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solar…

24 Sunday Jul 2022

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ordered some solar motion sensor lights for the garden last Wednesday…

wasn’t sure if they would work, but was hopeful they would frighten the raccoons away…

they arrived on Monday and were easy to install… one went at the edge of the bridge and the other is set on the top of the deck…

was so excited that night when they worked… happily it had been sunny all day…

the next night it stormed and they were on most of the time as the wind was blowing all the leaves and floating plants around when the rain wasn’t pouring down…

will see how they work when the raccoons stop by again…

ripe…

23 Saturday Jul 2022

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Wednesday was another beautiful day…

put out all the cushions as a dear friend was coming over later in the day, and it always looks so much nicer when they are all set out…

Hilda the Gardener came and weeded and moved a few plants… we had a lovely visit while that was happening…

I climbed into the pond and cleaned the filter which made the waterfall happy;-)…

read a good book and had lunch on the back deck with some of my ripe tomatoes and fresh basil…

had a delightful supper and visit with a friend I haven’t seen for ages and toured the garden with her…

also shared some poppy and morning glory seeds…

cage…

21 Thursday Jul 2022

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the rain came down really heavy on Tuesday morning…

when I went out to check the garden I saw that one of the tomato plants had been knocked over… I was so shocked I didn’t even get a picture…

thankfully, I had a tomato cage in the garage, and it took a bit of finagling to get it over the plant… apparently it should have happened when the plant was much smaller, lol…

also pleased to see lots of flowers and the beginnings of the cucumbers;-)…

downpour…

20 Wednesday Jul 2022

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the other day I saw a monarch flying around the garden and laying eggs on the milkweed…

I went to check out the two milkweed plants that are just by the waterfall to see if any eggs had been left there…

and it was there that I discovered this little caterpillar… of course this is the hardest spot to get any pictures, lol…

and I was happy to still see it after the downpour…

nature is amazing…

duel…

18 Monday Jul 2022

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there was quite a thunderstorm early Saturday morning…

it was the first day in a long time that I ate breakfast in the house as I’ve been doing a great job of being outside if it isn’t raining…

eventually it was dry enough to spend some time in the garden where I had a bit of a duel with the gray squirrels that have found a way to get to both of the slinky protected bird feeders…

and then, I spent a lovely time watching a monarch flit around the space, landing a number of times on the milkweed and then flitting around some more…

what a treat and how lucky was I to get to enjoy those moments;-)…

taller…

16 Saturday Jul 2022

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had a morning walk around the garden the other day…

it is doing very well with lots of purple and green…

the side/vegetable garden is very happy… the peas and cucumbers in the new planter are especially happy… they are taller than me…

gathered fifteen pea pods from the vegetable garden and added the peas to my new potatoes and slice of ham for my dinner…

tasty…

turkey…

14 Thursday Jul 2022

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had a good morning on Tuesday…

listened to house sparrows, chickadees and a few crows… I am just loving the sound ID on the Merlin app…

spotted the wild turkey that had been wandering the street yesterday, thanks to my neighbour knocking on the door…

and apparently the turkey frightened one of the neighbourhood bunnies…

there was no sign of the raccoons and the fish appear happy and all present… one of the biggest ones has been scraped up though… not sure if it was from the raccoon the night before last or from hiding under a rock, sigh…

the red and gray squirrels have been wandering around and threatening one another…

but the sun was out, except for a ten minute shower, and I was able to eat outside…

hidden…

13 Wednesday Jul 2022

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something has been getting into the pond…

I hadn’t seen anything on the camera until a few nights ago, when the camera caught this…

the night view makes it a bit hard to recognize, but the rings on the tail were the confirmation that it is a raccoon… it didn’t appear that any fish had been caught…

I think the fish are being careful to stay hidden under the bridge…

on Sunday night they came by again and the camera caught them right in the pond…

I spotted one of the fish sort of wedged under a rock, so I moved the rock and the fish swam away… it looks a bit scraped up, so I hope it will be okay…

I put two chairs across the spot where I think they are going into the water and then sprinkled Epsom salts around the rest of the pond…

climbed…

12 Tuesday Jul 2022

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Friday was another gorgeous day in the garden…

did some computer work outside and then read…

eventually, I climbed into the pond and removed some of the grasses growing in it to help me figure out if something is still getting into it..

while I was in there, I repositioned the pump and the rocks that sit on top of it…

looks pretty good…

my neighbour came over and we sat by the pond watching the fish while we shared some wine and snacks…