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ensconced…

23 Friday Sep 2022

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well, Wednesday was that day in the garden, sigh…

Hilda the Gardener came by and most of the planters in the front yard and garden were cleaned out…

as an experiment, a few plants which had been in the planters were put into the ground to see if we could reuse them in the spring… and we tried that with the strawberry basket as well…

everything looks tidy and ready for the next seasons…

I am going to miss time spent in the garden although I am so happy with how many days I was ensconced in the space…

there will be many wonderful memories to enjoy during those freezing cold days in the middle of winter…

but for now, here’s hoping for more beautiful days in this magical space;-)…

swallowed…

21 Wednesday Sep 2022

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I got swallowed up in the events around the Queen’s death and eventual funeral…

reminded me of the way I fall into the Olympics, lol… I always want to watch everything as it happens…

the good news is that these days I am able to be up in the middle of the night and sleep during the day if needed…

now to catch up on a bit of missed sleep…

arch…

11 Sunday Sep 2022

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took this shot from the side garden the other day…

it brought to mind how that garden has looked over the years…

it used to be a shade garden and my beloved would wander into it and weed all the time…

after he died the tree that provided the shade was taken down… I ignored this space and for a number of years it was basically a weed patch, yikes…

once Hilda the Gardener came it started to improve and over the last few years we have focussed on it a bit more, lol…

last year we added the file cabinet raised bed and it has worked beautifully…

I am now looking for a garden arch trellis that will go from the raised bed to the wall of the house… it will give the peas and cucumbers a better place to grow on…

I think it will be a great addition once I find it, hopefully by spring…

redoing…

08 Thursday Sep 2022

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my bouquet subscription has come to an end and I came across this post I had written about my birthday bouquet…

I had an enjoyable time redoing it… this is how it looked on my birthday…

I removed the roses once they were spent…

it was time to do something new and this is what it became on May fourth…

used a cute teapot and a small glass for the next life of the bouquet…

added some of the statice to a container that was already filled…

and finally, used the container the flowers came in to set a cute new plant I recently purchased…

it is always such fun to change out the flowers as the bouquet ages, lol…

some great memories;-)…

drying…

01 Thursday Sep 2022

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Monday was a bit of a slower day with rain during the morning… we had breakfast out and I put the foodstuff back on the shelves while my son-in-law ran out to get a few things we needed…

then we took everything out of all the bottom cabinets, and while he washed the shelves and removed a few extra shelves in the back of two of them, I went through and set aside items for the giveaway boxes…

the frame and all the doors were primed and there were doors and drawers drying all over the place, lol…

stroll…

24 Wednesday Aug 2022

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on Monday morning we went to the Park Café for breakfast with my BS buddies and then took a stroll around the English and Leo Mol Gardens…

my son-in-law and I walked over and met the rest of the group inside the restaurant… it was wonderful to finally get there, as it had been a long time… breakfast was tasty and my favourite server mentioned how she had missed seeing me😊…

it was the first time I’ve been back in the Gardens for at least a few years and they were full of colour and blooms…

what a lovely way to usher in the week…

effort…

15 Monday Aug 2022

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spent time in the computer room this morning when it looked like it was going to rain… although it didn’t at that time…

cleared off the desktop, threw out paper, gathered a few items for the giveaway box, put cushions in the closet (possibly I have a cushion problem, lol), and moved a few things around…

even found a few things I’d forgotten…

a few more hours of effort before my son-in-law arrives from the east on Saturday and it should be comfortable for him to work in, lol… I hope…

scum…

06 Saturday Aug 2022

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spent the better part of yesterday and today working on the fish tanks… I’ve been thinking about how far I’ve come from the person who admired the tank, but had no desire to get my hands dirty… that was all for my beloved…

yesterday I used the pump (for emptying the hot tub) to remove the majority of the water that was still in them… then I removed the rocks and scrubbed down the sides… never leave a tank partly filled because the scum on the glass becomes rather difficult to remove, lol…

next I used the wet vac to remove the last of the water…

in between all that, I scrubbed each and every rock from the tanks… that took a while as I did it between reading times;-)…

rocks were placed back in, and then the hose brought in from outside to fill them up…

finally I put both pumps back in and got them working…

big job and it looks great…

morphed…

01 Monday Aug 2022

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started the day looking at photos of my beloved…a few tears were shed in the process… we were married 52 years ago today… I still remember looking out the window of the apartment to see him dropping off the decorated car… in those days, getting the car turned out with paper flowers was the thing to do, lol…

then I had a walk around the garden… in the 49 years we’ve been in this space, it has morphed from a square green grass covered area, to a swing set with some cedars, to a small swimming pool space, to a huge sandbox with a two story playhouse, to a parking area for a camper trailer… to a space filled with ponds and lovely gardens…

thanks to the help of Hilda the Gardener, a lawn service, and the kids, it is looking wonderful and I know that he would be pleased…

I am truly blessed, but I miss him every day…