01 Saturday Oct 2022
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spent some time in the garden repotting a few plants to come into the house…
this silver falls had been in a pot hanging on the side of the house and was so pretty I thought I’d give it a try in the house…
I separated a couple of plants and put them in a slightly smaller pot…
finally, I brought in some of the floating pond plants…
it will be interesting to see how they all manage…
28 Wednesday Sep 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, moments, nature, orchids, overwinter, plants, pond, tank, weather, widow, winerack
spent time in the living and dining rooms reorganizing the plants…
took the orchids out of the new fish tank, trimmed, and found other places for them to go…
gave up the winerack and now have a spot for the fuchsia from outside to come to…
found a pump that might work in the tank, which is going to be used to house pond plants…
I’ve tried to overwinter water hyacinth before without success, but am going to try once again… also hoping that the two floating baskets will make it as well;-)… some of the water lilies will go into the tanks with the fish, but may put one in this tank if there is room…
24 Saturday Sep 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, crushed, food, garden, google, moments, nature, parsley, plants, weather, widow
prepped some items from the garden…
gathered morning glory seeds and brought in a ton of parsley… it didn’t get eaten up this year, lol… talked with Google about ways to prepare it for the winter…
two suggestions sounded like something to try… I pulled off most of the stalks and put half of the parsley onto parchment paper and then baked it in the oven for about twenty minutes… when it cooled I crushed it by hand and put it into a bottle… looks good…
next I took the rest of the stalk-free parsley and bagged it… six bags went into another and went into the freezer…
it will be interesting to see which type I like the best;-)…
23 Friday Sep 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, ensconced, experiments, flowers, garden, Hilda the Gardener, memories, moments, nature, plants, weather, widow
well, Wednesday was that day in the garden, sigh…
Hilda the Gardener came by and most of the planters in the front yard and garden were cleaned out…
as an experiment, a few plants which had been in the planters were put into the ground to see if we could reuse them in the spring… and we tried that with the strawberry basket as well…
everything looks tidy and ready for the next seasons…
I am going to miss time spent in the garden although I am so happy with how many days I was ensconced in the space…
there will be many wonderful memories to enjoy during those freezing cold days in the middle of winter…
but for now, here’s hoping for more beautiful days in this magical space;-)…
20 Tuesday Sep 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, breakfast, chores, dismantled, family, garden, goldfish, grandson, moments, nature, pond, widow
Monday some jobs got done…
I met the kids at the “A” for breakfast and then we worked in the garden…
Virginia creeper was pulled from behind the hot tub and some tiny holes were filled in the foundation close to the door…
the hammock was dismantled and pieces put into the shed…
then we started catching fish to bring into the condo… we got nine so far, including all the biggest ones, and will do more every now and again…
they caught them and I put them into the tanks…
happy to get some of the fall chores done…
19 Monday Sep 2022
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back door, big girl pants, blessed, chipped, door, garden, moments, nature, paint, purple, scraped, weather, widow
finally scraped the chipped areas on the back door…
then I pulled out the paint, stirred it for quite a while and painted the bare portions… it was very interesting to see how blue it looked before being stirred up… that probably explains why so many of my purple things turn blue after sitting in the sunlight, lol…
it has been drying and is looking good… I think I will give it one more coat…
17 Saturday Sep 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, bounty, delicious, flowers, food, garden, moments, nature, shopping, supper, treat, widow, Wolseley Farmers Market
had a delicious supper on Tuesday…
visited the Wolseley Farmers Market and got some lovely items…
flowers; a beautiful pork chop; green, yellow, and purple beans; garlic; small new potatoes; little eggplants; free range eggs; an acorn squash; and a cob of corn…
cooked up, cooled and reheated the potatoes… then warmed up some chicken wings from the night before and boiled some of the beans…
yum…
looking forward to more delicious meals from this bounty…
13 Tuesday Sep 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, bud, flowers, garden, moments, nature, plants, pond, treat, water lily, weather, widow
so excited last Wednesday to discover a water lily bud… I had pretty much given up hope of seeing one this year…
throughout the day I took photos as it worked towards opening…
it was at its peak on Saturday…
today it is getting ready to slide under the water… as the next bud begins to open…
what a wonderful treat as we move into cooler weather…
talk about blessed…
12 Monday Sep 2022
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avocado, big girl pants, blessed, food, garden, grow, moments, nature, pit, plants, seed, wait, widow
went into the cupboard over the fridge and checked on my current avocado pit…
weeks ago I had put it into a plastic bag with a bit of water, set it up there, and forgot about it… now it was ready…
chose a nice mug container and dug out a used plastic pot that would fit inside it…
popped in some stones and soil… then planted the pit which had cracked in half and had a bunch of roots on the bottom…
looking forward to watching it grow…
11 Sunday Sep 2022
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arch, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, file cabinet, garden, memories, moments, nature, plants, side garden, trellis, widow
took this shot from the side garden the other day…
it brought to mind how that garden has looked over the years…
it used to be a shade garden and my beloved would wander into it and weed all the time…
after he died the tree that provided the shade was taken down… I ignored this space and for a number of years it was basically a weed patch, yikes…
once Hilda the Gardener came it started to improve and over the last few years we have focussed on it a bit more, lol…
last year we added the file cabinet raised bed and it has worked beautifully…
I am now looking for a garden arch trellis that will go from the raised bed to the wall of the house… it will give the peas and cucumbers a better place to grow on…
I think it will be a great addition once I find it, hopefully by spring…
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