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evening…

25 Thursday Jun 2015

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big girl pants, bunny, evening, goldfinch, hot tub, red squirrel

what a wonderful relaxing evening I have spent in the garden…

on my walk home I met up with this bunny…

  
this was the precursor for the rest of the evening…

while my dinner was cooking, I sat outside on the deck by the hot tub to watch for the goldfinch family… and look who turned up…

  
after supper, had a short nap and came back out to finish my book and have spent the last hour or so enjoying the antics of a little red squirrel…

  
he started out on the bench by the bird feeder…

 
happily snacking on fallen sunflower seeds, he spent some time on the bottom deck…

  

moved over to the planters on the main deck and happily posed for me by the flowers…

under the deck and onto the steps where some leaves were the meal of choice…

  
sparrows have been cleaning up the leftovers under the feeder right beside him and everyone has just gone about their business…

he’s been back and forth just a foot from me for the whole evening, clearly not considering me a threat of any kind…

what a wonderful treat to have the time and opportunity to enjoy the antics in the garden…

  

deck…

13 Saturday Jun 2015

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big girl pants, bunny, deck, garden, goldfinch, hot tub, moment, The Captain's Table, walk

recently I’ve been coming outside and sitting on the deck to write my blog post… lovely way to end the day and another opportunity to get outside…

today I’ve been on all three decks for some period of the day…

 
started the day with an early morning hot tub… turned the waterfall back on so got to hear the lovely water sounds… sat on the back deck and read and watched the various wildlife that visited…

  
besides the goldfinches there were squirrels, butterflies and a large dragonfly… I think the second goldfinch in this picture was a juvenile, not the missus…

  
went in while it rained, and then sat on the deck by the door to read… while there, a cute little bunny came by…

 
sat there for at least ten minutes before hopping away… 

lovely treat when my kids called and three of them met me for supper at The Captain’s Table… my favourite fish and chip place… luckily I walked there and back to help make up for the fried food I ate…

 
they headed off to wash the car andchauffeur one of the other kids, and I stopped at the grocery store to pick up salad fixins for tomorrow’s supper…

noticed the first clematis bloom when I arrived home… it is doing very well this year…

  

going to make some tea and read a bit more while I’m out here and the sky is blue… enjoying the moment…

moments…

19 Tuesday May 2015

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big girl pants, geese, goldfinch, moments, sparrow, warbler

spent a lovely hour sitting by the pond as I waited for my car to have an oil change and bath…

watched this family of geese…  

 

they are the only inhabitants at the moment… I have been there when there were many families but that must have been later in the season…

  
busy babies…

  
I was thinking the water must be cold as they paddled along for a short stint in the pond… it was a special moment…

spent the afternoon in the garden…

 
saw goldfinches…

  a black and white warbler… maybe a yellow warbler but it moved too quickly for me to get a photo… 

 
and this cute sparrow…

day filled with special moments… great to have the time to enjoy them…

weeds…

16 Saturday May 2015

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big girl pants, fish, garden, goldfinch, grass, pond, weeds

a while ago I was weeding in the garden but couldn’t tell if this one plant was a weed… decided to leave it for a bit and see how it grew…

well, today I figured out that it was a weed, fast growing and with deep roots… deeper than dandelions… couldn’t get one out no matter what I did… 

spent some time reading in between the weeding… day turned out to be lovely… put my new gazing ball into the pond… will see how it does there…

  
the fish are quite skittish… hiding under the bridge most of the time and rushing back there if they are elsewhere and hear any noises… even a car driving down the lane… odd but we will see what happens as the weather warms up and they get used to the space…

  
thankfully the kids came by for supper and mowed the grass, whipper snipped and vacuumed some of the garden… and pulled out that weed…  looks great out there…

we ran out to Home Depot and I found some white wooly thyme which I hope to plant tomorrow if the weather holds…

  
best thing today was seeing a goldfinch fly through the garden in the afternoon… made sure to fill all the feeders so maybe next time it will stop for a snack…

savour…

13 Wednesday Aug 2014

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big girl pants, Empty Full, goldfinch, moments, savour, shadows

today I found opportunities to savour the moments… spent a few minutes enjoying the gorgeous gladiolas and the light and shadow cast by the sun…

IMG_7197.JPGas I was backing out of the driveway I spotted one of the goldfinches at the front feeder… took a few moments to watch and get a few pictures… rarely do I get this close to them…

IMG_7205-0.JPGEmpty Full has just been worked on and the waterfall and mist were beautiful this morning…

IMG_7206.JPGtonight I spent time by the pond and watched a squirrel enjoying a snack at one of the feeders… must have spent half an hour watching it, lol…

IMG_7222.JPGday full of wonderful moments…

beauty…

06 Sunday Jul 2014

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beauty, garden, goldfinch, reading, squirrel

had a wonderful day in the garden…

spent time watching birds at the feeder… then a squirrel ran past me, swam across the pond and vanished under the cedar tree…

