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peaceful…

01 Friday Jul 2016

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been a quiet Canada Day for me… 

spent the day in the garden and did some final planting, a tiny bit of weeding and lots of reading and relaxing…

watched at least three squirrels at the feeders… they were the only wildlife in the garden for a good portion of the day… quite entertaining as they fought over who would be at the feeder… one was literally tossed off by another…


the hibiscus has a ton of buds and this lovely bloom early in the day…


sitting in the shade reading and enjoying the peaceful sound of the waterfall…

then I spotted this little beauty as it came in for a drink…

the next thing I knew the couple were at the feeder…


a bit later a chickadee stopped by for a snack too, and as I was cooking my dinner they were all taking turns, although they weren’t pleased that I kept going into the garage…


decided to barbecue my dinner… went well, other than the fact I over cooked the steak, lol… tasted good anyway…

the burners are rusted through so I may need to watch for a small barbecue on sale to replace this one…

off and on throughout the day the music from the celebrations at the Park have wafted over…

well, back to my book…

tv…

16 Sunday Aug 2015

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woke up early this morning and turned the tv on…

well, tried to turn it on… last night it was working fine, but this morning it is completely dead… sigh… I spend a lot of time on the bed watching it… tried everything I could think of, but nothing worked…

went, did grocery shopping, brought it home and put it all away…

then I rearranged the main floor tv room so that I felt comfortable watching in there…

spent a lot of time in the garden… there are at least two baby goldfish and possibly three… must have sat at the edge of the pond for half an hour watching for them…

  
moved the lounge chair onto the back deck so I could sit in it and watch the bird feeders… might just leave it there…

  
the goldfinches have been around and about… the garden just brightens up when the little flashes of yellow and light green flit past… and I even saw the bunny in the neighbour’s yard… 

much cooler today and sort of overcast, well not sunny, for a good portion of the day…

  
did pick up a few treats for next weekend in case I go camping again with the kids… we all love chips and I got the makings for s’mores… packed them all up in a bag ready to go…

hazy…

02 Thursday Jul 2015

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 getting a bit tired of the hazy sky we have had for the last week or so… this morning I decided I’d taken enough pictures of the morning sun, until I spotted the crows on the wire… rare to see them in this area of the neighbourhood…

fires are burning to the west of us which is causing the constant haze…

as I was preparing my supper tonight, looked out the patio doors and spotted this goldfinch sitting in the cedars, like a Christmas decoration…

  
a few minutes later, when I was sitting outside, two of the male goldfinches chased one another all through the cedars nattering at the top of their lungs… for a while I was thinking we had a dad, mom and son, which might be true, but there is also another male and they don’t like sharing a feeder… 

luckily there are three feeders in the garden so they don’t have to fight over the seed…

so happy to have the time to spend outdoors and enjoy these moments…

weeds…

28 Sunday Jun 2015

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quiet day spent mainly in the garden… off to the left is the bucket I filled with weeds and spent blossoms which I pulled…

lots of wildlife again… saw at least three goldfinches which reminded me of the day last summer when there were five males at the bird feeder at the same time and I saw them and got a picture… that really was a spectacular moment…

  
laughed for ages after one of the little red squirrels fell out of a feeder, landed in the pond, jumped out and ran through the yard at warp speed… think it was surprised and maybe a bit embarrassed…

 
my bunny friend is spending lots of time here… this afternoon she was suntanning while I was reading… knows that I won’t do anything to hurt her I think, as I can move around without causing her to charge off…
  
planters are looking very nice… hard to believe that June is nearly over…  

as I sit here, ending my day in the garden, I am missing my kids as they weren’t able to come by for dinner tonight… 

also missing my beloved… never know when those moments will surface…

odd…

27 Saturday Jun 2015

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very odd weather day…

got up and went outside first thing… it had been sunny but by the time I got out it was starting to cloud over…

decided to only put out the cushions for the chair I was sitting on… which turned out to be a good plan, lol…

there was so much activity that I couldn’t stay focused on the book I was reading…

  
the bunny stopped by and dealt with a number of dandelions… good thing because I never did manage to get any weeding done…

