Tuesday Jul 2026

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well, this is funny… I planted morning glories everywhere around the garden…

Sunday evening I spotted a blossom on one of the volunteer plants that had grown in the planters around the deck…

this is the first one to show up🤣…

ripening…

13 Monday Jul 2026

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big girl pants, blessed, garden, nature, netting, ripening, strawberries, weather, widow

I’ve been watching the strawberries, which have been under netting so that I get the berries, not the birds or squirrels, lol…

on Sunday I took the netting off and collected the dozen berries that were ripe, although two weren’t completely finished…

I did remove them and have them in the window to finish ripening…

took off the stems and added some whipped cream to them for a tasty dessert after supper…

the plant has a number of flowers on it so that’s why the netting needed to come off, so that insects could pollinate them…

delicious… I haven’t had that many at once since I started growing them a few years ago…

I think they are enjoying the spot they are in this year😊…

humidex…

12 Sunday Jul 2026

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big girl pants, garden, hot, humidex, moments, monarch, nature, weather, widow

spent time in the garden fairly early as the temperature was going to 37°C before adding in the humidex…

only put out the cushion I was sitting on, lol… with the huge humidity yesterday, stepping into the garden fairly early, even in the evening, was like hitting a wall…

made sure to water all the plants, and if it doesn’t rain today, I will also water the new grass tomorrow…

sat out on the back deck until close to noon and then moved into the house…

had a monarch visit for a while, just before I went in, but still have no eggs or caterpillars;-(…

came back out just after supper for a short while…

still crazy hot 🥵…

humidity…

11 Saturday Jul 2026

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air conditioner, big girl pants, garden, hot, humidity, moments, nature, outside, Technology, weather, widow

it was hot and humid out there today…

I didn’t spend much time in the garden, although when I first got up and ran the irrigation system, I did put out the cushions, but didn’t sit out for too long…

even at 7 when it is usually quite pleasant, with the humidity, it felt like 42°C, sigh…

may have to leave the air conditioner on all night…

Hilda…

05 Sunday Jul 2026

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big girl pants, blessed, garden, Hilda, Hilda the Gardener, moments, tidy, widow

always such a treat to have Hilda the Gardener in to tidy up the garden;-)…

everything looks neat and tidy when she’s done…

we were laughing about how the gardens looked when she first came… and how she kept taking before and after pictures of her work..

such a huge and delightful difference now…

invisible…

03 Friday Jul 2026

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big girl pants, blessed, family, garden, housemate, invisible, moments, nature, trimmed, virginia creeper, weather, widow

apparently, the virginia creeper is the happiest plant in the garden…

it is growing by leaps and bounds…

along the garage it has been trying to make its way back into the eavestrough and it also thinks it should get to the hot tub, lol…

the baskets were nearly invisible on the other side of the garden…

my housemate was able to get it all back under control in just a few minutes… looks so much better now…

it will probably look like that again in a few weeks😊…

happier…

02 Thursday Jul 2026

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big girl pants, blessed, garden, growing, happier, lemon, lemon tree, moments, nature, new leaves, widow

the lemon tree is very happy outside…

it has new leaves sprouting all over… much happier than when it went out last year…

all this from a seed out of a kitchen lemon… I can’t, for the life of me, remember when it was first planted;-)…

Austria…

29 Monday Jun 2026

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Austria, big girl pants, F1, knee, pesky, read, weather, widow

this pesky knee is being a bit of a pain, so on Sunday I didn’t spend any time getting steps…

made for a quiet day, although with the rainy and overcast weather it was fairly easy to lay around reading and napping…

I also got to watch the F1 race in Austria…

that was fun…

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