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blizzards…

11 Thursday Aug 2022

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big girl pants, birthday, blessed, Blizzards, Dairy Queen, dinner, family, food, grandson, moments, treat, widow, zucchini

had the kids over for dinner…

we had steak and zucchini, which they barbecued…

mushrooms that my grandson cooked, even though it was his birthday;-)…

salad as well as twice stuffed potatoes, which I made;-)…

everything was delicious and we all enjoyed it…

then we went for blizzards…

I haven’t had one for many years and it was delicious… I ate more than half of it before putting the rest in the freezer, lol…

sleepout…

10 Wednesday Aug 2022

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big girl pants, blessed, camping, garden, moments, mosquitoes, nature, sleepout, widow

had a sleepout on the deck a few nights ago…

quite a few mosquitoes, so I didn’t go out until around eleven, and by then they were mostly gone… and there were none around in the morning…

this was my cozy little nest…

there weren’t a ton of stars, but the ones I saw were bright…

always fun to go camping, lol… and the washrooms are excellent;-)…

bunny

09 Tuesday Aug 2022

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I was standing on the deck when I spotted this baby bunny having a snack near one of the bird feeders…

they completely ignored me as they enjoyed the grass…

happy to be able to enjoy the moments…

object…

08 Monday Aug 2022

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big girl pants, blessed, garden, moments, nature, object, smart, squirrels, treat, widow

the squirrels run right past me when they are chasing one another and ignore me when I am on either of the decks…

apparently I have become just another object in the garden, lol…

and today we caught this red squirrel climbing up the inside of the slinky a couple of times to get to the bird feeder…

sure are smart little devils…

mystery…

07 Sunday Aug 2022

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big girl pants, birds, blessed, dirt bath, garden, moments, mystery, nature, pond, swept, widow

the other day I swept the steps between the pond and back garden so that I could walk along them in my bare feet…

yesterday I noticed that they were covered with dirt again…

today I watched the birds having dirt baths, all the way along the walk, lol…

solved that mystery;-)… and thinking there is no point in sweeping it again…

scum…

06 Saturday Aug 2022

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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, goldfish, memories, moments, nature, scum, tank, widow

spent the better part of yesterday and today working on the fish tanks… I’ve been thinking about how far I’ve come from the person who admired the tank, but had no desire to get my hands dirty… that was all for my beloved…

yesterday I used the pump (for emptying the hot tub) to remove the majority of the water that was still in them… then I removed the rocks and scrubbed down the sides… never leave a tank partly filled because the scum on the glass becomes rather difficult to remove, lol…

next I used the wet vac to remove the last of the water…

in between all that, I scrubbed each and every rock from the tanks… that took a while as I did it between reading times;-)…

rocks were placed back in, and then the hose brought in from outside to fill them up…

finally I put both pumps back in and got them working…

big job and it looks great…

travelling…

05 Friday Aug 2022

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big girl pants, blessed, bouquet, family, flowers, moments, subscription, travelling, widow

I’ve been enjoying my flower bouquets…

last week’s is still doing rather well in the living room…

and this week’s has been travelling around with me in the garden…

such a wonderful treat;-)…

luck…

04 Thursday Aug 2022

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big girl pants, blessed, butterflies, caterpillars, eggs, flowers, friends, garden, luck, moments, nature, parsley, photos, plants, swallowtail, widow

besides being my support group, my friends bring me good luck…

I’ve only spotted swallowtail butterflies two or three times so far this summer and two of those were when they were over…

a few days ago I caught this long shot of one on the deck…

and then I found eggs on both of my parsley plants… which I only buy for the butterflies;-)…

maybe, just maybe, there will be caterpillars…

then I spotted this one… they sure move quickly, lol…

woohoo…

guilt…

03 Wednesday Aug 2022

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alarm, big girl pants, blessed, garden, guilt, moments, nature, reading, walking, widow

I’ve been enjoying my time reading in the garden…

the one issue has been a lack of steps, lol…

recently, I’ve set a timer for twenty minutes of reading and then five minutes of walking, either around the garden or in the spot…

I’ve had some success with a few days of over ten thousand steps… which makes me happy…

now there is no guilt whatsoever about spending the entire day reading😊…

bowlful…

02 Tuesday Aug 2022

Posted by sulis303 in food, garden, health, life, moments, retirement, Uncategorized

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beans, big girl pants, blessed, bowlful, delicious, garden, moments, neighbours, widow

my neighbour brought me a few handfuls of beans… mainly green, but a few yellow and one purple…

I made a delicious bowlful for lunch…

so fresh and delicious… a wonderful treat…

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