02 Thursday May 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, circle, cleaned, creeper, garden, hot tub, leaves, moments, nature, plant, shelf, weather, widow
spent a little time the other day cleaning the shelf beside the hot tub…
there were tons of vines from the Virginia creeper and dead leaves around the circle of friends…
it looks so much tidier now…
thinking about what plant might go on the shelf when the weather starts and stays warm…
03 Wednesday Apr 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, chairs, cleaned, deck, eclipse, friends, garden, moments, nature, sunshine, table, weather, widow, Windex
it was a glorious day and I spent a good portion of it on the deck;-)…
we dug out the chairs and a small table and set them up on the deck off the kitchen…
I sat out in the sun with a light jacket and a blanket, but before too long it was warm enough to take off both… woohoo…
I also got out the windex and washed the table first with soap and then with the cleaner to make it feel like Spring on the deck…
it is now ready for Monday’s eclipse party;-)…
20 Monday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cleaned, dahlias, dirt, experiment, garden, jobs done, moments, nature, paper bags, separated, shrivelled, Technology, tubers, widow
all of the garden work has now been completed for the winter… yay…
about a week ago I finished cleaning and putting away the last pond pump…
Saturday I finally got around to the dahlias… after watching a few videos, I used a knife to clean out the bits of dirt that were still on the tubers and then cut them to separate those with eyes, which should produce next year…
after doing a bit of research, I left a few (after cleaning them), to see if I will be able to separate them more easily in the spring when they start to sprout…
packaged them in paper bags, put them back in the pot, which went into a box in the coolest area of the basement… and wrote on the box to remember that is where they are, lol…
we will see what shape they are come spring… sometimes when the bags are open, there is nothing but shrivelled up bits of nothing;-(…
always an experiment…
11 Tuesday Jul 2023
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air conditioner, big girl pants, blessed, cleaned, family, garden, gate, growing, handier, moments, nature, trim, virginia creeper, widow
we got a few of the projects off the list on Saturday…
the Virginia creeper had a haircut, thankfully, as when our neighbour came through the gate with his little guy, he had to duck under it, lol…
looks much tidier now…
we cleaned out the area around the air conditioner and attached the hose connectors on the side of the gate…
I think it is going to be much handier in the new spot…
19 Friday Mar 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, cleaned, family, garden, memories, moments, planters, plants, seedlings, table, weather, widow
had a lovely afternoon on the deck yesterday…
removed one of the feeding saucers and cleaned the table… that took a long time but it looked shiny when I was done… looks ready for a meal with the boys;-)…
then I sat in the sunshine and read… so lovely…
at the end of the afternoon I brought in the planters which I am going to use to start some seedlings…
looking forward to getting the planting started…
02 Thursday May 2019
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