28 Friday Aug 2026
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big girl pants, camera, lunar eclipse, moments, nature, settings, Technology, tripod, weather, widow
last night there was a partial lunar eclipse and, since it was lovely out, I sat on the deck with my camera and tripod and got a few pictures…
had some fun with different settings on the camera…
I spent about an hour and a half enjoying the show and only went in once it had reached the peak and my camera battery died, lol…
22 Saturday Aug 2026
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beach, big girl pants, blessed, cottage, early, moments, nature, quiet, shore, shore birds, water, weather, widow
every morning, while at my friends’ cottage, when I woke up, I would walk down and sit on the steps leading to the beach…
usually I’d spend an hour or so watching and listening to the waves…
it was always fun to watch the shore birds as well as the gulls and pelicans in the early morning quiet…
the first and last thing I did was to run down to the beach to say hello and goodbye😊…
21 Friday Aug 2026
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18 Tuesday Aug 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, mistake, moments, morning glories, nature, plants, purple beans, scarlet, scarlet runner beans, widow
I am really pleased with the new arch we installed in the spring…
the scarlet runner beans have made it to the top on one side and the morning glories have made it on the other side…
so far I’ve had three cucumbers and two feeds of purple beans from it😊…
the one thing I did wrong was plant too many seeds on the one side, lol… I will use less next year…
10 Monday Aug 2026
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09 Sunday Aug 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, friends, lunch, moments, Pizzeria, Pizzeria Gusto, widow
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…