   
 

the goldfinch family were all over as were the sparrows…

  
there were at least three squirrels in the garden at the same time… beside these gray ones there was one cute little red squirrel…

  
seemed like they all wanted to get as much food as possible before the weather changed…

and change it did… rained, cleared, rained, there was thunder, rained, cleared and so on for most of the day… eventually about four it seemed to have settled down…

  
just a little while ago it got instantly dark followed by thunder and lightning and then the hail came down…

  
yikes…

active…

23 Tuesday Jun 2015

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walked home from the grocery store after work…

beautiful evening so I sat outside while my supper cooked…

lots of activity in the garden… 

goldfinches were flirting back and forth to the feeder…

cutest little bunny wandered by…

 
and sat beside the garbage can for the longest time…

a squirrel came right up to me on the deck and gave me a good look… I advised it that this was my deck at which point it turned and scurried off, lol…

a fair bit later, possibly after a nap, I went outside and took this picture of the sky…

 

darkening early as it is getting ready to rain… the garden is quite dark… really enjoying how the white flowers pop in the evening…

  
thinking about a hot tub but may depend on whether there is a downpour…

  

bits and pieces…

28 Monday Jul 2014

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discovered a few pictures on my phone that I wanted to share from our weekend in Fargo and Grand Forks…

this one shows the boys at a charging station in Starbucks… we were taking a break with a variety of beverages and resting our feet… phones and tablets were plugged in for a brief time so that no one would end up with a dead piece of electronics…

20140728-230740-83260217.jpgthen we moved on to a final bit of shopping… even the little boys were getting tired…

20140728-230859-83339575.jpgtonight I got a couple of excellent shots of the hibiscus… today it has two red blooms and two yellow ones…

20140728-231118-83478622.jpgthis one looks nice against the purple door…

20140728-231219-83539436.jpgI am wondering if the plant puts out more blossoms when it is stressed, because every time I look at it, seems it is in need of water… but there are numerous buds ready to open…

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and tonight I saw two boy goldfinches at the feeder… yay…

busy…

13 Sunday Jul 2014

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got up and had a hot tub just before the rain started… I sat there very still as the goldfinches were flitting about, as well as a couple of squirrels running around the fence and into one of the feeders, while the blue jays were flying through the garden… rather busy…

then, while one boy finch was at the feeder I thought I saw another yellow something fly past… wasn’t positive…

girl and boy goldfinch eating...

girl and boy goldfinch eating…

went for breakfast with the kids in St. Boniface, wearing those big girl pants again, and on to a few stores, including one where we got Jeff his belated birthday and Fathers’ Day gift – a new barbeque…

I headed to Safeway for groceries and when I got home and was looking out the window I saw two boy goldfinches at the feeder… yay…. didn’t get a picture, but will be trying to do that in the next few days…

last night the moon was full and very beautiful… spent a bit of time and got this photo…

full moon last night...

full moon last night…

was rather pleased with the outcome…

 

hibiscus…

03 Thursday Jul 2014

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once again the sun shone all day long… still a big deal after all the overcast and rainy days…

took some pictures of the hibiscus buds this morning on my way to the car… I can’t help myself when I see something lovely in the garden, lol, but that is part of taking the time to enjoy the moment…

20140703-201425-72865429.jpghere is what greeted me as I arrived home…

20140703-201707-73027737.jpgthey are very lovely…

20140703-201946-73186306.jpgthis one is from upstairs…

to top it off the goldfinch couple spent a bit of time eating their dinner as I was making mine… nice to have them both in the picture…

20140703-202357-73437832.jpghave heard of a few losses recently and it reminds me to enjoy every moment because we don’t know what tomorrow might bring…