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sleepover…

31 Saturday Aug 2013

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quiet day mostly… got up at five and had a lovely hot tub as clouds played peek-a-boo with the moon and dawn lit the sky… then back to bed for a few hours…

datura which will likely bloom tomorrow....

datura which will likely bloom tomorrow….

sat out in the garden and read, took photos, and enjoyed the pond till early afternoon…

fish in the main part of the pond...

fish in the main part of the pond…

 then watched a marathon of Top Chef Masters and napped…

fish looking for food by the waterfall...

fish looking for food by the waterfall…

picked up by the kids and went to the Olive Garden for dinner… I had been thinking about their salad and bread sticks for a while now… very long wait to get in, but most of our supper was good although Crystal’s wasn’t… the manager was quick to bring her something else so it all worked out well…

while there, we decided on a sleepover, so once we got home we watched a bit of TV, had a very nice time in the hot tub, and currently we are both eating popcorn and drinking purple koolaid…

enjoying popcorn before bed...

enjoying popcorn before bed…

very shortly we are going to bed, because Grandma is tired, lol…

beautiful blue morning glory...

beautiful blue morning glory…

I do have a wonderful life…

memories…

29 Thursday Aug 2013

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this morning there were 9 morning glories…

light shining through the beautiful purple morning glory...

light shining through the beautiful purple morning glory…

made me think about my Mom and the amazing days we spent together during her last four months…

she died within a year of my Dad… they were such a couple… always together, always doing things to support the other… I don’t believe I ever heard either of them raise their voice to the other…

my Dad looked after my Mom from the time my brother was born until I was about fifteen or so… when he was born she had a breakdown and spent many years struggling with her health… she would often spend six months of the year in hospital while Dad looked after us and visited her regularly…

she was on large doses of Valium so even when she wasn’t in the hospital she was pretty drugged up… she decided one day that she was getting off the meds and stopped cold-turkey… she improved amazingly after that…

then Dad’s emphysema gave him a very hard time and Mom took over looking after him… we both did, really… when I turned sixteen we bought a car together and I drove Dad to and from work every day until he took an early retirement… as he got weaker and could do less, Mom stepped up her care and before he finally went into hospital, she was doing everything for him…

morning glories blooming close together..

morning glories blooming close together..

true love is an amazing thing to behold… I got to see it with my parents, and experience it with my beloved…

sometimes I am amazed that I have lived so long without George… somehow I thought we would ride off into the sunset together…

Mom and Dad enjoyed our garden and the flowers… although for most of the early years our garden was a playground for little people… they would be part of breakfasts and barbecues on the deck…

they would have enjoyed the morning glories, and the pond… I remember them telling me about my grandpa on my dad’s side who had an amazing garden filled with beautiful roses…

the pond this morning...

the pond this morning…

what wonderful memories…

interesting the stories one remembers…

Hot…

25 Sunday Aug 2013

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feels like 27.6 Celsius right now… not sure what it got to this afternoon, but it was very hot…

there were three morning glories and I spent a bit of time enjoying them…

then I worked in the garden and took breaks to do some reading…

kids came for dinner and we discovered that one of my squirrel friends ate through a wire on the lawnmower so that will need to be fixed…

might just sleep out on the deck tonight…

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water lily…

24 Saturday Aug 2013

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hurried out to sit and admire the morning glories… and there weren’t any… hadn’t watered the garden and it was rather dry out there…

got out the hose and gave everything a nice drink… then sat by the pond and read and watched the water lily open up…

it was lovely to watch it open… could almost see it moving…

got pics on my phone and with the Nikon… sadly, tonight the laptop would not connect to the Internet so I am only putting up a couple of shots from my phone…

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special day…

23 Friday Aug 2013

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there were 5 blooms this morning… what a wonderful sight to behold…

four of the morning glories...

four of the morning glories…

four were two different shades of purple and there was a lovely blue one as well…

two of the purple morning glories...

two of the purple morning glories…

to top that off, the water lily is rising above the water in the pond…

water lily bloom rising up...

water lily bloom rising up…

every morning is a new surprise in the garden, although tomorrow I had better get out there and water and fertilize everything…

we have a bit of a tradition at work… we celebrate birthdays by circulating a card for everyone to sign and then pick up a rose for the birthday person… it is always fun to try and find a way to surprise them, because everyone knows the plan… today we had a lovely gathering and gave a colleague a beautiful orange rose…

we got some great pictures of the group and I got a couple of nice shots of the rose…

birthday rose...

birthday rose…

used to be George’s job to pick up the roses for me when I couldn’t get to the florist… now I put on the big girl pants and get them myself, lol…

morning…

22 Thursday Aug 2013

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excited to get up and check out the morning glory today…

it was a beautiful shade of purple and I got some great pictures with a new camera app that I downloaded called PocketCam… looks like it takes good pictures… two different people suggested I enter at least one in a contest…

first morning glory this summer...

first morning glory this summer…

as I was backing down the driveway I spotted a goldfinch at the feeder and got a couple of pictures…

goldfinch as I was leaving the house...

goldfinch as I was leaving the house…

pretty good way to start the morning…

on my way home I picked up some lovely long glads… a lovely way to finish off the workday as well…

fresh glads...

fresh glads…

connected with both of my girls… all in all a darn fine day…

moon and morning glory…

21 Wednesday Aug 2013

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last night I went out for a hot tub and the moon was looking spectacular in its fullness, so I came in, got the tripod and camera to take a few pictures…

full moon last night...

