14 Tuesday Sep 2021
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while at the cottage my friend gave me a haircut… it started out as a trim around my neck, but turned into a full blown cut… yay…
fun to sit outside as she worked and then just walk away from all the mess, lol…
loving how it looks… might have to hire her on a regular basis;-)…
13 Monday Sep 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, food, friends, fun, lake, memories, moments, nature, time, vacation, walk, water, widow
recently home, following a two day vacation, which easily felt like four days…
drove up to the cottage with a friend one morning and returned home the next evening…
we had a wonderful time… we sat on the beach for a while, spent time walking and beachcombing, spotted numerous mushrooms, watched a wonderful display of pelicans and cormorants, ate great food, relaxed, and talked by the fire…
what a delightful break…
11 Saturday Sep 2021
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beach, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, coal, family, first footing, happy, lobster, memories, moments, nature, remembering, treasure, van, widow
we took a trip to the East Coast in 1988 or 1989 – amazing what I forget these days, lol…
the four of us, plus my beloved’s mom… we had bought a tricked out van and the trip was great…
when we got to the coast we had lobster at every stop because the four of us loved it… George’s mom couldn’t figure out why we kept eating it as she didn’t like it that much, lol…
while we were there, we found a beach that had coal all over it… we had such fun collecting a bagful to bring home to use for first footing…
I’ve been down to one fairly large piece for a a few years now, so I’ve been careful with it…
as I was working away in the garage, cleaning, sorting, dumping stuff, I found the original bag filled with a whole lot more…
what a treasure, so exciting…
10 Friday Sep 2021
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big girl pants, birdies, birds, blessed, garden, migration, moments, nature, photos, pond, reading, widow
had an enjoyable time watching all my feathered friends flitting about the garden…
I think the birdies were happy that the grass has been mowed as well, lol…
dirt baths, bug collecting in the grass, checking out all the feeders, and drinking at the pond…
some guests who haven’t been around all summer are stopping by so I think we are getting close to migration time…
some days it is nearly impossible to focus on my book because there is so much going on;-)…
09 Thursday Sep 2021
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I went for a walk… outside… in the neighbourhood… no idea when I did that last…
walked with my daughter in my ear…
didn’t go too far, up to and around Bruce Park… it was lovely to see flowers, the creek, and get some photos…
felt fine at the end… only met a few people and they weren’t close to me…
07 Tuesday Sep 2021
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berries, big girl pants, blessed, garden, lily of the valley, moments, nature, plants, purple, widow
the other day I took a photo of some beautiful Virginia creeper berries… they were climbing on the cedars on the back lane side of the garden and were a bright purple…
today I spotted these red berries in amongst the lily of the valley…
I’ve never seen berries on lily of the valley before…
06 Monday Sep 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, bumblebee, flutter, garden, lily pad, moments, nature, pictures, pond, sparrows, wasp, widow
the critters have been active in the garden…
birds and squirrels are always flitting about… today I captured a flutter of sparrows lined up waiting for their turn at one of the feeders…
and lately the tiniest winged critters have been visiting quite a bit…
this cute bumblebee was enjoying a rest in the sunshine on the datura… and the wasps have been spending time on the lily pads, getting drinks I think…
there have also been a number of grasshoppers in the front yard…
so happy that retirement has given me more opportunities to enjoy the nature around me…
04 Saturday Sep 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, family, garden, grass, lawnmower, moments, mow, nature, pond, Technology, water lily, weather, widow, working
this morning when I looked outside the sun was shining and it was a nice temperature…
but, the grass was so tall I didn’t want to go into the garden… since we’ve had a bit of rain and cooler weather it has grown like crazy and my grandsons hadn’t been able to come over and mow for me…
I decided that I would mow it myself… I did buy a lawnmower that starts easily and doesn’t have any cords for just this situation…
so, I moved furniture, mowed, whippersnipped, put furniture back, brought out cushions and finally sat down with a cup of tea to enjoy the space…
it looked spectacular;-)…
and I spotted a water lily bud… yay…
03 Friday Sep 2021
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always learning, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, male, moments, nature, neighbour, plants, research, squash, widow
I spent some time walking around the garden this afternoon…
after checking out the neighbour’s squash plant, which has come into my garden, I went online and did a bit of research…
there are a number of blooms on both sides of the fence but not a single squash growing…
it appears that all of the blooms are male flowers… hopefully a female or two will turn up although I think there is a plan to pull the plant out next week, lol…
02 Thursday Sep 2021
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become, big girl pants, blessed, buds, flowers, garden, mandevilla, memories, moments, nature, plants, weather, widow
three years ago my mandevilla was blooming profusely on this day… that year, the flowers began opening mid-July…
it lives in the dining room over the winter and doesn’t bloom during that period…
today I took photos of the buds on that same plant… interesting that we are a month and a half later this year…
it takes quite a long time for the buds to become flowers and I am looking forward to the blooms…
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