11 Monday Mar 2024
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, bouquet, cut, family, flowers, happy, hyacinth, moments, nature, plants, purple, scent, widow
yesterday I received a beautiful bouquet of hyacinths… I’ve never had them as cut flowers, always in soil…
what a lovely treat…
they are in a vase on the living room table and I am looking forward to them opening and scenting the house…
10 Sunday Mar 2024
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watching the anthurium blossom open involves a good deal of patience…
this was the first photo I took of the most recent flower… it was on February 11…
this one on February 20…
February 27 photo…
and this one was from yesterday…
still a ways to go before it is completely open…
09 Saturday Mar 2024
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amount, big girl pants, blessed, driveway, housemate, moments, nature, shovelled, snow, snowfall, weather, widow
the weather has been quite silly lately…
there was hardly any snow on the ground last week, but then it snowed all afternoon on Wednesday…
a lot of snow came down… the only thing I shovelled then was a path to the hot tub…
very late that night my housemate shovelled the sidewalk and two-thirds of the driveway…
Friday I did about half of the bottom of the driveway as my friend would be picking me up on Saturday…
I was so proud that it only took me about fifteen minutes… and then my housemate did the same amount in five minutes…
kids, lol…
04 Monday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, hat, hot tub, moments, nature, snow, streak, Toque, towel, weather, widow, windchill
Sunday night I really had to talk myself into going out to the hot tub…
it wasn’t cold, but it was snowing, sigh…
I do not like to get my face wet or my glasses covered in snow, so it was a bit of an issue, lol…
instead of taking my towel out with me, I hung it on the inside handle of the patio door so it wouldn’t be covered in snow when I got out of the tub…
made sure to put my peaked hat on over my toque… it had a bit of snow on it when I got back into the house…
on my way upstairs I took a picture of the garden, looks pretty but it was still snowing…
well, I didn’t break my streak… there have only been two days I haven’t been in since January first, both when the temperature felt like -41°C…
27 Tuesday Feb 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, correct, food, friends, furnace, happy, inspection, moments, nature, shovelling, snacks, snow, snowfall, Technology, weather, widow
the weather report had suggested a good amount of snow overnight, and they were correct, lol…
yesterday morning the ground was covered with at least two inches of snow… it looked pretty though…
it was deeper where it had blown into drifts… which, of course, were along the sidewalks and bottom of the driveway, lol…
I went out just after eight and got the sidewalks cleared as well as a portion of the driveway where my friends park on Monday afternoons…
thankfully, my housemate shovelled the remainder of the driveway…
my friends arrived and we had a great time with lots of delicious snacks;-)…
a bit later a Hydro Inspector arrived and reviewed the work done by the furnace installation company…
I was very happy that this time we passed the inspection… yay…
busy, busy…
23 Friday Feb 2024
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Assiniboine Park, big girl pants, biomes, blessed, flowers, happy, koi, moments, nature, orchidaceae, orchids, plants, pond, The Leaf, widow
just for fun I thought I would show some of the orchidaceae that we saw at Flora of the Philippines on Tuesday…
couldn’t help myself, lol…
there were a few other things that I photographed, lol… my buddies, the fish, were swimming around the pond…
we also saw some flowers on the very top of one of the first trees you see on entering the Tropical Biome… we only saw them thanks to a recommendation by one of the volunteers;-)…
another great visit…
22 Thursday Feb 2024
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recently I’d seen an Instagram post about one of the trees in the Tropical Biome that was flowering…
the branches of the Kapok are bare, but at the very top of the tree, flowers were budding…
I was happy to spot it on our visit Tuesday…
there were lots of volunteers throughout the space and they provided a great deal of information particularly about some of the fruiting trees… we saw cacao pods, jackfruit, star fruit, breadfruit and the fingerlings of bananas…
we had a quick visit with the lead gardener as we discussed the three cacao trees, two of which currently have pods growing on them…
the Tropical Biome is really beginning to feel like the old Conservatory with all the lush growth…
so blessed to have this amazing space to spend time in on a regular basis;-)…
20 Tuesday Feb 2024
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big girl pants, biomes, blessed, flags, flora, flowers, food, friends, garden, gather, happy, moments, nature, orchids, Philippines, plants, pond, Technology, trees, widow
had a fun time at The Leaf today…
went with a friend to see Flora of the Philippines…
we couldn’t figure out the new markers on many of the plants in the Tropical Biome, but eventually realized they represented the flag of the Philippines and demonstrated how many of the plants in the biomes originated there…
besides seeing where so many plants came from, there were hundreds of orchids… heaven for me…
what a treat…
after our wander through the biomes, we had lunch at Gather…
what a delightful way to spend time together;-)…
18 Sunday Feb 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, blinking, Christmas, habits, happy, light, moments, nature, snow, solar, solar lights, sunshine, Technology, weather, widow
so happy to see that all the solar lights came on after a day filled with sunshine…
what a treat…
the funny part is that this one set wasn’t working for the longest time (as in, over Christmas) but started up in the last few weeks…
and is doing a blinking pattern…
it is such fun to see them light up as it gets dark out…
at some point I guess I will need to turn off the trees in the planters, but I am enjoying them too much right now;-)…
15 Thursday Feb 2024
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algae, big girl pants, blessed, fish, glass, goldfish, moments, nature, pump, scrubbed, tank, widow
spent some quality time with the fish over the last few days;-)…
pumps were scrubbed out and tank glass was cleaned…
I have started to feed them every other day to see if they might eat some of the algae on the rocks…
not sure if they are mad at me or not, lol…
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