24 Thursday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, cacao, fruit, gardener, learning, mango, moments, nature, plants, tropical biome, widow
had fun in the Tropical Biome today checking on all the fruit…
saw cacao pods just beginning to grow…
also spotted jackfruit, star fruit, two bunches of bananas, and many breadfruit…
also spotted flowers on the mango, but a gardener advised the tree is too young to produce fruit, so likely they will die off…
I learn something new every time I am in the space;-)…
23 Wednesday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, happy, moments, morning glory, nature, pansies, photos, plants, purple, ragged, weather, widow
it is interesting how some days the flowers put on a show and other days they look ragged and very sad…
today the pansies next to the house were very happy…
just a few days ago I was thinking they were completely done…
only one morning glory was open, but it was lovely…
still waiting for the mandevilla and hibiscus to bloom;-)…
lots to look forward to…
22 Tuesday Jul 2025
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beans, big girl pants, blessed, bumblebee, green beans, lamb, moments, nature, purple, weather, widow, Wolseley Farmers Market
made it to the Wolseley Farmers Market today…
on the walk from the car to the market, spotted this sweet bumblebee on some purple flowers;-)…
I was so happy to find little cucumbers and green beans… and we got some lamb chops and bacon…
as soon as we arrived home I prepared half of the beans and then cooked and ate them…
my housemate was happy for me to have them all, lol…
what a treat…
21 Monday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, carpet, drugs, family, friend, health, memories, moments, nature, replace, surgery, Technology, weather, widow
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…
20 Sunday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, garden, inside, moments, morning glories, nature, smoky, tv, weather, widow, windows
another smoky day here…
all the windows were closed overnight and all of today… I miss the fresh air…
was only outside for a few minutes this morning to check on the morning glories;-)…
rest of the day was in front of the tv, lol… athletics, gymnastics, and binge watching shows…
19 Saturday Jul 2025
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activity, big girl pants, bird feeders, blessed, bunnies, dust baths, garden, interruptions, moments, moving, nature, sparrows, squirrels, weather, widow
a delightful day in the garden… the weather was perfect… sunny, but not too hot…
I moved around the garden, following the shade and reading my book;-)…
although, there were constant interruptions as sparrows, squirrels, and bunnies kept me looking up from my reading…
the sparrows have dug holes in the spaces between the stepping stones along the edge of the pond… two or three of them are at least an inch or so deep… the birds really enjoy dust baths…
one squirrel spent ages trying to figure out how to get to the seeds in the squirrel-proof feeder…
happily it never figured it out…
not sure if there were one or two bunnies, lol… one spent quite some time under the bird feeder amongst the iris leaves scoffing down any fallen seeds…
and maybe the same one, or another, having a nap in the grass…
lovely to have so much activity in the space…
18 Friday Jul 2025
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17 Thursday Jul 2025
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APC, big girl pants, blessed, koi, learning, moments, nature, pond, professionals, The Leaf, tropical biome, water, widow
had a lovely few minutes in the Tropical Biome watching one of the animal care professionals feeding the koi ;-)…
they check on the fish a few times each day to feed, as well as count, them and do a quick overview to make sure they are all doing well…
it is always great to spend a few minutes and learn something new at each opportunity;-)…
16 Wednesday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, camera, eggs, fields, flowers, friend, fun, garden, happy, Miss Millie’s Flower Farm, moments, mug, nature, Nikon, picking, plants, time, weather, widow
this morning we drove to Miss Millie’s Flower Farm and had a lovely time in the fields…
my adventure buddy gathered flowers, and I gathered photographs with my Nikon… great fun for both of us…
of the 125 photos I took, I was very pleased with about 75…
the weather was perfect, overcast and cool, and there were few bugs… we had been there in August of 2022 and the mosquitoes had been voracious at that time…
the fields were not as far along due to the weather but it is a beautiful place to spend time in… so happy I remembered that taking pictures was more fun for me than gathering flowers;-)… and nice to get the camera out for a change;-)…
I also brought home some fresh eggs and a new tea mug (Sugar & Spice Pottery);-)…
15 Tuesday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, blossoms, buds, garden, hibiscus, mandevilla, moments, nature, plants, scraggly, weather, widow
great excitement over the last while when I discovered two different new buds…
the first one I noted was the tiny little buds on the mandevilla…
it had been looking very scraggly when it came out from the house…
and then, just a few days ago, I spotted a bud on the hibiscus;-)…
can’t wait to see the blooms as they open…
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