22 Wednesday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, buds, dining room, flowers, happy, moments, nature, newest, orchid, plants, time, widow
so happy to see new tiny buds on all of the orchids on the dining room table…
it was an exciting surprise to see the newest buds on the one plant that hadn’t had a new stalk…
looking forward to some blooms around Christmas…
20 Monday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cleaned, dahlias, dirt, experiment, garden, jobs done, moments, nature, paper bags, separated, shrivelled, Technology, tubers, widow
all of the garden work has now been completed for the winter… yay…
about a week ago I finished cleaning and putting away the last pond pump…
Saturday I finally got around to the dahlias… after watching a few videos, I used a knife to clean out the bits of dirt that were still on the tubers and then cut them to separate those with eyes, which should produce next year…
after doing a bit of research, I left a few (after cleaning them), to see if I will be able to separate them more easily in the spring when they start to sprout…
packaged them in paper bags, put them back in the pot, which went into a box in the coolest area of the basement… and wrote on the box to remember that is where they are, lol…
we will see what shape they are come spring… sometimes when the bags are open, there is nothing but shrivelled up bits of nothing;-(…
always an experiment…
17 Friday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, garland, glimmer, happy, light, moments, nature, problems, solar, sparkle, sparkle lights, steps, Technology, try again, weather, widow
so excited to see how the sparkle lights work…
the hope was they would work with the wooden lamp standard that we discovered up in the rafters of the garage (since its discovery, I’ve added extra garland to fill it out)…
I’d been waiting for some sunshine since they arrived and on Sunday afternoon the sun finally came out…
I rushed out and set them in the planter on the front step to gather power… then, once it was dark, I hurried out to see how they looked…
nothing, not a glimmer;-(…
on Monday, I searched through the box and found the directions, lol… apparently you need to attach the stand to them before they can work… and, that they can work in a window in the house… so I was outside again and connected them to the fastener…
fingers crossed…
that still didn’t work, sigh… yesterday I took one of them and looked carefully on the back and really pushed the on/off button…
well, that worked… took quite a while to wrap two sets around the lantern post but I am pleased with the results;-)…
and we got it outside…
16 Thursday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cover, deck, extra, family, garden, grandson, lawn furniture, moments, nature, tarp, tarpaulin, weather, widow
used the tarp from the extra wood to cover the lawn furniture on the back deck…
didn’t take long at all with two people…
it is a really large tarpaulin so we tucked all the excess under the legs…
10 Friday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cold, garden, moments, nature, postcard, shovelling, snow, trees, weather, widow
much as the snow can be a pain, it is also beautiful… especially if you don’t have to be somewhere and drive through it, lol…
the view out the windows were delightful on Thursday morning…
the snow clung to the trees and made it look like a postcard outside…
and the squirrels were busy at one of the feeders… if you look closely you will see the three in this picture…
I went out and shovelled the sidewalks and got a few photos while I was out there…
such a blessing to be able to be home, able to shovel, and enjoy the beauty;-)…
09 Thursday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cheery, family, garden, happy, houseplants, light, moments, nature, plants, sunshine, weather, widow
the plants in the basement were not doing well, so they were moved upstairs…
they, along with some others that had been on the dining room table, moved into the den…
it looks like a garden in there now;-)… a lovely cheery location to start the day…
08 Wednesday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, bird feeders, birds, blessed, grandson, health, ice, metal shovel, moments, nature, reach, seed, shovelling, snow, sore, weather, widow
it was overcast, but not too cold on Saturday, so I went out and was able to fill all the bird feeders…
even the one that I won’t be able to get to before too long, as the snow will make it difficult or impossible to reach, lol…
then I spent half an hour shovelling the driveway…
my grandson had done it awhile ago, but there were icy tire tracks on the slope so I broke them up and tossed the bits to the sides…
the next day my hamstrings and butt were a bit sore from all the bending as the metal shovel I was using was short, lol…
I will be happy when the tires get changed in a few weeks, but now the slope won’t be difficult to get up;-)…
05 Sunday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cold, frozen, ghost, moments, nature, November, poppy, poppy feeder, remember, snow, steps, weather, widow
on November 1st I took down the ghost from the front step… it was difficult, because the sheet had frozen into the step, lol…
then I took the poppy bird feeder that I received as a Christmas gift and tied it to the rail… this was a process, because it was cold and my fingers kept trying to stick to the metal, lol…
looks pretty good, right;-)…
30 Monday Oct 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, breaking, cold, fish, garden, goldfish, grandson, ice, moments, nature, plants, pond, pumps, snow, time, water, weather, widow, winter
Saturday, late in the afternoon, after breaking the ice on the pond, we caught twenty-one of the goldfish…
the pond water was filled with leaves and was rather brown and murky…
it was quite the job as, at one point, my grandson went into it barefoot with his pants rolled up to cut down the water lilies and grasses (I think it was about -12°C in the air)…
but that really helped catch a bunch of them that had been hiding under the lily leaves… they were moving slower in the cold, but still snuck out of the net… also, some of the catching was in the dark, lol…
then they sat in pails in the house for hours before getting moved into the three tanks…
we were careful to be sure to keep size and numbers similar in the tanks so that there is sufficient space for all of them…
we thought we had them all, but on Sunday we discovered five more, woohoo…
now, the pumps have been removed from the pond, and it is apparently going into the winter with water in it, lol…
28 Saturday Oct 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, colours, home, look out, memorable, moments, nature, photos, sky, time, weather, widow, window
the sky today has been a beautiful canvas of colour and light…
woke up and saw this gorgeous view… had to run back and get my iPhone so I could take a few pictures…
this was just after eight am;-)…
and tonight around seven pm…
both memorable;-)… what a treat to spend a few moments enjoying the beauty…
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