eclosion…

31 Friday Oct 2025

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had a wonderful time watching the blue morpho eclosion this morning in the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden;-)…

so happy to have the opportunity to watch this taking place during my volunteer shift;-)…

by the time I left, seven of them were in the process of eclosing…

Harte…

30 Thursday Oct 2025

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went for a walk on the Harte Trail section of the Trans Canada Trail with my adventure buddy…

it was quite lovely, other than the puddles from the recent rain, lol…

we may have seen some cedar waxwings, although they were a long way off and high in a tree…

I am looking forward to going back in different seasons to see the changes…

we had a fun time;-)…

counted…

29 Wednesday Oct 2025

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a few fish came into the house around Thanksgiving…

on Tuesday morning we went out to collect the rest, as it is seems to be getting cooler every day…

part of the process was to empty a good amount of water, particularly as the pond was as high as I’ve seen it, since we’ve had so much rain lately…

then it was fairly easy for my housemate to catch the remaining fish…

once they were in the tanks, I counted thirty, which is about right, so we were pleased that we’d got them all…

we will check the pond over the next few days to see if there are any stragglers that we missed…

foot…

28 Tuesday Oct 2025

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had a conversation the other day about often putting my foot outside of the blankets to sleep…

I’d seen something on social media saying it can help a person go to sleep…

one person agreed they did it all the time, but another said they’d never heard of that, or done it…

so, I went online and found the following:

early this morning I tried to get a photo of my foot outside the sheet and blankets…

it was entertaining to get the photo in the dark, lol…

numerous…

27 Monday Oct 2025

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had a delicious dinner last night…

our company chose Chinese food, so I tried to order from our favourite spot, around 5:30…

it took at least ten minutes and numerous attempts to get through… apparently everyone in the city wanted Chinese food too…

and then, the pick up time was an hour and a half, yikes…

but, when we got it, it was as always, delicious 🤤…

lumber…

26 Sunday Oct 2025

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well, what a day, phew… it was chilly, overcast, and windy…

spent the morning in the garage moving bits and pieces out into the driveway to make room for an empty table to work on…

then my housemate met up with his grandfather to go and pick up lumber for the new shelves planned for the basement and the garage…

once he returned home, we moved more things and then updated a shelf beside the door for my gardening gloves and tools…

it is stronger, looks amazing, and now each tool is much more accessible underneath;-)…

we worked on the basement shelves, his brother arrived, and they finished them…

they ended up looking excellent and adding more useful space for organizing our stuff, lol…

they continued to work in the garage to redo a section of shelves and add counter space…

I didn’t quite get a picture of the finished product, before we moved all the bits and pieces back into the garage for the night…

it is going to be so organized that I might not be able to find anything 🤪…

dawdle…

24 Friday Oct 2025

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went to The Park Cafe and met up with two friends…

we had a lovely breakfast and then a couple of us took a quick walk through the English and Leo Mol Gardens…

it was cool out so we didn’t dawdle… still a few beautiful colours out there…

then I walked across the bridge to where I’d parked the car…

short…

23 Thursday Oct 2025

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had a wonderful, but short, visit with my Ottawa daughter over the last few days…

she had been to Calgary for an event and stopped here on her way home…

lots of time together as we caught up in person… late nights and early mornings while she was here… and lots of laughter…

always cake from Baked Expectations when she arrives;-)…

we spent a lovely morning at The Leaf noticing the growth since she was last here and counting cacao pods…

she also spotted the first chileo on the second tree… made me laugh cause I’ve been looking for ages trying to spot one on that tree…

we visited the butterflies although they weren’t very active as it was cool and overcast but it was fun to see them together… the Canadian Museum of Nature, in Ottawa, currently has a butterfly display as well so we often compare which butterflies we each see, lol…

we worked on a plan for our next trip together and did lots of research on the computer…

dinners in and out as we ate some of her favourites and then we were headed back to the airport for her flight home…

always a treat;-)…