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;-)…
29 Friday Oct 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, dahlias, dig, dry, flowers, garden, moments, shovel, tomatoes, trowel, weather, widow
a few days ago I brought in the tubers for two dahlias…
I wasn’t able to dig up the third one, so I went out this afternoon to see if I could get them out of the planter they were in…
I removed soil, and tried to dig around the tubers… my trowel just wasn’t strong enough to get them out… finally I got the shovel and after a ton of effort, was able to finally remove them… there are a lot…
I have brought them in to dry and will then bag in paper and store in the basement… hopefully they will turn into more Mick’s Peppermint in the spring…
and while I was outside working, my neighbour brought me a final pail of tomatoes… most are green and I’ve put them on the dining room table so they can ripen…
03 Tuesday Aug 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, critters, dragonfly, dry, garden, happy, moments, nature, pond, struggle, widow
was watering the plants when I spotted movement in the pond…
when I looked more closely, I realized that a dragonfly was struggling in the water…
I was able to get it out of the water and set it down where it could dry out…
it wasn’t moving so I thought that it took too long to lift it out…
I checked on it a few times and it was very still…
later I went over, and happily, it had flown away;-)…
yay;-)…
06 Saturday Feb 2021
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a few days ago I put lotion on my hands because they were dry…
anyone who knows me realizes that this is very odd…
my hands don’t absorb things like lotion, so I never use it… even after putting sunscreen or other cream on my body I have to wash it off my hands…
this time it soaked in…
clearly, the humidity is poor around here…
01 Tuesday Nov 2016
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on Saturday I decided it was time for a pedicure… hadn’t had one since the September long weekend while I was visiting my daughter in Ottawa…
called and was able to get in… went on my own…
got a picture beforehand…
those pink slippers were kind of bright… decided on the pedicure with hot stone massage and paraffin…
was the very best paraffin portion I have ever had… Victoria did a great job of getting the wax all the way around my feet…
chose purple glittery polish…
came out very nice, although for the second time in a row it has taken a crazy amount of time to dry completely…
because my toes took so long to dry I decided not to have a hot tub that night…
next day when I went out for a hot tub had to wear water shoes and a toque as it is cooling off out there…
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