19 Sunday Sep 2021
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the last of the soil has been moved… it feels like the driveway has been covered in dirt for months…
at last the driveway is back to its usual state…
now I just need to mow the grass along the edge, lol…
makes me so happy to have it tidy again…
16 Thursday Sep 2021
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begonia, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, moments, nature, purple, rainy, weather, widow
yesterday I went around the garden and gathered all of the open dahlias and one of the begonia flowers…
made a lovely little bouquet…
I am happy to see that the begonia has stayed fresh looking…
on this rainy day I have enjoyed these flowers…
they look great on the new coffee table;-)…
10 Friday Sep 2021
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big girl pants, birdies, birds, blessed, garden, migration, moments, nature, photos, pond, reading, widow
had an enjoyable time watching all my feathered friends flitting about the garden…
I think the birdies were happy that the grass has been mowed as well, lol…
dirt baths, bug collecting in the grass, checking out all the feeders, and drinking at the pond…
some guests who haven’t been around all summer are stopping by so I think we are getting close to migration time…
some days it is nearly impossible to focus on my book because there is so much going on;-)…
08 Wednesday Sep 2021
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big girl pants, garden, growing, careful, moments, plants, secateurs, trim, virginia creeper, widow
decided the Virginia creeper over the hot tub was starting to creep too much towards the water…
grabbed my secateurs and a pail… moved the steps to the other side of the hot tub and climbed up…
was careful not to fall as I climbed onto the cover and along the edge to get to the window…
happy to get back on the ground when it was done…
looks much tidier now…
and I am still in one piece;-)…
07 Tuesday Sep 2021
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berries, big girl pants, blessed, garden, lily of the valley, moments, nature, plants, purple, widow
the other day I took a photo of some beautiful Virginia creeper berries… they were climbing on the cedars on the back lane side of the garden and were a bright purple…
today I spotted these red berries in amongst the lily of the valley…
I’ve never seen berries on lily of the valley before…
06 Monday Sep 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, bumblebee, flutter, garden, lily pad, moments, nature, pictures, pond, sparrows, wasp, widow
the critters have been active in the garden…
birds and squirrels are always flitting about… today I captured a flutter of sparrows lined up waiting for their turn at one of the feeders…
and lately the tiniest winged critters have been visiting quite a bit…
this cute bumblebee was enjoying a rest in the sunshine on the datura… and the wasps have been spending time on the lily pads, getting drinks I think…
there have also been a number of grasshoppers in the front yard…
so happy that retirement has given me more opportunities to enjoy the nature around me…
04 Saturday Sep 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, family, garden, grass, lawnmower, moments, mow, nature, pond, Technology, water lily, weather, widow, working
this morning when I looked outside the sun was shining and it was a nice temperature…
but, the grass was so tall I didn’t want to go into the garden… since we’ve had a bit of rain and cooler weather it has grown like crazy and my grandsons hadn’t been able to come over and mow for me…
I decided that I would mow it myself… I did buy a lawnmower that starts easily and doesn’t have any cords for just this situation…
so, I moved furniture, mowed, whippersnipped, put furniture back, brought out cushions and finally sat down with a cup of tea to enjoy the space…
it looked spectacular;-)…
and I spotted a water lily bud… yay…
03 Friday Sep 2021
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always learning, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, male, moments, nature, neighbour, plants, research, squash, widow
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…
02 Thursday Sep 2021
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become, big girl pants, blessed, buds, flowers, garden, mandevilla, memories, moments, nature, plants, weather, widow
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…
01 Wednesday Sep 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, cacao, chocolate, crossword, eNews, fun, garden, happy, HappyMailforChocoholics, learning, moments, nature, pond, Technology, widow
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…
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