07 Wednesday Oct 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, moments, nature, photos, sky, thunderstorm, weather, widow
that sky last night before the thunderstorm…
I was in the kitchen and had to go out and take some photos…
minutes later the sky opened and the rain poured down…
06 Tuesday Oct 2020
Posted in garden, life, moments, nature, Photography, retirement, Uncategorized, weather
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, crunch, Fall, garden, leaves, listen, moments, nature, noise, photos, pine siskins, pond, widow
spent a lovely afternoon in the garden before the rain…
pulled more leaves out of the pond… more are coming down into it every day…
I read and listened to the birds as they crunched through the leaves looking for bugs and seeds… considering how small they are, they made a lot of noise…
flocks of white-throated, song, and house sparrows, as well as pine siskins landed in the grass and around the pond where they would carefully jump from rock to rock to get a drink…
then off they went…
05 Monday Oct 2020
Posted in garden, health, life, loss, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized, weather
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after, big girl pants, birds, cleaning, feeders, garage, garden, goldfish, moments, nature, pictures, pond, squirrels, widow
spent an hour in the garage sorting and organizing… I laughed because I always think about the before picture after I’ve done the work, lol…
also was in the garden for a couple of hours watching the goldfish and birds move about…
I filled feeders and put them in different spots…
it is always interesting to see how long it takes the birds and squirrels to find them again, lol…
04 Sunday Oct 2020
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big girl pants, birdseed, fish, fishnet, garden, garden visits, leaves, moments, nature, net, plants, pond, pump, weather, widow
went outside to see if I could get the waterfall going… it stopped for some reason early in the week so I had gone out and unplugged it… I wasn’t looking forward to the prospect…
I took a ton of leaves out of the pond and dug around the pump with my hands to clear out some of the muck… the water was cold…
got everything working, moved the milkweed, and emptied some of the pots which held dead plants… I left the fishnet in the water hoping the fish will get used to it so when we go to catch them they will be more cooperative, lol…
then I spent time cleaning out the morning glories, adding plants to a pot by the hot tub and rearranging furniture around the lower deck…
it looks lovely and will be a great place for any garden visits that might happen on nice days;-)…
by the time I was finished, I was very happy and pleased with all that had been accomplished…
03 Saturday Oct 2020
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big girl pants, datura, flowers, frost, garden, move, nature, overwinter, plants, weather, widow
the majority of the plants in the garden and front yard have been hit by the frost…
I had been waiting to bring in one of the daturas but I couldn’t decide which one to use…
this morning the decision was made for me as two of the three plants I had been looking at were dead, lol…
I went out and was able to lift the remaining planter and then carefully moved it step by step into the house… then I put it onto a towel, lifted a portion of the carpet, and dragged it to the window…
yay for me;-)…
looks great… now to see if it overwinters…
01 Thursday Oct 2020
Posted in garden, life, loss, moments, nature, Photography, retirement, Uncategorized, weather
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big girl pants, blessed, Captain's Table, garden, memories, moments, nature, pictures, plants, trees, virginia creeper, visit, vivid, weather, widow
a dear friend brought my favourite fish and chips, from Captain’s Table and we had a great visit…
after she left I went out, filled the garbage bin with more goodies from the garage, and set it out for tomorrow’s pickup…
then I wandered around the yard and took some pictures of the Virginia creeper… it is a vivid and glorious colour although many of the leaves have already dropped…
I’ve been contemplating how lucky I am to have the time to spend on such activities;-)…
28 Monday Sep 2020
Posted in garden, life, nature, Photography, Uncategorized, weather
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big girl pants, clean-up, deciduous, Fall, garden, leaves, moments, nature, photos, pond, sky, weather, widow
it was dull, cool and windy yesterday with a few sprinkles of rain…
I made soup… seemed like a good thing to do on what sure felt like a fall day…
as I went up and down working on it I took some photos of the garden…
hard to tell from these pictures that I don’t have any deciduous trees in my yard, lol…
cleaning up the leaves with the lawnmower isn’t that big a problem, but getting them out of the pond takes quite a while;-(…
looks like I won’t be working on that until Thursday when the weather might be a bit better…
27 Sunday Sep 2020
Posted in business, garden, life, moments, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized
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big girl pants, camera, Centre Court, court, dahlia, flowers, garden, moments, nature, pictures, widow
spent a few minutes with the Centre Court dahlias that I brought into the house yesterday…
they have really opened up since they came in and I had a bit of fun taking pictures…
trying to decide whether I like the dark background or the light one…
what do you think;-)…
26 Saturday Sep 2020
Posted in business, garden, life, loss, retirement, Uncategorized, weather
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airlock, big girl pants, chemicals, cold, garden, hot tub, leaking, moments, pump, service, technicians, waiting, water, weather, widow
have been having some problems with the hot tub leaking for quite some time, but wasn’t certain that the water wasn’t just evaporating with the hot weather we’d been having…
finally it was clear that there was a problem so I called up the company I deal with and made an appointment…
a fellow came out on Monday morning and discovered water dripping from a portion of the pump… he thought it would be about forty dollars for the part which needed to be replaced… he worked for well over an hour and then advised that the entire pump needed to be replaced because the new piece wouldn’t fit in properly as they are now made slightly differently…
we contacted a supplier and my son-in-law went and picked up the new one so that the repair person could return the next morning to hook it up…
sadly, that didn’t happen… I made numerous calls to the store and was advised that they would pass along the message, but no one came… finally I called and asked for an actual appointment so that someone would turn up…
two fellows turned up the next morning and set about installing the new pump… they also fixed the loose jets (with silicone) so they don’t keep shooting the water out of the tub when the water level goes down a bit…
they advised the silicone needed twenty-four hours to cure and that the tub should work fine after that….
cleaned it out and partially filled it to just below the jets and waited for the point where I could finish filling it and turn it on to heat up…
after I filled it up and turned it back on, the pump made noise but the water did not move… I called again and a few hours later the guys came back and fixed an airlock in the pump… then it started to heat up…
I am going out for a hot tub soon;-)…
25 Friday Sep 2020
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beloved, big girl pants, eavestrough, family, garden, leaves, moments, nature, pond, remembering, virginia creeper, widow
dragged the ladder onto the deck, hoping I could reach the eavestrough to clean it out…
had my pail ready and my gloves on, but the height was more than I could manage… was not prepared to take that last step…
moved the ladder over to the garage, set it up and it worked perfectly… was able to clean about four feet of the eavestrough… clearly it needs to be cleaned out more than once every eight years, lol…
will need helpers to clean the rest of it, but it already looks better after I cut down some of the Virginia creeper…
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