13 Friday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, cushions, flowers, fountains, furniture, garden, goldfish, happy, moments, nature, pond, sanctuary, weather, widow
the garden looked lovely today…
all the chair cushions were out and the throw cushions as well…
the daisies were blooming and the fish were happily swimming about after I topped up the pond…
even the new bee fountains, a Christmas gift, were out…
rearranged a bit of the furniture and think I like it…
what a great day to spend time in this sanctuary😍…
12 Thursday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, clover, flowerbed, garden, grass, happy, Hilda the Gardener, lily of the valley, moments, nature, plants, poppies, tidy, water, weather, widow
Hilda the Gardener spent a few hours on Wednesday afternoon tidying up the garden…
now that the poppies are finished blooming, she removed the ones that were in the walkway and cut back the ones in the flowerbed…
the other plants in that bed are visible and will likely spread out a bit more…
she also removed the lily of the valley from a section of the side garden…
the columbine are taking over but it looks fabulous… and the peas are moving up the arch at an astounding speed…
everything is doing well, including the clover and grass that we put down a few weeks ago…
I will be very happy when I don’t have to water it every day, lol…
11 Wednesday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, blooms, clematis, flowers, garden, moments, nature, plants, train, trellis, weather, widow
the clematises are both doing well…
the one on the deck worried me for a while because all the flowers appeared to die off at once… I was concerned that all the rain was too much for it, but now it has begun to bloom again, yay…
the one in the driveway opened its first bloom nearly a week ago, and now there are many more buds opening;-)…
I think I need to train it a bit better so that it stays closer to the trellis…
something to work toward, lol…
10 Tuesday Jun 2025
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08 Sunday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, fountain, garden, grandson, moments, nature, peeling, planter, purple, sander, Technology, weather, widow
finally used my housemate’s electric sander to remove the majority of the peeling blue paint from what had been a fountain…
eventually it turned into a planter, but started peeling like crazy…
it has been sitting under the deck, where I could ignore it, for quite some time…
didn’t take too long once I got going to sand it down so it can be painted…
I do love purple, but the sun changes it to blue over time… still not quite sure what colour it is going to be… hmmm…
07 Saturday Jun 2025
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accessible, big girl pants, blessed, family, garden, leaves, moments, nature, overgrown, trim, virginia creeper, weather, widow
recently, as I was watching my grandson leaving the garage, I realized that he was having to struggle with all the virginia creeper that was attempting to take over the doorway, lol…
so, I brought out a pail, put on my gloves, and used the clippers to make the space a little more open…
from there I went to the side gate and did a fair bit of trimming as it was getting difficult to get to the tap and hose…
much more accessible now;-)…
then I had a sit down and did some reading, lol…
06 Friday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, bleeding hearts, blessed, blooming, flowers, iris, moments, nature, Technology, walk, weather, widow, wild rose, yesterday
saw some lovely flowers on my walk yesterday…
such a treat to see so many;-)…
and when I arrived home, the wild rose was blooming…
05 Thursday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, dirty, haircut, moments, nature, plant, plants, pot, trim, Ultracuts, walk, widow
walked over to Ultracuts for a trim and on the way spotted a plant that had not been put into the soil in one of the big city planters…
I didn’t want to arrive at the salon with dirty hands so I decided to wait until I was on the way home…
when I did arrive back at the planter, it was clear that the plant had not been planted as it was just laying on the soil… I had wondered if a critter had maybe pulled it out of its spot…
I dug a hole and popped it in… hope it is happy now…
03 Tuesday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, clean, garden, gunk, moments, nature, plants, ponds, pumps, Technology, weather, widow
did some work on the small pond pumps, which are used to move the water in the bathtub pond and add more oxygen in the main pond…
climbed into the pond and brought the pump onto the edge of the deck and cleaned out all the gunk that was in it and then put it back into the pond…
brought up the second pump and after climbing into the bathtub pond, got it set in the correct spot so it wouldn’t send the water out of the pond… then it was turned on and that pond was topped up…
now there won’t be any issues with mosquitoes and I’m going to add a few more plants to that one…
the garden is coming along nicely…
02 Monday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, dahlias, food, garden, moments, nature, painted, plants, red rocks, sprouting, strawberry plant, widow
quite awhile ago the last of the plants made their way into the garden, either in pots, or the ground…
I’ve been watching daily to see if things are sprouting out of the planters… so far, three of the dahlias have popped up, but one has not, and it was the one I was most looking forward to, lol…
the strawberry that had gone into the ground in the fall has moved into a pot and has quite a few blossoms on it… as well as the beginnings of berries…
I painted rocks red to hopefully keep the birds from eating the berries before we get to them…
apparently the birds will go for the red rocks and decide that red things aren’t worth it, lol…
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