03 Sunday Aug 2025
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anniversary, beloved, big girl pants, body, family, gone, left, meltdown, memories, moments, remembering, widow
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…
02 Saturday Aug 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, books, change, food, friends, garden, gardening, happy, Hilda the Gardener, maintenance, moments, nature, plants, veggies, weather, widow
Wednesday was such a lovely day…
started the morning with Hilda the Gardener, who arrived to do some maintenance in the garden… I’ve been thinking of the change that she has made to the space over the years;-)…
it always feels so fresh and tidy after her time here…
while she was working away, I picked beans and peas, and spotted some cucumbers starting, yay…
then a friend stopped by with a bag of books for me and I had a bag for her as well;-)…
we hadn’t seen one another for ages and had a great catch-up…
after they both left, I read and relaxed in this lovely space…
01 Friday Aug 2025
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55th, anniversary, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, garden, giggles, leaking, love, memories, moments, morning glories, nature, pond, remembering, squirrels, time, widow
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…
31 Thursday Jul 2025
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beans, big girl pants, blessed, garden, green, moments, nature, peas, picked, plants, purple, tailed, weather, widow
yesterday I picked purple and green beans, a few peas and a bunch of dried peas (looks like I missed a whole feed of them, sigh)…
I also spotted some small cucumbers which are not quite ready but should be in a few days… mostly they are growing on the other side of the fence, lol…
once the veggies were picked, I topped and tailed them before cutting up…
I was so excited that I cooked them for my lunch… at least now I don’t get sad when the purple ones turn green when cooked, lol…
they were delicious;-)…
30 Wednesday Jul 2025
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bachelor buttons, beans, big girl pants, blessed, capture, food, garden, hibiscus, moments, nature, plants, purple, veggies, weather, widow
had some fun Tuesday morning in the garden…
happy to see the first hibiscus flower open… it didn’t seem to bloom as much as usual through winter…
and noticed begonias, tiny poppies and more bachelor buttons… the bachelor buttons have gone crazy, lol…
I’m hoping to capture some of their seeds and sprinkle them throughout the garden;-)…
and at last I saw some beans, purple ones, woohoo…
I even pulled weeds from the fancy morning glory planter…
they were planted late so I am hoping they will bloom before it gets too cold…
feels great as the garden is beginning to produce ;-)…
29 Tuesday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, friends, garden, grass, lawnmower, moments, mow, nature, rain, Sunday, Technology, things, weather, whipper snip, widow
the lawn didn’t get mowed last Sunday because the grass hadn’t grown much, and this Sunday because it rained most of the day…
my friends were coming over yesterday afternoon so I decided to mow and whipper snip the garden… I waited until just before noon to give it more time to dry out…
moved a chair and some tables and then figured out how to get the mower going (been a while since I used it)… there are many things in the garden so it takes a bit of effort to get around them, even though it is a small space…
once that was done I pulled down the whipper snipper, found the battery, attached it, and went around all the edges… apparently, at some point I should have tapped it on the ground to extend the line that does the cutting…
I was rather pleased with the result, and then put the furniture back…
just before I brought out the cushions, it started to rain😣…
so we met in the house, lol…
28 Monday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, friends, garden, grass, lawnmower, moments, mow, nature, rain, Sunday, Technology, things, weather, whipper snip, widow
the lawn didn’t get mowed last Sunday because the grass hadn’t grown much, and this Sunday because it rained most of the day…
my friends were coming over this afternoon so I decided to mow and whipper snip the garden… I waited until just before noon to give it more time to dry out…
moved a chair and some tables and then figured out how to get the mower going (been a while since I used it)… there are many things in the garden so it takes a bit of effort to get around them, even though it is a small space…
once that was done I pulled down the whipper snipper, found the battery, attached it, and went around all the edges… apparently, at some point I should have tapped it on the ground to extend the line that does the cutting…
I was rather pleased with the result, and then put the furniture back…
just before I brought out the cushions, it started to rain😣…
so we met in the house, lol…
27 Sunday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, carpet, delay, disappointed, family, flowers, garden, moments, morning glories, nature, plans, project, rain, weather, widow
I was disappointed today… plans had been made for weeks to have my middle grandson come and help the oldest prep and lay new carpet on the front steps…
I was up at 7:30… it was overcast, but not wet, and I took some nice photos of various morning glories…
then, it rained (which we needed) for most of the day… didn’t stop until around three… that of course destroyed all of the morning glory flowers🥺…
made me sad as I was looking forward to this project getting finished… it had already been delayed once and we’ve had the carpet and glue all ready for ages…
now we will have to wait for another opportunity to make the carpeting happen, sigh…
26 Saturday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, diving, F1, garden, moments, morning glories, pond, sports, sprint, Technology, watch, widow
had a lovely time on this warm day…
started with an early morning F1 sprint race… it was too funny, because I slept in till seven which is quite unusual and the race started at 4:30, but I had PVRed it, lol…
I was outside for a good portion of the day and enjoyed the fish and morning glories…
later in the afternoon I watched diving, including some outdoors from twenty metres… yikes…
it is so high that they enter the water feet-first with their arms at their sides…
I do enjoy watching various sports;-)…
25 Friday Jul 2025
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albums, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, designed, fun, lawn signs, memories, moments, party, pictures, remembering, searching, widow
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…
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