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03 Thursday Jul 2025

Posted by sulis303 in business, family, garden, health, life, loss, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized, weather

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the coneflower has finally bloomed… this one was planted on the south side of the house, next to the furnace vents… I think this is a much better spot than the pergola garden…

whenever the hose has been put out it has gotten water and has been growing nicely since it was planted…

not too long ago it produced a bud and it has slowly been opening over the last few weeks…

the petals still need to bend completely, but it is looking pretty good now;-)…

seeing it reminds me of how every year I would buy one, we’d plant it in the garden, and then in the spring my beloved would pull it out thinking it was a weed, lol…

memories 😉…

pinky…

03 Monday Aug 2020

Posted by sulis303 in health, life, moments, nature, Photography, Uncategorized

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on my walk this morning all the photos of flowers that I took were pinky/purple, lol…

although it was a holiday and I left the house a bit later than normal, there were few people out and about…

soccer…

04 Saturday Jun 2016

Posted by sulis303 in family, health, life, loss, nature, technology, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, coneflower, garden, grandsons, pond, soccer, tournaments, widow

spent some time in the garden this morning pulling a few weeds… 

trying to decide if this is really purple coneflower or a very big weed…

was picked up just after eleven and proceeded to watch four soccer games… 3 in Headingley and 1 in North Kildonan…

got to see all three boys play which was great fun…

started at Blumberg with the oldest… saw about half of his first game before having to leave for the next game… it was overcast and a bit windy… also fitted in some baby snuggles at this game with a young friend’s little one…


then the youngest, his daddy and I drove across town to his second game of the day at Anderson Park in North Kildonan… it rained for about ten minutes as his game began, but then cleared up…

got this great shot when he scored a goal… he is number 8…


the rest of the family turned up when the other game was finished… 

then the two older boys, their mom and I had a pit stop at their house, checked out their new vegetable gardens, and headed back across town to the second game for the oldest, at Blumberg again…

when that game was over, we moved down a few fields and watched the middle one play his game… he is number 20…


they are all good players and it was a great opportunity for me to see them all play… 

the sun came out and it was rather warm for these last two games…

when the games were all over we went out for Chinese food to celebrate…


the little boys even tried the consume and liked it…

arrived home about 9:15… the boys had a hot tub and my daughter mowed the front yard…

played with the pond a bit, maybe saw one of the tadpole/frogs, and they headed for home…

after a very busy day I am going to bed…

music…

05 Thursday Jun 2014

Posted by sulis303 in life, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, coneflower, flowers, goldfinch, music, poppies, robins, weed

tonight I spent a bit of time in the garden…

sadly, not to plant, just to sit and read…

while I was out there robins were singing and the goldfinch family came by for a snack, and sang for their supper…

while enjoying the music of the waterfall, I also spent time watering… particularly as I haven’t had the energy to plant the rest of the haul from Saturday and Sunday… hoping to keep them alive until Saturday morning when I am sure to get them into the ground or pots…

20140605-212342-77022230.jpgthe pansies that are planted are very happy…

20140605-212441-77081193.jpgthe lily of the valley are blooming and smell lovely…

two exciting things…

20140605-212714-77234812.jpgthe poppies are thinking about blooming… quite slow this year, but I am thrilled that they came back on their own…

20140605-212834-77314845.jpgand the coneflowers have started to grow… this is also very exciting because I was sure they weren’t going to return… we’ve had them in the garden before but George would pull them out every spring because they look much like a weed…

my plan is to let everything grow for a while, until I am sure it is a weed or a plant I want to keep…

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