19 Saturday Dec 2020
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had some fun watching the visitors to the feeders today…
saw chickadees, nuthatches and woodpeckers at the front feeders… at one point all three were there, although only the woodpecker decided to pose, lol…
lots of sparrows as well as this guy on the deck…
at the end of the day, the sky was stunning…
nature was everywhere;-)…
16 Wednesday Dec 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, cold, elm, elm trees, gone, grow, hoarfrost, hole, memories, moments, nature, pictures, widow
this morning I was reminded of how beautiful hoarfrost can be… the pictures I came across were from eight years ago and showed the elm tree that lived across the street…
it was cut down a few years ago…
I took a photo to compare and was surprised at how much the cedar in our front yard has grown… the photo also shows the huge hole where the tree used to be…
I sure do miss the trees that have gone…
14 Monday Dec 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, cap, cold, family, grandson, health, hoodie, nature, sidewalk, snow, swept, widow
yesterday my middle grandson came over to shovel for me… there wasn’t too much snow, but after the last snowfall, everything froze and the sidewalk was crazy icy… I didn’t want that to happen again, lol… there had been a skiff of snow and I had gone out and swept the sidewalk just the day before…
it was cute watching him put his hoodie up over his baseball cap, which he had on backwards, lol… of course there were earbuds in as he listened to his music while doing the job… he did have gloves because I couldn’t give him grandpa’s to wear which often happened before when he forgot…
he did the front, the driveway and all of the back decks and pathways… the garage camera even got a few photos for me… he was happy to get the December payment which will help with his Christmas gift shopping…
it was wonderful to see him, even though it was only through the windows… and now all of the spaces are cleaned…
12 Saturday Dec 2020
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Advent, big girl pants, calendar, family, fish, fish tank, food, forget, moments, nature, starving, tricky, water, widow
my morning schedule is to put on the kettle for my tea, choose my Advent treat for the day, feed the fish, and prepare my breakfast…
when I get to the calendar, which is on top of the fish tank, the fish are running back and forth to make sure I know they are there… and starving...
I can practically hear them, lol… later in the day, they will rush over as I enter their space to see if they can convince me that they haven’t been fed…
10 Thursday Dec 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, fish, fish tank, food, goldfish, lifting, moments, music, nature, reading, widow
I’ve been spending a bit more time in the living room, enjoying the lights, reading and listening to music…
sometimes the fish are very noisy… when they are searching for food they toss around the rocks in the bottom of the tank…
these are river rocks, not fish tank gravel, so when they knock them over it produces quite the sound, lol…
it amazes me that they can lift them at all and of course, when I tried to catch them at it, they stopped, lol…
09 Wednesday Dec 2020
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big girl pants, birds, birdseed, blessed, heavy, moments, nature, Preferred Perch, shop local, shopping, widow
this morning I went into the garage and put birdseed into pails and a bin… I was very happy because the woman from Preferred Perch who delivered it last night put the bags on the table for me…
the bags weigh 50 pounds so that made it easier to fill the pails and bin and there is still one entire bag left…
I think there will be enough to last for quite a while…
05 Saturday Dec 2020
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, deck, garden, happy, hot tub, light, memories, miss, moments, nature, Technology, time, widow
sitting in the hot tub last night, remembering my beloved on what would have been his 72nd birthday, I was reminded of all the fun things we have done together during our forty plus years…
I’d been wanting a hot tub since our anniversary many years ago when he rented one for a weekend, but we couldn’t afford one until 2009…
once I chose the one I wanted, he built a deck to put it on, and then a deck to go in front of it… easy to get to, it is now perfect for dips… he never loved the hot tub the way I did, but wanted me to be happy…
when we had friends over (you remember that, right?) for a hot tub, if we needed a drink or towel or anything, we’d bang on the wall of the house and he would come out to see what was required, lol… he’d also take photos when I wanted them…
with the new security light/camera on the garage, I have to go to the side door of the garage and turn off the power so that the light doesn’t keep coming on while I’m in the tub… thankfully the deck goes right there so it is easy to get to and from…
some of our best talks happened late at night in this hot tub… I sure do miss him…
16 Monday Nov 2020
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I brought in one of the pots with datura in it, hoping it would last through the winter… I didn’t spray it with soap like I did for the other plants I brought in…
I have now discovered that it brought aphids into the house and they were feasting on my avocado plant…
I put the avocado in the tub and soaked it with the soapy water and covered it with a bag… after leaving it for a day I removed the bag and put the plant in a room without any plants in it… there were still lots of aphids so I cut off some leaves and nearly drowned it in the soapy water…
then I cut down the datura to the base… after soaping it up I will watch to see how it does…
fingers crossed that this will get rid of them and the avocado will be happy…
14 Saturday Nov 2020
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beach, big girl pants, blessed, family, flew, Hawaii, hot tub, Maui, memories, moments, nature, sand, travel, water shoes, widow
last night, as I was putting on my water shoes to go out to the hot tub, I spent a few moments thinking of when I wore them in Hawaii…
I have two pair… the others are in perfect shape, but don’t fit as well or feel as comfortable on my feet… even though these ones have holes in the toes, they were the ones that flew to Hawaii…
when I put them on here, it is to protect my feet from the cold and snow… it was my son-in-law who suggested I wear them rather than slippers which could get filled with snow, or might not be in the right spot when I get out of the tub… they work perfectly and I wear them right into the tub and back to the house…
on Maui I wore them to keep sand off my feet and to keep from being burned on the boiling hot sand…
from minus 20 to plus 20 and back…
13 Friday Nov 2020
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banyan tree, big girl pants, buds, flowers, Lahaina, moments, nature, orchids, pictures, plants, roots, widow
I went around the house and counted my orchids…
there are five in the dining room, all of which are more or less in a dormant state… I went to move two of them and discovered that they had put roots into each other’s pot… how cool is that… reminded me of the amazing banyan tree in Lahaina…
there are seven in the living room, three small ones and four large ones…
right now, this is the only one blooming;-)…
the other three full size ones in the living room have buds starting;-)…
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