05 Wednesday Jul 2023
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, butterfly, dip, eggs, flit, flowers, garden, happy, milkweed, moments, monarch, monarch butterfly, nature, nectar, photos, plants, treat, widow
for the last few days, in the afternoon, I’ve enjoyed watching a monarch butterfly dip and flit through the garden, landing on the various milkweed plants to enjoy some nectar and maybe lay some eggs…
got a few good pictures…
such a treat;-)…
16 Tuesday May 2023
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, connections, cushions, deck, family, fence, fish, food, friends, garden, meals, Merlin App, moments, most, nature, neighbours, pond, sound, sparrows, Technology, time, weather, widow
Sunday, spent the entire day in the garden… it was warm and sunny…
set out all the chair cushions and even brought out the decorative ones…
then, most of the fish came outside… a few just wouldn’t be caught, lol… apparently a project for another day…
tea, reading, and bird watching took up a good part of the day… I am loving the sound portion of my Merlin App… it has come in especially helpful for me to identify the many sparrows that come and go…
White-Crowned, White-Throated, Harris’s, Song, and Chipping Sparrows have all been around for the last week or so…
checked out the fence with the little person and his daddy on one side, as I contemplate the style of the new fence that is in the works, and had tea and snacks with the ones on the other side… they enjoy sitting by the pond and the sound of the running water…
ate all my meals on the deck, breakfast and lunch on the back, and supper on the upper…
phone calls, emails, in-person visits, and text messages came throughout the day…
truly, I am blessed;-)…
07 Saturday Jan 2023
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, cold, frost, learning, moments, nature, photos, rime, sky, trees, weather, widow
the trees have been stunningly beautiful over the last while…
quite a bit of that time the sky was gray so even though it was lovely, it didn’t make for any great photos…
the last few days the sun has been shining brightly…
this frost appears to be rime frost…
from Weather Lab:
“With rime, the moisture comes from freezing fog water droplets that turn directly from a liquid state to a solid state, or through direct freezing. On the other hand, hoar frost occurs on a clear, cold night where water vapor sublimates: transitioning immediately from a gaseous state to a solid state.” Jan 5, 2021
we have certainly had a lot of fog recently…
26 Monday Dec 2022
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, cold, door, garden, just, light, moments, nature, snow, stuck, weather, widow
it looks beautiful outside…
I decided to take a few photos of the deck and opened the sliding door… well, tried to open it…
it slid open about six inches and then wouldn’t move…
was able to stick the phone out just enough to get a few pictures…
it really is lovely to look at, but at some point, I will need to go out and clear the deck off so I can fill the feeder, lol…
04 Sunday Dec 2022
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, bow, Christmas, door, flowers, friends, fun, moments, plants, poinsettias, talented, widow, wreath
a few days ago my buddy arrived with a wreath and a huge container of poinsettias…
she took the bow off the wreath, added a silver ornament, and finally made and attached a new snowflake ribbon…
then she hung it up on the front door…
it looks great and very Christmas-y… she is very talented;-)…
11 Friday Nov 2022
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, cameras, moments, nature, neighbour, shovel, snow, snowblower, surprise, Technology, weather, widow, wonderland
woke up to a winter wonderland…
there was so much snow on the window ledges that the cameras couldn’t see out… found some boxes and raised them up, lol…
not long after I got up, my neighbour came by with his snowblower and cleared the main part of the sidewalk and he shovelled the front steps as well…
a bit later I went and finished the front portion of the sidewalk where the snowblower can’t go…
hard to see the section I shovelled… it is always much narrower, due to the railway ties along that edge, lol…
I think that winter is here;-)…
11 Tuesday Oct 2022
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autumn, beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, kitchen, light, moments, nature, son-in-law, weather, widow
one of the loveliest things about this time of the year is the beautiful light in the kitchen…
makes me smile when I walk into the space in the morning…
especially after all the work my son-in-law got done in the summer;-)…
08 Thursday Sep 2022
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beautiful, big girl pants, birthday, blessed, crafty, flowers, memories, moments, nature, purple, redoing, widow
my bouquet subscription has come to an end and I came across this post I had written about my birthday bouquet…
I had an enjoyable time redoing it… this is how it looked on my birthday…
I removed the roses once they were spent…
it was time to do something new and this is what it became on May fourth…
used a cute teapot and a small glass for the next life of the bouquet…
added some of the statice to a container that was already filled…
and finally, used the container the flowers came in to set a cute new plant I recently purchased…
it is always such fun to change out the flowers as the bouquet ages, lol…
some great memories;-)…
07 Tuesday Jun 2022
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, family, garden, happy, lawn chairs, moments, rust, smelly, spray paint, sunshine, widow
Amy came by to update my lawn chairs…
she sanded rust spots… washed and rinsed all four chairs… let them dry in the sun… moved them into the garage… and spray painted them…
we had subs for lunch and a great visit on the deck… possibly we sat in the sun for too long😳…
she also painted the little frog water chimes that welcome people to the garden…
the chairs stayed in the garage for two days to be sure they were dry (and stopped smelling) and I put them out today…
they look amazing…
04 Saturday Jun 2022
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Thursday I was expecting a delivery from the drugstore so when the doorbell rang I wasn’t surprised…
but, it was the florist with a beautiful bouquet of flowers from a dear friend…
what a delightful surprise…
not long after, the anticipated delivery arrived… not nearly as exciting, lol…
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