toss…

28 Friday Jan 2022

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the kids came over on Tuesday to do some shovelling…

I am usually able to do the sidewalks and decks, but there is so much snow out there now that I can’t toss the snow high enough to get over the drifts, lol…

the driveway got cleared, which was nice, although as I don’t go anywhere, that isn’t so important these days…

part of the job was to level the tops of some of the piles in the back so I can manage again without the snow sliding back to where I had moved it from…

they were also able to widen the space where the windrow was at the front… it is much easier to walk to the front door now…

blessed to have the help;-)…

unfold…

27 Thursday Jan 2022

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one of the great things about retirement is having the opportunity to watch as things unfold…

like this orchid which has been coming along nicely for a while…

yesterday at 8:48 am it was just starting to unfurl…

and at 1:55 pm it looked like this…

finally it was open at 9:14 am this morning…

and there is another bud;-)…

harder…

26 Wednesday Jan 2022

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recently I wandered around my space and took photos of all the blooming or nearly blooming things…

January and February are often harder months for me and having flowers blooming really lifts my spirits…

so much beauty in this space and I am grateful;-)…

encourage…

25 Tuesday Jan 2022

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decided recently that it was time to change out the living room table…

so I the removed all the purple and silver ornaments and put them away…

then collected the books I haven’t read yet and inserted them into the four spaces… my neighbour has been sharing books with me and I am a little behind in my reading…

I also put the blooming amaryllis, a violet, and the last of the New Year’s bouquet on it…

looking at the table should encourage me to make more time for reading;-)…

tracks

23 Sunday Jan 2022

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one of the things I enjoy after a snowfall is seeing the tracks that the bunnies, squirrels and birds make…

it is fairly obvious that one or more bunnies are living under the deck… they climb a snowbank and then head underneath… there is lots of space under there…

the squirrels have been running around on the deck… likely the red ones are chasing the other squirrels and birds away from their stash…

soon the bunnies will be able to eat directly from the front feeders because the snow is getting so high, lol…

it is wonderful to have such a great view of nature just by looking out the windows…

forest…

22 Saturday Jan 2022

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decided it was time the forest returned to the box…

brought up the tree box and then removed and packed each of the trees that lined the stairway…

always happy when things fit back into their container, lol…

still have one tree at the top of the stairs… it doesn’t go in the box so I may leave it there for a while…

or might move it to the window;-)…

dug…

21 Friday Jan 2022

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as I was watching a show last night I heard a noise in the driveway and discovered my next door neighbour shovelling… there was a ban on street parking so he cleaned two-thirds of the driveway to make room for their cars…

a bit later, as I was getting my last steps in, I watched the snow machines go up and down the street clearing the snow…

they do a great job and also are efficient at leaving the bottom of the driveway accessible… for years my beloved would have to shovel the end of the driveway before being able to get the car out…

unfortunately, in the process of being sure the driveway and fire hydrant are clear, they dump a bunch of snow over the front sidewalk…

this morning I went out and dug through an area about three feet long and two feet deep… there was a blowing snow warning but I’ve learned that it needs to happen as soon as possible…

it had been blowing and snowing and the snow on the path was already packed… I managed to get a narrow path cleared…

the neighbour on the other side came a little later and did the main part of the sidewalks…

it is quite a bit wider than what I managed, lol…

drag…

20 Thursday Jan 2022

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back to shovelling…

it was cold out there – felt like -35 Celsius – but I had to take out the garbage and recycling…

Friday is garbage day, so I wanted to check whether the bins needed to get to the back lane or not, lol…

happily, once the path was cleared, there wasn’t enough in them to need to drag them out this week, but next week may be a different story…

the snow is getting deeper and the pile alongside the deck is higher than the deck boards… this time I was really working at tossing it further, but it is a struggle…

I also dug a narrow path along the driveway to get to the vents for the furnace, to be sure they were clear of snow…

there is a ton of snow on the driveway, but I just moved it over so I could make my way…

sticks…

19 Wednesday Jan 2022

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on November 22nd I transplanted the coleus that had been rooting in water… and for a while they grew… then, they all died off…

yesterday I used the soil from one of the containers to plant some morning glory seeds…

also added three sticks so that when they grow there will be a place to climb…

hopefully they will do better than the coleus did…