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27 Saturday Sep 2025

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today we got a new fastener for the side gate…

the strong winds we’ve had over the last week keep blowing these doors open so we went shopping for a better solution… the one we’ve had has been good for at least twenty-five years, lol, so a new one seemed in order…

we found one and got it onto the two doors and it looks like it is going to be perfect… and will make it easier for those trying to come through from the driveway…

then I had the brilliant idea of using the old fastener to hook the one door to the pergola instead of using a bungee cord to keep the gate open when expecting company or moving large things through the space… the second door has always just happily leaned against the garage when opened, lol…

looking good;-).

never…

26 Friday Sep 2025

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the first water lily flower never did really open since the weather had turned cold and rainy…

the second bud came up and opened… this picture was taken yesterday when it was completely open…

today this looks to be about the last of that one…

there is still another bud coming up… hoping for warm, sunny, weather…

shrivelled…

16 Tuesday Sep 2025

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fun with morning glories today…

as I was taking photos of this blue morning glory, a cute little western honey bee showed up looking for a snack…

happily, I got a few nice pics…

then, later in the day, the morning glories shrivelled up into themselves in a very interesting way, so took a few cool photos…

soaking…

09 Tuesday Sep 2025

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another delightful day in the garden, especially after the last number of cool and overcast days…

spotted a hibiscus blossom, so that was a treat…

next, I went into the pond to clean out the pump… the leaves have been falling like crazy and there were a ton in the water… once the pump has been cleaned out, the waterfall always flows beautifully…

all the cushions went out and a dear friend arrived with lunch… we ate inside as the wasps are very busy in the garden…

we moved outside and had a lovely time by the pond catching up on life…

after she left, I read in the garden for the remainder of the day;-)…

soaking up every minute possible in this sanctuary…

barely…

08 Monday Sep 2025

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lovely afternoon in the garden…

spotted a new bud coming up on the water lily, even though the first flower barely opened due to the cold weather, sigh…

and then spent a great time with my buddies as we enjoyed the beautiful summer day;-)…

released…

07 Sunday Sep 2025

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went to a pet store today… big mistake, lol…

came home with three goldfish… a white one with a bright patch of red close to its tail and two gold with black dots all over them…

set them in the pond in their travel bag for nearby an hour… it is fairly cool in the pond with all this cold weather we’ve been having…

once they were released, I spotted this little one and got a quick photo… then they vanished under the bridge… since then, I’ve spotted the white one, but so far not the other two;-)…

reemerge…

04 Thursday Sep 2025

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since August 26th, I’ve been watching a water lily flower bud… first noticed it about four inches under the water…

once it reached the water level, it has come up about an inch and then popped back under the water… then it would reemerge and finally it rose about two inches out of the water…

it finally opened on Tuesday, September 2nd, on a very cool, overcast, and windy afternoon… certainly, not a day to sit by the pond😢…

since then it has remained closed up…

hoping the weather turns warm and sunny before it returns below the surface…

demonstrate…

02 Tuesday Sep 2025

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the other day a friend took away the fire pit, (which hadn’t been working for ages and was currently living in the shed), to see if he could get it going again…

I had almost put it in the lane to get picked up by someone, but decided to keep it and see if anyone could fix the silly thing…

he brought it back with his propane tank to demonstrate how to light it…

it appears that I wasn’t holding the gas button long enough…

so I added in the glass bits, tried to light it, and it didn’t work, sigh…

next, I moved the glass pieces away from the gas tube and when I tried it again, it worked…

I am a happy camper;-)…