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sanctuary…

23 Sunday Aug 2020

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big girl pants, blessed, butterfly bush, chickadees, fish, flowers, garden, moments, nature, nuthatch, overwinter, pictures, plants, pond, purple, sanctuary, squirrels, time, widow

spent the morning in the garden watching chickadees, monarchs, nuthatches, squirrels and fish…

the nuthatch was not interested in a photo op and even the chickadees were not particularly cooperative…

the monarch was happily guzzling nectar from the butterfly bush, so I was able to get a number of photos… I am very happy to finally have this plant in the garden and hope that I can get some seeds from it for next year or maybe even try to bring it into the house to see if it will overwinter…

it looks like there will be two more water lily flowers with a possible third one… very exciting…

I hadn’t been out in the garden for a few days and really enjoyed time with the members of my garden sanctuary;-)…

tomatoes…

22 Saturday Aug 2020

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Alaska, big girl pants, blessed, delicious, family, garden, grape tomatoes, growing, moments, plants, seeds, tomatoes, widow

so far, I’ve had two grape tomatoes from my plants…

I started these in the house in a cardboard egg carton from wrinkled grape tomatoes that weren’t good enough to eat, lol…

rather pleased with the result…

also finally have one of the vine tomatoes starting… I found the seeds for these in a pile of items from our 2013 Alaska trip… wasn’t sure they would still be good;-)…

not sure how big this one will get, but happy to check daily;-)…

rebuild…

20 Thursday Aug 2020

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big girl pants, blessed, family, garden, grandson, health, inukshuk, moments, rebuild, walk, widow

on a recent morning walk I spotted this Inukshuk…

it reminded me of the one in the garden… over the winter it had ended up a pile of stones…

in May my grandson and I put it back together, although it wasn’t quite right…

when Hilda the Gardener was here recently, she took it apart and didn’t rebuild it…

the kids were here for dinner a few weeks ago and they got it back together…

and it looks great;-)…

fixture…

17 Monday Aug 2020

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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, bulb, family, fixture, help, moments, support, time, widow

was just in the bathroom and was thinking about how blessed I am…

the fixture has an odd bulb which I can usually remove when one burns out, but for the life of me, I cannot install the replacement…

this is just one of many things that my son-in-law and grandson help me with on what feels like a fairly regular basis…

I am learning and doing more on my own, but it seems there are always things I need them for…

such a gift;-)…

provisions…

16 Sunday Aug 2020

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big girl pants, Black Market Provisions, blessed, delivery, food, friends, gift, gift certificate, provisions, retirement, salad, shopping, treat, widow

one of the gifts I received for my retirement was a gift certificate to Black Market Provisions…

a few days ago I ordered one of their Care Packages… it arrived right at supper time the next day and included the most delicious salad with beets, goat cheese, chicken, and greens… I also enjoyed some garlicky bagel crisps…

there were a few frozen items, more crackers and some delicious looking cookies…

I am excited to taste all of these as well…

thirst…

15 Saturday Aug 2020

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big girl pants, blessed, caterpillars, garden, grandson, home, moments, monarchs, plants, thirst, water, weather, widow

happy to check out the garden after being gone for a short time… enjoyed walking through and seeing what was about to bloom, what had just about finished and checking for caterpillars… unfortunately I haven’t found any more monarch or swallowtail babies…

I had asked my grandson to come by and water it while I was away and was very happy that he did…

the front flowers were a bit sad, as he hadn’t remembered to water them. but a quick dose of water and they all revived…

the ability of most plants to recover from thirst is quite amazing, lol…

commemorate…

14 Friday Aug 2020

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what a wonderful evening we had on Wednesday…

our BS group met for dinner in the garden to celebrate a birthday…

I spent a good portion of the day ensuring that there were enough chairs available and physically distanced… it was very warm and the sun was shining in most of the garden…

in the end, we ate on the deck as it was shaded, lol… had dinner and dessert delivered and it was tasty…

after dinner we moved to the garden and carried on our visit…

took a very distanced photo as we usually commemorate special times together and I used my phone as the remote to take the shot…

although we video call each Monday night it was lovely to be together again in person…

polish…

10 Monday Aug 2020

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big girl pants, blessed, friend, happy, making memories, massage, moments, nail polish, pedicure, polish, purple, toes, widow

my toenails are purple again… I think they’ve been naked since January…

while we were at the cottage my friend and her daughter combined a red nail polish with a dark blue polish and produced a one-of-a kind, just for me, purple… it was lovely to have a foot massage and get my nails painted…

I keep looking down at my toes and thinking what is that, lol…

what a wonderful treat… I am so blessed…

fed…

10 Monday Aug 2020

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for five days I have been fed by others… what a wonderful treat… the majority of time I am fine with cooking, but some days I particularly miss my beloved, because he would often take a turn preparing our food…

the variety and complexity of meals was amazing… we had crepes, with freshly made blueberry sauce; spatchcock chicken with potato salad, pan stuffing and green beans; sausages and toast; hot dogs with onions; steak, baked potatoes and salad; bacon, eggs and toast; pork tenderloin, rice and roasted cauliflower; homemade enchiladas with guacamole and homemade sour cream; and the most tasty almond bars and Rice Krispie squares… plus many snacks…

my friends are both excellent cooks and they had nearly as much fun preparing the food as we had eating it…

my contribution was dishwashing, lol… and they use Dawn, which makes bubbles if you squeeze it;-), which I did, numerous times… I may have to switch to Dawn because the bubbles bring me such happiness…

I am glad to do dishes because it doesn’t involve any complicated activity and saves the cooks from cleanup after all their work to produce a meal;-)…

kayak…

09 Sunday Aug 2020

Posted by sulis303 in life, moments, nature, travel, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, blessed, friends, fun, kayak, learn new things, memories, moments, water, widow

had a great time learning to kayak this week…

for some reason I imagined that my legs would be uncomfortable, but that wasn’t the case at all…

I had a great instructor which made the whole process fairly smooth… of course the getting in and out was a process, but I had helpers;-)…

I really had fun and would like to do a bit more of it…

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