07 Thursday Aug 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, blue, exploding, flowers, garden, happy, moments, morning glories, nature, photos, purple, weather, widow
the morning glories are exploding…
on Tuesday I counted twenty-six on the obelisk next to the back door… happy I took some nice photos before it rained, lol… the rain completely destroys them…
today I didn’t count, but I think there may have been even more, and there were two blue ones on the butterfly bench;-)…
sock a lovely way to begin the day…
06 Wednesday Aug 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, family, fence, garden, gate, housemate, impact drill, moments, project, sunk, Technology, wheel, widow
our most recent project was fixing the back gate… one end had sunk down and it was dragging on the ground, making it difficult to open and close…
day one, session one, involved removing it from the fence and cutting a portion off the bottom… at the end of the day we put the garbage and recycling bins in the opening so it didn’t feel so open, lol…
session two was removing nails and finding a board to go from corner to corner to help keep the gate from sagging as well as one to go along the bottom… and purchasing screws and a gate wheel…
day two, session one, involved figuring out the angle of the cross board and reattaching all the pieces… and purchasing an impact drill…
we aren’t going to talk about how someone gave away the first one, sigh…
session two involved reattaching the gate to the fence and making sure the wheel was in the correct spot… sounds easier than it actually was, lol…
and job done…
this will make taking out and returning the bins much easier in summer and winter;-)…
05 Tuesday Aug 2025
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spent a good portion of Saturday working through the project list…
the flat rock in the waterfall area was glued down…
the sad planter got a few coats of bright blue paint…
a used pond hose had clamps removed and was cut down into pieces that fit into the garbage can…
large pieces of tyndall stone were moved to tidy up the veggie garden area…
a board under the bed was trimmed so I won’t bang my shins on it…
a broken piece of 2 by 10 was removed from the bench and clamped together to produce a template for the replacement…
what fun to check off so many items from the list😊…
04 Monday Aug 2025
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, boyfriends, door, friends, garden, gate, memories, moments, repaired, widow
on Tuesday evening one of the doors on the side gate was taken away to be repaired by one of my beloved’s boyfriends…
a number of the “rays” had broken over time so it needed a delicate touch to return it to its former glory…
it was odd that only this one door had the broken pieces…
at bedtime I put a chair up in the empty space as I didn’t want the deer to come and visit (ie, eat) anything in the garden, lol…
Wednesday afternoon it was returned all beautiful and restored…
we screwed it back into the hinges and it looks excellent…
02 Saturday Aug 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, books, change, food, friends, garden, gardening, happy, Hilda the Gardener, maintenance, moments, nature, plants, veggies, weather, widow
Wednesday was such a lovely day…
started the morning with Hilda the Gardener, who arrived to do some maintenance in the garden… I’ve been thinking of the change that she has made to the space over the years;-)…
it always feels so fresh and tidy after her time here…
while she was working away, I picked beans and peas, and spotted some cucumbers starting, yay…
then a friend stopped by with a bag of books for me and I had a bag for her as well;-)…
we hadn’t seen one another for ages and had a great catch-up…
after they both left, I read and relaxed in this lovely space…
01 Friday Aug 2025
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55th, anniversary, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, garden, giggles, leaking, love, memories, moments, morning glories, nature, pond, remembering, squirrels, time, widow
today I’ve been giggling over a couple of things as I remember 42 years together, on what should have been our 55th wedding anniversary…
first thing I wandered the garden and took pictures of the morning glories…
some, where they were planted, and some that have just found a spot they like, lol…
I remember my beloved bringing me pictures of the ones blooming in the garden each day when he came to visit me in hospital around our fortieth anniversary…
he was just getting used to the camera on his phone, so it was a big deal for him to take the time to take pictures of flowers…
the second thing is the pond…
it has been leaking for ages, but only when the waterfall is running…
we had the leaking problem for a year or so before he died and it was driving him crazy, trying to figure out the problem…
finally, as I was reading on the back deck, two red squirrels were having a battle over one of the feeders… he and squirrels never got on, so it was funny to have them yelling at each other today…
31 Thursday Jul 2025
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beans, big girl pants, blessed, garden, green, moments, nature, peas, picked, plants, purple, tailed, weather, widow
yesterday I picked purple and green beans, a few peas and a bunch of dried peas (looks like I missed a whole feed of them, sigh)…
I also spotted some small cucumbers which are not quite ready but should be in a few days… mostly they are growing on the other side of the fence, lol…
once the veggies were picked, I topped and tailed them before cutting up…
I was so excited that I cooked them for my lunch… at least now I don’t get sad when the purple ones turn green when cooked, lol…
they were delicious;-)…
30 Wednesday Jul 2025
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bachelor buttons, beans, big girl pants, blessed, capture, food, garden, hibiscus, moments, nature, plants, purple, veggies, weather, widow
had some fun Tuesday morning in the garden…
happy to see the first hibiscus flower open… it didn’t seem to bloom as much as usual through winter…
and noticed begonias, tiny poppies and more bachelor buttons… the bachelor buttons have gone crazy, lol…
I’m hoping to capture some of their seeds and sprinkle them throughout the garden;-)…
and at last I saw some beans, purple ones, woohoo…
I even pulled weeds from the fancy morning glory planter…
they were planted late so I am hoping they will bloom before it gets too cold…
feels great as the garden is beginning to produce ;-)…
29 Tuesday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, friends, garden, grass, lawnmower, moments, mow, nature, rain, Sunday, Technology, things, weather, whipper snip, widow
the lawn didn’t get mowed last Sunday because the grass hadn’t grown much, and this Sunday because it rained most of the day…
my friends were coming over yesterday afternoon so I decided to mow and whipper snip the garden… I waited until just before noon to give it more time to dry out…
moved a chair and some tables and then figured out how to get the mower going (been a while since I used it)… there are many things in the garden so it takes a bit of effort to get around them, even though it is a small space…
once that was done I pulled down the whipper snipper, found the battery, attached it, and went around all the edges… apparently, at some point I should have tapped it on the ground to extend the line that does the cutting…
I was rather pleased with the result, and then put the furniture back…
just before I brought out the cushions, it started to rain😣…
so we met in the house, lol…
28 Monday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, friends, garden, grass, lawnmower, moments, mow, nature, rain, Sunday, Technology, things, weather, whipper snip, widow
the lawn didn’t get mowed last Sunday because the grass hadn’t grown much, and this Sunday because it rained most of the day…
my friends were coming over this afternoon so I decided to mow and whipper snip the garden… I waited until just before noon to give it more time to dry out…
moved a chair and some tables and then figured out how to get the mower going (been a while since I used it)… there are many things in the garden so it takes a bit of effort to get around them, even though it is a small space…
once that was done I pulled down the whipper snipper, found the battery, attached it, and went around all the edges… apparently, at some point I should have tapped it on the ground to extend the line that does the cutting…
I was rather pleased with the result, and then put the furniture back…
just before I brought out the cushions, it started to rain😣…
so we met in the house, lol…
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