30 Tuesday May 2023
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29 Monday May 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, deck, flowers, garden, moments, petunias, planter, plants, purple, weather, widow
on Saturday brought out the table and worked on filling the planters that go around the deck…
four of the six were filled with purple and white petunias and alyssum…
the two in the centre have pansies, lobelia and alyssum…
it was fun and I enjoyed the time…
there are still three on the north side that need something… after all these years I still haven’t found just the right plants that live in shade and are happy in a planter…
28 Sunday May 2023
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27 Saturday May 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cold, cover, dahlia, garden, mistake, moments, morning glories, nature, weather, widow, wind
just possible that I made a mistake when I brought out the morning glories and the dahlia from Lily Stone Gardens and planted them last Saturday…
the wind has been very strong and it has been cool in the evenings…
the dahlia hasn’t been looking at all happy and on Wednesday evening I covered it with sheets hoping to block the wind…
it is still not happy… we shall see…
26 Friday May 2023
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24 Wednesday May 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, blossoms, covered, flowers, garden, lilacs, moments, nature, scent, trees, walk, weather, widow
had a lovely walk on Tuesday;-)…
spotted lilacs everywhere I went, and enjoyed the scent…
and also saw a beautiful tree covered in white blossoms…
and finally spotted one of the mallard families;-)…
23 Tuesday May 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, family, garage, garden, happy, moments, motorcycle, space, widow
the car was gone for the weekend and I think the motorcycle was kind of happy to have the garage to itself, lol…
it is usually stuck between the side door and the car;-)…
22 Monday May 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, bridge, clean, fish, garden, goldfish, happy, moments, nature, pond, pump, water, widow
happy that the fish have finally decided to come out from under the bridge during the day;-)…
climbed into the pond as the pump that went into it last week was barely running…
after taking all the bits out, washed them in a pail, and then went back into the pond to return them…
when I turned it back on, it burbled just like when it first went in…
always careful when I go into the pond, but it also makes me happy;-)…
21 Sunday May 2023
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beefsteak, big girl pants, blessed, dahlias, flowers, garden, happy, iPhone, Jonathan’s Farm, Lily Stone Garden, moments, morning glories, plants, Technology, tomatoes, veggies, weather, widow
Saturday was another glorious day in the garden…
and I started planting… yay… I added compost and fresh soil to the veggie gardens and then planted seeds as well as a pepper, some squash, cucumber and the beefsteak tomatoes… the seedlings came from Jonathan’s Farm and were in great shape…
excited to see if anything grows up and over the arch…
brought out the dahlia tubers and got them into planters as well as the new dahlia that I got from Lily Stone Gardens… it has been growing very fast… and finally put in a number of the morning glory seedlings that have been growing in the house…
20 Saturday May 2023
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bathtub, bathtub pond, big girl pants, blessed, cushions, garden, hammock chair, happy, moments, perfect, pump, screws, umbrella, weather, widow, working
Friday was a beautiful semi-warm and sunny day…
I spent some time reading on the upper deck and when it warmed up a bit I found the screws for the hammock, removed the umbrella, laid the whole thing down, and attached all four legs tightly… put everything back together and then added a couple of cushions to the hammock chair and it is now perfect;-)… I may have had a short nap in it while taking a break from reading…
I am very happy as the shape of this chair is much more comfortable than the previous one… I think it will get more use, but we shall see…
a little later, I used the fishnet in the bathtub pond to clean out all the dead water hyacinths from last year… then I brought out the wet-vac and sucked out the dead leaves and water… next I put together the pieces for the new pump and set it into the pond… after filling it up, turned on the pump and it worked… yay…
now it is burbling nicely…
feels like I got quite a bit done;-)…
