25 Friday Jun 2021
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watching the grass grow has taken on a whole new meaning, lol…
and it is coming along nicely;-)… there has been lots of watering…
Wednesday it got mowed and the garden looks so much tidier…
still going to be a while before it is fully grown in…
21 Monday Jun 2021
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I’ve been thinking of many special Father’s Days and missing this great guy…
interesting how difficult holidays can be sometimes… used to be such a wonderful time… pleased that most years I am able to focus on the special times that have taken place…
still happy that the day is over…
16 Wednesday Jun 2021
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I am loving my new hose…
it reaches to the front step with ease and I can also get to all the plants and pots in the shade garden as well…
lots of room to get to each of the hanging baskets to give them a drink…
I’ve been having fun trying different routes with it, to see which ones I like the best…
and it barely takes up any room when it is put away… unlike the old one which wouldn’t hang properly as it had a mind of its own, lol…
yay…
14 Monday Jun 2021
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28 Friday May 2021
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, computer, flowers, happy, moments, morning glory, nature, photos, purple, stickers, widow
yesterday I received two sets of stickers made from my photos, that had been ordered a while ago…
after cleaning off one that came on the computer, thanks to rubbing alcohol and an old facecloth, I added one of each ;-)…
think I’m liking how they look…
25 Tuesday May 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, happy, lilacs, moments, nature, plants, purple, threat, weather, widow
Hilda the Gardener came by today and filled the front planters, a couple of hanging planters on the side of the house, a bed next to the garage, and moved ferns from one area to another…
everything looks great…
there is a threat of frost (for the next three nights), so I have just come in from putting sheets over all of the areas, lol…
excited to see how wonderful it is all going to look;-)…
she also brought me some lilacs, because she knows I love them…
22 Saturday May 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, cleaning, cold, dining room, happy, moments, plants, purple, tray, widow
another overcast and cold day…
I did get the dining table cleaned off, but with the cold outside, I didn’t want to move the last of the plants…
so they went onto a tray which went back onto the counter, lol…
the table looks great though…
19 Wednesday May 2021
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Monday I used the big clamp on the workbench in the garage…
I couldn’t find the 2×4 that had two nails in it which I made last year to put oranges out, hoping the orioles might stop by… no idea where it is…
so, I put a piece of wood in the clamp and used the drill to add two screws to it;-)…
we shall see if any orioles decide to stop by…
and then I drilled a couple of screws into a few spots in the deck that had come loose…
way to go me…
12 Wednesday May 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, happy, moments, nature, plants, purple, rack, weather, widow
the garden looks amazing…
yesterday, Hilda the Gardener came and spent a number of hours cleaning it up…
afterwards I spent time sitting out on the back deck… the weather has been delightful…
today I spent the day in the garden, moving pots around, and planting dahlias and some of my flower eggs…
I used a cookie rack over top of the flower eggs to keep the squirrels out, lol… wish I had more for the dahlias, but hopefully they won’t be too interesting for the critters…
when I wasn’t planting I finished a good book and started another…
enjoying the days…
08 Saturday May 2021
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, buds, flowers, garden, happy, moments, morning glories, nature, purple, weather, widow
so excited to see two buds on the morning glories in the living room window…
had not expected flowers before the plants were moved outside…
usually it takes weeks before the first bud shows up, so this was amazing…
since then, those two have opened and many others have bloomed as well…
making me think that I might try to grow some over the winter… I could start them in the fall and then see what happens;-)…
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