07 Monday Oct 2024
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at last, big girl pants, blessed, butterflies, Costa Rica, moments, nature, Shirley, Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden, widow
there are butterflies back in the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden at The Leaf…
yay…
06 Sunday Oct 2024
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, cottage, garden, happy, memories, Merlin, moments, nature, Technology, thirteen, widow
sat in the sun on the deck listening to the visiting birds as they stop by on their way south…
it was lovely to hear all their little voices…
Merlin told me it heard thirteen birds in fifteen minutes…
and a yellow rumped warbler…
not long after, I had spotted ten of them, coming and going to the feeder or snacking on goodies on the ground…
reminded me of all the birds we heard and saw at the cottage in June…
05 Saturday Oct 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, family, garden, moments, nature, solar, sound, sprinkler, water, weather, widow
for the last few weeks I have been annoyed by a sound I could hear on the deck…
it sounded like wood rubbing against something…
I have walked all around, looking and listening with no success as I’ve tried to figure out what it was…
on Friday I asked my housemate if he could figure it out…
it took him all of two minutes to point out the solar floating sprinkler, which was sitting upside down on a corner of the deck, mainly in the shade…
apparently, a bit of it was catching the sun’s rays and causing it to attempt to run, which caused the sound…
it has now been moved into the garage and there is blissful silence on the deck;-)…
03 Thursday Oct 2024
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always learning, big girl pants, blessed, family, friends, garden, gathering, grandson, moments, nature, orange, time, TRW, widow
on Monday we gathered at our usual time, all wearing our orange shirts…
before we started, my grandson took a few minutes to take our photo…
we do like to commemorate our gatherings, lol…
during the previous week there had been some interesting TRW lunch and learns which provided some information we hadn’t known before…
it is always good to come together and share our lives and talk about what is going on in the world…
02 Wednesday Oct 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, busy, cleaning, family, garden, gardening, grandson, lively, moments, moving, mudding and taping, plants, Technology, weather, widow
Wednesday was a lively day…
started off with an early breakfast and quick inspection of the house to make sure everything was tidy as the cleaners were coming at nine…
it was raining out when they arrived so I headed up to the computer room to get out of their way… while there I filed paperwork, put items in a pass-along box and tidied the desk… it always surprises me how that desk can get cluttered, all by itself, lol…
as they left, Hilda the Gardener arrived for a final cleanup of the garden… pots and planters were emptied in preparation for our next season, irises were planted around the garden, and the strawberry plant went back into the ground to overwinter…
while she was here, my grandson’s grandfather arrived to work a bit on the newly drywalled sections of the basement…
as they were working inside and outside, I began bringing in the plants that will live indoors during the next few seasons and setting them up in their winter locations…
this year I have set up a few grow lights in the spot where the small fish tank had been located… it will be an interesting experiment to see how they will do in this location…
so, the inside and outside of the house are both lovely, tidy, clean and organized…
then I had a nap;-)…
01 Tuesday Oct 2024
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, changes, family, fireplace, friends, grandson, maneuver, memories, moments, remembering, widow
the fireplace is gone…
in 2019 the chimney came down…
currently my grandson is redoing his space and part of the plan was to remove the fireplace to make a bit more room, as it was a corner unit…
it was quite the job, as they had to saw through the pipe where it went through the wall…
then they recruited some additional muscle and rigged up ropes to help with the weight of the unit… quite a process…
it was touch and go as they maneuvered the stairs and just made it through the doorway…
from the door to the garage was a piece of cake, lol…
now it is waiting for a new home… hopefully someone out there will be able to make use of it;-)…
I don’t remember it being so difficult to bring into the house, but that was years ago when my beloved brought it in😊…
30 Monday Sep 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, fish, garden, hose, moments, moving, nature, Nestor’s, plants, pumps, tanks, water, weather, widow, winter condo
following along with taking the netting off the pond and the fish being happier, I’ve been working on their winter condo…
rarely do I clean the tanks when they head out to the pond, lol…
so, I’ve been working on emptying tanks, cleaning them and getting them set up for the big move…
this year I decided to move the small tank from the living room to the dining room credenza with the other two tanks…
the plan is to have plants on the ledge where the tank was…
to do that I had to empty the two big tanks so that I could move them along so there would be room to fit the third one in… they also were scrubbed to get most of the algae off them…
and of course the one is the same depth, but about an inch and a half shorter than the others… we found some wood in the garage that brought it up to the perfect height…
we ordered a pump to use to empty them and after waiting for it to arrive, when I used it on Saturday, it worked for about five minutes and then quit, sigh… so I filled a jug and dumped it into the toilet over and over as well as watering some of the planters outside…
I quite like how they look all together…
after nearly completely emptying them and moving them, I filled them with the outside hose… I am so happy that it extends to a hundred feet so it can do things like this…
two of the three pumps started with no problem… unfortunately, the biggest one did not… it had been giving me a bit of trouble last year so I will be heading to Nestor’s to either replace the pump or the whole system… we have had that one for many years…
once it is running, it will likely be three or four weeks to be sure the water is clean and ready, before the fish come in…
little steps;-)…
28 Saturday Sep 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, food, gathering, lamb, moments, Persian, restaurant, rice, supper, Tehran Market and Cafe, time, waitperson, widow
had fun last night… our group went to Tehran Market & Cafe for Persian food…
it was fun to decipher the menu and and then see exactly what we ordered, lol…
we had this cute little button on the table to connect with the servers… it was very handy because it took us quite a while to decide what we wanted, lol…
our lovely waitperson took pictures of us with all the food…
I had lamb… it was very tasty and came with a huge portion of dill rice;-)…
there was even a spot on the button to advise when we were ready to pay… they came quickly whenever we pushed one of the buttons…
enjoyable evening with wonderful friends…
28 Saturday Sep 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, fox, foxy, haircut, health, moments, nature, plants, sad, walk, weather, widow
walked over and got a haircut this morning…
on my way, met up with a red fox that was about five feet away when it ran past me…
didn’t even look like much hair was taken off, but my head certainly feels better…
noticed the sad looking flower pots along the boulevard that look like mine at home…
apparently the city isn’t watering, just like me🤪…
does my hair look foxy;-)…
26 Thursday Sep 2024
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arranged, big girl pants, blessed, Fall, garden, houseplants, mandevilla, moments, nature, plants, vacation, weather, widow
had a bit of fun moving plants around…
I’ve started to bring some of the houseplants in from their summer vacation in the garden…
the mandevilla came in and then plants from around the house were rearranged…
more will be coming in so I will have to decide where they will all go…
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