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;-)…
17 Saturday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, breakfast, Bruce Park, ditched, family, grandson, moments, nature, the "A", trailer, walk, widow
had breakfast with my grandson at the “A” a few days ago…
it was a nice walk there and back…
we had the breakfast special, our usual…
on our way home we had a good look at a trailer that has been sitting near the end of the street…
it has been there for a long time… we are wondering if it has been ditched…
15 Thursday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, crayons, daughter, family, garden, moments, paper, rubbings, time, widow
had fun documenting my daughter’s activities as she made various rubbings in the garden for a book she is making;-)…
she has been doing this all the way from Vancouver Island…
she wandered around the garden using sheets of paper and the side of different coloured crayons…
some of the rubbings worked beautifully, others, not so much… she also took a few items to add into the book…
but I am sure that the finished product will be beautiful;-)…
12 Monday Aug 2024
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10 Saturday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, growing, memories, memory, moments, nature, orange, plants, red, ripe, Technology, tomatoes, weather, widow
this memory came up in my feed on Thursday… it was from a year ago and clearly the tomatoes were ripe and nearly ready to eat…
this one is from the garden this Thursday…
obviously these ones are quite a ways behind, lol…
07 Wednesday Aug 2024
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, corms, dahlias, flowers, garden, happy, hues, Lilystone Gardens, moments, nature, pink, plants, purple, surprise, treat, weather, white, widow
I have been so excited…
for a number of years, I’ve been overwintering dahlia corms, but haven’t had tons of luck… sometimes I know what they are and other times they are a surprise when they get put away…
one white one has proven very prolific and it has produced at least a dozen blooms so far this year in three different pots…
these are about the size of my palm…
a delightful feathery one that I purchased last year at Lilystone Gardens has come back nicely and has a number of blooms and buds in one pot…
each bloom is bigger than my hand…
these have all been white so I was particularly excited to see one come up in a pot that looked like it was pinky/purple…
it is a bit smaller than the white pompom-looking ones, but stands out in all its pink and purple hues…
nature is so amazing…
