Orchidaceae

23 Friday Feb 2024

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just for fun I thought I would show some of the orchidaceae that we saw at Flora of the Philippines on Tuesday…

couldn’t help myself, lol…

there were a few other things that I photographed, lol… my buddies, the fish, were swimming around the pond…

we also saw some flowers on the very top of one of the first trees you see on entering the Tropical Biome… we only saw them thanks to a recommendation by one of the volunteers;-)…

another great visit…

fruit…

22 Thursday Feb 2024

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recently I’d seen an Instagram post about one of the trees in the Tropical Biome that was flowering…

the branches of the Kapok are bare, but at the very top of the tree, flowers were budding…

I was happy to spot it on our visit Tuesday…

there were lots of volunteers throughout the space and they provided a great deal of information particularly about some of the fruiting trees… we saw cacao pods, jackfruit, star fruit, breadfruit and the fingerlings of bananas…

we had a quick visit with the lead gardener as we discussed the three cacao trees, two of which currently have pods growing on them…

the Tropical Biome is really beginning to feel like the old Conservatory with all the lush growth…

so blessed to have this amazing space to spend time in on a regular basis;-)…

flora…

20 Tuesday Feb 2024

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had a fun time at The Leaf today…

went with a friend to see Flora of the Philippines…

we couldn’t figure out the new markers on many of the plants in the Tropical Biome, but eventually realized they represented the flag of the Philippines and demonstrated how many of the plants in the biomes originated there…

besides seeing where so many plants came from, there were hundreds of orchids… heaven for me…

what a treat…

after our wander through the biomes, we had lunch at Gather…

what a delightful way to spend time together;-)…

longest…

18 Sunday Feb 2024

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so happy to see that all the solar lights came on after a day filled with sunshine…

what a treat…

the funny part is that this one set wasn’t working for the longest time (as in, over Christmas) but started up in the last few weeks…

and is doing a blinking pattern…

it is such fun to see them light up as it gets dark out…

at some point I guess I will need to turn off the trees in the planters, but I am enjoying them too much right now;-)…

scrubbed…

15 Thursday Feb 2024

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spent some quality time with the fish over the last few days;-)…

pumps were scrubbed out and tank glass was cleaned…

I have started to feed them every other day to see if they might eat some of the algae on the rocks…

not sure if they are mad at me or not, lol…

leaking…

14 Wednesday Feb 2024

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Tuesday we went to Costco and I got a new set of attachments for the hose…

sadly, the current attachment has been leaking for awhile and the hose doesn’t expand without an attachment…

hoping that all three will work well… fingers crossed…

inspection…

13 Tuesday Feb 2024

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so, on Thursday, the Manitoba Hydro inspector came to check the installation of the new furnace…

sadly, we didn’t pass inspection…

as he worked he shared what he was looking at and pointed out a few issues which he felt needed to be corrected…

once he was finished everything got written up and I had to sign the paperwork…

apparently the furnace company has thirty days to make the adjustments at which time I have to call and have them back to test it again…

the good news is that none of the items mean the furnace isn’t working, and because we previously had a high efficiency furnace we don’t have to have any adjustments made to the gas hot water heater until it needs to be replaced;-)… phew…

now on to the adjustments and recheck…