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noisy…

25 Saturday Apr 2015

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big girl pants, garden, George, missing, noisy, pond, squirrel

birdsong and squirrel chatter filled the morning in the garden…

energized by the lovely weather, I worked in the garden and trimmed back the plants beside the pond… so excited to see the new growth starting in most of them… careful not to pull out things that I wasn’t sure about and there were two or three of them…

working in the garden always makes me think of George and today was no exception…

not only was I missing his hard work in the garden, I miss having him to talk to… he would have been excited by the duck flying over and he certainly would have been interested in the squirrel sitting on the garbage can right below the hole they’ve dug in the shed wall… he’d have been over there covering it with a scrap of metal and digging through the shed to find and destroy the nest, lol…

  
put out all the cushions and read a magazine… 
emailed my pond guy to see when they will be coming by to get the pump in and sort out the leaking problem…
the afternoon was a bit more noisy as my neighbours’ were building a planter box by their garage… circular saws, drills and hammers are also signs of better weather, lol…
looking forward to more wonderful days in this little piece of heaven…

busy…

29 Sunday Mar 2015

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big girl pants, busy, garden, geese, hot tub, lunch date, pond

been busy since I got up today…

started out with a lovely hot tub and watched geese fly right over me…

  

added pictures to the new frame and finally got it set up in the living room… still thinking I might want the 14″ one instead of this 10″ one so I haven’t hung it on the wall just yet…

then it was a cab downtown to meet my daughter and spend two hours at the Home and Garden show… might just have found someone to help me in the garden… also spoke with my pond guy and we have a plan to get it all finished as soon as they can work outside…

  

then we headed to Silver City to meet up with the little guys to see Home… ate half a bag of popcorn… can’t help myself where popcorn is involved…

stopped at Safeway to pick up a few ingredients for our supper and headed home to get it made as my son-in-law had to get to work…

cleaned up from supper and got the ingredients ready for tomorrow evening’s gathering… need to be ready as I will be working late…

luckily I am going in a bit later and have made a lunch date with my grandson who is on spring break…

might sleep in a bit in the morning because I am just a little tired, lol…

garden…

15 Sunday Mar 2015

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big girl pants, bird feeder, garden, hot tub, snow, sun

beautiful day… up fairly early and spent some time going through a closet and deciding what to keep and what could go… have already started another pass me over box… finding I have much more energy… not sure if that is the sunshine or my body recovering from the sugar overload it was dealing with…

warm enough to be able to use the outside tap to top up the hot tub… 

overcast for most of the day, but late this afternoon the sun came out and melted more snow…



this is the last little bit left in the front yard… hoping that next weekend we can do some raking…



chair is on the deck and there is no snow left on it… wasn’t warm enough to sit out but maybe one night this week after work it will be:-)… the ice is gone from the pond and there are only a few places where there is still snow…

while I was filling the hot tub I also filled up one of the bird feeders… the squirrel had gotten into the  bag of sunflowers and eaten quite a bit… lots of shells…

starting to think about the work needed to clean up the garden and where I am going to find some gardening help this year… I would really like to hire someone to help me so that it looks good all season long…

yay Spring… 

sounds…

11 Wednesday Mar 2015

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big girl pants, crows, garden, snow, sounds, walk

walked from the grocery store after I got a haircut…

beautiful evening… didn’t wear my gloves tonight or last night when I walked home…

got a lovely shot of this tree… thinking it will be filled with buds before too long…



the crows have been squawking a lot… caught this one in one of the trees down the street…



also heard the water swirling into the drains as I came to street corners… there were rivers of running water everywhere I went…



last picture I took was of the garden… the snow is vanishing more and more each day…

before we know it the pond will be ready for the fish…

blogging…

02 Tuesday Dec 2014

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beloved, big girl pants, blogging, Christmas, garden, posts, sugar

yesterday marked my second year on WordPress…

in that time I have written nearly every day, 747 posts to be exact…

more than 150 people follow my blog and the most popular topics include life, her big girl pants, and nature…

pretty good considering the day I started I was just going to see what it was about, lol…

my goal had been to share the experiences I had gone through following the passing of my beloved… not sure if I’ve done that…

for the last few weeks, every time I walk by the garden window at night, three of the solar lights twinkle all night long… I’ve decided that George is helping them twinkle:-)…

I’m learning to deal with my new reality and am finally over the poor me stage…

so far the sugar hadn’t been too much of a problem, but I guess the real test will come around Christmas…

