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03 Friday Sep 2021

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I spent some time walking around the garden this afternoon…

after checking out the neighbour’s squash plant, which has come into my garden, I went online and did a bit of research…

there are a number of blooms on both sides of the fence but not a single squash growing…

it appears that all of the blooms are male flowers… hopefully a female or two will turn up although I think there is a plan to pull the plant out next week, lol…

become…

02 Thursday Sep 2021

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three years ago my mandevilla was blooming profusely on this day… that year, the flowers began opening mid-July…

it lives in the dining room over the winter and doesn’t bloom during that period…

today I took photos of the buds on that same plant… interesting that we are a month and a half later this year…

it takes quite a long time for the buds to become flowers and I am looking forward to the blooms…

crossword…

01 Wednesday Sep 2021

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the cleaners were here today and while they were inside the house, I was in the garden on the back deck spending time with googly finding the answers to the Happy Mail for Chocolate Lovers crossword that I received in an email mid-August;-)…

it was fun learning new facts about the various places where cacao grows…

squirrely…

25 Wednesday Aug 2021

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recently there has been lots of squirrely things going on…

spotted this red squirrel out the front window around 9:30 am… it was looking for food to eat from under the feeders…

not fifteen minutes later this gray squirrel nearly came into the house when I opened the patio door, lol…

planted…

25 Wednesday Aug 2021

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big excitement when I discovered 2, yes 2, beans growing, lol…

I had planted a number of seeds but thought that none of them had survived… I’m not sure whether the crazy hot weather affected them…

happily, my neighbour brought me another feed which I had with my supper…

not exactly sure what I will do with two as they still aren’t quite ready, lol…

mum…

24 Tuesday Aug 2021

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had a lovely dinner tonight with the kids…

they brought me a bunch of mums for the garden… I had been collecting parcels for them over the last few weeks, so we traded, lol…

we ate in the garage as it was a bit cool out and rain threatened… I am still nervous about having people in the house for any length of time…

even put one of the plants on the table to provide some ambiance;-)… looks good with the tablecloth, but we won’t mention all the “stuff” that is everywhere…

we spent time remembering how grandpa knew where every single thing was located and planning the organizing and decluttering that has to happen…

nice…

22 Sunday Aug 2021

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spent a relaxing morning in the garden, sitting close to the pond…

counted ten babies who are growing every day, and got to watch them swimming around looking for food…

it was particularly nice because it was supposed to rain all day, but it held off until around one pm…

not sure how the pond will look tomorrow because it is already very full from all the rain we’ve already had…

damaged…

20 Friday Aug 2021

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for the last week or so I’ve been wondering why the hibiscus is getting all these yellow leaves… I’d been watering it and had even given it some banana peel water…

this afternoon, between rainfalls, I put a chair up alongside it as the wind is supposed to get crazy tomorrow and I didn’t want it to blow over again…

and spotted this…

this is very sad… I hope I will be able to remove the broken portion and that the other two stems will remain healthy…

it may have been damaged during the big storm last week… the tree had blown over and I didn’t check the stem when I put it back up… too bad, maybe it could have been repaired…

pain…

19 Thursday Aug 2021

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I’ve been thinking about health a lot lately…

possibly it has to do with updating my Will, but I also think it is about being well…

for the longest time my hip was bothering me when I would go to stand up from a chair… I knew it was going to hurt, so was very tentative as I stood…

I also didn’t want to go see my physio person because of covid, so I just suffered through…

recently I realized that it wasn’t nearly as sore as it had been…

it always amazes me how quick we forget a pain that has been ongoing once it stops…

it seems to take longer to recover from aches and pains these days, but I am so pleased once I realize things are better;-)…