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shop…

24 Monday Aug 2026

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my friend is decluttering, and donating many of her books to a local book sale…

when she mentioned this, I offered to help and shop at the same time…

we had great fun, going through shelves upstairs and down, as she decided what could go, and the few that needed to remain…

she’d give me reviews as the books came off the shelves…

I had brought a single grocery store box to hold the ones I would bring home, lol…

we made two trips to drop off the books…

when I got home, there was that box, a grocery bag and two cardboard boxes… all full👀…

refilled the stair library with a few of them…

still thinking about where the rest will go🤪…

shore…

22 Saturday Aug 2026

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every morning, while at my friends’ cottage, when I woke up, I would walk down and sit on the steps leading to the beach…

usually I’d spend an hour or so watching and listening to the waves…

it was always fun to watch the shore birds as well as the gulls and pelicans in the early morning quiet…

the first and last thing I did was to run down to the beach to say hello and goodbye😊…

snake…

20 Thursday Aug 2026

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I spent a delightful five days with friends at their family beach cottage…

delicious food, great company, naps, lots of conversation, and I was in the lake, at least once, up to my neck…

spent lots of time on the beach, early in the morning, on my own, and all together on a few days…

we walked a good portion of the beach a few times with our newly prepared walking sticks…

and walked the road to the pump, which had a snake handle…

there was also a real snake😳… which had me stomping and speaking loudly as I walked along where it had been seen…

weather was nice, lots of sunshine, a bit of wind and some rainy/overcast times… so, a bit of everything…

my particular expertise is washing the dishes…

other than that it was all about reading…

we did play ladder golf, a new game to me, (although I may have seen my grandsons play a version of it a number of years ago), which was fun…

what a treat 😊…

scarlet…

18 Tuesday Aug 2026

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I am really pleased with the new arch we installed in the spring…

the scarlet runner beans have made it to the top on one side and the morning glories have made it on the other side…

so far I’ve had three cucumbers and two feeds of purple beans from it😊…

the one thing I did wrong was plant too many seeds on the one side, lol… I will use less next year…

leggy…

17 Monday Aug 2026

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played a bit with a coneflower after I brought some into the house…

they last in a vase for a number of days, which is always good… they are very intricate…

I’ve also been bringing in some of the petunias as they get trimmed back… currently they are getting a bit leggy…

I’m not sure why I’ve never thought of them as cut flowers🤪…

trip…

13 Thursday Aug 2026

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my daughter recently sent me this postcard to remind me how close we are to our big trip…

for my birthday – the big 75 – I decided to take the train through the Rockies and visit gardens on Vancouver Island…

planning started last summer, and we had to book our train trip by December to be able to travel in September… crazy, lol…

next we searched for gardens that we would like to visit, besides the Butchart Gardens, which were first on the list…

then came looking at other spots in and around Victoria that we would like to see… we are going to have as many afternoon teas as possible, lol…

finding accommodations for our stay took a bit of work, but we found a lovely AirBnB close to the Butchart Gardens (and a Butterfly garden)… our second place to stay is a cute little hotel that faces the ocean in Victoria…

and finally, first class flights were booked back home… as I haven’t travelled for ages, the flights were covered by points… how cool is that;-)…

now to think about what I need to pack for a train trip and fall on Vancouver Island…

bigger…

11 Tuesday Aug 2026

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the few milkweed plants were well used… one ended up with two caterpillars, and the second, and bigger one, only had one on it…

once the leaves had all been eaten on the smaller plant, we moved the two caterpillars to the other plant…

at that point we covered it with a net hamper to protect the caterpillars from birds…

since then they have turned into chrysalises and attached themselves to the top of the hamper…

I check on them each day, and so far they are still green😊… once they turn black they will be ready to change…

excited to see them emerge…

Pizzeria…

09 Sunday Aug 2026

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we went to Pizzeria Gusto for a delicious lunch to celebrate a birthday… last time we were there was 2017😊… and we still liked some of the same things…

the sun came and went as we sat on the patio and we all enjoyed the delicious food… two particular favourites were the

and the

which, besides being delicious was so pretty;-)…

everything else was also very tasty 😋 …

always a great time together…

bumblebee…

08 Saturday Aug 2026

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this morning, as I was looking at the obelisk filled with morning glories and cucumber vines, I watched a large bumblebee flitting from flower to flower…

I wasn’t able to get a photo of the bumblebee, but was very interested to see the pollen on the petals, after the bumblebee left each flower…

overwintered…

07 Friday Aug 2026

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the water lily that had overwintered in the house had been nearly completely eaten by the fish, likely the three koi…

I divided the lily into two and put them in little pots and sank them to the bottom of the pond…

one has been pulled out of its pot and eaten…

the second one has finally begun to send up teeny tiny leaves…

pretty sure there won’t be any flowers this year…