24 Wednesday Sep 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, deer, little red truck, moments, nature, pumpkins, squashes, water terrace, widow
met a lovely deer as I was walking towards The Leaf early yesterday morning… I think we were both surprised, lol…
I also got to check out the little red truck in the Kitchen Garden… this first shot was from the newly opened Water Terrace;-)…
then I got closer;-)…
it looks very cute, filled with pumpkins, other squashes and mums…
12 Saturday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, bird feeder, blessed, deer, doorbell cam, moments, nature, planter, scared, standoff, Technology, weather, widow
on Friday evening the doorbell cam advised there was an animal in the front yard (bit fuzzy)…
I ran downstairs to watch out the window and was quite happy watching the two deer…
until one started to eat the plants in one of the planters…
I knocked on the window but it didn’t scare it…
stared right back at me…
and as I watched them head to the hostas next door, I went outside to scare them away…
but they really didn’t want to go… they even started walking towards me, but after about a three minute standoff, they finally crossed the street and headed toward the creek…
06 Sunday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, bird feeders, blessed, deer, doorbell cam, F1, moments, nature, raced, Technology, vanish, weather, widow
I was up late to watch an F1 race and got a notification from the doorbell camera advising there was an animal in view…
checked the app and spotted a deer, so I raced downstairs and watched a deer looking for a snack beside the cedar…
watched and followed it across the yard to the bird feeder…
and spotted a second one;-)… it was entertaining to watch their antics as they tried to get the sunflower seeds out of the feeders…
while I was watching, three more came into view👀…
such a treat to be able to watch them until all five headed off to follow the creek over towards the airport…
because I don’t pay for a subscription, the camera only shows the past three hours before activities vanish, so I don’t always get to see them, lol…
11 Tuesday Jun 2024
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big girl pants, bird feeders, blessed, deer, discourage, food, hostas, lane, moments, nature, pictures, snacking, surprise, widow, wildlife, window
Sunday morning I saw a deer in the field across the creek… I pointed it out to my neighbours so a couple of them went over to watch it…
apparently it had been eating their hostas…
later in the day we had a visitor at the bird feeder…
I had wondered why the seeds in one feeder had gone down so quickly, lol… eventually I opened the door and it headed across to the lane and out of sight…
today I was looking out the window only to see it back again…
as it came to the feeder I knocked on the window but it didn’t care… finally I opened the door to encourage it to leave the birdseed alone… and off it went…
I’m happy to see wildlife but don’t want to encourage eating of sunflower seeds… I may have to bring the feeders in for a few days to discourage the snacking…
04 Saturday May 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, Canadian Tire, deer, geese, light, moments, nature, nice, shopping, treat, weather, widow
two lovely things today…
we went to Canadian Tire for a few things and when we got back to the car, we spotted these two cuties;-)…
reminded me of the two deer that walked down the street on Monday afternoon;-)…
and this was the sky tonight at 9:00 pm…
so exciting to have the light at this time of night….
nice treats…
07 Sunday May 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, bunny, bushes, cedar, creek, deer, garden, happy, memories, moments, nature, phone, resting, treat, widow, window
when I’m on the phone I usually walk on the spot at the front window…
yesterday, as I was there, four deer walked along the other side of the creek… just last year at this time I saw two in the same location, lol…
even though they were there it was nearly impossible to spot them as they stood still amongst the bushes and trees…
I couldn’t get a picture of all four of them, just these two, but did find this one having a rest a bit later;-)…
and when I spotted the resting one, I also noticed a bunny relaxing under the cedar tree in the front yard…
both bunny and deer seemed very comfortable…
04 Wednesday May 2022
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Sunday afternoon I spent at least fifteen minutes at the front window…
I had looked up from my reading and spotted something moving in the field across the creek…
when I got up to take a closer look, I saw a deer looking around for something to eat…
as I stood and watched, another one materialized and I watched the two of them go right into the yard of the last house…
even when a person and their dog walked past on this side of the creek, they kept munching away… they can blend right in to grass or bushes…
it was a surprise to see them here, and I am thinking the winter has been hard for them and food is scarce…
I took a few photos although they were still fairly far away, but what a treat to catch the moment…
06 Friday Dec 2019
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yesterday there was fresh fluffy snow covering the ground… it also dusted the wreath at the front door…
the sidewalk always looks so beautiful under a fresh snowfall… more so if you don’t need to walk out there…
this morning the icicles were shining in the sunlight as I left the house and then a bit later I spotted this deer as I was out and about…
the sun shining all day was a wonderful bonus;-)…
15 Wednesday Aug 2018
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big girl pants, bingo, boating, camping, day six, deer, eagles, family, fishing, fun, grandsons, loons, tubing, turtles, widow
such a busy day…
up by seven, had a fire to warm up, ate breakfast and headed out to fish…
saw turtles swimming, eagles flying, loons fishing and even a deer grazing… at one point four eagles were circling overhead…
fish were caught and one of the Jack fish was 31″ long…
in for lunch and then we spent the afternoon tubing on our new 3 person BodyGlove with a bit of kneeboarding thrown in for good measure…
we had some friends with us and the mom and I took a turn on the tube… and I am still alive to tell the story, lol…
back to the campsite for burgers, a quick visit to the Marina looking for lures and now the dog and I are back at the camper while the boys have gone to play bingo…
going to sleep well tonight…
13 Thursday Apr 2017
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looking forward to having the next four days off;-)…
it was beautiful out and the first time this spring I’ve driven with the moonroof open…
ended my week with a trip to have my hair purpled… the process takes a bit of time but I had brought my book… it was nice to have a quiet time with nothing to do except read…
when I was leaving a deer walked right through their yard… how cool… what a treat…
on my way home stopped in at Safeway and got all the fixings for Easter dinner… tomorrow will be a rest and read day…
here’s the result of the evening…
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