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13 Saturday May 2017

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started my day with Pancake House chicken livers, bacon and potato pancakes via SkipTheDishes… one of my favourite meals and I am so happy that I can just pick up my phone and order using the app…

they arrived within twenty minutes of ordering, were hot and delicious…. my own little Mother’s Day treat…

was waiting for my new BBQ to arrive so had to spend some time watching a few of my PVRed shows, lol… was a bit worried it might not arrive at all… when I ordered it last Saturday they advised they would put it together on Tuesday and then deliver it… called yesterday and they thought it should be delivered today…

pulled a few weeds in the driveway and cleaned up the clematis while waiting for the delivery truck… it arrived and they brought the BBQ into the yard… so cute…

and the sides fold down so it barely takes any room in the garage…

went wild and crazy and planted some dahlia tubers and included some of the morning glories that I started a few weeks ago… the planter will stay in the kitchen until it gets a bit warmer out…

then I’ll add the trellis once it goes outside… considering putting some of the morning glories in the planters that go around the deck… will need to put some filament up for them to climb…  just not sure they will get enough sunlight…

lots of yellow flowers in the front yard… kind of pretty but my beloved would not be pleased…

maybe when the kids are here tomorrow they can do something about them…

got a few things done, chatted with a neighbour and rested… 

another great day… life is good…

wildfire…

04 Thursday May 2017

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tonight I took a picture of my seeds with a dark chocolate bar… ate a few pieces of a different bar, which was already open…

most of the seeds have been growing like wildfire…

the morning glories are doing amazingly… sadly, the moon flowers seem to be growing at a much slower rate…

this is my Friday off and I am looking forward to three days full of relaxing in the garden…

temperature…

28 Friday Apr 2017

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hurray, its Friday… very happy about this… been a long week…

sunshine started early…

this morning I finished planting the morning glories and moon flowers…

excited to see if I will get blossoms earlier than usual this year…

was bright and sunny the whole day and the temperature was 12 degrees when I was heading home… so nice to be a bit warmer…

made Japanese Ginger Pork Burgers with Bok Choy  and carrot salad for dinner… instead of the brioche bun, used romaine lettuce… how good am I;-)…

tasty and healthy…

hoping for warm and sunny days over the weekend…

wishing you sunshine and rest…

seeds…

24 Monday Apr 2017

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on Saturday I picked up a little greenhouse to start plants in… seems like this should be neat and tidy…

didn’t get around to starting anything on Sunday, but this morning I put 10 cups of water into the container before I left for work…

seemed like a lot of water… when I got home it had all soaked into the mix…

have a headache so the seeds are not getting planted tonight…

gonna have lots of morning glories this year… and maybe they will start blooming earlier:-)… woo hoo…

playing…

07 Saturday Jan 2017

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spent some time today reorganizing the living and dining rooms…

put away a few last Christmas decorations and got to try out a few of my Christmas presents…

first I played with these nifty gloves that were in my stocking…

they are waterproof and make scrubbing much easier… had a bit of fun cleaning the top of the stove with them…

after I put some of the plants back in their places I played with another of my presents… a can of morning glories...

apparently they will start to sprout in 3 to 5 days… I am really excited to see if we get flowers…

couldn’t put everything away… kept out the glitter trees once I stacked them… and just took a few photos with another of my gifts…

hoping to get there soon…

been a busy day and now to bed…

market…

10 Thursday Sep 2015

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laughed out loud this morning when I popped outside to look at the morning glories before leaving for work…

  
because of course there were four of them opening… not sure how the plant knows which days I will not be home for the day…

  
at lunch walked over to the Farmers Market with a colleague and brought back some corn on the cob and tzatziki…

had already taken out falafel for my dinner, so decided to add corn to the menu…

 

made some corn chowder with a whole wheat pita filled with tzatziki, spinach, tomatoes and baked falafel…

   
delicious… learning to enjoy whole wheat… much better than when I first tried it, lol… continue to eat in a more healthy manner…

  
multiple colours blooming… I love morning glories…

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14 Friday Aug 2015

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early this morning I got a picture of the large morning glory blossom…

  
thank goodness it’s Friday… looking forward to seeing one open completely tomorrow when I will be here all day…

