16 Saturday Mar 2019
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worked around the house today… never set foot outside…
did a number of loads of laundry, made zucchini basil soup, sorted through the tax file to be sure everything was there, paid bills online and watched skiing and skating on tv…
when I looked out the back, spotted the bunny… haven’t seen her for a few weeks…
when I looked out the front, got a lovely shot of the sun behind clouds…
snow is melting, even without much sunshine… woo hoo…
23 Saturday Feb 2019
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big girl pants, bunny, garden, hot tub, icicles, loud, pet, shenanigans, widow
backyard shenanigans…
came across my bunny friend in the garden…
I feel a bit like she’s a pet;-)…
then much later I heard a loud noise but couldn’t see where it came from…
just a while ago, I looked out the window and spotted this icicle that had fallen onto the hot tub…
happy I wasn’t in the hot tub at that moment, lol…
16 Saturday Feb 2019
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spent some time with my son-in-law yesterday…
one of the things we did was go to RONA and pick up a new cover and clamp for the dryer vent…
we’ve figured out a different way to add water to the hot tub, so that the vent doesn’t have to be removed for the hose to go through it…
as soon as we got home, he popped it into place and hooked up the inside vent…
while he was doing that, the bunny was sitting under a tree on the other side of the yard, watching;-)…
today, when I returned home from brunch out, she was sitting in the same spot… I feel a bit sorry for her…
but not enough to let her back into the house, lol…
13 Wednesday Feb 2019
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adrenaline, big girl pants, blocked, bunny, carrot, door, pellets, surprise, widow
so last night I was in the bathroom and noticed a little piece of something on the ground… wondered if it was a piece of chocolate… it wasn’t, but I couldn’t figure out what it was…
spotted a few more as I walked to the kitchen and there were some on the floor there as well…
by then I was thinking that someone had been in the house… picked up all the bits and tossed them out…
headed upstairs and while I am watching tv saw a little head and then heard the pitter patter of little feet… when I looked down at the end of the bed I saw this…
the cutest little bunny… she let me take her picture and then hopped into the computer room…
I went downstairs to find some water and a carrot but I was still trying to figure out how she got in…
downstairs she came and sat in the doorway between the living and dining rooms…
I made a few phone calls and sent a few pictures… I like bunnies so I wasn’t scared but didn’t want one running around the house all night, leaving little pellets behind…
once she was in the dining room, I used chairs to block her in… then I made a path from there out the front door…
good thing it wasn’t too cold because the door was open for a while… once I moved the barricade to the dining room, she followed the path and went right outside where I had put a few more pieces of carrot for her…
eventually my heart stopped pounding, the furniture was all back in place, and I went downstairs to hook the vent back up, which was how she got in… will be buying something so that nobody else can come in that way;-)…
certainly had the adrenaline flowing…
12 Saturday Jan 2019
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on the first day back to work, as I stepped out of the house, the ground was covered with a light dusting of snow…
I was at the garage door when a sweet bunny hopped into the garden…
had to stop and get a few photos, even though my hands were full, lol…
this morning as I was standing at the kitchen sink I noticed a bunny and a squirrel having a tiff in the neighbour’s backyard… seems like the squirrel won because the bunny went and hid behind a shed…
such fun to watch the critters…
20 Tuesday Nov 2018
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big girl pants, bunny, garage door, grandson, shovel, snow, widow
we have been very lucky with the snowfall so far this year… been really cold but little snow has fallen…
I do have a person to come and shovel for me, which makes me happy… I don’t have to worry about whether my grandson can make it over, although I am going to miss our time together…
think we will have to plan some supper dates…
here’s what I saw when I opened the back door this morning…
the garage door had opened during the night, sigh… once the temperature reaches a certain point the door won’t stay closed… I didn’t do anything about replacing it over the summer… guess I’ll be using the front to get in and out of the house for the next few months…
but, did see some bunny tracks…
when I came home it was all clear… I think he ended up blowing the snow because there really wasn’t much on the ground…
what a lovely treat…
05 Thursday Jul 2018
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big girl pants, bunny, camp, chocolate, Day 7, dessert, drive, family, grandsons, memories, moments, Park, pizza, relaxing, widow, WWTB, zoo
another busy day…
have really been enjoying the drive through the Park each morning as we go to and from the zoo for camp… wonderful relaxing way to start the day…
our supper plan was a frozen pizza, followed by a delicious dessert pizza… our various descriptions included: smells like s’mores; looks like a giant chocolate chip cookie; tastes like hot chocolate… yum… we did discuss that the whole pizza was 880 calories which was why I had a single slice… might just be getting a few of these to have on hand in the freezer;-)…
the older one ran out to the gas bar to pick up some milk for tomorrow’s breakfast and came across this bunny when he returned… clever boy circled around and came in to get me to go out and see it;-)…
07 Monday Aug 2017
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woke up to see x marking the spot above me…
think it was just so I knew where I was…
it was chilly in the night so I did get up and put on a hoodie… my little cocoon ended up just right…
had a few visitors over the last few days…
the goldfinch has come by both days and let me get a few nice shots…
also had a bunny stop by for a visit…
must have stayed there for half an hour…
some type of bug has been munching on the morning glories… wasn’t so bad when it was just the leaves, but now the flowers are being affected;-(…
going to have to see if I can figure out who the culprit is…
07 Friday Jul 2017
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big girl pants, blessed, bunny, critters, dragonflies, fish, flowers, friends, garden, grandson, ladybug, light, moments, peaceful, pond, widow, wings
seemed like there were lots of critters around and about today…
many with wings..
over the last few days I’ve noticed tons of dragonflies around… this morning when I came out to the garden there was a tiny one by the back door and then when I was sitting by the pond this one stopped by…
and posed rather nicely for me…
later in the day I caught this ladybug on one of the peppers in my daughter’s garden…
just a few minutes later this four legged turned up…
pretty little and my middle grandson thinks there might be a nest of them under the bushes…
a friend came by for a visit in the garden this morning and it reminded me of why I love it out here… even when it isn’t perfect it is welcoming and has a special feeling of peacefulness…
for the last half hour or so I’ve been watching the fish swim around in the pond… they haven’t been out much when I’ve been in the garden today, so it is a lovely treat to see them…
as I sit writing this, the solar lights are coming on one by one as it gets a tiny bit darker around the garden…
but, the bad news…. just spotted the first mosquito of the season;-(… not the type of critter I am happy to see…
17 Saturday Jun 2017
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beloved, big girl pants, bunny, flowers, garden, morning glories, nothing, overgrown, planting, plants, tree, walk, weeding, widow
had decided to do nothing today… just rest up…
but, I headed into the garden and filled three more pots with the last of the plants I bought weeks ago…
the darn squirrels have already dug out one of the lobelias… shoved it back in, so hope it grows…
pleased with the morning glories that I planted around the deck… looks like the majority are growing… sadly most of the alyssum did not make it, so will need to replace it…
the garden is a bit overgrown but looks beautiful in pictures, lol…
still plan on trimming the daisies soon…
been having trouble getting into gardening this year… missing my beloved and not enjoying my time in the garden so much…
think I need to find a gardener to come and get some of the major weeding done as my grandson is not going to be available nearly as much as last year… I like to do a bit of weeding but am feeling overwhelmed with the amount of work required now…
walked to the grocery store and got some shots of a tree down the street which had blown over… bunny stopped by as I was taking my pictures, lol…
so apparently I did stuff most of the day… even made potato salad for tomorrow’s dinner…
now to get to that do nothing place;-)… tv, a snack and bed…
