21 Monday Mar 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, driveway, garden, melted, moments, nature, shovel, snow, weather, widow
the snow has been melting slowly and quickly, if that makes any sense…
when I look at pictures from a week ago and today it is more visible, so I can see how much has melted…
I went out and shovelled a bit to clear the sidewalks and some of the driveway…
there is still a lot to melt…
19 Saturday Mar 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, chemicals, garden, hot tub, kicking, moments, nature, snow, warm, weather, widow
what a delightful day…
I opened the patio door without any blockage from snow… yay… and left it open for most of the day… still going to be a while before I can sit out there…
the sun was shining, the birds were singing and the snow was melting…
added chemicals to the hot tub, which I haven’t done for ages as it has been so cold, the tub had been covered in snow, and there was no space for the covers to opens…
every time I went out to add the chemicals, I kicked some of the snow on the path so it could melt…
it is looking good…
17 Thursday Mar 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, Japanese Maple, memories, moments, nature, pictures, plants, purple, shamrocks, St. Patrick's Day, starting, weather, widow
yesterday I put up a photo on Instagram that showed my Japanese Maple just starting to leaf out… this picture below came up in my Google Photos today showing the same tree two years ago… made me laugh because it is so different, lol…
the good news is that it is starting…
and obviously, I should have put it up today, on St. Patrick’s Day, when we are all Irish;-)…
at the bottom of the tree, shamrocks have been growing since the first summer it went outside and the shamrock plant jumped into the pot…
it was fun taking the pictures;-)…
15 Tuesday Mar 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, melted, moments, nature, pictures, snow, squirrel, sunflower seeds, watched, weather, widow
had a fun few minutes this morning as I watched this red squirrel…
some of the snow has melted away and the squirrels have uncovered the sunflower seeds…
every now and then this one would stick its head under the snow and bring up a snack…
I checked whenever I was in the kitchen, but missed any more sightings, lol…
09 Wednesday Mar 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, moments, nature, snacking, snow, solar, squirrel, weather, widow
enough snow has melted on the table on the deck so that the squirrels have been able to find the sunflower seeds again…
this little guy was busy snacking away…
the snow is going down very slowly… this is a picture taken February 20th…
and this photo shows the back corner of the yard last night… for the first time the solar dragonflies were lit…
encouraging to see a tiny bit of melting…
26 Saturday Feb 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, fill, garden, happy, hose, hot tub, moments, nature, snow, top up, water, weather, widow
well, I am a happy camper…
the hot tub has needed a top-up for a number of weeks, but every time it has been warm enough, or not snowing, the lid has been frozen shut…
and the less water in it the more the jets run and more water evaporates…
today I was able to go out and open it… yay… it took nearly fifteen minutes to top it up so I was pleased to get it done…
I’m not exactly sure that I can open both covers enough to get in it, but at least it has enough water for awhile…
the extendable hose works perfectly… it runs up the stairs and out the door easily so the filling part is simple…
there is a lot of snow out there, lol…
22 Tuesday Feb 2022
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21 Monday Feb 2022
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big girl pants, drifts, fallen, garden, moments, nature, record amounts, snow, weather, widow
after all these days of snow I hadn’t felt like that much had fallen…
this was the garden Saturday at 3:06 pm…
and this was the same spot yesterday at 7:40 am… the gazing ball on its stand is no longer visible…
I guess more came down than I thought, lol…
the last few years we haven’t had much snow, but we appear to be making up for that now… a number of reports are suggesting that we’ve hit some records…
in this photo from yesterday, you can see how high the snow is on the railing… and the lovely drifts along the sidewalk…
16 Wednesday Feb 2022
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big girl pants, deep, garbage bin, garden, moments, nature, path, shovelled, snow, weather, widow, wrangled
out in the snow again today…
after clearing a path to the back lane, I wrangled the garbage bin to a spot just outside the gate…
the drift there was about a foot deep so it took me a while to make a spot for the bin…
sure hope they empty it on Friday…
04 Friday Feb 2022
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beloved, big girl pants, bins, drift, garden, moments, nature, path, sidewalk, snow, weather, widow
yikes, more snow stories…
put on long underwear, an extra vest, mitts over gloves, my Canada Goose jacket, and went out in the extreme cold to shovel a path to the garbage and recycle bins…
I had hoped to put them in the lane for pick up but there was just too much snow… hopefully, next week it will be a bit warmer so I can finish digging the path out all the way to the gate…
thankfully there is a bit of space in both bins so they should be fine for one more week…
there was a huge drift up against the back door and it took a while to get through it…
as I moved further into the yard, the path got narrower… it was cold out there…
it was just wide enough for me to carry out the bags, lol…
sure do miss my beloved, he would have shovelled and snow blowed a great path all the way to the lane, no problem… and had fun doing it, lol… he did love to play with the snowblower…
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