22 Thursday Sep 2022
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the mandevilla came in a few days ago since the weather is cooling off…
my grandson carried it from the back, through the kitchen and into the living room…
currently it is residing in the front window… amazing how much smaller it makes the room, lol…
the flowers were just starting to open and I am hoping that all the buds open without falling off…
21 Wednesday Sep 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, death, funeral, memories, moments, Olympics, swallowed, Technology, time, widow
I got swallowed up in the events around the Queen’s death and eventual funeral…
reminded me of the way I fall into the Olympics, lol… I always want to watch everything as it happens…
the good news is that these days I am able to be up in the middle of the night and sleep during the day if needed…
now to catch up on a bit of missed sleep…
20 Tuesday Sep 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, breakfast, chores, dismantled, family, garden, goldfish, grandson, moments, nature, pond, widow
Monday some jobs got done…
I met the kids at the “A” for breakfast and then we worked in the garden…
Virginia creeper was pulled from behind the hot tub and some tiny holes were filled in the foundation close to the door…
the hammock was dismantled and pieces put into the shed…
then we started catching fish to bring into the condo… we got nine so far, including all the biggest ones, and will do more every now and again…
they caught them and I put them into the tanks…
happy to get some of the fall chores done…
19 Monday Sep 2022
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back door, big girl pants, blessed, chipped, door, garden, moments, nature, paint, purple, scraped, weather, widow
finally scraped the chipped areas on the back door…
then I pulled out the paint, stirred it for quite a while and painted the bare portions… it was very interesting to see how blue it looked before being stirred up… that probably explains why so many of my purple things turn blue after sitting in the sunlight, lol…
it has been drying and is looking good… I think I will give it one more coat…
17 Saturday Sep 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, bounty, delicious, flowers, food, garden, moments, nature, shopping, supper, treat, widow, Wolseley Farmers Market
had a delicious supper on Tuesday…
visited the Wolseley Farmers Market and got some lovely items…
flowers; a beautiful pork chop; green, yellow, and purple beans; garlic; small new potatoes; little eggplants; free range eggs; an acorn squash; and a cob of corn…
cooked up, cooled and reheated the potatoes… then warmed up some chicken wings from the night before and boiled some of the beans…
yum…
looking forward to more delicious meals from this bounty…
16 Friday Sep 2022
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, concept, family, find, garage, lost, moments, pink, toolkit, tools, widow
recently had a conversation with my neighbour… she talked about her set of tools… her husband has a garage full of tools…
it made me think of the tools in my kitchen drawer… my beloved also had a garage and basement filled with tools but it was never clear where the particular item was when it was needed, lol…
because of that, I started to gather my own set… a pink multi set screwdriver, a hammer, and a pair of pliers… a pink screwdriver was very obvious and I always knew where it was, and even when he used any of my tools, he knew to put them back…
full disclosure, I may have tidied that portion of the drawer for the photo, lol…
I know other women who have their own set of tools as well… here are a few of theirs…
now, I have a garage with other tools that I am learning to use… and they go back after each use…
what a concept;-)…
13 Tuesday Sep 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, bud, flowers, garden, moments, nature, plants, pond, treat, water lily, weather, widow
so excited last Wednesday to discover a water lily bud… I had pretty much given up hope of seeing one this year…
throughout the day I took photos as it worked towards opening…
it was at its peak on Saturday…
today it is getting ready to slide under the water… as the next bud begins to open…
what a wonderful treat as we move into cooler weather…
talk about blessed…
12 Monday Sep 2022
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avocado, big girl pants, blessed, food, garden, grow, moments, nature, pit, plants, seed, wait, widow
went into the cupboard over the fridge and checked on my current avocado pit…
weeks ago I had put it into a plastic bag with a bit of water, set it up there, and forgot about it… now it was ready…
chose a nice mug container and dug out a used plastic pot that would fit inside it…
popped in some stones and soil… then planted the pit which had cracked in half and had a bunch of roots on the bottom…
looking forward to watching it grow…
11 Sunday Sep 2022
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arch, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, file cabinet, garden, memories, moments, nature, plants, side garden, trellis, widow
took this shot from the side garden the other day…
it brought to mind how that garden has looked over the years…
it used to be a shade garden and my beloved would wander into it and weed all the time…
after he died the tree that provided the shade was taken down… I ignored this space and for a number of years it was basically a weed patch, yikes…
once Hilda the Gardener came it started to improve and over the last few years we have focussed on it a bit more, lol…
last year we added the file cabinet raised bed and it has worked beautifully…
I am now looking for a garden arch trellis that will go from the raised bed to the wall of the house… it will give the peas and cucumbers a better place to grow on…
I think it will be a great addition once I find it, hopefully by spring…
10 Saturday Sep 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, chairs, drilling, family, fixed, garden, moments, son-in-law, tools, widow
last week, the back on one of the lawn chairs came loose… I put in a few screws but the final hole didn’t have a spot for the screw to attach to…
I used the metal drill bit to make holes and then a screwdriver bit to put in the screws on each of the chairs…
my son-in-law had some helpful suggestions on the process to produce the holes…
those big girl pants seem to be fitting rather well these days…
