12 Saturday Oct 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, dahlias, digging, dry, flowers, garden, moments, nature, plants, varieties, weather, widow
finally got around to digging up the dahlias…
took some time because many of them were root bound and did not want to get out of the pots, lol…
I brought in a container with the three varieties in it…
they will sit and dry for a few days before I try to separate them before packaging in brown paper bags and putting away for the winter…
brought one last blossom in to enjoy;-)…
06 Tuesday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, digging, family, garden, garden bed, grandsons, heavy, help, moments, nature, plants, project, rock, rocks, weather, widow
doing the happy dance…
Monday, the weather was perfect for being in the garden and my middle grandson came over and worked on the most current project… the soil in this garden bed kept sliding down and covering the stepping stones…
he removed some miscellaneous rocks, dug a trench and then, with my oldest grandson, moved and placed large rocks, which were located all around the garden…
it was interesting to watch as they decided together which rock worked and looked best where…
with my direction, of course…
the rock wall looks good…
so pleased that this project, which has been on my list for quite some time, is now completed…
15 Wednesday May 2024
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beans, big girl pants, blessed, digging, garden, moments, nature, peas, rain, raining, seeds, soil, weather, widow
up early yesterday, had a quick breakfast, and headed out to get some gardening done before the rain started…
brought out the baskets…
put on my gloves, gathered up seeds, soil, tags, and tools…
emptied one of the nine vegetable planter boxes and then as I dug in fertilizer and loosened up the soil, I removed a bit of soil from each pot and then added in fresh soil…
next I planted peas and beans in the area where they will be able to grow up the arch…
I also planted some in the file cabinet planter so they can grow up the other side of the arch…
the cucumbers and tomatoes will go into the remaining pots around the end of the month… I have a few butternut squash seeds to put in as well…
and then it started raining, so everything got put away and I came into the house, lol…
21 Monday Aug 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, completing, digging, family, fence, garden, gate, grandson, level, moments, nature, rain, sky, weather, widow, wind
we’ve been working away at completing projects that have been started, but not quite finished;-)… I’m sure this doesn’t happen to anyone else, lol…
Wednesday, it was the back gate in the new fence…
the dirt was dug up under the gate area, two old concrete pads were discovered under a few inches of the dirt… they were removed and then some quarter down was laid, packed down, levelled, and new blocks put down, level with the lane… soil went into the spots on either side and some work on the slope up to the shed took place…
this is going to make the taking out and bringing in of garbage and recycling bins so much easier…
meanwhile the sky filled with threatening clouds, spots of sun, and then more of the “going to rain” cloud variety…
the project is not quite done, and just as we came in for lunch the wind went crazy and some rain started down…
good timing;-)…
25 Monday Oct 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, dahlias, digging, Eveline, flowers, garden, moments, nature, plants, purple, tubers, weather, widow
spent time outside in the garden digging up some of the dahlia tubers…
although it was sunny, it was cool and it got windier as I worked… my fingers were cold inside my work gloves and I had a cup of tea to warm them up when I got in, lol…
I only ended up bringing in the tubers from two of them… one is still out there but I will finish digging it out in a few days…
these are the tubers from my favourite Eveline… there are quite a few pieces and it took a lot of work to get them out of the planter…
once they dry out I will take off the rest of the soil around them… then I will put them into paper bags in a dark and cool part of the basement…
there were two of these in one pot and they bloomed a lot and made me very happy… I hope that there will be more next summer…
and this clump came out in one piece… it is the Robann Regal and also had multiple blooms… I am hopeful that they will be viable in the spring…
the flowers were a bit smaller than I expected but the plant produced many blooms…
looking forward to bringing in the Mick’s Peppermint, which also bloomed beautifully…
30 Tuesday Jul 2013
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digging, goldfinches, planting, purple finches, reading, slept out under the stars, sparrows, Sunday, visitors, watching birds and bees
slept out under the stars and enjoyed watching the moon move through the sky as the night progressed…
bed for the night under the stars…
then spent Sunday planting, reading and watching all the visitors who came by…
before I started planting…
took a few shots of the landscape before making all the changes…
decided I liked where the plants were sitting and started to get them into the ground…
after planting…
worked on one or two and then took a break, to read and watch the various flying friends who stopped by…
behind the waterfall…
there were goldfinches and purple finches and lots of sparrows of various sorts… there were bees and wasps and a couple of butterflies and dragonflies…
once the planting was done I tidied up the bench which had been covered with pots during the construction…
then I took it easy… lots of work, but was very happy with the results… looks much better now…
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