17 Tuesday Mar 2026
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05 Friday Jan 2024
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accurate, big girl pants, bird, birds, blessed, calendar, Christmas, family, gift, moments, nature, widow
one of my Christmas presents was a bird calendar from my grandson… it arrived a few days ago and is titled Extremely Accurate Birds…
I hung it up on Monday morning…
it has made me laugh every time I walk by…
01 Friday Apr 2022
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big girl pants, bird, blessed, family, garden, hot tub, moments, nature, remembering, soaring, treat, widow
on one of our daytime hot tubs, while my company was here, we spotted an eagle soaring above us… today a program on tv talked about an eagle birdcam on Gabriela Island, which reminded me…
it is very rare to spot one around here… the last time I remember seeing one was when I was in the hall at the university of Winnipeg as we were preparing for a work event…
unfortunately we didn’t have our phones, but here is the spot in the sky where we saw it…
tonight I took a photo of a big bird flying past, lol…
these ones come by quite often, and are much noisier…
11 Wednesday Sep 2019
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big girl pants, bird, Downy Woodpecker, feeder, phone, photos, pole, widow
my daughter called yesterday morning and while we were chatting I looked out the window and spotted this downy woodpecker…
it first landed on the metal pole and I was very worried it might try to drill into the metal and hurt itself, lol…
while we were on the phone I took quite a few photos as it moved over and gathered sunflower seeds…
not sure I’ve ever seen one of these guys at the feeder…
18 Thursday Jul 2019
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beautiful, big girl pants, bird, camera, colleagues, finch, garden, happy, lush, purple, purple finch, rain, song, widow
this morning I spent some time in the garden before heading to work…
we’ve had a fair bit of rain over the last while and it is looking rather lush…
of course the grass needs to be cut, lol…
as I was sitting enjoying the view, the purple finch came by for a snack… such a beautiful bird… also has a lovely song…
I got a few good photos, then left my camera at work…
one of my amazing colleagues picked it up and brought it to me… this is particularly great as I don’t work tomorrow and was going to have to go in and get it;-)…
I am looking forward to spending some quality time in the garden tomorrow;-)…
10 Sunday Dec 2017
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big girl pants, bird, calling, Christmas, decorating, friend, fun, groceries, hot tub, moments, squirrel, widow
early this morning I went out for a hot tub… for the last few days the temperature in the tub has read 104 so I’ve had a few excursions out there…
I don’t usually have the phone when I am in the hot tub, but a bird was calling and I wanted to record the sound so my birdwatching friends could listen and identify it… it was a beautiful morning and besides the bird there were a few squirrels flitting about…
a bit later I ran out to get some grocery shopping done… perfect timing because the store had very few people in it… took quite a few trips to get everything into the house…
got all the stuff put away and prepared for my company to arrive…
my dear friend, who I haven’t seen in ages, came to help decorate for Christmas… we had such fun…
while I was hanging some ornaments in the dining room window caught this little guy on the rail of the front steps…
once we were done my friend headed home and I put all of the unused things back into the bins and carried them downstairs…
certainly was a full day… and the house looks wonderful…
let the celebrating begin…
herbiggirlpants 