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coneflower…

03 Thursday Jul 2025

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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, blooming, coneflower, family, flowers, garden, memories, moments, nature, plant, remembering, weather, weed, widow

the coneflower has finally bloomed… this one was planted on the south side of the house, next to the furnace vents… I think this is a much better spot than the pergola garden…

whenever the hose has been put out it has gotten water and has been growing nicely since it was planted…

not too long ago it produced a bud and it has slowly been opening over the last few weeks…

the petals still need to bend completely, but it is looking pretty good now;-)…

seeing it reminds me of how every year I would buy one, we’d plant it in the garden, and then in the spring my beloved would pull it out thinking it was a weed, lol…

memories 😉…

woodbine…

27 Friday Jun 2025

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big girl pants, bird feeder, blessed, ferns, garden, memories, moments, nature, Technology, virginia creeper, widow, woodbine

it is always interesting when I see memories of the garden come up…

this one was from six years ago…

there were lots more ferns and the virginia creeper (which is also known as woodbine) hadn’t filled up the entire wall of the garage… I had a hanging basket and the same bird feeder…

this is a photo I took today of the same area…

you can see that the virginia creeper has filled in completely, but also that most of the ferns have been moved… although it is the same bird feeder, it now has a plastic bottom as the original metal one rusted through…

fun to see the changes over time…

under-bench…

20 Tuesday May 2025

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beloved, big girl pants, cut, family, fixed, garden, lighting, memories, messy, moments, not working, replace, Technology, under-bench, widow

I finally removed the under-bench lighting that hasn’t worked since before my beloved died… you can see it in this photo… it is the tube-like piece hanging below the bench and looks messy…

I hadn’t realized that he had fastened it with screws and was thinking what a huge job it was going to be to lay on my back and move around under the bench undoing it, two screws at a time…

then I got the bright idea to cut sections of it and pull it out…

woohoo, it worked perfectly and the deck looks much tidier now…

now to decide if I want to look for something similar to replace it, sigh…

completely…

30 Wednesday Apr 2025

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big girl pants, blessed, car, completely, happy, Indi, memories, moments, owner, purple, seven years, Technology, wheels, widow

Indi is seven years old today…

hard to believe that all this time has gone by…

and she is finally completely mine, lol…

now to get those pretty wheels back on;-)…

accomplish…

27 Sunday Apr 2025

Posted by sulis303 in business, garden, health, life, moments, nature, retirement, technology, travel, Uncategorized, weather

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had a bit of a giggle when this photo came up in my Facebook memories…

it was from 14 years ago when I was visiting my daughter in Courtenay and we had spent the day at Kingfisher Resort and Spa…

and yesterday, my own gardener was here;-)… just took a few years to accomplish…

and, of course, she isn’t here every day, or just my gardener, lol…

but, still…

square…

03 Thursday Apr 2025

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April, big girl pants, blessed, books, crystals, living room, memories, moments, nature, shells, square, table, weather, widow

started April by changing up the living room table…

this time I moved all the crystals to one square, filled a second square with shells… the third square included birds and critters… the final square with some of my favourite books…

looks good…

backs…

10 Monday Mar 2025

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backs, big girl pants, blessed, family, fireplace, grandson, housemate, memories, moments, Technology, widow

the fireplace made its way to the garage on October first…

it stayed there for quite awhile… during that time my housemate put it on a few for sale sites…

there were very few inquiries, but we weren’t in any rush to get rid of it…

recently, a woman came, measured it, and arranged to pick it up when she found some strong backs to help with lifting/carrying, lol…

she arrived a few days later, with a helper, and with my housemate’s assistance, got it into her vehicle…

its new home will be at her dad’s cottage where it will be installed outdoors;-)…

matting…

06 Thursday Mar 2025

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big girl pants, blessed, family, flowers, framed, friends, fun, installation, matting, memories, moments, nature, photos, pictures, project, remembering, slipped, water lilies, widow

had a fun time remembering the “installation” which a friend helped me install a number of years ago as I was making adjustments to them…

the installation consists of twenty-nine photos of water lilies which I had taken…

over the years a number of the pictures had slipped in the frames and I finally got around to removing them one by one and taping the photos to the matting before reinstalling them on the wall…

there had been wine and a lot of laughter as we worked away to get all the pictures up on the wall, lol…

this time my housemate was able to help with the pieces I couldn’t reach, lol…

happy to have this project completed…

furry…

14 Friday Feb 2025

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big girl pants, blessed, fun, furry, hearts, memories, moments, ready, Valentine's Day, widow

yesterday I remembered a bag of hearts, so I brought it downstairs and had some fun putting them around the house…

started in the bathroom with three small hearts…

then I put two furry hearts over the plants…

two glass hearts replaced the dragonfly and angel sun catchers which usually hang in the front window…

put the bag they came in at the top of the stairs…

finally, I put the heart wreath on the front door…

it was fun to decide where to place each piece, or grouping…

so I was all ready for today;-)…

hearts…

04 Tuesday Feb 2025

Posted by sulis303 in life, moments, retirement, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, blessed, butterflies, dragonflies, drawers, hearts, memories, moments, table, travels, widow

had a lovely time this afternoon as I changed up the living room table drawers…

removed my favourite things which had been on display since the end of November…

I’d decided on a “love” theme for February and early March, so I looked around and found items that would fit…

I found butterflies, dragonflies, hearts, crystals, a few items which reminded me of travels, and the L O V E letters…

pleased with the results;-)….

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