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…
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…
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😊…
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;-)…
29 Monday Jun 2026
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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…
28 Sunday Jun 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, blizzard, Dairy Queen, family, moments, reminiscent, treat, widow
last evening, after supper, my housemate and I went to Dairy Queen, and he treated😊…
sadly, they were out of skor bits so I wasn’t able to get my favourite skor blizzard…
instead I chose a turtle blizzard… bit of a mistake, lol…
I enjoyed the pecans, and the ice cream but the little chocolate half circles (with caramel in them) were just not the least reminiscent of a turtle;-)…
of course I did eat half of it then and finished the second half after supper tonight…
it was a lovely summer treat though…
26 Friday Jun 2026
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had a lovely walk to the English and Leo Mol Gardens, where I met up with my adventure buddy…
as I waited, I sat with the woman who spends all her time reading… I wasn’t able to see the name of the book, lol…
the gardens are looking much nicer than the last time we walked through them, although everything is still a bit behind…
after we’d been around both areas, we popped over to the Park Cafe and had the Berry Good Sundae, which we had enjoyed just the week before when we were there for a birthday celebration;-)…
tasted like a lovely treat after all that walking in the heat;-)…
then a walk home… and a nap😄…
14 Sunday Jun 2026
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big girl pants, family, grandson, moments, monstera, moss, nature, plants, repotted, Technology, widow
the monstera has been struggling and leaning forward…
we picked up hardware cloth and made a tube for moss which apparently the monstera will cling to and grow up higher…
then we wedged in a few 2x4s to keep the moss tube centered in the pot…
the plant was divided into two pots and fastened to the pole… rocks, soil, and coconut husks were added and the two new plants moved into the living room…
we will see how they do;-)…
12 Friday Jun 2026
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big girl pants, big job, blessed, cover, emptied, family, garden, grandson, hot tub, housemate, moments, repaired, saw, screws, widow
the hot tub was emptied a few weeks ago and we’ve been waiting for a friend to look at the broken side of the lid to see if there is a way to fix it… they weren’t available so my housemate decided to see what he could do…
we finally got around to moving it away from the wall and looking to see what might work to repair it…
many screws have been removed, and we now know what the issue was regarding the right side lid…
all new screws and bolts were purchased and a new backing inside the body of the tub was installed on both sides to make the opening and closing mechanism stronger…
it took quite some time to get it sorted and then replace all the rusted screws that hold the eight panels around the tub…
while it was out and empty, a tiny portion of the deck that it sits up against was sawn off, which made a huge difference when the tub was back in place… now the side that rubbed against the gate opens easily…
next, the tub was filled and the pump turned back on… it will be another day or so before the temperature is back to normal…
the lid works properly… I am so happy;-)…
started with a new set of chemicals and looking forward to my first hot tub…
11 Thursday Jun 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, damaged, garden, hostas, marble-sized, moments, nature, poppies, thunderstorm, weather, widow, windows
the storm on Tuesday was quite something…
I was worried the hail was going to come right through the windows even though it was only marble-sized in our neighbourhood…
yesterday when I wandered around the garden, I could see how much the hail had damaged the plants…
the hostas took a real beating and the poppies were knocked over by a branch which fell down from the elm tree next door…
but their colour still popped;-)…
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