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appliances…

02 Saturday Aug 2014

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checked the pond this morning and some of the string algae is gone…

sadly, the plants that got the powder on them are covered with big black marks… think the powder burned them…. good news is that the fish are all fine…

20140802-192959-70199721.jpgoutside for a while this morning, came in, and have been watching a Criminal Minds marathon ever since…

had tiny new potatoes, beans, and peas along with a brie and apple stuffed chicken for my dinner…

20140802-193036-70236896.jpgtested the old full size freezer this afternoon to make sure it would still run… I’ve been trying to get rid of it for a couple of years but haven’t been able to find anyone to come and take out the freon and then cut it up… when we redid the basement we knew it wouldn’t come out in one piece, lol… I contacted Hydro last week to have them come and remove an old fridge and asked for a referral at which time they advised that they could do it, as long as the freezer still worked…

I am very happy as this will make space to store things I still want to keep and hopefully em>encourage me to do some more decluttering…

wish me luck, lol…

surprises…

30 Wednesday Jul 2014

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this morning it was beautiful and I couldn’t leave the garden without a wander around… noticed how the babies are growing… could see at least three different sizes…

found these lovely flowers in the purple begonia basket…

20140730-212950-77390777.jpgthey were a lovely surprise because I wasn’t expecting flowers on that plant…

tonight when I arrived at home the plants all needed a drink so I wandered around and gave each one a soaking…

as I was standing by the pond I looked down and saw more new babies… about the length of my little fingernail…

another great surprise was that the water lily that over wintered in the pond has put out some leaves…

unfortunately the water isn’t running yet as I wait to hear from a couple of people about how to clean out the pump which is under rocks… think it is clogged with string algae… now I am looking for String Algae Buster in Canada…

bits and pieces…

28 Monday Jul 2014

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discovered a few pictures on my phone that I wanted to share from our weekend in Fargo and Grand Forks…

this one shows the boys at a charging station in Starbucks… we were taking a break with a variety of beverages and resting our feet… phones and tablets were plugged in for a brief time so that no one would end up with a dead piece of electronics…

20140728-230740-83260217.jpgthen we moved on to a final bit of shopping… even the little boys were getting tired…

20140728-230859-83339575.jpgtonight I got a couple of excellent shots of the hibiscus… today it has two red blooms and two yellow ones…

20140728-231118-83478622.jpgthis one looks nice against the purple door…

20140728-231219-83539436.jpgI am wondering if the plant puts out more blossoms when it is stressed, because every time I look at it, seems it is in need of water… but there are numerous buds ready to open…

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and tonight I saw two boy goldfinches at the feeder… yay…

snacks…

24 Thursday Jul 2014

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on my way home stopped at Safeway to pick up some snacks for tomorrow evening’s road trip…

I am going to Fargo with my kids…

it is a three hour drive so I thought we’d need something to keep us all entertained and busy… apparently the tablets and phones will all be charged for the trip…

in our family, trips have always been an excuse to eat treats… of course, because we are crossing the border couldn’t include fruit or meat, lol…

got sunflower seeds for the dad, pretzels for the mom, a variety of chip-y things for the younger crowd, as well as Goldfish, pistachios, sesame crackers, and gummies…

think it should be enough to get us through the drive…

20140724-211831-76711807.jpgthankfully, my suitcase is packed so now I just have to figure out what bag the snacks will fit into…

injured…

23 Wednesday Jul 2014

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first thing I went out and watered everything with my fabulous hose…

discovered some flowers in one of the pots on a plant that looked like a potato vine… very cute…

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stopped on the way home and picked up a few things for supper…

was very happy to see beautiful local green beans…

between getting the supper ready I did laundry…

as I was cutting the beans I sliced right into my thumb… ouch…

20140723-205611-75371087.jpgwas thinking of George as I put on the bandage… he always had a bandaid on some portion of his body… he even carried them in his pockets and wallet, lol…

hungry…

20 Sunday Jul 2014

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another beautiful morning in the garden…

watched two squirrels snacking
under the bird feeder while I had an early morning hot tub… the bluejays were at the feeder and there is obviously a baby in their family who was located in one of the cedars, and he was very hungry from the sound of things…

