29 Friday Aug 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, cucumbers, food, friends, garden, moments, nature, pickled, tomatoes, treat, widow
this afternoon a young friend dropped off freshly picked cucumbers and tomatoes from their grandmother’s garden…
what a treat…
made one of my favourite pickled salads – cucumber, onion, vinegar, and water… and then had some with my supper…
yum…
the tomatoes were delicious as well…
22 Friday Aug 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, breakfast, donor, English Garden, falafels, family, food, Leo Mol Garden, lilies, moments, muskrats, nature, Park Cafe, pond, rose, walk, widow
finally walked over to the Park this morning…
started with breakfast at the Park Cafe… I really enjoyed the falafels…
from there it was over to the English Garden which is just gorgeous right now…
I found a lovely rose, just after we saw a hummingbird, although it moved too fast for me to get a photo…
in the Leo Mol Arbor we spotted one of the muskrats;-)…
had some fun with water lilies and frogs at the lily pond…
the gardens were being prepped for the big donor event this week… pressure washers were cleaning up the concrete, while lights were being added to the trees throughout the space… it will look lovely in the evening;-)…
16 Saturday Aug 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, famous, food, friend, garden, macaroni and cheese, moments, reading, treat, weather, widow, world famous
went to the grocery store first thing on Friday… good time to go as it wasn’t busy and I got my shopping done in less than thirty minutes…
once home and everything was put away, I set out the cushions and spent a lovely time reading…
received a call from a friend driving through and invited them for supper… then I spent the next while preparing my world famous, (well family and friends anyway), macaroni and cheese;-)…
once that was done, I went back to my book…
my company arrived, we had a short visit in the garden, ate the delicious mac and cheese, and off they went… all inside an hour;-)…
had a plan to take a photo of the finished pot, but forgot, lol… did remember to take a picture of my plate… packed up the leftovers for another day;-)…
tidied up and enjoyed the garden as I read outside until it got dark…
lovely treat;-)…
11 Monday Aug 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, eat, food, garden, hopeful, moments, nature, orange, red, ripen, rot, slightest, tasty, tomato, weather, widow
a few weeks ago I picked a beautiful ripe tomato from the tomato plant… when I turned it over it had blossom rot and I had to toss it..
last week I picked another one that had just started to turn the slightest shade of orange… it went onto a shelf in the kitchen and turned nicely red, and when it was turned over the bottom was perfect;-)… and it made a lovely open-faced sandwich…
today I took off the next tomato, this one is a bit smaller, but I am hopeful that it will ripen without the blossom rot;-)…
hoping that this will turn into another beauty…
02 Saturday Aug 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, books, change, food, friends, garden, gardening, happy, Hilda the Gardener, maintenance, moments, nature, plants, veggies, weather, widow
Wednesday was such a lovely day…
started the morning with Hilda the Gardener, who arrived to do some maintenance in the garden… I’ve been thinking of the change that she has made to the space over the years;-)…
it always feels so fresh and tidy after her time here…
while she was working away, I picked beans and peas, and spotted some cucumbers starting, yay…
then a friend stopped by with a bag of books for me and I had a bag for her as well;-)…
we hadn’t seen one another for ages and had a great catch-up…
after they both left, I read and relaxed in this lovely space…
30 Wednesday Jul 2025
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bachelor buttons, beans, big girl pants, blessed, capture, food, garden, hibiscus, moments, nature, plants, purple, veggies, weather, widow
had some fun Tuesday morning in the garden…
happy to see the first hibiscus flower open… it didn’t seem to bloom as much as usual through winter…
and noticed begonias, tiny poppies and more bachelor buttons… the bachelor buttons have gone crazy, lol…
I’m hoping to capture some of their seeds and sprinkle them throughout the garden;-)…
and at last I saw some beans, purple ones, woohoo…
I even pulled weeds from the fancy morning glory planter…
they were planted late so I am hoping they will bloom before it gets too cold…
feels great as the garden is beginning to produce ;-)…
18 Friday Jul 2025
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13 Sunday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, family, farmers, Farmers Market, food, fresh veggies, garden, grandson, moments, nature, peas, potatoes, treat, weather, widow
finally made it to a farmers market today… when I worked we would often get to the market which was either beside, or in, the Hydro building…
this is just a small one, located in the parking lot of a fairly close grocery store…
so excited to get peas, yay… and carrots, radishes, green and regular onions, garlic, asparagus, baby potatoes (both white and red), and dill…
so far I’ve had peas with my lunch and supper, lol…
next up will be potatoes with peas, carrots, asparagus, and dill… yum…
11 Friday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, delicious, food, garden, happy, moments, nature, peas, pick, shelling, step stool, treat, weather, widow
this morning I picked the peas from the side garden;-)…
had to use the step stool to get the higher ones and my housemate picked the last couple that I couldn’t reach…
I spent a lovely fifteen minutes shelling them…
then boiled and ate them for lunch…
yum, what a treat;-)…
10 Thursday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, cheese, dad, family, food, lunch, memories, memory, moments, remembering, sandwich, sardines, widow
today, as I was making my lunch, I was reminded of my dad…
he loved sardines and would often make a sardine sandwich for his lunch when he was home…
when he worked he had a cheese sandwich every single day🤪…
back to the sardines, lol…
he would smash them up in a bowl with a fork and a bit of the oil from the container and then put the mix onto white bread…
I mashed mine up and then topped up some premium crackers with the mixture… tasty and went well with the cucumber, onion, tomato salad which I also made…
sweet memory;-)…
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