  
more dahlia blooms… very pretty…

other excitement was that I spotted a frog in the pond… let’s hope this one stays healthy…

been very hot here for the last three or four days… supposed to be the same tomorrow as well…

been eating fish a lot to help raise my good cholesterol, and tonight I had falafel in cute little cheese buns which I got yesterday at the Farmers Market… also put some of the tzatziki on them… cute and very tasty…

  
hard to believe there were only four working days, cause I am quite tired…

think I am going to enjoy these next two days filled with quiet and peace…

market…

13 Thursday Aug 2015

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so excited this morning because the second batch of morning glories have blooms on them… when I bought them I had no idea what size or colour they would be…

  
they are huge and purple… I was thinking they would be light blue so I am very happy…

  
the mandevilla continues to produce more flowers and buds…

ran across to the drugstore before work and picked up some AfterBite to deal with these mosquito bites… not sure if it is working that well…

this afternoon I wandered over to the Farmers Market and picked up some great items…

  
besides the great veggies I got some amazing tziki, some yummy cheese biscuits and a beautiful purple glass pendant…

ran into a friend on my way… great to spend a few minutes catching up… she and her daughter were just coming from the Market… she is an amazing person and we plan to meet at the hot dog cart on the corner one day soon…

had the eggplant and cucumbers as part of my dinner… tasty…

cleaning up my Contact list, came across a fabulous picture of a recently departed friend… she loved orange, which made me think of this picture I took this morning…

 I miss her…

 

physical…

05 Wednesday Aug 2015

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first thing this morning I had a physical with my new doctor… I still go to CancerCare regularly so the process was quite simple…

he is very nice and down-to-earth… discovered that there is lots of diabetes in his family… bad for him, but good for me…

the great news is that I don’t have to poke myself unless I am not feeling well… he was pleased with my blood sugar numbers and very impressed with the printed summary I brought from my UltraMini, lol… he hadn’t seen one before… he was also very impressed with the fact that I had brought my A1C number down from 8.7 in November to 6.2 in March through diet and exercise… hoping today’s blood tests will show it even lower…

he’s into technology and we talked about how great the MyFitnessPal app is… he uses it as well…

  
the not-so-good news is that he wants me to lose more weight… going to start with fifteen pounds, although he would like twenty-five…

talked about taking drugs, but we will discuss it again when I see him in 3 months…

took myself out for breakfast once I was done… had an egg Benedict at Perkins…

  
didn’t even feel that uncomfortable being there on my own…

once home, spent some time in the garden before the rain started…


must have been fifty sparrows in the garden at once… think they were filling up on food and water before the weather changed…

identified a wood frog as the guest in the bathtub pond…  put a board in to act as a bridge in case it wanted to get out… previously we’d only had Leopard frogs…

happily there were four morning glory blooms today…

  

hook-up

04 Saturday Jul 2015

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finally took the time this morning to hook up the splitter for the garden hose… now I can either run water into the regular hose, or into the hose that goes underground to the pond… will make it much easier to fill it when it is low… which, sadly, is still happening on a regular basis, but at least the waterfall is beautiful, lol…

new hose hook-up...

new hose hook-up…

was quite easy to do, but did make me feel that I was wearing my big girl pants…

later the kids came over and we left my grandson to work on the front flower bed and went to a couple of garden centres to see what they might have…

had a lot of fun…

new baskets hanging...

new baskets hanging…

got two amazing baskets which are adding to the beauty of the pergola by the pond…

morning glory and parsley...

morning glory and parsley…

and a number of other plants… happily was able to get a couple of morning glories as, of the two packages of seeds I planted, about three have come up and they are very small… these ones are my favourite blue and I can hardly wait until they start blooming…

also picked up three parsley plants… monarch caterpillars love parsley and my grandson spotted a couple on the parsley plant at their house… hope I get some too…

while they were here, the little boys cut some roses for me… they are from the plants that my dear friend and neighbour Ellen gave me when she moved…

Ellen's roses...

Ellen’s roses…

I do love the garden and really appreciate having my grandson come and help me on a regular basis…

just got everything planted when the sky clouded over and thunder, lightening and rain came down… hope that everything survives the downpour…