14 Friday Nov 2025
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big girl pants, dull, happy, Liquid Sunshine, moments, nature, overcast, Saje, weather, widow
the other day I picked up this Liquid Sunshine from Saje…
I am hoping it will brighten my spirits on the dull and overcast days;-)…
wish me luck…
13 Thursday Nov 2025
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big girl pants, deck, delightful, garden, moments, nature, plants, reading, sunshine, talking, time, watering, weather, widow
had a delightful morning yesterday…
spent time talking with the plants as they were watered and turned… a few are struggling with the move indoors but most are happy…
then I spent a glorious hour on the deck, in the sunshine, reading my current novel…
12 Wednesday Nov 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, ditch, friends, garden, Harte trail, moments, nature, walk, weather, widow
another lovely walk along the Harte Trail on Remembrance Day afternoon…
it felt like -4° Celsius and there was a bit of wind although the sun was shining brightly…
we walked a little bit past the distance we did last time…
we spotted two deer and watched them for a few minutes before they bounced along the ditch beside the path…
we were dressed for the cold and were very comfortable… then this person passed us;-)…
I guess different strokes for different folks…
11 Tuesday Nov 2025
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amaryllis, big girl pants, blessed, bulb, heat, moments, nature, planted, sceptical, shrivelled, widow
picked up an amaryllis when I was out grocery shopping on November 8th…
I am a bit sceptical whether it will do anything as it did not look very good…
the bulb was shrivelled with some dead bits at the top…
but, I planted it and put it close to a heating vent and have my fingers crossed;-)…
06 Thursday Nov 2025
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adventure buddy, big girl pants, blessed, canopy, exercise, Harte trail, nature, section, tunnel, walk, weather, widow
it was a beautiful sunny day as we went for another walk along a different section of the Harte Trail the other day…
the sunshine was glorious and the path was dry…
this portion had a canopy so it felt as though we were walking in a bit of a tunnel… can’t wait to walk this one in the summer when the leaves are overhead…
beautiful trees and a lovely sky… an excellent way to get our exercise in when we can’t make it to the pool…
also tested out my new boots;-)…
05 Wednesday Nov 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, clean-ish, family, garden, moments, nature, pond, pumps, water, weather, widow
cleaned out the first of the garden water pumps last week…
always happy when they are all clean-ish and packed away for the winter…
this morning I was able to pull out, clean and put away the last two…
all the jobs in the garden are done and it is now ready for the winter…
04 Tuesday Nov 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, fishtank, moments, nature, pail, pond, survives, water, water lily, widow
the water lily has been sitting inside the backdoor in a pail of water for over a week and the water is rather smelly, lol…
finally took it out of the pail and trimmed all the dead leaves… there was even a bud as it was trying to bloom again…
then it went into the biggest tank…
looks good, but we will see if it survives the winter as the fish may eat the whole thing🤪…
31 Friday Oct 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, blue morpho butterfly, eclosion, moments, nature, Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden, volunteering, watching, widow
had a wonderful time watching the blue morpho eclosion this morning in the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden;-)…
so happy to have the opportunity to watch this taking place during my volunteer shift;-)…
by the time I left, seven of them were in the process of eclosing…
30 Thursday Oct 2025
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adventure buddy, big girl pants, blessed, cedar waxwings, friends, Harte, Harte trail, moments, nature, new places, Trans Canada Trail, walk, weather, widow
went for a walk on the Harte Trail section of the Trans Canada Trail with my adventure buddy…
it was quite lovely, other than the puddles from the recent rain, lol…
we may have seen some cedar waxwings, although they were a long way off and high in a tree…
I am looking forward to going back in different seasons to see the changes…
we had a fun time;-)…
29 Wednesday Oct 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, caught, counted, family, fish, garden, grandson, indoors, moments, nature, pond, water level, weather, widow
a few fish came into the house around Thanksgiving…
on Tuesday morning we went out to collect the rest, as it is seems to be getting cooler every day…
part of the process was to empty a good amount of water, particularly as the pond was as high as I’ve seen it, since we’ve had so much rain lately…
then it was fairly easy for my housemate to catch the remaining fish…
once they were in the tanks, I counted thirty, which is about right, so we were pleased that we’d got them all…
we will check the pond over the next few days to see if there are any stragglers that we missed…
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