09 Tuesday May 2023
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big girl pants, birthday bouquet, blessed, bouquet, flowers, friends, moments, purple, redone, treat, widow
finally took the time to get the bouquet redone with the remaining flowers… the main one had lasted seventeen days;-)…
lots of purple… came out nicely and I expect it will last for another few days…
I am blessed with wonderful friends;-)…
08 Monday May 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, delicious, food, friends, greenhouse, high tea, Lily Stone Cafe, Lily Stone Gardens, memories, moments, orchid, rain, Tea, time, weather, widow
had a great time with my BS buddies…
we gathered in two vehicles and drove to Rosenort for our 1 pm High Tea reservation at Lily Stone Cafe…
what a delight… we climbed up stairs, went down a narrow hall, and into a beautifully decorated room ready for our tea…
we just happened to get this space, but for a 20% gratuity you can book one of the private rooms for your group… no one wore gloves, but there were pearls, jewellery, and some fancy clothes, lol…
there were so many teas to choose from it took us a while to decide, and everyone enjoyed their picks…
then the tiered stands with a number of items for us to devour arrived, and devour them we did;-)…
they were able to deal with a food issue for one of us, and everything we ate looked lovely and was tasty… although it didn’t appear like a lot of food, we were all full once we’d cleaned the plates…
from there we drove a few kilometres to Lily Stone Gardens where we toured the Gift Shop and the one open greenhouse…
I found a beautiful white dahlia that is now sitting next to the tubers, which I hope will encourage them to get growing, lol…
the drive took just over forty-five minutes each way, and even in the rain and overcast, it was enjoyable… lots of conversation and laughter in both vehicles…
what a wonderful way to spend an afternoon;-)…
07 Sunday May 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, bunny, bushes, cedar, creek, deer, garden, happy, memories, moments, nature, phone, resting, treat, widow, window
when I’m on the phone I usually walk on the spot at the front window…
yesterday, as I was there, four deer walked along the other side of the creek… just last year at this time I saw two in the same location, lol…
even though they were there it was nearly impossible to spot them as they stood still amongst the bushes and trees…
I couldn’t get a picture of all four of them, just these two, but did find this one having a rest a bit later;-)…
and when I spotted the resting one, I also noticed a bunny relaxing under the cedar tree in the front yard…
both bunny and deer seemed very comfortable…
06 Saturday May 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, corms, dahlias, dark, dirt, flowers, garden, growing, growth, light, moments, plants, widow
on Friday the dahlias came up from the basement…
two years ago when I brought them in, I removed all the soil, bagged each one, labelled them and put them away in the dark in the basement…
when I brought them in last fall, I didn’t even take off the dirt… they went into a pail, which went onto a shelf in the laundry area… so, not even in the dark… and I had no idea which type they were, lol…
when the pail came upstairs on Friday I wasn’t expecting much and was pleasantly surprised…
at least four of the clumps had new growth… I am very excited about this… currently they are sitting on the table in the sun…
soon they will be planted in pots in the garden;-)…
05 Friday May 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, early, easier, giveaway, hardest, health, landfill, moments, stuff, Technology, widow
I’ve been thinking about all of the stuff I’ve given away over the last six months…
it makes me so happy to be able to share with others and not add unnecessarily to the landfills…
it is also getting easier to let go of stuff… and the simple way to arrange a pickup by going online is also helpful…
currently the hardest part is to remember to get up early enough to get all of the boxes onto the front steps…
04 Thursday May 2023
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big girl pants, birthday, blessed, clever, food, growing, light, micro greens, moments, nature, present, seeds, soil, Technology, time, treat, watching, water, widow
on Monday I received a birthday present in the mail…
it is a plastic envelope with a disk of soil, a popsicle stick and seeds…
it will turn into sunflower micro greens…
this morning, after going online for directions, I added water, stirred up the soil, added the seeds, stirred it a bit more, misted it and put it into the sunshine;-)…
will be checking it out daily to see how it grows…
what a clever idea and lovely gift;-)…
03 Wednesday May 2023
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begun, big girl pants, blessed, garden, happy, moments, nature, photos, pond, pump, reading, Spring, sunshine, tarp, tarpaulin, water, wet-vac, widow
spent Tuesday in the garden… the first part on the deck reading in the sunshine…
there was no wind, so I was able to flatten out and fold up the tarpaulin…
then I moved to the back deck and did a bit of reading before starting to remove the last of the leaves and water from the pond with the wet vac… it took a number of trips to get it done… but, I did it, yay…
next, I found the hose, hooked it up and started the water running… finally I hooked up the pump and finished filling it…
so happy when the waterfall started up… worth all the work…
what a treat to sit, watch and listen to the sound;-)…
garden season has begun…
02 Tuesday May 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, leaves, moments, nature, pond, popped, pump, reading, sunshine, tarp, water, weather, widow
had a great day in the garden on Sunday…
spent most of it on the deck, reading in the sunshine…
I also spent time working at the pond… we tried to take off the tarp a few days ago but it was too heavy as it still had a lot of water and a ton of soggy leaves in it… the plan was to wait for another person to help us…
I put the pump in the pond again… the other day when I tried this the hose popped off and gave me a pond-water shower;-(… this time I got rid of most of the water… then I put it into the tarp and got a fair bit of water out of it…
after that I was able to drag it out of the pond and bag the leaves… they filled half of a garbage can, lol…
then the tarp was spread out in the grass, hopefully drying, so it can be folded up and put away…
maybe in the next few days I will vacuum the bottom of the pond and fill it with water…
01 Monday May 2023
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bench, big girl pants, blessed, clean, dump, family, garage, garage floor, garbage, grandson, moments, organize, remove, snowblower, space, truck, widow
Friday we accomplished a lot…
we sorted through all of the stuff that got put into the garage when we were cleaning out the basement, and piled the items onto the driveway which were for the dump…
a truck arrived, was filled with the collection, and headed out… when it got back the snowblower was lifted in, with help from a neighbour, and away it went to someone with a large driveway…
then we started to reorganize the items that were left and make space in the garage for the car and the motorcycle…
took quite a while and lots of organizing, but eventually space was made…
and the car and motorcycle fit;-)… maybe the next project will be to wash the car, lol…
a start was made on the items still on the workbench, including the million screws, lol…
30 Sunday Apr 2023
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amethyst, amethyst heart, banyan, beaches, big girl pants, blessed, cacao trees, flowers, Hawaii, jacaranda, Maui, memories, moments, nature, once-in-a-lifetime, orchids, pictures, remembering, trees, turtles, vacation, water, widow
four years ago in April, we arrived on Maui to celebrate my birthday…
I had always wanted to go to Hawaii, but never made it happen until then…
I have been enjoying the memories that have come up in my social media…
on our way into our first hotel, we spotted orchids in the lobby…
we went to the beach to watch the sun set, got our toes in the ocean, found a great spot to watch, settled in to wait, and then had this group of people walk right in front of us to get their pictures, lol…
I have the amethyst heart that I purchased on my bedside table and enjoy seeing it all the time…
one of my favourite memories is of our time at the orchid farm… a huge space bursting with the most beautiful plants, most of which were in full bloom…
it was delightful…
there were fish and sea turtles…
saw cacao trees with cacao pods on them, jacaranda trees in bloom (purple), and the most amazing banyan tree which took up an entire block…
it was an amazing time and we enjoyed every minute… it lived up to all of my expectations and then some… so lucky this happened before covid…
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