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glove-free…

02 Sunday Apr 2023

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on Thursday we walked instead of going to aquasize…

we had breakfast at the Park Cafe where we waited a few moments before getting our table…

I had falafel eggs Benedict without the English muffin and it was very tasty…

after that, we drove over and walked around the outside of the Diversity Gardens on the road which was clear of snow and ice… we went through the Gardens as well where most of the paths were snow free… it was cold, but basically the only frozen things were our fingers, lol… particularly when I was glove-free taking photos…


we enjoyed our half hour walk and are looking forward to more such walks as the weather improves;-)…

arched…

30 Thursday Mar 2023

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well, that was fun;-)…

ordered an arched trellis online and it arrived a few days ago… I was a little worried because the package was taped up a lot and I wondered if all the pieces were going to be inside…

I hadn’t planned to put it together until the snow was gone, but was a bit worried about missing pieces and what I would do if I didn’t sort it out till later…

when it was undone, some of the bags appeared to have been opened and then re-closed… and, there were no instructions…

took a while, but after looking at the information from the link where I bought it, it came together nicely…

currently it is in three pieces… the two sides and the arch… not sure I could get it outside if I join it all together… the final two cross pieces and screws are waiting to finish it up…

might take the pieces out to the garage and finish it, or just wait for the snow in the side garden to melt so I can put it in its new home…

sure hope it fits the way I want…

grow-light…

29 Wednesday Mar 2023

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been working on the seedling project… this is interesting because I had decided not to start any this year, lol…

not long ago I picked up a grow-light and finally got it up in the den…

for the last few weeks I’ve been collecting toilet paper rolls and cutting them down to be seed containers…

spent time putting them in the bins to keep them together, and filling them with soil…

next will be wetting them down so they will be ready for seeds in a week or so…

getting excited for spring and time in the garden…

Mylio…

23 Thursday Mar 2023

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after some issues with the computer upstairs, it finally connected to the internet so I was able to work on the Mylio photo program I’d purchased a few months ago…

at last, after trying for a long time, it was able to delete duplicates pictures in my computer and laptop… I knew there were a lot and of the 192,000 images, it deleted 98,543…

it took hours, but the process has now been completed…

although, it found a whole bunch more photos… yikes…

going to need to spend some time deleting some of the multiples of various shots…

I am getting better at deleting excess shots right after I take them;-)…

layers…

21 Tuesday Mar 2023

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shovelled a path across the upper deck on Sunday morning… that way I was able to adjust the solar motion sensor… the squirrels had tipped it down on their trips back and forth…

it has been many, many, weeks since the deck had been shovelled… and in that time, the sun has frozen a number of layers so it was a bit difficult to get it cleared…

later in the afternoon I noticed that a lot of the remaining snow where I shovelled had melted away… so I made another pass…

this time I left a bit of snow to melt there…

my photos suggest that it looked like this in March of 2021… hard to believe, lol…

lane…

20 Monday Mar 2023

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on Saturday I went out to top up the hot tub…

the weather app was suggesting it was -21 out, but the sun was shining and there wasn’t any wind in the garden…

was able to slide the one side open without taking it right off… worked fine…

while the water was running, I brought in the recycling bin from the lane…

and I found a suet feeder in the garage and put a frozen block of homemade suet out in the front yard…

nice to be outdoors for a little while… Spring is coming…

elusive…

19 Sunday Mar 2023

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had a fun time in the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden at The Leaf on Thursday… it wasn’t too cold outside and bright so there was lots of activity…

a fair number of people were in the space and there were many butterflies…

apparently I was enamoured with the orange ones, lol…

this little one sat and offered different poses;-)…

and, of course, I tried to catch the elusive Blue Morpho… there were quite a few of them, but what makes it elusive is that you need to catch it in flight to capture the blue colour, lol… but I did get a partial shot;-)…

at least you can see some of the blue…

spending time in this space sure does make me happy;-)…

wall…

18 Saturday Mar 2023

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had another great visit to The Leaf on Thursday…

we arrived about 10:45 am and it felt like we walked into a wall of moisture… clearly the humidity level has gone up considerably since we were last here…

there were a good number of people in the space, but it didn’t feel crowded…

the waterfall is still spilling into the walkways, but it seemed at a lesser degree…

the plants are visibly growing and are lush and bright, even on a partially overcast day…

they seemed so much happier than on my last visit, when many of them looked like they might not survive…

lots of different flowers blooming throughout both the tropical and Mediterranean biomes…


every walk through the biomes brings something different and interesting… can’t wait to see what future visits will produce…

chopper…

14 Tuesday Mar 2023

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sun was out and it only felt like -14 Celsius, so I went outside to see about getting rid of the ice that has built up where I stand to get into and out of the hot tub…

ice here seems unusual, but could be because I haven’t cleared the snow on my path to the tub every single time it has snowed, lol…

anyway, I’ve slipped a few times so it felt important to clean it up…

that, of course, meant I had to get into the garage to get the ice chopper… but the good news is that now the doorknob has been removed I can get in via the person door again… so I had to shovel to get there…

once I had the chopper it took a while to get rid of most of the ice as the sun doesn’t shine in this area of the garden;-)… handy tool to get the job done…

was careful not to get too close to where the power cord goes… but, it is done and now safe to get in and out of the hot tub…

and I got my exercise for the day…

intentionally…

13 Monday Mar 2023

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this morning I was treated to this lovely view of the sky and moon over the neighbour’s house…

when I get out of bed, the first thing I do is look outside and enjoy whatever I see… sometimes it is the sun coming up through the neighbourhood houses, sometimes a bunny, sometimes it is overcast… just yesterday I saw the first grackle of the season…

I enjoy starting the day intentionally by checking out the sky…