25 Wednesday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, cut back, daisies, dancing, flowers, garden, grow, moments, nature, plants, widow
the daisies have been blooming for a few weeks and they had grown very tall… I got some lovely videos of them dancing in the breeze…
the other day I cut them back, hoping they will come back and be a bit shorter, lol…
now, we will wait and see;-)..
09 Friday Aug 2024
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anticipate, big girl pants, blessed, experiment, fish, friend, garden, goldfish, grow, koi, moments, nature, neighbour, pond, widow
a few weeks ago a friend brought me some koi that a neighbour had given her for me… they are a fair bit smaller than the goldfish, but I anticipate they will grow quickly…
I’ve never had (or wanted) koi, so it will be interesting to see how it goes… this photo shows one of them (mainly black and white) amongst the much larger goldfish…
my fish are fairly tough… they don’t get any special treatment so we will see how the koi manage in that environment;-)…
an experiment…
02 Tuesday Jul 2024
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Barbie the Barbecue, big girl pants, blessed, family, garden, grass seed, grow, housemate, moments, nature, rain, soil, sprinkled, water, weather, widow
Monday, while supper was cooking on Barbie, the barbecue, my housemate sprinkled grass seed over the non-grassed areas in the garden…
it had been raining off and on all day and was supposed to continue all day today…
after putting down the grass he used the last of the soil to cover everything and then raked it over…
now I have been directed to water every single day unless it rains;-(…
22 Saturday Jul 2023
Posted in health, life, moments, retirement, Uncategorized
I had a very busy day on Thursday…
so I didn’t have time to get a trim because my hair had apparently gone wild overnight…
instead I dug out my sharp scissors and cut my own hair…
think it came out okay, lol… although, as always, I can’t really see the back;-)…
12 Monday Sep 2022
Posted in food, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized
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avocado, big girl pants, blessed, food, garden, grow, moments, nature, pit, plants, seed, wait, widow
went into the cupboard over the fridge and checked on my current avocado pit…
weeks ago I had put it into a plastic bag with a bit of water, set it up there, and forgot about it… now it was ready…
chose a nice mug container and dug out a used plastic pot that would fit inside it…
popped in some stones and soil… then planted the pit which had cracked in half and had a bunch of roots on the bottom…
looking forward to watching it grow…
26 Sunday Dec 2021
Posted in business, family, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized, weather
so happy to finally have an amaryllis…
I’ve had my grandson on the search for some for weeks…
he finally came across one and dropped it off…
it has a pot and soil, but I decided to put it in water and set it inside the snowflake…
looking forward to watching it grow…
16 Wednesday Dec 2020
Posted in life, loss, moments, nature, Photography, Uncategorized, weather
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big girl pants, blessed, cold, elm, elm trees, gone, grow, hoarfrost, hole, memories, moments, nature, pictures, widow
this morning I was reminded of how beautiful hoarfrost can be… the pictures I came across were from eight years ago and showed the elm tree that lived across the street…
it was cut down a few years ago…
I took a photo to compare and was surprised at how much the cedar in our front yard has grown… the photo also shows the huge hole where the tree used to be…
I sure do miss the trees that have gone…
06 Wednesday May 2020
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, dahlias, flowers, garden, grow, growth, memories, nature, purple, weather, widow
for a number of days I was moving the dahlia pots outside in the morning and back into the house in the evening…
then they lived in the house for a few days as the weather was rather cool…
and I had such fun checking on them throughout the day to see if they had sprouted, and if so, to see how they had grown…
once again they’ve been moving out and back… most are coming up nicely…
watching new growth is so satisfying, particularly in this time of great unrest in our lives… still waiting for a couple to pop through the soil…
looking forward to the permanent move outside… still haven’t decided where they will each end up…
23 Sunday Feb 2020
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, Friday, friends, grow, moments, remembering, time, treat, widow
had a wonderful lunch out the other day…
arrived at the restaurant early and was very relaxed as I had a glass of water and looked around as I waited for my friend…
usually when I am waiting for someone at a restaurant I focus on my phone, lol… today I didn’t feel the need to do that…
what a difference eight years makes… before my beloved died, I had never been in a restaurant on my own…
I continue to grow as time goes by…
30 Wednesday Jan 2013
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beloved, career, coffee/tea mugs, conversations, grow, I am strong, life changing events, lifelong friendships, outcomes, pretty amazing, see beauty all around me, step out
had a few conversations today about a couple of life changing events that I have experienced… besides the loss of parents and other loved ones there have been three – one in my thirties, one in my fifties and this most recent one, in my sixties…
the conversations reminded me of one in particular… the first conversation this morning was about coffee/tea mugs and how much better certain ones make the beverage taste… brought back memories of leaving mugs behind when leaving a position… the second conversation was about stepping out of a not-so-good situation and being open to possibilities… interesting that both conversations took place today…
recently I have been thinking a bit about the change in my career which took place shortly after the birth of my youngest grandson… his 4th birthday is on Saturday…
I think the point for me has been, that, although the events were very difficult to deal with at the time, and really did change the direction that I and my family took, they all helped me grow and move into a better place…
sometimes it is easier to stay in a bad situation rather than step out of it and see what else is available…
I have learned that I am strong and can handle adversity… I am not framed by what was, but by who I am at this moment in time… I know that my beloved would be very proud of how I have weathered this most recent event…
difficult as each of these events has been, I would not change the outcomes… I have made lifelong friends, I have discovered what excellent skills I possess in the workplace, and I have learned and am still learning to manage on my own… I continue to see beauty all around me…
beauty is everywhere – you just have to open your eyes…
pretty amazing really…
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