04 Monday May 2020
Posted in garden, life, moments, nature, Photography, Uncategorized
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, feeder, garden, moments, moon, number, take the time, widow
saw a lovely view of the moon the other day while I was bird watching in the garden…
saw a number of birds… juncos, white throated sparrows, flickers and nuthatches…
02 Saturday May 2020
a very sad morning here…
three days ago I unplugged the pump on the fish tank as I was on a Zoom call and it was very noisy… I have often done this…
when I plugged it back in, nothing happened… I tried different outlets to no avail…
I decided to put the fish into the pond but had to do some cleaning of it first… got some done, but hurt my back so waited a bit…
they seemed fine while waiting… in the middle of the night it occurred to me that one of the smaller pond pumps might work in the tank…
first thing this morning I was out in the garage finding a pump… brought it in, tested it in the sink and put it into the tank… think it is going to work in the meantime…
the water is murky, which will not likely clear up as currently there is no filter… the fish seem to be swimming about and appear much happier… this pump is even noisier than the last one, lol…
unfortunately, the biggest fish died during the night;-(…
27 Monday Apr 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, dahlia, flowers, garden, growing, planted, purple, rain, tubers, weather, widow
had a busy morning in the garden yesterday…
opened my box from The Dahlia Expert and took out my eight new tubers… I’d set it on the floor out of the way for a few days after it arrived to be sure it was safe;-)…
found pots, cleaned them out and matched the tubers with the appropriate pot…
left them outside for the rest of the day hoping that the rain might give them a drink… it did rain for a very short time but not a lot…
took quite a while, but eventually all eight were nestled in their new homes…
brought them in just before dark and put them back out for the day this morning…
they will be coming in and going out for the next while as I wanted them to get a head start on growing before they can live outside permanently;-)…
so excited to watch them grow…
26 Sunday Apr 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, chewed, flowers, garden, moments, morning glories, nature, plants, purple, Spring, sprout, sun, sunshine, weather, widow
this morning, while I was searching for something in the garage, I came across an envelope of morning glory seeds that had been there for at least a year… apparently a critter had chewed open the end of the envelope, but left the seeds… not so tasty maybe…
I sprinkled them over two planters along the deck and then covered them with soil… will watch and see what happens…
no idea if they will sprout, but I thought it was worth a chance…
will be fun to watch;-)…
24 Friday Apr 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, chocolate, cleaning, friends, garden, happy, moments, parcel, reading, treat, weather, widow
had an excellent day yesterday… got a parcel in the mail… with chocolate in it…
spent time in the garden… reading in the sun, washing down a few pieces of furniture… moving chairs around for a different view… cleaning out some planters… it was lovely…
ended the day with a visit from a dear young friend… she was on the sidewalk and I was at the front door…
going to enjoy the time in the garden…
22 Wednesday Apr 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, deck, EarthDay, garden, grief, moments, nature, sunset, virus, widow, world
today, Earth Day 50, I’ve spent time thinking about our world and how blessed we are to be here…
and how this virus, which has made us all stay home, has given the earth a chance to rest and start recovering from all the grief we have given it…
in my little corner of the world, I spent time watching the birds and squirrels at the bird feeders… after I refilled them…
and also was able to spend some time on the deck in the garden, enjoying the balmy weather…
I’ve been thinking of a few small changes I’ve made at home… the one I am most pleased about is using cloth instead of paper towels… I put away the paper towel holder shortly after arriving back home in January… I’ve been using extra hand towels and facecloths and have a bin for the used ones on the kitchen counter… it has been amazingly simple and is encouraging me to see what other small, but helpful changes I can make…
20 Monday Apr 2020
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, dahlia, expert, flowers, garden, memories, moments, purple, shopping, The Dahlia Expert, tubers, widow
the dahlia tubers are here, the dahlia tubers are here;-)…
they are a variety of colours and sizes…
I am very excited… I will let them sit in the box for a few days before opening it up and then plant most of them in pots so they can start to grow in the house…
I ordered them through an Ontario company, The Dahlia Expert, and they were very helpful…
the first ones we ever got were from a lovely gentleman on Vancouver Island… we spent hours in his garden and garage deciding on which ones to bring home on the plane…
they grew beautifully but we didn’t store them correctly for the winter and lost all of them… hoping I do a better job with these;-)…
19 Sunday Apr 2020
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beloved, big girl pants, fence, garden, growing, happy, lilac, lilac bush, memories, moments, neighbour, pruning, remembering, story, surveyors, widow
today I spent hours sitting in the living room reading and watching the neighbour across the street working on the lilac bush… this is how it looked a few weeks back…
here is how it looked a few years ago when it was blooming…
yesterday they had surveyors out measuring the edges of the property, so I am assuming they are going to put up a fence… the surveyors had to dig into the bush to set their mark…
this morning I spotted him chopping down a bunch of the branches and wondered if he was removing the whole thing…
eventually I went outside and shared the story of that particular bush… maybe twenty-five years ago we removed a lilac from the backyard… we gave a tiny piece to our neighbour who lived in that house…
I shared how her teenage son would take out his frustrations with a golf club on the little bush… so was amazed that it grew up, lol…
the new neighbour advised that he is putting in a fence along the side, but was just pruning the bush so he could work with it without needing a ladder…
here’s a final shot of how it looks now…
glad it is remaining and looking forward to watching it grow;-)…
17 Friday Apr 2020
Posted in family, garden, life, moments, nature, technology, Uncategorized
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beloved, big girl pants, birds, blessed, eyes, garden, geese, hot tub, moments, nature, red, robins, sunlit, Technology, widow
yesterday I was in the hot tub early in the evening, which is not my usual pattern…
I watched geese flying south in the blue sky…
I also watched a number of birds in the elm tree next door… in the sunlight they looked like they were bright red in colour… many flew from there past the garage…
I stared at one of them for the longest time trying to decide if it was a sunlit robin or something else… because there were so many of them I didn’t think they were robins as usually I see them alone… eventually it flew away…
thinking how my beloved would have been able to provide a certain answer as he had eagle eyes;-)…
as soon as I got into the house I checked my bird book and my bird app (of course I have one) and am pretty sure it was a robin…
but it was exciting for a few moments as I imagined all kinds of very red birds, lol..
here’s the photo that my Merlin Bird ID came up with…
07 Tuesday Apr 2020
the weather has been very odd over the last week…
on Friday it snowed all day and into Saturday… everything was covered… then it started to melt and by today it is nearly all gone…
above shows the front yard Saturday on the top and today on the bottom…
the backyard has changed a lot as well… yesterday there was still a fair bit of snow on the deck and by the pond… today it is almost completely gone…
crazy, but I hope to be able to sit out there soon…
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