26 Sunday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, caterpillars, chrysalises, garden, hamper, moments, monarch, nature, pop-up, widow
went out to get a couple of pop-up laundry hampers for the monarch caterpillars…
hope they protect them from the birds…
so far I’ve spotted three, which is about the correct number for the amount of leaves on the milkweed plants;-)…
and I’m hoping that they might end up building their chrysalises in them as well…
22 Wednesday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, butterflies, caterpillars, garden, hamper, happy, interested, moments, monarchs, nature, widow
a number of monarchs (or the same one numerous times) have visited the garden and stopped to snack at the ageratum…
unfortunately, none appeared interested in the milkweed…
I’ve been checking it for the last week, but have not seen any eggs…
yesterday, when I was inspecting the plants which had a number of holes in them, I spotted two tiny caterpillars;-)… only got one in focus, lol…
today, they have already grown a lot…
so excited to see them;-)…
wondering if I need to put the hamper net, which is currently covering the strawberries, over this plant, so the birds don’t get them 🤔…
25 Sunday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, cover, delicious, food, garden, hamper, moments, nature, plant, plants, pollinated, strawberries, strawberry, tasty, treat, widow
the strawberry plant, from last year, is doing very well…
we found a hamper at the store on July 5th, after either the birds or squirrels had eaten the ripe strawberries before we got to them, lol…
I kept the cover on them until a few ripe ones were ready to eat and then after we had those ones, I took the cover off so that the flowers could be pollinated…
as a number of yellow/green berries started to appear, the cover went back on the plant…
on Thursday I could see the ripe berries, through the screen…
removed the cover and picked three beautiful strawberries…
they were so sweet, yum…
05 Friday Jul 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, hamper, moments, nature, plants, protection, shopping, strawberry, vanish, widow
so far I haven’t had a single strawberry, although at least two were nearly perfect when they vanished…
tonight we ran out to the store and picked up a folding circular hamper…
I cut away the top and popped the whole thing over the strawberry plant, pot and roller… fit perfectly;-)…
maybe I will get some strawberries now…
05 Sunday Aug 2018
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relaxing day today as I focused on preparing for the camping trip… as we are leaving on Thursday after work decided to start gathering required items…
did laundry and started packing the hamper basket that I will be taking my stuff in…
the oldest and youngest came for dinner and we had Chinese food… nice to spend time with these two…
going to gather a few more things tonight… then a hot tub and bed…
20 Saturday Jan 2018
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while the kids were here over Christmas they bought me a laundry basket just before they left… actually I found it after dropping them at the airport…
they were doing some laundry and asked if I had a basket… I said no although I do have a hamper in the closet but don’t use it to carry things up and down stairs…
it’s been kind of handy… who knew, lol…
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