20140706-205339-75219925.jpgdon’t think this was the one who took the swim, but it wandered by as I was quietly sitting reading…

20140706-205656-75416132.jpgthe goldfinch flew right by me as well and landed on the flat rock that the water flows over for a drink… we were very close to one another…

the kids were over in the afternoon and spotted more baby fish… two different batches as there are three sizes swimming around… the five I found… a group half that size and some weeny ones that are all dark coloured but that might be because they are so tiny…

after everyone left I lay down on the floating chair without even putting on the cover and read and enjoyed the sounds of the garden…

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a day filled with beauty…

hot…

05 Saturday Jul 2014

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dragonflies, goldfinch, hot, mosquitoes, pond, weeding

was in the garden by nine this morning…

filled a bucket with weeds as I tidied the garden around the pond…

I was hot when I sat down with my tea and kobo…

20140705-200324-72204551.jpgafter reading for a while it seemed really hot so I checked the temperature and it was 33.9, guess that explains it… I spent time watching the fish in the pond and the goldfinch who stopped by… there was a big butterfly and a number of dragonflies in the garden… and many, many mosquitoes…

20140705-200639-72399301.jpgthere are three light coloured baby fish and two dark coloured ones… they are likely gold coloured but in the pond turn black…

came in just after noon and napped and read…

just checked the temperature…

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lovely day…

Canada Day…

01 Tuesday Jul 2014

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beloved, Canada Day, goldfinch, grackles, hot tub, neighbours, popcorn, quiet

been a very quiet Canada Day here…

it was overcast when I got up and then it started to mist… put out a box of pass-me-overs and made tea…

I saw this goldfinch come to the feeder a number of times throughout the day, once with the missus…

Goldfinch snacking in the rain...

Goldfinch snacking in the rain…

when I was out in the hot tub, he went to one of the feeders in the back corner of the garden… I also thought I saw two of them fly over the house… am wondering if maybe there is a baby boy in their life, although last year there were at least five pairs living in the area…

the grackles have been coming to the feeders a lot… this is very unusual, and they seem to be coming when it is raining… don’t have the heart to shoo them away because they also have a baby in their midst, although it is the same size as the parents, but lighter coloured and bushier…

watched tv, read a bit and napped… my legs are both stiff from the fall, but I don’t have any visible bruising… talked with my girls, and my son-in-law stopped by on his way home from work to stand up some plants in the pond… after my little fall yesterday, I was a bit nervous to get down close to the pond… who would save me if I fell in, lol… he counted four baby fish in the pond as well…

usually the kids would come over and we would watch the fireworks that go off at the Park, but no one was feeling that great and the weather has been rainy and overcast all day so they decided not to come…

spent a bit of time remembering all the gatherings on Canada Day on the front street as neighbours, friends and family would put chairs out on the road, make gallons of popcorn, spray everyone within an inch of their life with bug spray and oooo and ahhhh at the fireworks… some years they would be amazing, and other years not so great… the view is not quite as good now, as the trees have grown so they can interfere depending on where the fireworks have been set up… one year we went over to the Park to watch them and almost died of smoke inhalation, lol…

since talking with the kids the sky has finally turned blue, so I might walk out to the street when they start… or not… missing my beloved today…

company…

09 Monday Jun 2014

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big girl pants, company, goldfinch, hot tub

after a short nap tonight, while I was making dinner, a lovely guest arrived for their dinner…

20140609-214956-78596702.jpghad a few minutes to take some shots and am looking forward to checking out the camera photos…

had a visit with a friend and then went out and started emptying the hot tub…

20140609-215251-78771492.jpgthe last few weeks there has been lots of foam so I think it is a good plan to put in fresh water… hope I have the time to start filling it tonight, but that might not happen until after work tomorrow…

some days those big girl pants seem to fit fairly well…

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music…

05 Thursday Jun 2014

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big girl pants, coneflower, flowers, goldfinch, music, poppies, robins, weed

tonight I spent a bit of time in the garden…

sadly, not to plant, just to sit and read…

while I was out there robins were singing and the goldfinch family came by for a snack, and sang for their supper…

while enjoying the music of the waterfall, I also spent time watering… particularly as I haven’t had the energy to plant the rest of the haul from Saturday and Sunday… hoping to keep them alive until Saturday morning when I am sure to get them into the ground or pots…

20140605-212342-77022230.jpgthe pansies that are planted are very happy…

20140605-212441-77081193.jpgthe lily of the valley are blooming and smell lovely…

two exciting things…

20140605-212714-77234812.jpgthe poppies are thinking about blooming… quite slow this year, but I am thrilled that they came back on their own…

20140605-212834-77314845.jpgand the coneflowers have started to grow… this is also very exciting because I was sure they weren’t going to return… we’ve had them in the garden before but George would pull them out every spring because they look much like a weed…

my plan is to let everything grow for a while, until I am sure it is a weed or a plant I want to keep…

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