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18 Monday Sep 2023

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big girl pants, birds, blessed, feeder, flowers, friends, garden, hummingbird, hummy, moments, nature, purple, salt, sugar, syrup, widow

I’ve spotted the hummingbird a number of times in the garden over the last few weeks… I have basically given up trying to get a photo, lol…

last Sunday I was in the living room on the phone with my daughter and looked out the window to see the hummy shoot by…

that made me go out to the garage to find the hummingbird feeder, bring it into the house, make syrup and fill the feeder… took it out and hung it in the garden near the purple flowers it seemed to like…

I sat out for awhile to watch for it, but nothing…

the next day, my buddies were here and when one tasted her coffee she spit it out… apparently I had put salt in the sugar bowl… which had also been what I used to make the syrup for the feeder… no wonder nobody showed up to drink from it…

brought the feeder back in, made real syrup, and put it outside…

maybe the hummingbird will come back, but it looks like it may have headed south;-(…

protect…

17 Sunday Sep 2023

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big girl pants, blessed, buds, cover, flowers, frost, garden, ghost, mandevilla, moments, nature, plants, protect, weather, widow

Monday and Tuesday night I went out and covered the mandevilla as there was a chance of frost…

it looks like the rest of the week will be warmer so rather than start the process of bringing the plant in, it seemed better to protect it and keep it outside for the next week…

it has been filled with blooms and looks wonderful… unfortunately, once it comes into the house the unopened buds will likely fall off…

but, it looked a lot like a ghost in the garden…

visible…

16 Saturday Sep 2023

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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, growing, moments, nature, neighbour, plants, sunflower, surprise, visible, widow

a neighbour is growing sunflowers…

for the longest time we couldn’t figure out what the plants were, lol…

they are as tall as their house and just recently the sunflower head became visible… obviously, these plants have enjoyed the weather…

picnic…

14 Thursday Sep 2023

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big girl pants, blessed, books, flowers, happy, little library, moments, nature, picnic, pictures, purple, walk, weather, widow

finally went for a walk a week ago…

took a few books and dropped them off at a Little Library…

on my walk I got a few nice photos…

this flower bed had purple in it and on the planter and behind is a purple picnic table;-)…

didn’t go all the way to the Park, but want to get back into the habit, so decided to start small…

felt good;-)…

somewhere…

12 Tuesday Sep 2023

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adventure, big girl pants, buddy, car, drive, food, fresh veggies, friends, hot tub, moments, nature, plants, shop local, somewhere, Technology, veggies, weather, widow

went for a drive with my adventure partner…

drove just outside the city to Jonathan’s Farm to collect the veggies we both ordered online…

it was a sunny day and the drive was relaxing…

there was no one around when we arrived although I spotted someone in the field way down the way, lol…

we gathered up our produce and headed home…

the one thing we noticed was all the crazy drivers on the road, lol… Friday and everyone was in a hurry to get somewhere 🤪…

looking forward to some delicious meals…

sinks…

11 Monday Sep 2023

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bathroom, big girl pants, blessed, clean, declutter, Fall, kitchen, moments, sinks, widow

had a bit of fall cleaning energy last week, probably because of the rainy day…

cleaned and decluttered under both the kitchen and bathroom sinks;-)…

then I had a rest, lol…

impediment…

09 Saturday Sep 2023

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big girl pants, blessed, family, garden, gate, happy, impediment, moments, project, shovelled, Spring, widow

finally the gate area got finished on Sunday… we got up and out early to beat the heat;-)…

a ton of dirt had been dug up, and a big chunk of cement removed a while back, so Sunday the area was levelled out, quarter down was poured and packed down, and blocks were laid where the garbage and recycling bins reside…

this will make it much easier to move them on recycling days;-)…

next, a spring was attached so that the gate will automatically close after being opened… I particularly wanted this as it opens into the lane and could be an impediment to a vehicle driving along…

the final piece of work involved extending the depth of the hole that the latch goes into… it will make opening and closing the gate simpler…

clover seed was sprinkled over the dirt to fill it in… it looks tidy and organized…

I am pleased that this project is finally completed.

brightening…

08 Friday Sep 2023

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big girl pants, blessed, brightening, class, floats, flower pot, flowers, found, garden, glass, lost, moments, pond, Seattle, water lilies, widow

while I was searching for a plant pot in the garage recently, I came across my pond floats…

been wondering where they were, lol…

my beloved found three for me a number of years ago, and the purple one I made when we went to a glass blowing class in Seattle…

they would have looked nice with all the water lilies, but now they are brightening up the pond instead of the flowers;-)…

faded…

07 Thursday Sep 2023

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big girl pants, blessed, faded, garden, Maui, memories, moments, nature, pictures, rain, rainbow, rainbows, remembering, sky, weather, widow

on Monday night, just before supper, I looked up and spotted a beautiful rainbow…

it faded and then a double one started up, and after it faded, there was a third one, with very bright colours…

what a treat…

reminded me of our time in Maui when we saw five different rainbows in an hour…

guide…

03 Sunday Sep 2023

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Assiniboine Park, beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, Diversity Gardens, fence, flowers, friend, fun, garden, grasses, guide, moments, nature, photos, plants, Pokémon, pond, purple, Technology, walk, widow

Tuesday, a friend picked me up and we had a wander through the Diversity Gardens…

it was her first time there and I enjoyed being the tour guide, lol…

we were so busy catching up that I barely took any photos…

I did take some of a few grasses we thought might work in the garden between the cedars which might cover it a bit more of the chain link now that the neighbours have removed their planters…

from there, we drove over and walked through the English sand Leo Mol Gardens…

we spent some time relaxing on a bench by the pond and learning about Pokémon as I have just started playing again and now have my own account;-)…

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