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rainfall…

05 Saturday Sep 2026

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got up early and went outside for a look at the lovely sky and my flowers…

the previous evening I’d noticed that one of the buds on a morning glory plant was getting ready to open…

I’ve been waiting for these ones as they are quite stunning but seem to take an extra long time to open…

sure enough it had opened to a beautiful flower… happily I took a few photos before going back inside and back to bed…

when I next got up it had just stopped raining so I went out to check on the bloom…

of course it was a little worse for wear after the rainfall…

so happy I went out early 😊…

exercises…

04 Friday Sep 2026

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it was a beautiful day, so I decided to do my exercises beside the pond…

when I rolled out the mat, the top end went into the water, so I had to wait for the mat to dry, lol…

what a treat to listen to the water falling and watch the sky and trees overhead while I went through the steps…

my housemate took a video, after I was done, of a few of each of the exercises…

2027…

03 Thursday Sep 2026

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I am so excited…

today I received a 2027 Chihuly calendar…

I have loved his work for many years and during a good portion of that time would have his calendar on my wall…

for the last few years I haven’t had one and have had a variety of bird ones…

I know I will enjoy this one when 2027 begins;-)…

catch…

01 Tuesday Sep 2026

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one of my favourite trees in the Mediterranean Biome is the magnolia…

it blooms fairly regularly and can have only one flower blooming at a time or as many as six, which I spotted earlier this summer…

today, it had one glorious bloom above a spent flower…

magnolias smell delicious, although our tree is too high up to be able to catch the scent…

met…

31 Monday Aug 2026

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I’m so happy with how the plants are growing on the new arch…

the scarlet runner beans have been flowering for a while, but the actual beans have only just begun to appear…

the morning glories have now met up with the scarlet runners at the top of the arch…

it looks so nice from everywhere in the garden 😊…

imagined…

26 Wednesday Aug 2026

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so I’ve been thinking about where to put the 100 books, lol…

my housemate had a bookshelf stored elsewhere and we arranged to have it delivered…

it fit in the spot I’d imagined perfectly 😊…

took a while to empty the boxes and bag, but I was so happy when it was done…

and, in the end, the 100 books fit exactly…

jigsaw…

25 Tuesday Aug 2026

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in the final process of replacing the stairs to the side garden, we discovered we needed a jigsaw…

so, of course, we had to go shopping for a new toy, lol…

in the end we found a reciprocating saw which would work for the current project and a variety of future projects…

and I thought it was much cuter than a boring old jigsaw…

we have learned to always buy the same brand as our other battery operated tools😀…

and now, the deck, stairs and rail project is completed… yay…

shop…

24 Monday Aug 2026

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my friend is decluttering, and donating many of her books to a local book sale…

when she mentioned this, I offered to help and shop at the same time…

we had great fun, going through shelves upstairs and down, as she decided what could go, and the few that needed to remain…

she’d give me reviews as the books came off the shelves…

I had brought a single grocery store box to hold the ones I would bring home, lol…

we made two trips to drop off the books…

when I got home, there was that box, a grocery bag and two cardboard boxes… all full👀…

refilled the stair library with a few of them…

still thinking about where the rest will go🤪…

shore…

22 Saturday Aug 2026

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every morning, while at my friends’ cottage, when I woke up, I would walk down and sit on the steps leading to the beach…

usually I’d spend an hour or so watching and listening to the waves…

it was always fun to watch the shore birds as well as the gulls and pelicans in the early morning quiet…

the first and last thing I did was to run down to the beach to say hello and goodbye😊…

snake…

20 Thursday Aug 2026

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I spent a delightful five days with friends at their family beach cottage…

delicious food, great company, naps, lots of conversation, and I was in the lake, at least once, up to my neck…

spent lots of time on the beach, early in the morning, on my own, and all together on a few days…

we walked a good portion of the beach a few times with our newly prepared walking sticks…

and walked the road to the pump, which had a snake handle…

there was also a real snake😳… which had me stomping and speaking loudly as I walked along where it had been seen…

weather was nice, lots of sunshine, a bit of wind and some rainy/overcast times… so, a bit of everything…

my particular expertise is washing the dishes…

other than that it was all about reading…

we did play ladder golf, a new game to me, (although I may have seen my grandsons play a version of it a number of years ago), which was fun…

what a treat 😊…