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sail…

17 Wednesday Jul 2024

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I’ve been trying to figure out how to get another umbrella on the back deck to provide shade mid afternoon without a whole out of success…

I have an old umbrella, but no pole or stand for it… we went looking but weren’t able to find anything that might work and keep it stable…

in the end we purchased a 3-point sail… we also picked up a lot of rope to be able to connect the corners…

after considerable trial and error, we got it up and I think it is going to work quite well…

and it looks good;-)…

comparison…

14 Sunday Jul 2024

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the clematis on the south side of the house has been outdoing itself this season… maybe it likes all the rain, lol…

I would say there are maybe a hundred buds or blossoms… and that is after two serious thunderstorms which knocked tons of petals off…

came across this photo from July, 2013…

at that point it was probably five or six years old… before this one we had probably planted five or six that all died…

nice to have the comparison as it is easy to forgot how much something has grown…

painting…

03 Wednesday Jul 2024

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while we were at the cottage a dear friend of my daughter came to spend the day…

they had fun visiting, walking the beach, going in the water and playing with paint…

it was lovely to see them enjoy their time together…

I was reminded of the many times they spent together, and with their friends, when they were much younger, lol…

watching them painting brought back their project when they were in their teens… three of them spent a few days painting the bedroom door of my daughter’s room…

since then the door has moved every time she has…

currently it lives in her hallway…

it is so good to see these young people maintaining longtime friendships…

sprinkled…

02 Tuesday Jul 2024

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Monday, while supper was cooking on Barbie, the barbecue, my housemate sprinkled grass seed over the non-grassed areas in the garden…

it had been raining off and on all day and was supposed to continue all day today…

after putting down the grass he used the last of the soil to cover everything and then raked it over…

now I have been directed to water every single day unless it rains;-(…

crashing…

30 Sunday Jun 2024

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the other day my grandson came to the door and said something had happened to my plants… he heard a crash as he was showering and came out to the shower caddy that we had installed in January laying in pieces on the floor with bits of orchids everywhere…

I was so shocked I didn’t even take a picture of the carnage…

it took a while to pick up the plants, sweep up the broken bits, and dump out the soil…

then, we ignored it for a few days, lol…

when we put it back up, we decided to use strapping and screws…

I still need to replace the one broken pot…

hopefully this time the whole shelf won’t come crashing down, lol…

decimated…

29 Saturday Jun 2024

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on Tuesday we counted twenty monarch caterpillars on the milkweed in the garden…

they were all over the newest batch that was recently planted and have nearly decimated all the leaves…

they were also on the ones near the waterfall which were planted last summer… we’ve now taken out all the poppies so there is more room to be able to see the caterpillars…

there were none on the ones from last year which were located around the edge of the pond… these were the ones that I planted in a spot where I could see and photograph any butterflies, eggs and caterpillars that came along, lol…

there were some chives next to them so when Hilda the Gardener was here the other day I had her take them out… maybe the butterflies don’t like the smell…

so excited to have so many;-)…

producing…

28 Friday Jun 2024

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spent more time at The Leaf on Tuesday morning before my daughter headed home… it is such a wonderful point of happiness for me, and my daughter…

we discovered, after chatting with Linda, one of the gardeners, that the second cacao tree has now got two cacao pods on it… this is very exciting as only the first tree had been producing pods…

we spotted a little lizard on the third tree… apparently it arrived with one of plants, lol…

Linda was very excited to show us the mango tree that had just been planted…

we also learned there are fifty fish in the pond, and all the smaller ones were babies from the largest ones… the excess fish have been moved to another location to keep the population stable…

OEB…

25 Tuesday Jun 2024

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this morning I discovered OEB… it is a restaurant that my daughter had encountered in Calgary and said was excellent…

we ordered last night and it was delivered first thing this morning…

I chose the French Toast Trifle… it looked delicious on the website and was exactly the same when it arrived…

there were two pieces of brioche smothered in custard with blueberries and strawberries… and to top it off there were three cute little meringues on top…

and it was delicious;-)…

vireos…

24 Monday Jun 2024

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I used Merlin a great deal at the cottage…

I found that when the Sound ID told me which birds were around it made it easier to help spot them as I knew what they should look like…

the vireos and yellow warblers were with us all the time;-)…

we also spotted pelicans, seagulls, eagles, and hummingbirds…

such fun…