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24 Sunday Aug 2025

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another lovely day…

spotted a baby bunny, snacking on poppy plants…

and a bigger bunny in the middle of the garden…

a bit later my housemate discovered the cutest little frog and popped them next to the pond…

I had an enjoyable time reading outside, although I did have a blanket on as it was a bit cool, but the garden looked tidy following a cut, trim and blow, lol…

everything is so lush following all the rain…

the waterfall area has had the last of the liner cut back now that we are sure it isn’t leaking, yay…

things…

29 Tuesday Jul 2025

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the lawn didn’t get mowed last Sunday because the grass hadn’t grown much, and this Sunday because it rained most of the day…

my friends were coming over yesterday afternoon so I decided to mow and whipper snip the garden… I waited until just before noon to give it more time to dry out…

moved a chair and some tables and then figured out how to get the mower going (been a while since I used it)… there are many things in the garden so it takes a bit of effort to get around them, even though it is a small space…

once that was done I pulled down the whipper snipper, found the battery, attached it, and went around all the edges… apparently, at some point I should have tapped it on the ground to extend the line that does the cutting…

I was rather pleased with the result, and then put the furniture back…

just before I brought out the cushions, it started to rain😣…

so we met in the house, lol…

things…

28 Monday Jul 2025

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the lawn didn’t get mowed last Sunday because the grass hadn’t grown much, and this Sunday because it rained most of the day…

my friends were coming over this afternoon so I decided to mow and whipper snip the garden… I waited until just before noon to give it more time to dry out…

moved a chair and some tables and then figured out how to get the mower going (been a while since I used it)… there are many things in the garden so it takes a bit of effort to get around them, even though it is a small space…

once that was done I pulled down the whipper snipper, found the battery, attached it, and went around all the edges… apparently, at some point I should have tapped it on the ground to extend the line that does the cutting…

I was rather pleased with the result, and then put the furniture back…

just before I brought out the cushions, it started to rain😣…

so we met in the house, lol…

complaint…

22 Sunday Jun 2025

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sometime back, we picked up a new hose as the old one had sprung a leak…

we ended up with a different type… not an expanding one…

I have used it and discovered that it didn’t work for me… it was 100 feet long, like the old one, but it seemed to kink more and the water flow seemed to come and go…

I’ve been sharing my complaint about it for weeks, so finally, we picked up the type I’d had before;-)…

it isn’t exactly the same as the old one, but is much better and lighter than the one I’ve been using…

now it is much more fun to water the plants and grass;-)…

flowerbed…

12 Thursday Jun 2025

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Hilda the Gardener spent a few hours on Wednesday afternoon tidying up the garden…

now that the poppies are finished blooming, she removed the ones that were in the walkway and cut back the ones in the flowerbed…

the other plants in that bed are visible and will likely spread out a bit more…

she also removed the lily of the valley from a section of the side garden…

the columbine are taking over but it looks fabulous… and the peas are moving up the arch at an astounding speed…

everything is doing well, including the clover and grass that we put down a few weeks ago…

I will be very happy when I don’t have to water it every day, lol…

raked…

25 Sunday May 2025

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early this week the garden was aerated with a huge machine…

watching the young man muscle it around the space made it clear how big and heavy the machine was…

a few days later, after watering the grass to soften it, clover and grass seed was scattered…

then the spots that weren’t doing well were raked and levelled out…

the new rake worked beautifully… the old one had separated quite a while ago, but it was likely thirty or forty years old, lol…

since then the grass has been watered daily to encourage the seed to take…

all of the cushions are put away before the watering begins…

it is a process, as the sprinkler has to be moved five or six times to ensure every bit gets a good soaking;-)…

fingers crossed that it does better this year than it did last year…

housing…

24 Saturday May 2025

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the other day we discovered that the battery on the lawnmower was no longer working…

after figuring out how to get it out of the housing, we went to The Battery Man to replace it… $168 and it works again…

very happy about that because the grass was getting really long after all the rain…

grass was mowed, whipper snipped, and blown…

looks great;-)…

forming…

18 Sunday May 2025

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a week ago the lilac was moved from the back garden to the front of the house…

grass was removed and a hole prepared by my housemate, and it was planted by Hilda the Gardener, and then thoroughly watered…

it hadn’t liked the spot where it had lived in the garden for the last ten years, but the bunnies did enjoy some of its bark over the winters…

happy to see new leaves forming along the branches…

hope it stays happy in its new spot…