10 Sunday May 2026
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17 years, big girl pants, blessed, conversations, garden, hot tub, memories, moments, Mother's Day, mothers, widow
this morning I went out for a Mother’s Day hot tub…
it has been 17 years since the first day of hot tubbing in the garden which was on Mother’s Day in 2009;-)…
amazing to think of all the laughter, deep conversations, and fun, shared in this little tub of warm water…
always a wonderful reminder on Mother’s Day…
09 Saturday May 2026
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yesterday we began the newest garden project…
we started with trimming the cedars at the back of the garden…
we filled two bags with branches…
it is always a process to decide when enough has been trimmed, and it is time to stop, lol…
step one, done…
03 Sunday May 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, grandson, grass, moments, planters, pump, raking, reading, tarp, weather, widow
spent time in the garden on a lovely day…
used the pond pump to empty the water on top of the tarp and then took the tarp off the pond…
took a few minutes to lay it out on the grass to dry out…
we moved a few planters to new places and will see if they stay in those spots…
did a little bit of raking of leaves, but there is still a lot to do…
and also spent some time reading in one of the chairs which recently came out of the shed…
29 Wednesday Apr 2026
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last night was my first in the hot tub for a really long time…
a screw had come loose on the left side cover and it took quite a while before we were able to screw it back in… then it needed to be filled and it took me ages to get that done…
looking for photos of it, I found this note about the day the hot tub arrived —- April 29, 2009…
and this one from my first hot tub on Mother’s Day, 2009…
the area around the tub has changed a lot since its arrival…
these photos reminded me when the right hand cover came off and was repaired…
these photos were taken on April 28, 2023…
apparently, the end of April has been an important period for the hot tub…
next up will be emptying the tub and figuring out if we can make the right side more stable for opening and closing…
26 Sunday Apr 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, blew, deck, feet, garden, moments, nature, slippers, sunshine, weather, widow, wind
sat out on the deck on Thursday morning…
it was fairly warm, but windy…
I took my slippers off to get some sun on my feet and had one foot on a slipper, but crossed my leg with the other…
all of a sudden the second slipper blew right off the deck, lol…
I hopped on down, brought it back up onto the deck, and slid both of them under my foot;-)…
24 Friday Apr 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, electric, garden, lightening, moments, nature, rain, storm, thunder, weather, widow
there was a lovely electric storm late Wednesday evening…
it lasted for quite a while, with lots of thunder and lightning…
I watched it from the open patio doors as well as the living room window and the bedroom…
it lit up the neighbourhood like daylight a number of times, and the lightening flashes were beautiful… although I hope they didn’t hit anything…
eventually it rained, but not for too long or too hard… I heard from a friend that it rained like crazy where they live, not that far from here…
I was so busy watching that I didn’t take a single picture, lol…
here’s how the garden looked the next morning…
23 Thursday Apr 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, family, garden, lawn furniture, moments, nature, rain barrel, reading, shed, Spring, weather, widow
had a great day in the garden yesterday… at last it was nice enough to put the cushions back on the deck…
sat on the top deck reading in the sun for ages… eventually I had to move to the lower deck to sit in the shade because it was so hot…
I tried to open the shed to bring out the rest of the lawn furniture, with no success…
but, I turned over the water barrel and yard waste bin, and emptied pots into the yard waste bin…
then there was sitting, lunch, and reading for the remainder of the afternoon…
once my housemate arrived home, he got the shed open and brought out some of the furniture…
summer is coming 😊…
17 Friday Apr 2026
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big girl pants, bruise, deck, Dynacare, garden, moments, nature, supposed, Technology, weather, widow
was hoping to sit on the deck Wednesday morning while I was waiting for Dynacare to turn up… the weather was supposed to be warm and sunny…
the sun did shine on and off, but the wind was chilly, so I didn’t sit out for long, lol…
the Dynacare technician arrived and took some blood for my next doctor’s appointment… they had trouble getting into the vein and told me I would have a bruise…
and I do…
13 Monday Apr 2026
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big girl pants, chairs, cushions, deck, frozen, garden, moments, nature, rainy, weather, widow, windy, yank
well, had a surprise Sunday morning…
I opened the patio door to feel the temperature, and realized it had rained during the night…
and apparently there had been a strong wind as I discovered that one of the chairs on the deck had blown over and down the steps on the far side… the footstool was the only thing still on the deck…
went out and brought up the chair… had to yank one of the cushions out of the snow…
brought the cushions into the house, as well as the footstool, to dry out, sigh…
didn’t put the cover back on the chair… don’t want it to fly off the deck, lol…
pleased that I dealt with this early, as the next time I looked out it was raining;-)…
01 Wednesday Apr 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, broom, chairs, cleaned, cushions, deck, garden, moments, nature, sunshine, Technology, warm, weather, widow
got to sit outside on the deck Sunday morning… yay:-)…
moved the chairs into their usual spots, took off the covers, brought out the clean cushions, and put them on the chairs…
got out the broom and swept up the cedar bits and elm leaves that were all over the deck… even used the leaf blower to finish up…
put on a light jacket and brought out tea and my book and enjoyed the sun, birdsong, and my book for a wonderful hour and a half;-)…
haven’t made it out since then, what with the snow and overcast skies🥺…
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