31 Saturday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, Canada geese, Fall, garden, geese, honking, moments, nature, overheard, sound, widow
as I’ve been sitting in the garden reading and enjoying the birds and bunnies around me, I’ve been hearing the Canada geese as they have begun to fly overhead…
I do love listening to their honking to one another as they head north or south, depending on the time of day…
of course, the sad part is that means fall is coming, sigh…
29 Thursday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, close, Cooper’s, garden, hawk, moments, nature, surprise, visit, widow
was on the deck reading last evening when a Cooper’s Hawk flew onto the ledge about six feet in front of me…
moved too fast for me to get a photo, but this is where it was…
it flew to the top of the garage, sat there for a few minutes, and then on to the neighbour’s yard…
hope the little birds are okay…
27 Tuesday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, door, family, fixed, front door, handle, Home Depot, house, knob, moments, repair, widow
today, as we were heading out to do a few errands, the doorknob came off in my grandson’s hand as he was locking the door…
so, besides the planned errands, we also went to Home Depot to get a new handle for the door…
I was very happy that this happened when he was home as I wasn’t sure that I could fix it…
once we returned home, my fancy screwdriver came out, pieces were removed from the door…
the new pieces were installed…
and voila, a beautiful new handle on the door…
it feels much sturdier, and although the handle is a bit stiff, I think the door is closing and locking better;-)…
26 Monday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, bites, blessed, bruises, compost, food, garden, moments, nature, plants, ripe, squirrels, tomatoes, widow
it’s been fun watching the tomatoes grow over the season…
last week they started to turn orange and then red…
a few, closer to the bottom of the planter, were taken off the plant, had a few bites out of them, and I found them on the ground…
I decided to leave them there and a few days later discovered they were completely gone… just an outline left on the stepping stone, lol…
today I went out to pick the ripe ones only to discover that they all had large bruises on them…
decided to compost them, sigh…
25 Sunday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, cover, delicious, food, garden, hamper, moments, nature, plant, plants, pollinated, strawberries, strawberry, tasty, treat, widow
the strawberry plant, from last year, is doing very well…
we found a hamper at the store on July 5th, after either the birds or squirrels had eaten the ripe strawberries before we got to them, lol…
I kept the cover on them until a few ripe ones were ready to eat and then after we had those ones, I took the cover off so that the flowers could be pollinated…
as a number of yellow/green berries started to appear, the cover went back on the plant…
on Thursday I could see the ripe berries, through the screen…
removed the cover and picked three beautiful strawberries…
they were so sweet, yum…
24 Saturday Aug 2024
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I have had the cushions for my outdoor chairs for over a year and I love them…
last Sunday I discovered a much simpler way to put them on the chairs, lol…
previously I would open them up and push down the bottom cushion and then make sure to raise the top cushion above it…
the new method puts both cushions on the chair and push it to the back, then raise the top (back) cushion…
so much easier;-)…
too funny, lol…
21 Wednesday Aug 2024
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adventure, bagel, big girl pants, blessed, Bothwell Cheese, buddy, cream cheese, friends, happy, market garden, moments, shopping, treat, widow
yesterday, on an excursion with my adventure buddy, we picked up bagels from Fromagerie Bothwell…
we also visited St. Leon’s Gardens where we both filled our bags with delicious fresh produce…
I had also been gifted some salmon cream cheese by that same friend…
today, for lunch, I had a toasted everything bagel with salmon cream cheese, onion, and fresh radishes and cucumbers…
it was delicious…
20 Tuesday Aug 2024
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19 Monday Aug 2024
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barefoot, big girl pants, birds, blessed, bunnies, dust, garden, moments, nature, stepping stones, sweep, weather, widow
have added sweeping the stepping stones to my morning routine…
the darn birds and bunnies continue to have dust baths and since I have been barefoot outdoors for the last while, the clumps of dirt are irritating my feet, lol…
18 Sunday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, lilies, moments, nature, neighbourhood, walk, weather, widow
went for a walk around the neighbourhood on Tuesday morning… it was a cool and sunny day…
apparently I was caught up by lilies on the walk, lol…
I did catch a few other flowers…
that was fun;-)…
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