full moon last night…

of course, by then more clouds had materialized and I didn’t get anything great, although when I was in the hot tub later, the clouds opened up and the moon shone brightly again, lol…

tonight I was admiring the dahlia again and noticed that a morning glory is getting ready to open… I imagine it will be open when I head off to work in the morning…

first morning glory buds, one of my favourites...

first morning glory buds, just a few days ago…

I just love it when the morning glories start blooming…

morning glory ready to bloom tomorrow...

morning glory ready to bloom tomorrow…

took a few pics and then went to see if I could get a picture of the bud on the water lily in the pond… right now the water hyacinth are all gathered up around it… if you look hard, you might spot it on the right…

water lily bud hiding among the water hyacinth...

water lily bud hiding among the water hyacinth…

the waterfall is going again, so we will see how the water drops…

summer is such a glorious time…

first dahlia bloom…

20 Tuesday Aug 2013

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as I was leaving the bedroom this morning I took this picture of the sun lighting the tree next door…

sunlight in the neighbour's tree this morning...

sunlight on the neighbour’s tree this morning…

when I stepped into the garden I saw that the dahlia was finally completely open…

really took a while to get there… the bud looked like it was ready to bloom before the August 6 party…

purple dahlia...

purple dahlia… on August 14…

it has been opening up very slowly… but it is quite lovely and I got a couple of good pictures…

first dahlia bloom this summer, from the side...

first dahlia bloom this summer, from the side… hmmm, looks pink, not so purple…

strange smell…

19 Monday Aug 2013

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for the last week or so there has been a strange smell in the house…

usually smelled it in the kitchen and realized that a couple of potatoes had gone bad in the potato drawer…  Wednesday or Thursday I tossed them all out and washed and aired out the drawer…

problem solved, or so I thought…

when I got home on Saturday morning it still smelled a bit, but I opened all the cupboard doors and drawers again and walked all through the house and couldn’t pinpoint a smell so opened the potato drawer and left it ajar to see if that would help…

tonight I got home from work and opened the door to hundreds of flies roaring around the house, mainly in the kitchen… it was disgusting and once again I went through and couldn’t find anything… and I’ve been killing flies ever since…

Crystal stopped by a little while ago and she wandered around the house… couldn’t smell anything in the kitchen but I’d had the screen door open for hours so thought that might have gotten rid of the smell…

she checked out the basement and thought something smelled bad in the workroom… I had sensed a strange odor by the woodpile and wondered if some of the wood had been wet when the ServiceMaster people put it back, but it didn’t really smell damp…

Crystal walked out of the workroom and I looked down onto a little table beside the freezer and saw – something – in a plastic bag sitting there… it looked like a clear bag filled with dirty paper towels but it was a chicken that had been in the freezer and when we were putting things in after the party we must have taken it out and not put it back into the freezer… I put it into a plastic bag and took it right out to the garbage can…

then I got a wet cloth to wipe up the bit of dried blood that appeared underneath it when I slid it into the bag…

there were maggots on the table… thank goodness Crystal was able to carry the whole thing outside as we were both gagging…

now we know where the flies came from… I have put bleach down on the floor and will get Jeff to deal with the table tomorrow…

I didn’t want to wear those big girl pants today… that was disgusting, but I am glad the mysterious smell has been discovered…

focussing on sweet smelling roses…

roses the kids sent last year to remember...

roses the kids sent last year to remember our wedding anniversary…

nature…

18 Sunday Aug 2013

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this morning I got up, put out the cushions in the garden and had a hot tub… it was lovely and the sun was shining… by the time I had searched for my book, the sky was overcast and after a short time we had a big thunderstorm…

water came into the basement again, but I now keep towels on the floor and because of the direction of the rain anticipated the problem… all cleaned up now but it does make me think that I will need to get someone in to look at this, sigh…

waited for quite a while before going out to do some shopping because I wanted to be sure everything stayed dry downstairs…

squirrel jumped from garage to tree, couldn't believe it...

squirrel jumped from garage to tree, couldn’t believe it…

 

saw a squirrel jump from the corner of the garage to one of the trees along the fence… have never seen that before…

went to a number of stores… BestBuy was one because the wireless mouse on the laptop just stopped working on Friday, and I really dislike using the mouse pad… got me a beautiful white one with some lovely purple on it… working very well…

then I went to the Apple Store looking for a genius because I’ve been having a couple of issues with my iPhone 5… pictures that I send to myself from my phone are all of a sudden embedded in the email and no longer attached… this is quite a pain as I often take pictures for the blog with my iPhone… have a short term solution but no one really seems to know why this happens…

second problem is that I can’t iMessage one of my girls… works fine for everyone else, except her all of a sudden… they couldn’t figure that one out and have sent a request to the engineers to see if they can figure it out…

barbecued steak for my dinner...

barbecued steak for my dinner…

this evening had barbecued steak for dinner, which doesn’t sound like that big a deal, except that I did the barbecuing… first time since George’s death… it was excellent and I was able to get it going without a problem…

those big girl pants…

first morning glory buds, one of my favourites...

first morning glory buds, one of my favourites…

wandered around the garden and spotted some buds starting on the Morning Glories and the Hibiscus has finally got a couple as well…

first buds on the hibiscus as well, very late in the season...

first buds on the hibiscus as well, very late in the season…

the pond is murky from the storm… will see if it is clear tomorrow…