01 Sunday Nov 2020
Posted in health, life, moments, Uncategorized, weather
I’ve had these pyjamas for years… the pants have been too long the entire time… I usually wear them when it is cold as they are made of a soft and comfy fleece…
today I hand-hemmed three inches off them, lol…
they are much more comfortable now…
31 Saturday Oct 2020
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big girl pants, birds, cold, feeders, garden, moments, nature, suet, sunflower seeds, treat, weather, widow
had some fun in the kitchen a few days ago after I took out the garbage from the den closet cleanup…
last week I found a recipe for homemade suet and added a few of the items to my grocery order so that I could make some for the birds…
it seems like a simple recipe with just 5 ingredients…
while making this, tomato sauce for my supper was simmering on the stove…
I made a double recipe so hope the birds like it, lol…
I used a sushi container and another container I found… after melting and mixing everything together, they went into the freezer to solidify…
I’ve put some out front in the suet holder and also put a bit in one of the saucers in the garden… so far it doesn’t seem to have the birds swarming to it;-(…
my problem now is that I am nearly out of sunflower seeds and won’t likely be getting any for at least a few weeks…
30 Friday Oct 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, coat, cold, funny, fur, moments, nature, purple, reading, stopper, weather, widow, winter
I’ve been thinking of a friend’s mother who used fur coats as draft stoppers… she had numerous fur coats and it just seemed like the funniest thing to me, although even in those days people were no longer wearing fur, so it was a good use of the coats, lol…
there is a vertical space along the bottom of my front door and I have been trying to figure out what needs to be done to fix it…
my handiperson is supposed to be coming before too long to check it out, but as I sit reading in the living room there is quite a cold draft across the floor…
this afternoon I took one of my winter coats and hung it on the doorknob and I think it is stopping the cold air;-)… or at least slowing it down…
too funny, lol…
25 Sunday Oct 2020
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big girl pants, bird feeder, blessed, dining room, indoor garden, nature, plants, reading, repurpose, view, weather, widow
spent the afternoon reading in the living room and decided to move the avocado plant and orchids that have been in the window…
they have grown enough that they block my view of the bird feeders… I anticipate spending a lot of time watching the birds over the next six months…
I’m planning to repurpose the dining room table as a bit of a garden for the next while… not going to be having anyone over to eat there, lol…
24 Saturday Oct 2020
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23 Friday Oct 2020
Posted in food, garden, life, nature, retirement, Uncategorized, weather
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big girl pants, birds, birdseed, blessed, feeder, food, garden, identify, moments, nature, stripes, watching, weather, widow
had fun going through my various bird books and apps because I saw a very interesting bird on the deck yesterday… it was a touch bigger than a sparrow but with stripes on its front with a black dot on its chest… couldn’t find it in any of the books…
there was a house finch there too and I haven’t seen any of them for quite a while…
at one point I saw three chickadees at a feeder in the front yard at the same time… rare to see more than one…
was going from the front to the back throughout the day checking on the guests…
didn’t get any pictures except this one when I headed to the front yard to fill the feeders…
brought the pail of seeds into the kitchen to make filling the feeders easier…
22 Thursday Oct 2020
Posted in family, food, garden, health, life, moments, nature, technology, Uncategorized, weather
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, comfort food, family, garden, goldfish, lentils, mask, moments, nature, pond, safety, shubunkins, snow, Technology, trying, widow
last night my grandson came over just after dark to bring me a few items and do some jobs around the garden… here he is arriving, thanks to my new camera…
and the goodies he brought… I’m excited to try the purple popcorn…
he took the pump out of the pond, moved the heavy furniture onto the back deck, and then we spent time trying to catch fish…
two cellphone flashlights lit up the pond as he searched for the fish… amazingly he caught one of the shubunkins… quite a feat as they look mainly black in the pond and by then it was very dark out, lol…
I’ve been masking up now whenever he is over because of where he works… last night I ended up taking off my glasses as they kept fogging up, so I was trying not to fall into the pond… which was a feat as there are a bunch of rocks that have been pulled out of the water and are all over the deck, lol…
because I knew he was coming I had made our favourite red curry lentils and packaged up some for him to take home, along with a couple of items for the others… he was sad to hear he had to share the lentils;-)…
had some of mine for breakfast…
21 Wednesday Oct 2020
Posted in family, garden, health, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized, weather
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big girl pants, birds, deck, family, feed, garden, moments, nature, shovelled, snow, surprise, widow
woke up to this…
we often get a bit of snow before Halloween, but it usually disappears… not sure that is going to happen this year…
I went out to the garden, dug the shovels out of the garage and shovelled off the top deck and by the hot tub… I set up a few spots for bird seed…
this winter I am going to keep the top deck clear so that I can feed the birds… last year the kids didn’t come by to shovel and my guy only does the bottom so the deck became impassible… still need to figure out how to attach a feeder to the deck…
with retirement, I can clean the deck whenever it works best for me, or a little at a time, lol…
20 Tuesday Oct 2020
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big girl pants, cold, family, furniture, garden, moments, nature, photos, pond, pots, snow, widow
went outside this morning and moved as much of the furniture as I could…
a few pieces are very heavy so I left them to be dealt with by the boys…
I also moved all the planter pots under the deck…
here’s the view once I was done…
that was around 10 am… I took this photo at 5:30 pm…
;-(…
19 Monday Oct 2020
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big girl pants, cold, dahlias, flowers, garden, moments, nature, plants, purple, root, thaw, weather, widow
today I spent some time in the garage working on the dahlias…
I took out each of the pots which I brought in a few days ago to thaw, and removed as much soil as I could…
it took a long time, mainly because the plants were packed tight in the pots and were root bound…
now I’ve brought in one pot which all the tubers fit into…
after watching a few videos last week, the next job, in a week or so, will be to separate the tubers into ones that have eyes and package them up for the winter…
