28 Sunday Sep 2025
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25 Monday Aug 2025
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around, bench, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, growing, moments, morning glories, nature, plants, surprise, vine, weather, widow
the other day I posted about the morning glory that had grown through a space in the back of the bench on the deck…
I was hoping that the vine would have flowers on the front of the bench;-)…
today I looked carefully and discovered this, lol…
it went around the 2×4 and back out on the same side…
too funny;-)…
01 Tuesday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, blooming, flowers, garden, giggling, growing, moments, morning glories, nature, purple, weather, widow
been giggling a bit…
I planted many morning glories and have been watching for the first blooms…
yesterday I spotted the first one… it was blooming under the bench of the butterfly chair, lol…
nearly impossible to see…
today I saw the second bloom, on the bench this time and with another bud preparing to open;-)…
hope more will open higher up, lol…
10 Tuesday Jun 2025
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18 Sunday May 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, forming, front yard, garden, grass, growing, leaves, lilac, moments, move, nature, weather, widow
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…
14 Wednesday May 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, clematis, garden, growing, moments, nature, pots, purple, shed, think, weather, widow
I am so excited…
spent some time on Friday bringing out pots for various spots in the garden…
amongst the pots was one with a clematis that was moved into the shed in the fall…
and I think it has already started to grow;-)…
very pleased that it made it through the winter and looking forward to watching it develop and bloom again this summer… it has lovely light purple flowers;-)…
08 Tuesday Oct 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, cut down, family, garden, growing, moments, nature, removed, sapling, stump, tree, widow
well, this was a lovely treat…
I’ve been wanting this sapling alongside of the garage to be cut down for ages…
it seems to get cut down on a fairly regular basis, but then grows back, lol…
now it has been chopped…
the trick will be to see if we can stop the stump from growing more branches, lol…
20 Tuesday Aug 2024
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10 Saturday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, growing, memories, memory, moments, nature, orange, plants, red, ripe, Technology, tomatoes, weather, widow
this memory came up in my feed on Thursday… it was from a year ago and clearly the tomatoes were ripe and nearly ready to eat…
this one is from the garden this Thursday…
obviously these ones are quite a ways behind, lol…
24 Wednesday Jul 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, caterpillars, flowers, garden milkweed, growing, leaves, moments, monarch, nature, plants, re-emerge, widow
the monarch caterpillars decimated every leaf of the milkweed in June through to the beginning of July…
now, in the last few weeks, the leaves have begun to re-emerge…
some have even started to flower…
I am hopeful that another monarch butterfly might come by and lay a few eggs, not twenty, lol…
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