01 Saturday Aug 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, family, fixed, garden, grandson, moments, temporarily, vinyl siding, widow
this morning my middle grandson arrived with a coworker to silicone the vinyl siding that he’d temporarily fixed a while ago…
they were here for less than fifteen minutes, and in that time fixed the siding and checked out an issue on the shed roof which he will come back to sort out when he has time…
and then, off they went 😊…
I certainly am blessed…
31 Friday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, birdseed, deer, gobbling, moments, nature, Technology, widow
for the longest time the deer were stopping by around 11 or 11:30 pm…
right now the feeders are empty because they have been gobbling up everything when they stop by…
for the last little while, they’ve been coming around 5:30 or 6:00 am… and the door camera has been capturing their visits…
apparently they continue to look to see if there are any seeds available for them…
30 Thursday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, deadhead, garden, moments, nature, plants, trimmed, unbearable, virginia creeper, water, weather, widow
up early on Wednesday to tidy the garden and water everything… even gave the new grass a dribble…
started with the hose and gave big drinks to all three pots in the front yard, and those in the garden…
then, while the irrigation system and drip hose did their thing, I filled a bucket with overly eager virginia creeper and did some deadheading…
finally, the cushions came out and I was able to sit, read, and enjoy the garden before it became unbearable outside…
28 Tuesday Jul 2026
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the new arch has already produced enough purple beans for a meal;-)…
this makes me very happy as the tomatoes and beans in the side garden are doing nothing 😔…
I topped and tailed them, and then cut them into bite-sized pieces…
as they boiled, of course the colour dissipated, and they turned into green beans…
but, they were delicious and I enjoyed every last one…
26 Sunday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, caterpillars, chrysalises, garden, hamper, moments, monarch, nature, pop-up, widow
went out to get a couple of pop-up laundry hampers for the monarch caterpillars…
hope they protect them from the birds…
so far I’ve spotted three, which is about the correct number for the amount of leaves on the milkweed plants;-)…
and I’m hoping that they might end up building their chrysalises in them as well…
24 Friday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, bloodwork, bruise, Dynacare, efficient, moments, Technology, widow
I have a doctor’s appointment next week which meant that this week I had to have bloodwork done…
Dynacare come to the house and the process takes about ten minutes…
this technician is one of my favourites…
he is quick, efficient and rarely leaves me with a bruise…
last time was quite different, lol…
23 Thursday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, cancer-free, core, difficult, exercise, moments, physiotherapist, surgery, widow
I’ve had my yoga mat out for a few weeks now… since I saw my physiotherapist…
for the first week I did a couple of exercises involving rocking my legs and lifting them to my chest… not too difficult and they seemed to help with the twisted knee…
then, the next week a new exercise involving my core came along…
this one seems more complicated and harder… which also makes it harder to get down and do them, lol…
but, this week marks 14 years since I had a hernia/hysterectomy surgery to deal with cancer of the uterus which made me cancer-free…
that puts a little thing like a difficult exercise into perspective, doesn’t it🤨….
22 Wednesday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, butterflies, caterpillars, garden, hamper, happy, interested, moments, monarchs, nature, widow
a number of monarchs (or the same one numerous times) have visited the garden and stopped to snack at the ageratum…
unfortunately, none appeared interested in the milkweed…
I’ve been checking it for the last week, but have not seen any eggs…
yesterday, when I was inspecting the plants which had a number of holes in them, I spotted two tiny caterpillars;-)… only got one in focus, lol…
today, they have already grown a lot…
so excited to see them;-)…
wondering if I need to put the hamper net, which is currently covering the strawberries, over this plant, so the birds don’t get them 🤔…
21 Tuesday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, family, grandson, moments, silicone, vinyl siding, widow
I was surprised today when my middle grandson arrived…
I had messaged him on Sunday about a piece of siding that looked to be coming off the house and I was worried it might come right down…
today, he stopped by on his way home from work to check it out and see if he could fix it…
with a little bit of ingenuity, he managed to get the piece of vinyl back up, although we will need to pick up a tube of silicone and he will come back and do a permanent fix…
my job, when anyone is on the ladder, is to hold the sides and make sure the bottom of it is flat, lol…
19 Sunday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, F1, garden, humming, moments, nature, power, quiet, Technology, widow
I was up at 6:30 to watch the F1 pre-race show, and then the race, when the power went out…
I reported it and then went outside to read, happy that the race would be recorded on the PVR…
it is always so quiet when this happens, and, as it was very early, there were few people or cars up and about…
enjoyed a delightful couple of hours in the cool weather, with my book, and the fish, who actually made noise as they were eating and searching for food in the pond…
usually you never hear them…
all of a sudden water came spurting out of the waterfall and the sound of air conditioners humming ended the quiet…
then it was time to make tea and breakfast and get back to the schedule…
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