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09 Sunday Nov 2025

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on Thursday I cleaned the poppy bird feeder and attached it to the front rail…

I noticed that I’d set it out a bit earlier last year…

I also dug out two poppies to put on my jacket and t-shirt…

last year I had purchased some little button pins to keep from losing them, lol…

I still make sure to make a donation as, before the pin, I ended up losing a couple and needing to replace them, lol…

sliding…

08 Friday Aug 2025

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the red squirrels have been able to fit inside the frame that is supposed to protect the squirrels from getting to the seeds…

I wasn’t particularly worried about them sliding into the feeder until I looked at the feeder today, sigh…

they have eaten through the plastic and pretty much destroyed the feeder…

so, the next feeder needs to be only made of metal and glass, because plastic cannot win against squirrel…

standoff…

12 Saturday Jul 2025

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on Friday evening the doorbell cam advised there was an animal in the front yard (bit fuzzy)…

I ran downstairs to watch out the window and was quite happy watching the two deer…

until one started to eat the plants in one of the planters…

I knocked on the window but it didn’t scare it…

stared right back at me…

and as I watched them head to the hostas next door, I went outside to scare them away…

but they really didn’t want to go… they even started walking towards me, but after about a three minute standoff, they finally crossed the street and headed toward the creek…

woodbine…

27 Friday Jun 2025

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it is always interesting when I see memories of the garden come up…

this one was from six years ago…

there were lots more ferns and the virginia creeper (which is also known as woodbine) hadn’t filled up the entire wall of the garage… I had a hanging basket and the same bird feeder…

this is a photo I took today of the same area…

you can see that the virginia creeper has filled in completely, but also that most of the ferns have been moved… although it is the same bird feeder, it now has a plastic bottom as the original metal one rusted through…

fun to see the changes over time…

dropped…

13 Saturday Apr 2024

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as I was sitting in the living room watching the new bird feeding station to see if any birds have found it yet, and if the baffle will really stop the squirrels, one of the feeders dropped…

I ran out only to discover that the piece holding the wire to the lid had given way… I looked around but couldn’t find the piece, so now the feeder is sitting in the house as we consider how best to add something to the bottom of the wire, lol…

hope the other one doesn’t do the same thing…

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16 Wednesday Aug 2023

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this little red squirrel bounces around the garden like crazy, along with some other friends…

usually I don’t mind, but a few days ago I had to clean two chairs and a table from where their little paw prints covered everything, after the previous night’s rain, lol…

they are currently jumping onto the chair, then the table, and launching onto the bird feeder…

after wiping the chairs, I had to wait for them to dry before putting on the cushions… I’d cleaned up quite a bit of the mess, before I thought to take these photos…

little beggars…

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20 Monday Mar 2023

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on Saturday I went out to top up the hot tub…

the weather app was suggesting it was -21 out, but the sun was shining and there wasn’t any wind in the garden…

was able to slide the one side open without taking it right off… worked fine…

while the water was running, I brought in the recycling bin from the lane…

and I found a suet feeder in the garage and put a frozen block of homemade suet out in the front yard…

nice to be outdoors for a little while… Spring is coming…

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20 Thursday Oct 2022

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now that the pond is empty and covered with the tarp, the camera isn’t really needed, so it came into the house…

happily, the bottom of it fit perfectly on the camera tripod…

set it up by the window where the bird feeder is attached…

this is particularly good now as the mandevilla blocks the view through the window…

looking forward to getting some great views of the guests at the feeder;-)…

slinky…

29 Friday Jul 2022

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I watched as one of the little red squirrels figured out how to climb the slinky on the pole by the garage… it made a cool sound as the squirrel climbed it like a ladder…

so, I reset the solar light that was holding it down so it is loose and hope that will keep the squirrel from getting up there again…

and look what I spotted;-)…

these pictures are a little fuzzy, but when the squirrel was flying up and down the slinky, they were moving very quickly…

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29 Wednesday Jun 2022

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two projects were completed on Monday…

the first involved putting a new bottom piece on one of my favourite bird feeders…

it is made of copper and the bottom rusted out… I found a plastic saucer and with a great deal of effort… including hammering and drilling… was able to attach it to the bottom of the feeder… it is going to work perfectly…

looks good and got hung up in a great spot that the birds like…

then I moved the one that had been there previously over beside the pond… and the one that had been by the pond over to the new hanger I attached to the garage last week… phew 😅…

I spent half an hour standing along the edge of the hot tub trimming the Virginia creeper, which was trying to cover the den window…

pleased with how it came out… this time I was clever and moved the hot tub steps over to make getting up and down much easier, lol…

always happy after a productive day…