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flowerbed…

16 Thursday Jul 2026

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I’ve been enjoying the roses around the house…

they remind me of my dear friend and former neighbour, Ellen…

from the time the girls were born, she and her husband looked after them whenever we needed help…

whatever time we were having dinner she would take them next door so we could actually eat without interruption, lol…

we used to have them over for dinner on Wednesday nights and she would babysit while we went bowling… that was a very long time ago…

now I have one of her rose bushes in the front flowerbed and think of her often…

especially when I bring the beautiful roses into the house😊…

peapod…

15 Wednesday Jul 2026

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had a quiet day… only outside for a little while as it was overcast and spit a fair bit…

but did get some reading in… also got to see more morning glories on the deck…

also ones that I planted on the new trellis, and flowers on more of the cucumbers there;-)… so far the morning glories have all been purple 😂…

and I spotted a number of bachelor buttons in the side garden…

and the biggest surprise was the cute little sweet pea flower, next to an actual peapod, woohoo…

things are moving along😊…

ripening…

13 Monday Jul 2026

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I’ve been watching the strawberries, which have been under netting so that I get the berries, not the birds or squirrels, lol…

on Sunday I took the netting off and collected the dozen berries that were ripe, although two weren’t completely finished…

I did remove them and have them in the window to finish ripening…

took off the stems and added some whipped cream to them for a tasty dessert after supper…

the plant has a number of flowers on it so that’s why the netting needed to come off, so that insects could pollinate them…

delicious… I haven’t had that many at once since I started growing them a few years ago…

I think they are enjoying the spot they are in this year😊…

decorative…

10 Friday Jul 2026

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even though I am alone in the garden, it makes me happy to put out all of the outdoor chair cushions as well as the decorative ones…

recently, I walked around the space and took photos of the various seating options…

there are lots of places to sit and many are little groupings…

during the day I tend to move from area to area depending on the weather…

this last one is probably the most used in the late afternoon and evening as it is in the shade by then…

I also spend a great deal of the morning by the pond as it is shady in that location in the earlier part of the day and a great spot to watch the fish😊…

best…

08 Wednesday Jul 2026

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saw my physiotherapist recently as I’ve been having trouble with my knee…

I hadn’t seen him for a number of years, but he had helped me a few times previously…

he had me walk and discovered that my hips are currently not even, which had been part of the problem the last time I was there…

the best news was that the issue isn’t my knee, it is my L1…

once he knew the problem he was able to improve the situation by manipulating (as in, pressing down really hard) the appropriate spots on my butt…

I also mentioned that I’ve felt as though my balance was off, which apparently is connected to the whole L1 thing…

now I have exercises to do before I see him again in a week… and my butt is really sore lol…

Hilda…

05 Sunday Jul 2026

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always such a treat to have Hilda the Gardener in to tidy up the garden;-)…

everything looks neat and tidy when she’s done…

we were laughing about how the gardens looked when she first came… and how she kept taking before and after pictures of her work..

such a huge and delightful difference now…

climb…

04 Saturday Jul 2026

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the plants on the new arch are just taking off…

the morning glories have just begun to climb up along the deck side and I am hoping for many flowers before too long…

the other side has a number of plants growing… cucumbers and beans, including scarlet runners…

I am hoping they might invite the hummingbirds to the garden…

I may have planted too many🤪…

invisible…

03 Friday Jul 2026

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apparently, the virginia creeper is the happiest plant in the garden…

it is growing by leaps and bounds…

along the garage it has been trying to make its way back into the eavestrough and it also thinks it should get to the hot tub, lol…

the baskets were nearly invisible on the other side of the garden…

my housemate was able to get it all back under control in just a few minutes… looks so much better now…

it will probably look like that again in a few weeks😊…