17 Monday Jan 2022
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today I woke to this view of the sky…
and a bit later I took this photo of the front yard to show someone how much snow was on the ground…
a tiny bit of snow had fallen yesterday and overnight and we are waiting for a storm tonight so I expect there will be more to shovel tomorrow…
13 Thursday Jan 2022
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recently watched an interesting Cornell Lab webinar about chickadees and learned something about squirrels…
gray squirrels hide their food – one seed, peanut, or acorn – at a time, with each item in a different place… and they remember where each bit is…
red squirrels hide theirs in one spot…
now it makes more sense to me as to why they scare birds and other squirrels away from any of the feeders as they consider them to be their property, lol…
this little red guy was at it this morning, chasing away the crew of sparrows…
and a bit later, this gray one was sharing the deck happily with the sparrows;-)…
maybe the red one was having a nap, lol…
12 Wednesday Jan 2022
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spent time in the garden on a beautiful warm day… we’ve been under extreme cold warnings for what seems like forever… shovelled a path to the garbage can and back gate… also cleaned the area around the hot tub…
finally cleaned off a good portion of the upper deck so I can get to the bird feeder… it was difficult to get the snow and old seeds out of the feeder, but I managed…
and just a few minutes later the chickadees were back for fresh snacks…
that made me happy…
04 Tuesday Jan 2022
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had a fun time with camera and the birdies at the front window…
there were house finches, chickadees, the nuthatch and a downy woodpecker…
even used the remote control feature on my phone with the camera, lol…
02 Sunday Jan 2022
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received three more amaryllis bulbs and got right to getting them in the soil…
used a coffee filter in the bottom of the pot and then added the soil that came with each one…
they look cute all lined up in the sunshine;-)…
as with this one in the living room, which has a bud on it now, they will have a quarter turn each day…
31 Friday Dec 2021
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this morning there was an extreme cold warning, so I put on two pairs of pants, a vest, my purple Canada Goose jacket, mitts, and headed to the end of the sidewalk…
last night the snow plows cleaned the street so there was quite a pile of snow left at the street end of the sidewalk…
it must have been about two feet deep and two feet across… I was thrilled to discover that it wasn’t full of ice chunks and had not frozen into a solid clump…
once again, they did a great job of the driveway… it didn’t need any touching up at all…
only took ten minutes and I was rather proud of my work…
hoping the mail carrier would bring me some fun mail;-)…
and should there be anyone first footing tomorrow, the sidewalk will be clear;-)…
30 Thursday Dec 2021
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had a photo shoot with my bouquet of flowers…
I’m happy that I’ve taken lots of shots since I received them as they are starting to fade…
got out the actual camera and had a fun time… light was good and tunes were playing…
flowers make me happy;-)…
29 Wednesday Dec 2021
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my middle grandson arrived yesterday afternoon to do some shovelling…
he made a path from the house to the garage… and then to the back lane… all around the hot tub… and the top deck…
there was a lot of snow and it hadn’t been touched since Thursday…
he, of course, arrived with runners on his feet, lol… he had good gloves but his hands got cold, so for part of the job, he used grandpa’s garbage mitts that I had brought outside…
the driveway got a quick shovel as well as the sidewalks… they had been shovelled and snow blowed twice by the neighbour…
27 Monday Dec 2021
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my friend dropped a bag of coffee off a bit before Christmas…
it was for our weekly gathering…
today, we met by video call… so I did not make coffee…
my friends were in the sleigh and I was beside the tree… good thing they were in that sleigh because there was a lot of snow outside…
as always, we caught up on everyone’s life and had some fun remembering winter sports we had taken part in, lol…
the entire time I could smell the delicious chicken soup that was simmering on the stove…
friends;-)…
26 Sunday Dec 2021
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so happy to finally have an amaryllis…
I’ve had my grandson on the search for some for weeks…
he finally came across one and dropped it off…
it has a pot and soil, but I decided to put it in water and set it inside the snowflake…
looking forward to watching it grow…
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