11 Monday May 2026
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spent time in the garden Saturday morning…
the job was to level out the ground as much as possible…
soil, compost and sand were mixed by the wheelbarrow full and then dumped and levelled across the grass using a handmade levelling rake…
it took quite awhile but eventually the space seems much flatter…
next, a mix of grass and clover seed was spread over the entire area and then gently raked in…
finally, the entire area was watered…
now to wait for it to grow…
10 Sunday May 2026
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17 years, big girl pants, blessed, conversations, garden, hot tub, memories, moments, Mother's Day, mothers, widow
this morning I went out for a Mother’s Day hot tub…
it has been 17 years since the first day of hot tubbing in the garden which was on Mother’s Day in 2009;-)…
amazing to think of all the laughter, deep conversations, and fun, shared in this little tub of warm water…
always a wonderful reminder on Mother’s Day…
09 Saturday May 2026
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yesterday we began the newest garden project…
we started with trimming the cedars at the back of the garden…
we filled two bags with branches…
it is always a process to decide when enough has been trimmed, and it is time to stop, lol…
step one, done…
08 Friday May 2026
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last week I bought a lovely scarf at The Leaf…
today, while I was working my shift at the Mediterranean Biome exit spot, I watched a woman unfold a purple t-shirt in the Gift shop which is just outside the exit and perfectly in my view, lol…
so at the end of my day, I went and found one for me…
it is lovely and I know I will enjoy wearing it this summer;-)…
I may have to stop looking through those doors, lol…
a bit later, after I got home, a friend stopped by with a delicious piece of cake… we’d talked earlier in the week about this exact dessert… a lovely treat and visit…
I did share it with my housemate;-)…
pretty fine day…
07 Thursday May 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, dinner out, food, lunch, moments, over-order, sushi, widow
had a bit of a laugh tonight…
we went out for sushi and I reminded us that we shouldn’t over-order, lol… cause we always do…
here is what we ordered, and it was delicious…
and, of course, it was too much, lol…
we brought home enough for lunch tomorrow 🤪…
05 Tuesday May 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, hummingbirds, moments, plastic bottles, purple, recycled, scarf, soft, Technology, The Leaf Gift Shop, widow
today, while I was working an early shift at The Leaf, I spotted this beautiful hummingbird scarf, which I then had to buy;-)…
it is made out of plastic bottles and is sooo soft and lightweight…
one of the great things about the Gift Shop there is how often they change the products…
and, if you see something you want, you need to buy it right away, because it might not be there the next time you go, lol…
03 Sunday May 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, grandson, grass, moments, planters, pump, raking, reading, tarp, weather, widow
spent time in the garden on a lovely day…
used the pond pump to empty the water on top of the tarp and then took the tarp off the pond…
took a few minutes to lay it out on the grass to dry out…
we moved a few planters to new places and will see if they stay in those spots…
did a little bit of raking of leaves, but there is still a lot to do…
and also spent some time reading in one of the chairs which recently came out of the shed…
01 Friday May 2026
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took Indi to have a bath this morning…
spent a few minutes before leaving home to empty out the trunk so it could be cleaned as well…
when I arrived there were maybe 10 or 15 cars lined up, but I decided to wait…
took about 25 minutes to get in and then about 15 to run through the machinery…
she always looks gorgeous when she comes out, and with her summer rims on, lol…
when she was done there were about 40 cars waiting…
good thing I waited, lol…
30 Thursday Apr 2026
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appear, big girl pants, blessed, bonsai, family, grandson, Japanese Maple, moments, nature, plants, slow process, widow, wire
had fun watching my grandson start to work on his Japanese Maple bonsai…
we picked up the Japanese Maple last spring and it lived in the garden for the summer and moved into the living room in the fall…
over the winter it lost all of its leaves, but new ones have just started to appear;-)…
lots of bits were trimmed off and quite a few types of wire were used to begin the process of bending branches to new spots…
this is the second try as the first one he worked on didn’t make it…
kind of exciting to see how it will turn out, although it is a very slow process…
29 Wednesday Apr 2026
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last night was my first in the hot tub for a really long time…
a screw had come loose on the left side cover and it took quite a while before we were able to screw it back in… then it needed to be filled and it took me ages to get that done…
looking for photos of it, I found this note about the day the hot tub arrived —- April 29, 2009…
and this one from my first hot tub on Mother’s Day, 2009…
the area around the tub has changed a lot since its arrival…
these photos reminded me when the right hand cover came off and was repaired…
these photos were taken on April 28, 2023…
apparently, the end of April has been an important period for the hot tub…
next up will be emptying the tub and figuring out if we can make the right side more stable for opening and closing…
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