20 Tuesday Oct 2020
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big girl pants, cold, family, furniture, garden, moments, nature, photos, pond, pots, snow, widow
went outside this morning and moved as much of the furniture as I could…
a few pieces are very heavy so I left them to be dealt with by the boys…
I also moved all the planter pots under the deck…
here’s the view once I was done…
that was around 10 am… I took this photo at 5:30 pm…
;-(…
17 Saturday Oct 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, dahlias, fish, furniture, garden, gardener, moments, nature, plants, weather, widow, winter-proof
yesterday Hilda the Gardener came to winter-proof the garden…
she trimmed back ferns and hostas; emptied pots in front and back; brought all the dahlia pots onto the deck and cut them back; pulled weeds and trimmed the wild rose in the front flowerbed…
my job will be to remove the dahlia tubers, separate and pack them up for the winter… I’ve had to bring them in to thaw so that I can break up the soil, lol…
we are not raking up the leaves, but will have my grandson do one last mulch in the garden once the furniture is put away…
happy and sad that the garden is nearly prepared for winter…
still a few fish to catch and furniture to move…
04 Saturday May 2019
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basement, big girl pants, birdseed, deck, feeders, furniture, garden, reading, ready, widow, wind
a beautiful day out…
it was fairly windy so I wasn’t going to go and do anything outside, but had a conversation with my Ottawa daughter who had been busy in her yard…
so, I had a nap and then went out for a bit…
brought up the birdseed from the basement and filled the feeders as well as the two pails that live in the garage…
then I did a little cleaning on the back deck and moved the furniture around to get the garden ready…
and finally, I spent some time reading in the sunlight…
12 Sunday Nov 2017
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big girl pants, declutter, family, furniture, guest room, living room, moved, widow
a lot of furniture was moved today… seemed simple…
it was that little thing where to make one change you had to make another and then another… thankfully my son-in-law and grandson were up for the job and made it happen…
ended in the living room… I am very happy with the outcome… need to change out the plants and the items in the drawers of the table…
this is the tv/guest room now…
and finally this is the downstairs look…
although when I am on the treadmill I face the tv, this does point out that I need to get some art up on these walls, lol…
now some decluttering and it will be all good…
23 Saturday Apr 2016
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big girl pants, cleanup, clouds, furniture, garden, grandson, helper, lentils, pond, rocks, sky, widow, yard
woke up to a cool looking sky out the window … the clouds made an interesting design…
had a good time with my grandson… he came over around lunchtime to help me in the garden…
made his favourite red curry lentils for lunch and then we got to work…
raked up all the leaves and pulled up lots of dead grass… filled three yard waste bags…
while he finished up, I put the furniture into its usual arrangement and cleaned the tables…
then we moved the rocks that came out of the pond in the Fall… we are going to reset them to have a better look… will probably be getting rounded rocks because the flat ones just don’t look right around the edge of the pond…
looks good back there now… hopefully the temperature will perk up and I’ll be able to sit out in the next few days…
he got the front yard cleaned up as well… next time we are going to tackle the front flower beds…
enjoy getting to spend time with him…
working outside reminded me of my walk through the woods yesterday…
similar type weather… made me think of one of the lovely cards I received for my birthday… it is a copy of a friend’s painting…
bit more sunshine in that picture, lol…
15 Monday Feb 2016
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started my day with a great breakfast… even had a rose on my tray…
the sun was hiding behind some haze for most of the day…
had a relaxed morning and then went downstairs to do some time on the treadmill…
haven’t been walking as much lately so was happy that I got moving, lol…
for a while now I’ve been wanting to rearrange the furniture in the basement, so today while I was down there I had an extra workout and did a little furniture moving…
that treadmill is kind of heavy… luckily the sectional wasn’t joined together although it does have fasteners to connect the pieces, so it wasn’t overly heavy… next time the kids are over I will get them to help me link the pieces… more comfortable when everything is attached…
kind of pleased with how it came out… missed George as I was working away, but I also got to do it exactly the way I wanted it, lol…
finished the lobster from last night in a huge salad for lunch…
really tasty with the lemon dressing from last night…
been glued to the tv as all the Grammy shows have been on… great fun to see who’s there and what the colours being worn are…
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