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hungry…

20 Sunday Jul 2014

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big girl pants, blue jay, dragonfly, hot tub, hungry, kids, nature, pond, Slurpees, squirrels

another beautiful morning in the garden…

watched two squirrels snacking
under the bird feeder while I had an early morning hot tub… the bluejays were at the feeder and there is obviously a baby in their family who was located in one of the cedars, and he was very hungry from the sound of things…

20140720-194243-70963816.jpgfinished the book and watched squirrels drink and a bluejay bath in the pond…

20140720-194400-71040891.jpgcan’t figure out who is knocking over the plant in the pond… maybe a squirrel…

a dragonfly stopped by… quite red… got a good shot of it with one of the fish swimming over…

20140720-200720-72440681.jpgmade supper for the kids and had a nice visit with them… a beef roast with baked potatoes, cucumber in sour cream, salad and zucchini, mushrooms and fresh peas… they brought Slurpees, which was great as it was hot… even now it feels like 33.2…

dragonfly…

19 Saturday Jul 2014

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barbecue, beloved, big girl pants, dragonfly, garden, goldfish, nature

spent a good portion of the day in the garden…

20140719-200950-72590820.jpgit was lovely and not too hot… another batch of plants are blooming… they could be the same as the purple ones, only smaller… dark pink/red, not sure how I feel about the colour…

first thing this morning a dragonfly landed on the screen and posed for a few pictures…

20140719-201526-72926223.jpgmoved my chair so I was sitting right beside the pond… saw lots of babies… white and red, white and black, and gold ones, which look black in the pond… sadly I’m having issues with algae, not sure the fancy uv filter is doing its job… frustrating because putting it in caused the waterfall flow to be less powerful…

did a bit of weeding and had a lovely nap…

read most of a paper book and also put on my big girl pants and barbecued steak and zucchini, with potatoes, onions and mushrooms…

20140719-202300-73380961.jpgrestful day, but missing my beloved…

storm…

18 Friday Jul 2014

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big girl pants, fish, nature, open window, rain, storm, thunderstorm

had quite the thunderstorm tonight…

the clouds filled the sky before the rain came…

20140718-214136-78096495.jpgonly came down for maybe ten minutes but there was a lot of it and it was coming from the south… usually a bad sign for the basement…

once it stopped I ran down and checked and everything was dry… yay…

been giggling off and on throughout the day… middle of the night I opened the window

20140718-214557-78357111.jpgwasn’t till this morning that I realized I had taken the screen off to get some pictures and hadn’t put it back on… amazingly there were very few bugs in the house…

the fish seemed hungry this morning so I put out some food before leaving for work… they were happy…

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nature…

10 Thursday Jul 2014

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dragonfly, garden hose, moon, nature, watered

this morning I ran around the garden watering all the baskets and plants… I could not believe that they were thirsty, but they were…

I am loving the new hose… works beautifully, isn’t heavy and doesn’t kink…

sadly it won’t work with the water barrel… clearly not enough pressure, so I will still do some hand watering when there is time… the plants really like the rain water best…

when I arrived home and walked into the garden from the garage, a very large dragonfly flew up and landed on my purse… stayed there while I pulled out my phone and opened the camera… then it flew away before I could get a picture…

just looked out the window a few minutes ago and saw this lovely moon…

20140710-220402-79442923.jpgwill be completely full on Saturday…

been a day filled with the wonderful nature around me…

holy moments…

13 Monday Jan 2014

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big girl pants, Boston Pizza, great customer service, holy moments, hot tub, Lynne Russell, Mary Hoffman, midst of the holy, nature, take the time, Three Wise Women

ordered a spicy perogy pizza and Caesar salad from Boston Pizza for my group tonight, as I was on for food… when I called the young woman was very helpful and didn’t try to get me to order more than we really needed… she was spot on and everyone enjoyed the pizza…

we then checked-in and read a wonderful book titled: Three Wise Women by Mary Hoffman, with pictures by Lynne Russell…

Three Wise Women...

Three Wise Women…

 

we talked about the holy moments in our lives and how we are constantly searching for them…

made me think of how I am trying to live my life these days… being in each moment and taking the time to feel/see what is actually taking place…

we talked about those special conversations that accidentally happen, that you might not even consider as something important… but if you spend a moment you realize that you are in the midst of the holy…

for me it is often nature that helps me find those moments… yesterday morning in the quiet of the hot tub, as the birds flew past chirping like it was spring… the bunny spotted in the garden… the heaps and heaps of beautiful snow, lol…

what amazing women these are and how special the time that we spend together… talk about holy moments…

sunflower…

10 Tuesday Sep 2013

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big girl pants, flowers, garden, nature, sunflower, weeding

yesterday I took a picture of the sunflower in the front garden starting to open…

sunflower just starting to open...

sunflower just starting to open through the window…

I didn’t plant it there, but apparently I haven’t done any weeding for a while and all of a sudden there it was big and bold in the garden… couldn’t pull it out after that…

sunflower starting to open...

sunflower opening…

so I’ve been watching it and this morning as I was leaving the driveway I took a couple of pictures…

close up of sunflower opening...

close up of sunflower opening…

as I wasn’t home, I couldn’t see if it swivelled around to follow the sun, but maybe I will be able to see that on the weekend…

it is always such fun to see a field of sunflowers turning their faces to follow the sun…

nature…

18 Sunday Aug 2013

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Apple Store, barbecued steak, big girl pants, flying squirrel, hibiscus, morning glories, murky pond, nature, new mouse, purple, thunderstorm, water in basement again

this morning I got up, put out the cushions in the garden and had a hot tub… it was lovely and the sun was shining… by the time I had searched for my book, the sky was overcast and after a short time we had a big thunderstorm…

water came into the basement again, but I now keep towels on the floor and because of the direction of the rain anticipated the problem… all cleaned up now but it does make me think that I will need to get someone in to look at this, sigh…

waited for quite a while before going out to do some shopping because I wanted to be sure everything stayed dry downstairs…

squirrel jumped from garage to tree, couldn't believe it...

squirrel jumped from garage to tree, couldn’t believe it…

 

saw a squirrel jump from the corner of the garage to one of the trees along the fence… have never seen that before…

went to a number of stores… BestBuy was one because the wireless mouse on the laptop just stopped working on Friday, and I really dislike using the mouse pad… got me a beautiful white one with some lovely purple on it… working very well…

then I went to the Apple Store looking for a genius because I’ve been having a couple of issues with my iPhone 5… pictures that I send to myself from my phone are all of a sudden embedded in the email and no longer attached… this is quite a pain as I often take pictures for the blog with my iPhone… have a short term solution but no one really seems to know why this happens…

second problem is that I can’t iMessage one of my girls… works fine for everyone else, except her all of a sudden… they couldn’t figure that one out and have sent a request to the engineers to see if they can figure it out…

barbecued steak for my dinner...

barbecued steak for my dinner…

this evening had barbecued steak for dinner, which doesn’t sound like that big a deal, except that I did the barbecuing… first time since George’s death… it was excellent and I was able to get it going without a problem…

those big girl pants…

first morning glory buds, one of my favourites...

first morning glory buds, one of my favourites…

wandered around the garden and spotted some buds starting on the Morning Glories and the Hibiscus has finally got a couple as well…

first buds on the hibiscus as well, very late in the season...

first buds on the hibiscus as well, very late in the season…

the pond is murky from the storm… will see if it is clear tomorrow…

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