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outside…

18 Saturday Oct 2014

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had a great sleep last night and as I was heading downstairs saw this lovely view outside…

IMG_8886.JPGthe leaves were a beautiful shade of yellow…

spent most of the day resting but I did work on some chicken soup…

IMG_8889.JPGnot quite done yet…

this afternoon my pond guy came by and put in a new pump…

IMG_8888.JPGit looks good, so far… we’ve decided to take out the uv filter and try putting a skimmer in beside the pond to collect algae and other debris… the thought is that it will be outside of the pond where I can get to it easily… this likely won’t happen until the spring… the fish are still happy outside but soon they will need to come in to their winter condo…

while out there I got a few pictures of some flowers that are still hanging on.. sadly we’ve already had a few frosts…

IMG_8887.JPGno sun today, maybe tomorrow…

chilly…

06 Monday Oct 2014

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it really is Fall… the temperature is proving it every day…

IMG_8710.JPGit is chilly in the morning, and often in the evening as well… hard to know what to wear because it may or may not be hot in the office, depending on how the boiler is feeling, lol…

IMG_8707-0.JPGmissing my fish as I haven’t been out in the garden for ages… hopefully we can bring them into the house soon… think it is going to be fun trying to catch them all…

IMG_8708.JPGmost of the trees are bare….

yesterday morning I believe I saw frost in the garage roof…

flowers…

07 Thursday Aug 2014

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this morning I got a picture of a flower on one of the plants in the pond… don’t know what it was and it was a lovely surprise because I wasn’t expecting any flowers…

IMG_7094.JPGand it was purple, lol… how serendipitous…

IMG_7106.JPGon top of that I got a few pictures of some of the bigger baby fish, likely the oldest group…

IMG_7114.JPGwhen I arrived home tonight the flower was off the plant and in the water… sure glad I took the picture when I did…

IMG_7126.JPGthe final treat was purple cone flower blossoms…

IMG_7135-1.JPGthese always ended up gone after one season because George was sure they were weeds when they would come up in the spring…

storm…

18 Friday Jul 2014

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had quite the thunderstorm tonight…

the clouds filled the sky before the rain came…

20140718-214136-78096495.jpgonly came down for maybe ten minutes but there was a lot of it and it was coming from the south… usually a bad sign for the basement…

once it stopped I ran down and checked and everything was dry… yay…

been giggling off and on throughout the day… middle of the night I opened the window

20140718-214557-78357111.jpgwasn’t till this morning that I realized I had taken the screen off to get some pictures and hadn’t put it back on… amazingly there were very few bugs in the house…

the fish seemed hungry this morning so I put out some food before leaving for work… they were happy…

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fish…

20 Tuesday May 2014

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this is too silly for words, but I am feeling lonely in the house now that the fish have moved out to the pond…

I’ve been feeding them first thing in the morning and last thing at night and usually talked to them at that time…

last night and this morning I headed to the tank before realizing they weren’t there…

I checked on them when I headed out to work… they were under the bridge and weren’t moving very much… it was obviously quite chilly in the pond… but the good news was that none of them were floating, lol…

on my way in from work I wandered by the pond and found them swimming around very happily…

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maybe I’ll start chatting with the house plants…

snakes…

19 Monday May 2014

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well… today we drove to Narcisse to see the garter snake dens…

just to be clear… I am afraid of snakes, very afraid…

we spotted this crocus on the way in…

20140519-200210-72130909.jpgit was raining when we arrived and there were very few snakes and they weren’t moving much…

20140519-200300-72180667.jpgeveryone touched and/or held one… the boys had great fun…

20140519-200939-72579182.jpgthen I held one for just a couple of seconds… was rather proud of myself…

20140519-201032-72632987.jpgwe were lucky to get a couple of shots with the tongue out…

20140519-201245-72765205.jpgeventually the rain stopped and the snakes appeared to materialize out of nowhere and were writhing all over each other…

20140519-201558-72958973.jpgwhen we got home – without any snakes, although many in the vehicle thought we should bring one home – Jeff caught the fish and took them out to the pond…

20140519-201820-73100578.jpgI hope they are not frozen out there…

gardening…

17 Saturday May 2014

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what a beautiful day…

spent it outside… the new cushions are very comfy, but I still have to figure out what to do with the stools…

spent some time reading and some time working in the garden…

I work in short spurts and then rest a bit and then work a bit more…

20140517-215439-78879318.jpgit always amazes me how grass can get into the flower beds so easily…

the pond guy came by and we both think that the leak is fixed… he will come and cover up some of the liner that is showing and glue down a loose stone sometime this week…

20140517-221041-79841214.jpghoping to move the fish from their condo to their summer home in the next few days…

20140517-221912-80352817.jpgthere are brown bits everywhere as the buds open on the trees…

enjoyed every minute…

exercise…

11 Tuesday Mar 2014

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yesterday I walked home from Portage Avenue…

first time in weeks that I’ve actually walked outside because it has been so cold… by the time I got home my hips were killing me… yikes I am out of shape…

at lunch today it was nice, although not as nice as yesterday… I walked down to the grocery store which is a few blocks away from the office and picked up a couple of bags of groceries…

they were a bit heavy but I made the trip without feeling too tired… I had worn better boots, so maybe that was the problem yesterday…

even remembered to bring the groceries home at the end of the day…

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the fish were happy to see me when I got in… they get lots of exercise swimming around their condo, lol…

fishy day…

23 Saturday Nov 2013

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worked around the house for a bit today…

got some things packed up to give away… cleaned out some baskets…

went to Sobeys with Crystal and wandered around The Forks… haven’t been there for years, but had a fun time checking the place out…

picked up the boys and came home for lobster dinner… a few weeks back I had purchased some whole lobsters and we decided to try them out tonight…

lobster for dinner...

lobster for dinner…

too funny because the only pictures I took today were of food… fish and chips that we shared at The Forks and the lobster we had for dinner… really cracked me up when Crystal reminded me to take a picture, lol…

mine...

mine…

lobster was good, but a lot of work… we made the little boys pizza and then they watched a movie while we worked our way through the lobsters…

but we did have fun… oh and while we were out, we bought food for the fish…

dinner…

18 Friday Oct 2013

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for my dinner tonight I had leftover salt and pepper chicken wings, cactus cut potatoes and Caesar salad… it was quite yummy…

they were the remainder of my dinner last night… I went out with a lovely young friend who I hadn’t seen in ages… we had a great visit, got caught up on our families and I got to show her the new baby (car, I’m talking about!)…

when I go out now, I often order enough to have as leftovers the next day… this was particularly good tonight as I always find Friday a night when I really don’t want to have to cook dinner…

fish in the winter condo...

fish in the winter condo…

sitting here with only one light on and can’t see the fish in the tank, but earlier I made sure to feed them… there are 13 of them and they are fairly big, so I want to be sure they get enough to eat… there are also a few water hyacinth plants in the tank, but they won’t last for very long in the house… they do best outside in the heat…

water hyacinth blooming in the pond this summer...

water hyacinth blooming in the pond this summer…