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signs…

07 Wednesday May 2025

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things are starting to pop…

on my walk a few days ago, I spotted a batch of dandelions… according to a gardener I follow, that means we can start planting😉…

the trees are greening, the wild rose is coming alive and the lily of the valley is popping up…

and I can almost see the poppies getting taller as I watch, lol…

how blessed am I to have the opportunity to enjoy all of these signs of spring;-)…

fluff…

09 Tuesday Jun 2020

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big girl pants, blessed, cottonwood, dandelions, flowers, fluff, garden, moments, nature, snow, sticker book, widow

started one of the sticker pages in my book… and worked on it between tasks in the kitchen…

I chose the dandelion because as I sat in the garden yesterday the fluff from the cottonwoods made it look like it was snowing…

not sure where the tree or trees are, but they sure are producing a lot of fluff, lol…

when I look out the front window it would be easy to imagine that it is the seeds from the dandelions…

dandelions…

22 Friday May 2020

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beloved, big girl pants, dandelions, flowers, garden, gardening, leaves, moments, mowing, nature, pond, sunshine, widow, yard work

as I look at the dandelions blooming in the front yard and think about the yard work that needs to happen I am really missing my beloved…

he did not appreciate the dandelions and was often out digging or spraying to get rid of them, lol…

I don’t care and figure they will get cut down when the grass is mowed… I also remember all the times that kids and grandkids have brought them to me as gifts;-)…

he also spent hours in the garden, weeding and tidying and rearranging…

he loved playing in the pond;-)… it would not have near the number of leaves in it currently were he around, lol…

patch…

11 Tuesday Jun 2019

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big girl pants, busy, creeping Charlie, dandelions, garden, grandson, happy, mowing, patch, schedule, widow

happy that my grandson has been able to add mowing my grass on Sunday’s to his schedule… he has a busy one now that he is working a full time job, a part time job, volunteering weekly, and participating in rowing events…

as he was mowing the back I went out to take a picture and he stopped so I couldn’t get him in the shot… brat…

I did catch him a couple of minutes later, lol…

nice to have the creeping Charlie and dandelion patch trimmed back…

freeze…

07 Friday Jun 2019

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big girl pants, bunnies, dandelions, freeze, hot, walk, weather, widow

got up early and went for a walk to the Park… temperature was going to 34° and will feel like 39° Celsius…

so an early walk seemed like a good plan, lol..

by the time I got home just before 10, it was already hot…

as I was walking down the next street, two bunnies froze in place as I was coming down the sidewalk… the yard they were in was filled with dandelions which they love…

they really think if they freeze the person walking along won’t see them, lol…

as soon as I passed them, they both hopped away…

lawn…

30 Thursday May 2019

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big girl pants, blessed, bunnies, dandelions, lawn, moments, pictures, widow

yesterday morning, when I was leaving for work I spotted two bunnies in the grass on the front lawn, but never took any pictures…

I did spend a few minutes sitting and watching them…

I am so blessed in so many ways, and the ability to sit still for a few moments and enjoy a bit of nature is one of them…

this morning another one was in the grass… got a few pics…

do ignore the dandelion filled lawn… it should be getting trimmed on Sunday;-)…

I hear that the bees are really happy to have the flowers from which to gather pollen…

I’m all there for the bees;-)…

dandelions…

11 Friday May 2018

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big girl pants, bouquet, dandelions, David Suzuki Foundation, exercise, flowers, knee, robins, Spring, widow

early this morning I caught sight of a couple of robins in the front yard… I’ve heard them recently but these was the first ones I’ve seen… a sure sign of spring;-)…

had another visit with the physiotherapist… my knee is doing very well although the range of motion is not where he would like it to be… he poked and prodded and gave me different exercises to do for the next few weeks…

as I drove up the driveway I spotted the dandelion flowers and chive blooms…

according to the David Suzuki Foundation we should leave the dandelions to help the bee population… well, maybe that’s what I will do…

I think back to the number of times my girls brought me home bouquets;-)…

muskrat…

06 Tuesday Jun 2017

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big girl pants, critter, dandelions, garden, grandson, muskrat, widow

on Sunday when my grandson was finishing up mowing the dandelion patch that was the front yard, he came and got us to say something was walking across the yard, maybe a beaver… 

we spotted the critter and think it was a muskrat… although it did not stop long enough for me to get a picture…

but we googled and the pictures came up looking like our guest…

since then I keep hearing Muskrat Love in my head…

this is how the front looks now…

struggle…

02 Friday Jun 2017

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beloved, big girl pants, dandelions, fish, frog, garden, neighbours, overwhelmed, planting, struggle, widow

not sure what is going on but I am really struggling with getting the garden planted and cleaned up…

feeling bad for the new neighbours who appear to be gardeners… at this point my yard is the bad one, sigh…

the front looks like a dandelion forest… got some feelers out to find someone to come and mow and whippersnip on a regular basis…

I’ve got all these lovely plants and have had to force myself to get them into the appropriate pot…

this is all I managed today… still have a number that need to be dealt with in the garden and haven’t even picked up plants for the front beds…

was nice to have my frog friend show up…

and tonight the fish even came out of hiding for a while…

feeling overwhelmed and missing my beloved… five years and it feels like yesterday…

mowing…

27 Saturday May 2017

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spent some time in the garden this morning… the dandelions were so tall that I couldn’t bear to sit outside looking at them so I mowed the grass…

then I pulled weeds and set out the cushions before I sat and read for quite a while…

this robin came to visit a few times while I was reading… didn’t mind my being in the garden at all, lol…

the most exciting thing was that I saw the fish for the first time since they moved outside… the water is so high in the pond that I can’t look under the bridge and that is where they usually hang out… been worried that something had got them because I haven’t seen a single one of them for weeks… all of a sudden, there they were at the base of the waterfall searching for something to eat… and then they were gone again…

it was lovely… and then it started to spit so I ran around putting everything back into the garage… by the time I’d done all that, the rain had stopped but I went in and had a nap, lol… seemed like the thing to do…

got up and went plant shopping with my daughter… we went to a few places and found a couple of plants…

hung the baskets, had supper on the deck and finished my book…

planning on doing some planting in the morning… not supposed to be too warm or sunny but will set up in the garage and work on pots and planters…

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