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shrivelled…

30 Saturday Aug 2025

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I spent a large portion of the day reading in the garden and enjoying the flowers and fish…

as the afternoon progressed I watched the morning glories close up… it reminded me of all the days when I worked and how, by the time I got home, they were all done…

this morning I took a photo of the butterfly bench with a number of blooms on it…

currently the majority of the blooms are the large blue ones with a few smaller purple ones still popping out…

by late this afternoon they had all shrivelled up…

what a treat to be able to enjoy them from start to finish;-)…

boyfriends…

04 Monday Aug 2025

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on Tuesday evening one of the doors on the side gate was taken away to be repaired by one of my beloved’s boyfriends…

a number of the “rays” had broken over time so it needed a delicate touch to return it to its former glory…

it was odd that only this one door had the broken pieces…

at bedtime I put a chair up in the empty space as I didn’t want the deer to come and visit (ie, eat) anything in the garden, lol…

Wednesday afternoon it was returned all beautiful and restored…

we screwed it back into the hinges and it looks excellent…

left…

03 Sunday Aug 2025

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earlier this week I had a bit of a meltdown…

it wasn’t until Wednesday that I realized the reason for the meltdown was my body getting ready for Friday…

would have been our 55th wedding anniversary… we only made it to 42 together…

it is hard to believe that 13 years have gone by since my beloved left me…

55th…

01 Friday Aug 2025

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today I’ve been giggling over a couple of things as I remember 42 years together, on what should have been our 55th wedding anniversary…

first thing I wandered the garden and took pictures of the morning glories…

some, where they were planted, and some that have just found a spot they like, lol…

I remember my beloved bringing me pictures of the ones blooming in the garden each day when he came to visit me in hospital around our fortieth anniversary…

he was just getting used to the camera on his phone, so it was a big deal for him to take the time to take pictures of flowers…

the second thing is the pond…

it has been leaking for ages, but only when the waterfall is running…

we had the leaking problem for a year or so before he died and it was driving him crazy, trying to figure out the problem…

finally, as I was reading on the back deck, two red squirrels were having a battle over one of the feeders… he and squirrels never got on, so it was funny to have them yelling at each other today…

designed…

25 Friday Jul 2025

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spent time with old photos today as I was searching for some particular pictures…

a neighbour was having a party and had signs on the lawn which made me think of the business we had for a number of years…

we designed and produced (well my beloved did the making, lol) different signs and words and snuck into yards to set them up for special occasions…

it was fun and at the time no one else was doing that…

going through photos to find a few of the ones we’d set up was enjoyable and a reminder of some amazing times in our lives;-)… some of those albums were kind of dusty…

carpet…

21 Monday Jul 2025

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this morning a memory came up reminding me that on this day thirteen years ago, I came home following a dual surgery just a few days before… as always, drugs were more trouble than they were useful for me… I had stopped taking everything the day following the surgery as pain is easier to deal with than the side effects of most drugs…

a friend had come and replaced the carpet on the front steps while I was in the hospital…

over the years it had taken a beating and just recently we removed that carpet…

it looks rather dreadful at the moment, but this coming weekend the plan is to install new carpeting so it looks good again…

can hardly wait, lol…

sardines…

10 Thursday Jul 2025

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today, as I was making my lunch, I was reminded of my dad…

he loved sardines and would often make a sardine sandwich for his lunch when he was home…

when he worked he had a cheese sandwich every single day🤪…

back to the sardines, lol…

he would smash them up in a bowl with a fork and a bit of the oil from the container and then put the mix onto white bread…

I mashed mine up and then topped up some premium crackers with the mixture… tasty and went well with the cucumber, onion, tomato salad which I also made…

sweet memory;-)…

coneflower…

03 Thursday Jul 2025

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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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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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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…