20140720-194243-70963816.jpgfinished the book and watched squirrels drink and a bluejay bath in the pond…

20140720-194400-71040891.jpgcan’t figure out who is knocking over the plant in the pond… maybe a squirrel…

a dragonfly stopped by… quite red… got a good shot of it with one of the fish swimming over…

20140720-200720-72440681.jpgmade supper for the kids and had a nice visit with them… a beef roast with baked potatoes, cucumber in sour cream, salad and zucchini, mushrooms and fresh peas… they brought Slurpees, which was great as it was hot… even now it feels like 33.2…

dragonfly…

19 Saturday Jul 2014

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spent a good portion of the day in the garden…

20140719-200950-72590820.jpgit was lovely and not too hot… another batch of plants are blooming… they could be the same as the purple ones, only smaller… dark pink/red, not sure how I feel about the colour…

first thing this morning a dragonfly landed on the screen and posed for a few pictures…

20140719-201526-72926223.jpgmoved my chair so I was sitting right beside the pond… saw lots of babies… white and red, white and black, and gold ones, which look black in the pond… sadly I’m having issues with algae, not sure the fancy uv filter is doing its job… frustrating because putting it in caused the waterfall flow to be less powerful…

did a bit of weeding and had a lovely nap…

read most of a paper book and also put on my big girl pants and barbecued steak and zucchini, with potatoes, onions and mushrooms…

20140719-202300-73380961.jpgrestful day, but missing my beloved…

storm…

18 Friday Jul 2014

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had quite the thunderstorm tonight…

the clouds filled the sky before the rain came…

20140718-214136-78096495.jpgonly came down for maybe ten minutes but there was a lot of it and it was coming from the south… usually a bad sign for the basement…

once it stopped I ran down and checked and everything was dry… yay…

been giggling off and on throughout the day… middle of the night I opened the window

20140718-214557-78357111.jpgwasn’t till this morning that I realized I had taken the screen off to get some pictures and hadn’t put it back on… amazingly there were very few bugs in the house…

the fish seemed hungry this morning so I put out some food before leaving for work… they were happy…

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surgery…

17 Thursday Jul 2014

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what a difference two years makes… today at lunch we walked to a Farmers’ Market and I carried a bag full of produce back to the office… back then I hadn’t been able to walk much or carry anything due to the size of the hernia…

it is two years to the day since I had surgery for cancer of the uterus and a very large hernia repair…

I was terrified because George wasn’t with me… he had died four months before and I was still trying to work through the whole being on my own thing…

I had set up a schedule so that I had people with me in the hospital and when I got home… only my younger daughter was able to be here and my sister-in-law came from Calgary…

my body does not deal well with drugs of any kind… when I came to after the surgery, I was high as a kite… but not in a good way… it took five or six hours to settle down… the pain meds kept me from sleeping and I was very hyper… twelve hours after the surgery I stopped taking all medication… it was easier to work through the pain than to deal with all of the side effects…

they made a large incision but it was less painful than the one from gall bladder surgery two years earlier, which was at an angle across my abdomen…

my nephew brought in his iPad and got a movie playing to try to help me sleep, but nothing worked… usually the tv works like a great sleeping pill for me, lol…

I have been so blessed with friends and family who have been looking after me since I have been on my own…

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busy…

13 Sunday Jul 2014

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got up and had a hot tub just before the rain started… I sat there very still as the goldfinches were flitting about, as well as a couple of squirrels running around the fence and into one of the feeders, while the blue jays were flying through the garden… rather busy…

then, while one boy finch was at the feeder I thought I saw another yellow something fly past… wasn’t positive…

girl and boy goldfinch eating...

girl and boy goldfinch eating…

went for breakfast with the kids in St. Boniface, wearing those big girl pants again, and on to a few stores, including one where we got Jeff his belated birthday and Fathers’ Day gift – a new barbeque…

I headed to Safeway for groceries and when I got home and was looking out the window I saw two boy goldfinches at the feeder… yay…. didn’t get a picture, but will be trying to do that in the next few days…

last night the moon was full and very beautiful… spent a bit of time and got this photo…

full moon last night...

full moon last night…

was rather pleased with the outcome…