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exploding…

07 Thursday Aug 2025

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the morning glories are exploding…

on Tuesday I counted twenty-six on the obelisk next to the back door… happy I took some nice photos before it rained, lol… the rain completely destroys them…

today I didn’t count, but I think there may have been even more, and there were two blue ones on the butterfly bench;-)…

sock a lovely way to begin the day…

55th…

01 Friday Aug 2025

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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…

disappointed…

27 Sunday Jul 2025

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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…

sprint…

26 Saturday Jul 2025

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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;-)…

smoky…

20 Sunday Jul 2025

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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…

climbed…

14 Monday Jul 2025

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while I was on a phone call, I looked out the window to see two bunnies…

one climbed up the front steps and I caught it on the way down, lol…

from there it went into the flower bed and ate the morning glory plant that had popped up in the mulch… happy it was one of the “wild” ones, lol…

then the two of them headed to the other side of the yard looking for treats…

a few minutes later a third one turned up…

what fun out the window;-)…

disintegrate…

08 Tuesday Jul 2025

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so happy to see that the morning glories are opening…

the butterfly bench hasn’t had any open lately but the planter by the backdoor has been blooming over the last few days… today there were three…

then, as I was driving out of the garage, I stopped the car, got out and took photos of the blooms by the large garage door…

the blooms don’t last long and if it rains they kind of disintegrate, so I wanted to be sure to get a photo of them;-)…

giggling…

01 Tuesday Jul 2025

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been giggling a bit…

I planted many morning glories and have been watching for the first blooms…

yesterday I spotted the first one… it was blooming under the bench of the butterfly chair, lol…

nearly impossible to see…

today I saw the second bloom, on the bench this time and with another bud preparing to open;-)…

hope more will open higher up, lol…

obelisk…

21 Saturday Jun 2025

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the other day I removed the fabric from a squirrel-eaten umbrella…

I expected it to be difficult but it was simply a case of removing some nuts and the top and then pulling the fabric off…

my housemate cut off the bottom of the stand for me…

today, I topped up a planter and added the umbrella frame as an obelisk… then I planted some of the new morning glory seeds…

next year this obelisk will go into one of the larger pots;-)…