15 Tuesday Aug 2023
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arch, beans, big girl pants, blessed, food, garden, happy, moments, nature, photos, pictures, plants, veggie garden, veggies, widow
on Saturday I took a photo of the veggie garden arch…
I’ve taken lots, but haven’t felt they were just right…
finally I figured out that I should take one from the front yard, lol…
looks pretty… maybe next year I won’t have the beans growing across the top, where I can’t reach them, lol…
13 Sunday Aug 2023
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big girl pants, birthday, blessed, family, happy, light, moments, nature, plant light, plants, pots, potted, rocks, shopping, Technology, widow
had some fun on Thursday…
had breakfast out and then we went to Home Depot, found plants, pots, and rocks… then it was on to Rona to check for different pots, and back to Home Depot to pick up the first one, lol…
when we got home the plant light that had been ordered had arrived…
at last, everything was potted, put together, and set up;-)…
I think it was a good birthday for the twenty-three year old;-)…
10 Thursday Aug 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cherry tomato, food, garden, growing, late, moments, nature, planting, plants, tomato, weather, widow
for whatever reason I didn’t end up planting some sad looking cherry tomatoes I had in the kitchen till very late…
but look at them now;-)…
expect they will be red before you know it… and I can hardly wait…
08 Tuesday Aug 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, blooms, flowers, garden, leaves, left-out, lily, memories, moments, nature, photos, plants, pond, remembering, water, water lily, weather, widow
been looking through my photos and came across a few pond pictures which demonstrate how crazy the water lily has gone, lol…
this is it yesterday…
this was last year about the same time…
and the year before…
still not sure if it is the weather or a response to being left-out over the winter…
06 Sunday Aug 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, inukshuk, moments, nature, plants, springing, widow, wild flowers
last year my daughter sent me wildflower eggs…
this spring I planted one of them into this fairly large pot and have been amazed at all the flowers…
the pot is right next to my Inukshuk…
everyday there are new flowers springing up…
what a treat…
05 Saturday Aug 2023
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barrel, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, irrigation, moments, nature, pictures, planters, rain barrel, rainwater, Technology, watering, weather, widow
spent the first part of this morning watering everything…
while the irrigation system was looking after the veggie patch and pond garden, I used the rain barrel at the front to water the planters out front…
I’ve been lazy and have been using the hose most of the time, but I did enjoy using the rainwater from the barrel… and I’m pretty sure the plants were happy;-)…
04 Friday Aug 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, bridge, crickets, frogs, garden, happy, lily pad, moments, nature, pond, sound, treat, widow
been wondering if the evening sounds I’ve been hearing are crickets or frogs…
pretty much came to the conclusion that they were crickets as I haven’t seen any signs of a frog around the pond…
and then…
Wednesday morning, look who popped up on the bridge;-)…
the sound might still be the crickets, but what a treat to spot this little leopard frog;-)…
and in the last few days it has been all over;-)…
03 Thursday Aug 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, chair, cushions, garden, moments, nature, plants, pond, rigged, shade, sun, umbrella, widow, woolly thyme
spent a bit of time getting all the chairs out, as well as cushions, for our Monday afternoon gathering…
even rigged an umbrella over an additional chair to be sure everyone had shade…
before that, I used the same umbrella to provide a bit of shade for the creeping thyme that we moved on Saturday… hoping it likes the new spot and starts to cover a bit more ground, lol…
01 Tuesday Aug 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, creeping Charlie, garden, happy, Hilda the Gardener, lily of the valley, mixed, moments, nature, plants, projects, weather, widow
had fun on Saturday when Hilda the Gardener came to work in the garden… I’d been thinking a bit and had a few projects in mind… it is wonderful to have her here to do the heavy lifting;-)…
the creeping Charlie was removed from one of the beds and a few plants were moved around…
while she was doing that, I mixed soil and grass seed and filled a few low spots in the grass…
the lily of the valley and Virginia creeper were removed along the house in the veggie garden… I think we are going to add some hostas in this area… I am happy that we can separate plants rather than have to run out and buy new ones…
and the Virginia creeper around the gate was trimmed up…
we always like to take before and after pictures when we are working on some of the bigger projects;-)…
looks good…
31 Monday Jul 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, camping, comforters, deck, garden, lounger, moments, nature, nest, night, rain, sleep, stars, weather, widow
on Friday evening I brought the lounger onto the deck and put a number of comforters on it…
then, once it was dark I headed out for my version of camping, lol…
had a pretty good sleep and enjoyed looking at the stars whenever I woke up during the night… and there were no mosquitoes;-)…
the weather looked good and that went so well that I decided to sleep out again on Saturday night…
around 4:30 am drops began to land on me😳, and shortly thereafter all of the paraphernalia was on the kitchen floor and I headed upstairs to my bed, lol…
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