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Jericho…

24 Sunday Mar 2019

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I was tidying up one of the kitchen junk drawers yesterday and I found the resurrection plant that we bought when my youngest grandson and I were in Ottawa last year about this time…

its actual name is Rose of Jericho… thank you Google;-)…

I took pictures as it opened…

12:07, 12:22, 1:31, 3:23…

4:20, 6:23 yesterday and 8:08 am and 5:06 pm today…

it is now a beautiful green floating plant… I am interested to see how it will end up…

shamrock…

17 Sunday Mar 2019

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I have always celebrated every event that came along: Christmas, Easter, Valentine’s Day, Halloween, Canada Day and St. Patrick’s Day…

when the girls were little, I’d make cookies for them to take to school… made a lot of cookies over the years…

for the last while I haven’t felt quite as enthusiastic about these special days…

maybe I’ve made my last cookie, lol…

today I had a green smoothie, even though I usually make eggs on the weekends…

for lunch I had zucchini-basil soup with the cutest bunny-shaped cheese pretzel from La Belle Baguette…

I also had fun taking some photos of the shamrocks growing in the Japanese Maple pot…

for supper, made green eggs and ham;-)…

came out very tasty;-)…

no fancy decorations, no cookies… just green food all day long…

hope your St. Patrick’s Day was just what you hoped for;-)…

dreary…

21 Sunday May 2017

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rained all day long… spent the time reading, watching PVRed shows and napping…

cooked a roast and made coleslaw for dinner with the kids…

looked dreary…

took the hibiscus outside during the day yesterday, but today it was only around 6 for most of the day so kept it inside, although I’m sure it would have liked the rain…

the morning glories are starting to twist around each other… hope that I can get them separated when it is finally time to plant them, lol…

not ready to put the water hyacinth outside because, although they are serious weeds in the south, they don’t like cold and will die off if the weather is too chilly for them…

certainly lots of green around…

listening…

23 Monday May 2016

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woke up just after midnight wondering what I was hearing…

took me a minute to realize it was rain pounding against the open window… once what I was listening to sank into my brain, I jumped up and closed the windows and patio door… then I went downstairs to see if it was coming in the corner of the basement, but it was dry…

when I got up in the morning it was fresh and green outside and the rain had stopped… after grocery shopping I took this picture out the front window…


always interesting how the rain can green everything up so nicely, much better than watering can…

sat out in the garden for a good portion of the day enjoying the beauty and finishing a novel…

kids came for dinner and we had our first meal of the season on the deck…


lovely, because often by dinner time it is already cooling off and we end up in the dining room…

afterwards there was some hot tubbing and visiting and I took this shot of the sky with some beautiful  clouds floating by…


the family stayed later than usual which was nice, and I am enjoying a last few minutes of quiet in the garden before heading in…

will be going to bed early tonight after a busy, but productive, long weekend…

I truly am blessed, having my family around me and the health to be able to enjoy working and spending time in the garden…

green…

19 Wednesday Aug 2015

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took a few photos of the violet blooms today… the greenery in these plants is very deep and rich looking…

  
pleased with how they came out… this was with my iPhone…

had some delicious green beans for my dinner…

  
I spent the rest of the evening preparing about seven pounds of beans, mainly green, but a few yellow… lots of work involved…

  
many minutes of “top and tailing”… that’s what my mom called it… 

she’d be so proud… I remember when we lived on the farm in La Salle and had a large garden and how she loved working in it…

  
blanched the beans…

  
popped them into cold water and filled bags to go into the freezer…

  
rather proud of myself when I put ten packages into the freezer…

that was besides eating about 3 cups and putting aside a large container for us to take camping on the weekend…

great fun… now to rest, lol…

green…

10 Wednesday Jun 2015

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been thinking about all things green… 

started this morning with a picture of my manicured lawn which my daughter mowed last night while she was waiting for me to get home…

  
been thinking about money a bit too… wanting to be sure I have enough green for my visit with my other kids… 

years ago George and I decided we wouldn’t take vacations if we didn’t have enough to be able to do what we wanted, after a very bad experience where we spent two weeks in a soaked tent while it poured every day, because we couldn’t afford to stay anywhere else…

love my green hose which is very light and expands or shrinks depending on whether or not there is water in it… makes watering so much easier…

  
tonight I watered everything after planting some morning glory seeds… some in a pot that already has the mandevilla in it…

 
and some in a hanging basket… looking forward to seeing them sprout…

excited to see this bit of green coming through the soil… one of the dahlias…

  
finally, discovered these wild rose blooms in among the jungle of green plants and grass in the other front flower bed… although flower might not be an accurate description, lol…

  
still giggle about how badly I wanted this wild rose in the garden… now it is trying to take over the whole yard… and I am constantly cutting back sprouts of it everywhere…

too funny…

green…

17 Monday Mar 2014

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St Patrick’s Day… all about green…

wore green clothes and took a green treat for my colleagues…

was talking with someone about all the steps you have to go through when someone dies…

still wondering how you find someone who knows what you need to do… it felt like I bumbled my way through the process and luckily made it without any huge mistakes…

the list of what to do from the Funeral Home covered a few of the things that had to be done, but was certainly not complete for my situation…

so much of it had to do with another green thing – money…

felt like every organization I was in touch with wanted some…

insurance companies that wanted specific information which had to come from the doctor and which had to be paid for… Land Titles, who needed me to pay them to change the registration of the house… the leasing company that required a safety check so that the car could be put into my name… and so on…

when someone dies, a lot of green gets used up…

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