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huge…

22 Saturday Jun 2019

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beloved, big girl pants, blooms, English Garden, garden, huge, poppies, widow

yesterday I was enjoying the poppies in the English Garden… they were huge…

reminded me of some others I’ve seen recently…

… one of the blossoms as it was opening in our garden…

… a photo that my daughter sent me from Ottawa as she was taking a walk…

… the giant poppies at the Park…

… then there is the postcard I received in the mail…

… and finally, a shot of the sunlight shining on one of only four blooms this year…

my beloved and I have always loved poppies and seeing them makes me remember him and fun times in the garden…

bucket…

19 Wednesday Jun 2019

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big girl pants, blessed, bucket, early, flowers, garden, photos, purple, walk, water, widow

early this morning watered all the plants in the garden with a bucket… it meant that I got lots of steps in and did a bit of weight training, lol…

summer is nearly upon us…

so enjoy the time to wander around the space and enjoy the beauty…

morning is my best time… by the end of the day I am often just interested in vegging out in front of the tv…

patch…

11 Tuesday Jun 2019

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big girl pants, busy, creeping Charlie, dandelions, garden, grandson, happy, mowing, patch, schedule, widow

happy that my grandson has been able to add mowing my grass on Sunday’s to his schedule… he has a busy one now that he is working a full time job, a part time job, volunteering weekly, and participating in rowing events…

as he was mowing the back I went out to take a picture and he stopped so I couldn’t get him in the shot… brat…

I did catch him a couple of minutes later, lol…

nice to have the creeping Charlie and dandelion patch trimmed back…

swallow…

10 Monday Jun 2019

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big girl pants, close, garden, lucky, overflow, pond, poppies, shopping, swallow, top up, water, weather, widow

turned the hose on to top up the pond again yesterday… maybe the wind has been evaporating the water more quickly because it wasn’t particularly hot…

then I got focussed on a few other things… was on my way to the garage to go grocery shopping and decided to check out the poppies before leaving…

when I got over there I realized that the water was still going… turned it off just as it was going to swallow up the bridge…

yikes… that was close…

theme…

09 Sunday Jun 2019

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beautiful, beloved, big girl pants, dahlia, flowers, garden, happy, hibiscus, mandevilla, planted, plants, pond, purple, rain, theme, weather, widow

had some fun in the garden on Saturday… the forecast was for thunderstorms and rain during the day so I got out early to plant the purchases from the day before…

trying to stick to the purple and white theme although the dahlia might be a bit on the pink side;-)…

three pots planted, a few baskets hung, the tomato and mandevilla placed… also brought out the hibiscus…

still need to bring out the Japanese Maple, but going to wait just a bit longer so it doesn’t struggle with the move…

it is looking pretty good… now just waiting to get that back flowerbed cleaned up…

missing my beloved as I work away in the yard…

tackle…

04 Tuesday Jun 2019

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big girl pants, flowers, garden, gardener, plants, purple, sanctuary, tackle, widow

so excited to get home yesterday because I received a message from my gardener, Hilda, advising she had been by and done some planting…

it looks great and I can hardly wait to see what happens when she tackles the bed across the yard, lol…

lobelia…

03 Monday Jun 2019

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big girl pants, flowers, fun, garden, lobelia, plants, purple, weather, widow

fun in the garden…

finally got around to planting the lobelia and alyssum… the weather may have turned the corner, although it was something like 4 degrees when I got up…

decided to plant in clumps, so all lobelia in some planters and just alyssum in others…

looking forward to watching them grow and seeing how they look…

leaps…

01 Saturday Jun 2019

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blessed, clematis, ferns, flowers, garden, leaps, leaps and bounds, lily of the valley, memories, pictures

things are really growing in the garden…

and I don’t just mean the dandelions and grass, sigh…

the ferns are growing by leaps and bounds…

the lily of the valley are starting to bloom… they smell lovely, but they don’t like to stay in one spot… if I was starting a garden I would only put them in a place where they are surrounded by concrete…

and the clematis is happily climbing up the trellis…

flowerbed…

26 Sunday May 2019

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big girl pants, blooms, family, flowerbeds, flowers, garden, grandson, moments, poppies, rocks, widow

today my grandson came over to move the rocks out of the flowerbed in an effort to make it easier for when the gardener is able to start work…

while I was over there I checked out the couple of poppies that have come up… we used to have many, many poppies in the garden, but over the last few years there have been fewer and fewer…

looks like there will be a couple of flowers… pretty exciting…

might be the last ones;-(…

addictive…

25 Saturday May 2019

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addictive, big girl pants, cleaning, garden, Spring, tv, virginia creeper, widow

I think Spring has finally hit me…

spent time cleaning a cabinet and shelf unit in the bathroom…

also did a bit of work in the garden…

cut back some of the Virginia creeper… always feel such satisfaction trimming it, and find it rather addictive, lol… sometimes it is hard to stop…

and then, while I was watching some tv, I touched something on the remote and the screen misbehaved for a while… eventually I unplugged everything and when it started up again it was fine… not that I am addicted to tv…

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