04 Saturday Jul 2026
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arch, big girl pants, blessed, climb, garden, growing, moments, morning glories, nature, widow
the plants on the new arch are just taking off…
the morning glories have just begun to climb up along the deck side and I am hoping for many flowers before too long…
the other side has a number of plants growing… cucumbers and beans, including scarlet runners…
I am hoping they might invite the hummingbirds to the garden…
I may have planted too many🤪…
03 Friday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, family, garden, housemate, invisible, moments, nature, trimmed, virginia creeper, weather, widow
apparently, the virginia creeper is the happiest plant in the garden…
it is growing by leaps and bounds…
along the garage it has been trying to make its way back into the eavestrough and it also thinks it should get to the hot tub, lol…
the baskets were nearly invisible on the other side of the garden…
my housemate was able to get it all back under control in just a few minutes… looks so much better now…
it will probably look like that again in a few weeks😊…
02 Thursday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, growing, happier, lemon, lemon tree, moments, nature, new leaves, widow
the lemon tree is very happy outside…
it has new leaves sprouting all over… much happier than when it went out last year…
all this from a seed out of a kitchen lemon… I can’t, for the life of me, remember when it was first planted;-)…
01 Wednesday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, blossoms, coneflower, driveway, garden, happy, nature, period, widow
it always amazes me how much better plants do in the place they like…
a perfect example is the coneflower…
previously we had tried one in the bed by the pond and it died off…
last year we planted one along the driveway, beside the chimney… it had two flowers, which made me very happy…
this year I counted at least a dozen blossoms… looking forward to seeing them as they open…
the blossoms are different sizes, so they should open over a period of time;-)…
clearly they like the strong sun in that spot and are very happy 😁
28 Sunday Jun 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, blizzard, Dairy Queen, family, moments, reminiscent, treat, widow
last evening, after supper, my housemate and I went to Dairy Queen, and he treated😊…
sadly, they were out of skor bits so I wasn’t able to get my favourite skor blizzard…
instead I chose a turtle blizzard… bit of a mistake, lol…
I enjoyed the pecans, and the ice cream but the little chocolate half circles (with caramel in them) were just not the least reminiscent of a turtle;-)…
of course I did eat half of it then and finished the second half after supper tonight…
it was a lovely summer treat though…
24 Wednesday Jun 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, drooling, family, grandson, knives, moments, new, old, sharpened, shopping, widow
took four of my most used knives in to be sharpened… and was advised they weren’t really worth sharpening…
made me sad as two of them were wearever knives that were my mom and dad’s… which did make them likely sixty or seventy years old…
so, then I bought some new ones… had fun with the salesperson who had lots of questions and made me hold many knives…
lucky for me, they were all reasonably priced, unlike those that my housemate has… the staff were drooling over his collection, which they had just sharpened and were the reason we were there, lol…
23 Tuesday Jun 2026
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so, the other day my adventure buddy brought me some beautiful peonies and they looked and smelled delicious…
what I didn’t know about peonies is that they guzzle water like crazy and just possibly they ran out of water…
I added more water when I realized what had happened, but most of them didn’t perk up…
eventually, I tossed out the very dead ones and cut back the few remaining…
and I also put some of the dead ones into a small vase to put in the den because they still smelled delicious…
a few buds went into a small container and they have opened;-)…
20 Saturday Jun 2026
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19 Friday Jun 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, food, friends, lunch, moments, Park Cafe, renovated, time together, widow
celebrated a birthday lunch for one of our group…
we went to the newly renovated Park Cafe…
it is always fun to figure out a time that works for everyone, even though we are all retired, lol…
the restaurant was very busy and after a short wait we made it onto the patio… the birthday girl’s choice…
a bit overcast, and cool, and it did spit for a few minutes, but we were protected by the large umbrellas over the tables…
there were burgers eaten and the new spinach salad, with falafel, was devoured…
dessert included banana pudding and the berry good sundae;-)…
we always have a great time together;-)…
18 Thursday Jun 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, Hart Trail, moments, nature, Technology, walk, widow, wildflowers
had a lovely walk on the Hart Trail this morning with my adventure buddy, and enjoyed checking out all the wildflowers…
a lovely and relaxing walk…
what a treat;-)…
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