31 Friday Jul 2026
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Technology, big girl pants, nature, widow, moments, deer, birdseed, gobbling
for the longest time the deer were stopping by around 11 or 11:30 pm…
right now the feeders are empty because they have been gobbling up everything when they stop by…
for the last little while, they’ve been coming around 5:30 or 6:00 am… and the door camera has been capturing their visits…
apparently they continue to look to see if there are any seeds available for them…
21 Monday Oct 2024
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big girl pants, birdseed, blessed, chickadees, feeders, find, food, garden, moments, nature, nuthatches, sparrows, weather, widow, wondered
yesterday, I gathered up most of the bird feeders, filled them with the last of the birdseed, and hung them onto the front pole…
wondered how long it will take the birds to find it here and hoping the deer won’t be coming by;-)…
well, by this morning, the chickadees, nuthatches, and sparrows had found it…
was excited to see that I caught two of the nuthatches snacking at the same time…
14 Tuesday Dec 2021
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big girl pants, bins, birds, birdseed, blessed, broken, feeders, garage, garden, moments, nature, pictures, recycling, widow
brought in the garbage and recycling bins yesterday afternoon…
while I was in the yard I changed out the broken bird feeder with a purple one that was in the garage…
I also filled all the feeders…
then I took a few photos of the new planter that is now sitting at the front door;-)…
it looks great…
24 Friday Sep 2021
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big girl pants, birds, birdseed, blessed, fun, garden, moments, nature, pond, songs, water, widow
so blessed to get to spend time in the garden watching the birds…
yesterday, there were house sparrows, white throated sparrows, chickadees, nuthatches, juncos, and even a couple of blue jays…
lots of chatter, songs, dust and water baths… also they are gobbling up the birdseed and had many trips to drink from the pond…
only saw a couple of squirrels, lol…
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;-)…
02 Tuesday Feb 2021
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big girl pants, birdseed, birthday, blessed, exercise, family, feeders, grandson, hot tub, McDonalds, moments, treat, weather, widow
had a wonderful treat this morning…
my grandson brought McDonald’s breakfast over when he came to pick up his youngest brother’s birthday present…
he sat by the door and I sat on the far couch… it was nice to have a meal and visit… don’t think that has happened since the summer in the garden… then he was off for the rest his day…
a bit later I went out and filled feeders while topping up the hot tub… lots of running up and down the stairs in the process, lol…
good exercise… for the heart and the body…
09 Wednesday Dec 2020
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big girl pants, birds, birdseed, blessed, heavy, moments, nature, Preferred Perch, shop local, shopping, widow
this morning I went into the garage and put birdseed into pails and a bin… I was very happy because the woman from Preferred Perch who delivered it last night put the bags on the table for me…
the bags weigh 50 pounds so that made it easier to fill the pails and bin and there is still one entire bag left…
I think there will be enough to last for quite a while…
23 Friday Oct 2020
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big girl pants, birds, birdseed, blessed, feeder, food, garden, identify, moments, nature, stripes, watching, weather, widow
had fun going through my various bird books and apps because I saw a very interesting bird on the deck yesterday… it was a touch bigger than a sparrow but with stripes on its front with a black dot on its chest… couldn’t find it in any of the books…
there was a house finch there too and I haven’t seen any of them for quite a while…
at one point I saw three chickadees at a feeder in the front yard at the same time… rare to see more than one…
was going from the front to the back throughout the day checking on the guests…
didn’t get any pictures except this one when I headed to the front yard to fill the feeders…
brought the pail of seeds into the kitchen to make filling the feeders easier…
04 Sunday Oct 2020
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big girl pants, birdseed, fish, fishnet, garden, garden visits, leaves, moments, nature, net, plants, pond, pump, weather, widow
went outside to see if I could get the waterfall going… it stopped for some reason early in the week so I had gone out and unplugged it… I wasn’t looking forward to the prospect…
I took a ton of leaves out of the pond and dug around the pump with my hands to clear out some of the muck… the water was cold…
got everything working, moved the milkweed, and emptied some of the pots which held dead plants… I left the fishnet in the water hoping the fish will get used to it so when we go to catch them they will be more cooperative, lol…
then I spent time cleaning out the morning glories, adding plants to a pot by the hot tub and rearranging furniture around the lower deck…
it looks lovely and will be a great place for any garden visits that might happen on nice days;-)…
by the time I was finished, I was very happy and pleased with all that had been accomplished…
08 Friday May 2020
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big girl pants, birds, birdseed, blessed, feeders, garden, grandson, moments, nature, purple, shopping, widow
I’ve been out a few times topping up the feeders, and I even added a new one I discovered in the garage…
a friend dropped off some sunflower seed for me but I am getting a bit worried that it will run out before I can get more from the store… hopefully my grandson will be by and able to pick some up for me…
watching the new arrivals to the garden is such fun and I’ve started a list of everything I see this spring and summer…
thought I’d spotted a purple finch, but discovered that it is likely a house finch, lol…
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