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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…

chance…

30 Saturday Jul 2022

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this picture came up on my Facebook memories a few days ago…

it was a reminder of the frightening ride we had on the chairlift at Mount Washington eleven years ago…

we sat at the bottom of the chairlift for a long time… both of us had a fear of heights… but we decided to do it…

we got on the lift and started up, but the person who helped us didn’t put the bar down…

I felt so scared that I may have bent the side and back bars on the chair, lol… when we came down they were careful to make sure all the safety features were in place…

we were proud of one another;-)…

this photo came up too…

it was from a few years ago when my kids tried to get me up on a wakeboard…

we tried for what felt like hours to do it… one was in the water with me and one was driving the boat carefully… it just never happened…

but, once again, I was pleased that I had taken the chance and tried new things, lol…

my beloved would have laughed and laughed, although he didn’t love being on the water…

duel…

18 Monday Jul 2022

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there was quite a thunderstorm early Saturday morning…

it was the first day in a long time that I ate breakfast in the house as I’ve been doing a great job of being outside if it isn’t raining…

eventually it was dry enough to spend some time in the garden where I had a bit of a duel with the gray squirrels that have found a way to get to both of the slinky protected bird feeders…

and then, I spent a lovely time watching a monarch flit around the space, landing a number of times on the milkweed and then flitting around some more…

what a treat and how lucky was I to get to enjoy those moments;-)…