21 Sunday Jun 2026
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had fun finding a few columbine plants with flowers that the bunnies haven’t discovered yet…
they are both in the raised pond bed and kind of hidden;-)…
they should be fine, even if discovered, as the bunnies seem to prefer the leaves, not the flowers;-)…
09 Tuesday Sep 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, buds, falling, fish, food, friend, friends, garden, happy, hibiscus, leaves, lunch, moments, nature, pond, soaking, wasps, water, weather, widow
another delightful day in the garden, especially after the last number of cool and overcast days…
spotted a hibiscus blossom, so that was a treat…
next, I went into the pond to clean out the pump… the leaves have been falling like crazy and there were a ton in the water… once the pump has been cleaned out, the waterfall always flows beautifully…
all the cushions went out and a dear friend arrived with lunch… we ate inside as the wasps are very busy in the garden…
we moved outside and had a lovely time by the pond catching up on life…
after she left, I read in the garden for the remainder of the day;-)…
soaking up every minute possible in this sanctuary…
24 Tuesday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, hibiscus, irritated, leaves, lemon, moments, nature, outdoors, plants, weather, widow
well over a week ago, the lemon tree made its way from the house into the garden…
since then it has been rather irritated with the weather… the leaves were all hanging down as though it was thirsty, but watering it didn’t seem to make any difference…
finally, a few days ago the leaves had perked up and it looks happy again…
the hibiscus has also forgiven me for bringing it outdoors… it had enjoyed being under the cedars but was miffed when it was moved out to the edge of the pond… where it proceeded to get a bit of a sunburn;-(…
the two of them are looking very nice now…
07 Saturday Jun 2025
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accessible, big girl pants, blessed, family, garden, leaves, moments, nature, overgrown, trim, virginia creeper, weather, widow
recently, as I was watching my grandson leaving the garage, I realized that he was having to struggle with all the virginia creeper that was attempting to take over the doorway, lol…
so, I brought out a pail, put on my gloves, and used the clippers to make the space a little more open…
from there I went to the side gate and did a fair bit of trimming as it was getting difficult to get to the tap and hose…
much more accessible now;-)…
then I had a sit down and did some reading, lol…
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…
08 Thursday May 2025
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aquasize, beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, enjoy, garden, hot tub, leaves, middle, moments, nature, ride, weather, widow
Wednesday morning, as I was waiting for my ride to aquasize, I realized that the trees across the creek were covered in leaves, woohoo;-)…
it was a beautiful day and I had a hot tub in the middle of the afternoon…
can’t even remember the last time I’ve done that…
what a treat… I am doing my best to enjoy every minute of these delightful days…
05 Monday May 2025
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as I was sitting on the deck this afternoon, the leaves were budding…
I thought it had been happening last week, but then it stopped…
today the temperature rose so high it must have caused them to burst open and it felt like it was raining…
took this photo of the chair cushion before it got really covered… I had to put my drink into a thermos bottle because my glass kept getting bits dropped into it, lol…
29 Tuesday Oct 2024
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Assiniboine Park, big girl pants, blessed, Canada geese, geese, ignored, leaves, moments, nature, path, walk, weather, widow
walked to and from the Park yesterday…
met up with a number of Canada geese, but happily they all ignored me and everyone else on the paths…
noticed that the Assiniboine was very low…
and the path was covered in leaves, pretty…
such a beautiful place;-)…
29 Sunday Sep 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, fish, furniture, garden, goldfish, leaves, moments, nature, netting, pond, rearranged, water, widow
on Friday I rearranged the lawn furniture so there was a bit more space on the back deck…
on Saturday, I took the netting off the pond… it was doing a good job of collecting the leaves although the weight of them had it sinking into the water…
the fish weren’t moving around as much as usual, the birds weren’t drinking or bathing and I didn’t like the look of it…
next year when it goes down, I will put some thin boards over the top so that it doesn’t slip into the fishes’ domain…
now, the fish, the birds, and I are much happier, lol…
10 Tuesday Sep 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, family, garden, grandson, landscape pins, leaves, lost, moments, nature, netting, pond, Technology, traverse, weather, widow
finally got the net down to protect the pond from all the falling leaves…
we ordered netting online awhile ago and I had some landscape pins which we used to fasten it around the pond… I had to remove ones that were holding down a drip hose around the main deck because I have managed to misplace the box which has at least twenty-five more pins in it, sigh…
it was an interesting process as we figured out the best spots to attach it… my housemate did most of the work, but I did help…
so happy that we can still traverse the bridge without having to walk on the net…
it is the perfect length so that we didn’t have to go back and forth across the water to cover the whole thing… it doesn’t even look too bad…
and, of course, since then, hardly any leaves have fallen, lol…
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