12 Thursday Aug 2021
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on Monday the slinky arrived in the mail…
we’d been looking for a while and apparently everyone has been buying them as there were none available nearby…
this one was ordered on Thursday and turned up just four days later…
once the rain stopped I put it on the bird feeder pole…
I didn’t pin the bottom down as I read that this wasn’t required…
we will see if it keeps the squirrels from getting to the feeder…
11 Wednesday Aug 2021
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on Sunday night I slept for 8 hours…
now that the Olympics are over I can turn the tv off at night and get a great sleep…
well, I could have turned it off during the Olympics, but that just wasn’t in the cards, lol… I would slide in and out of sleep to watch whatever might be getting the announcer excited…
retirement has certainly made watching middle of the night events easier…
8 hours;-)… woohoo…
10 Tuesday Aug 2021
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big girl pants, birthday, blessed, car, family, garden, grandson, memories, moments, photos, purple, shopping, twenty-one, widow
today, my grandson turns twenty-one…
apparently I am getting lax in my old age as I haven’t been taking as many photos as usual…
these are three of the most recent ones with him in them, lol… but they cover the important things…
in this first one he is cleaning out the hot tub for me… he often comes over and looks after various household and garden jobs…
currently he has my car and here he driving me home after my first Covid-19 vaccination where he kept me company through the entire process… and suggested we get an ice cream treat…
this last one is him heading out in the car after delivering items off for me… he runs errands for me and drops off bits and pieces whenever needed…
what a wonderful time these twenty-one years have been…
he is a wonderful support…
09 Monday Aug 2021
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busy time in the garden on Saturday…
my grandson came, whipper snipped, trimmed the weeds in the driveway, and blew all the leaves and detritus… we do like the blower, which can also act as a vacuum… everything looks tidy… he also helped get one of the bubble machines going…
a bit later Hilda the Gardener spent time weeding and tidying so that the garden looks well cared for… it is always such a treat to see how lovely everything looks after she’s been here…
meanwhile, I had lightly fertilized the plants that are heavy feeders, filled bird feeders and pulled out a few weeds in the new grass…
bubbles make me happy…
08 Sunday Aug 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, drink, fertilizer, flowers, friends, garden, moments, nature, plants, tidy, widow
I’ve spent a good part of the last few days cleaning up the flower pots, removing dead leaves, trimming, and deadheading as I went around giving the plants a drink of slightly fertilized water…
friends were coming over and I want everything to look its best;-)…
07 Saturday Aug 2021
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big girl pants, birds, birdseed, blessed, garden, nature, reorganized, table, tidy, widow
managed to get the table in the garage cleaned off, and reorganized my toolbox and drill in a corner…
good timing because The Preferred Perch will be delivering two fifty pound bags of birdseed and it goes on the table until I can put it into containers;-)…
then I finally cut back the Virginia creeper that was making it difficult to enter and exit the garage…
good day’s work;-)…
06 Friday Aug 2021
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big girl pants, creeping, garden, nature, plants, trim, virginia creeper, widow
I think I need to trim some of the Virginia creeper around the garage door soon… it is creeping across the doorway;-)…
if not I won’t be able to get in there, lol…
05 Thursday Aug 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, calendar, dinner, fun, google, learning, moments, steak, supper, Technology, widow
today I learned that if you put the word supper in the title of an appointment in the Google calendar, this is what it shows…
but, if you put dinner in it, you get a cute little picture;-)…
clearly Google doesn’t know that supper and dinner mean the same thing to me, lol…
always enjoy learning new things, particularly concerning technology;-)…
04 Wednesday Aug 2021
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basil, big girl pants, blessed, food, garden, grape tomatoes, happy, moments, nature, pearls, plants, widow
very excited to gather some of the ripe cherry tomatoes to add to my lunch…
also picked basil to go along with the bocconcini pearls that have been waiting in the fridge…
a delicious fresh lunch;-)…
03 Tuesday Aug 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, critters, dragonfly, dry, garden, happy, moments, nature, pond, struggle, widow
was watering the plants when I spotted movement in the pond…
when I looked more closely, I realized that a dragonfly was struggling in the water…
I was able to get it out of the water and set it down where it could dry out…
it wasn’t moving so I thought that it took too long to lift it out…
I checked on it a few times and it was very still…
later I went over, and happily, it had flown away;-)…
yay;-)…