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normal…

25 Saturday Oct 2014

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beloved, big girl pants, chores, garden, normal, Saturday

spent my Saturday in my new normal… a quiet day to recharge my batteries…

a few chores – watering the plants, putting chemicals in the hot tub, laundry… chatting with my girls on the phone or by text…

the garden needs work before the weather changes, but this Fall I am not motivated at all to get the work done…

George loved to putter around on Saturdays… cleaning the garage, working in the garden… going for bike rides… he liked TV as well…

watched some skating and a few cooking shows…

made coleslaw and used up a few frozen wieners which I cooked with brussel sprouts and a baked potato…

IMG_8973.JPG pleased that I’ve been using up things in the freezer…

used to run around and do shopping and errands and use Sunday to relax…

missing my beloved… don’t really love my new normal…

weeds…

29 Monday Sep 2014

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coneflowers, garden, George, sunflower, weeding, weeds

been missing George a lot lately… maybe it has to do with how bad the garden looks, lol…

haven’t done any weeding for weeks and haven’t touched the side garden all summer…

this sunflower has grown up from seeds tossed out of the feeder by the birds… George would never have let that happen… he spent time nearly every day weeding the various beds and they usually looked tidy…

wild sunflower...

wild sunflower…

of course, the purple coneflowers have survived since I planted them last year… George wasn’t here to pull them out as they popped through the soil in the spring… if you know this plant you will know that it does look similar to a weed… George would pull them out every spring after we had planted them the previous year…

purple cone flower...

purple cone flower…

it got to be a family joke…

just yesterday the little boys were asking me to read The Pink Giraffe to them and I couldn’t bear to… it was one of the last books he read to them before he died… maybe next time they ask I will be able to read it to them…

light…

17 Wednesday Sep 2014

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big girl pants, garden, geese, George, light, morning glory, sun

noticing every day how there is less light… waking up in the dark and needing to turn on the lights to get ready…

the sun is setting around eight so it is dark before you know it… less than thirteen hours of light each day…

the garden is struggling as well, what with the low temperatures… I check as soon as I get outside to see if any morning glories have braved the weather and bloomed…

IMG_8256.JPGI can’t see a morning glory without thinking of George counting how many were blooming each morning when I was in hospital for a six week period, and often bringing me a picture… sure do miss him…

IMG_8257.JPGhard to see, but this is a picture of some geese flying over first thing… the sound of their honking makes it clear that Fall is coming, lol…

IMG_8258.JPGfresh tomato with my chicken, potatoes and roasted garlic tonight… love popping something into the oven and napping while it cooks…

even with a persistent cold, life is good…

walking…

16 Saturday Aug 2014

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butterfly bush, garden, Shelmerdine, walking, weeding

first thing this morning I walked over to “the A” to have breakfast with my son-in-law on his way home from work… spotted this bunny, just sitting there watching me…

IMG_7282.JPGI also spotted this new Little Free Library… there are more and more of these popping up…

IMG_7283.JPGsat out in the garden for a while and even did a bit of weeding…

my daughter picked me up and we went to Shelmerdine where I had some fun wandering around… picked up two butterfly bushes as well as some blue Veronica to replace the pink ones in the garden that I want to dig out… also found a few pots and house plants… then we stopped at a market garden and got peas, tiny potatoes and fresh bread… made myself grilled cheese and onion and sat out in the garden to eat…

IMG_7286.JPGnow I just need to get them planted…

fourteen…

10 Sunday Aug 2014

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birds, fourteen, garden, grandson, hibiscus, potato salad, spinach dip

started the day in the garden… two blossoms on the hibiscus and you can see what a beautiful morning it was…

hibiscus this morning...

hibiscus this morning…

the sounds in the garden were lovely, there were chickadees and goldfinches at the feeder, while the water was falling in the pond…  

goldfinch

shortly after that, the nail guns took over as my neighbour was having his roof shingled, lol… caught one of the chickadees, which is difficult as they are very fast…

chickadee...

chickadee…

spent a good portion of the day getting the required groceries and making spinach dip and five pounds of potato salad for the big birthday party… mom loves the spinach dip, and dad the potato salad…

birthday boy...

birthday boy…

our oldest grandson turned fourteen… cannot believe that fourteen years have passed since he arrived in our lives… he is a lovely young man and George and I both enjoyed watching him as he has grown… George would be very proud… I know I am…

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