01 Wednesday Sep 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, cacao, chocolate, crossword, eNews, fun, garden, happy, HappyMailforChocoholics, learning, moments, nature, pond, Technology, widow
the cleaners were here today and while they were inside the house, I was in the garden on the back deck spending time with googly finding the answers to the Happy Mail for Chocolate Lovers crossword that I received in an email mid-August;-)…
it was fun learning new facts about the various places where cacao grows…
31 Tuesday Aug 2021
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, boat, cormorants, family, fishing, lake, memories, moments, nature, photos, water, weather, widow
spent a delightful afternoon on the water…
we jumped in the boat and went to a few different fishing spots… no luck at the first one but we did much better at the second…
saw turtles and cormorants… the cormorants got a bit tired of us following them along the canal, but I got some great photos…
I also caught two fish and brought another one up to the side of the boat where it decided to jump off, lol… and the rule is, if you don’t get it into the boat it doesn’t count…
one of the Jack’s I caught was around 30 inches (second biggest of the day) and put up a fight before getting into the net… the other was smaller, but really any fish is great;-)…
good thing I have all these excellent fishers around me to provide backup and helpful instructions…
30 Monday Aug 2021
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25 Wednesday Aug 2021
Posted in food, garden, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized, weather
recently there has been lots of squirrely things going on…
spotted this red squirrel out the front window around 9:30 am… it was looking for food to eat from under the feeders…
not fifteen minutes later this gray squirrel nearly came into the house when I opened the patio door, lol…
25 Wednesday Aug 2021
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beans, big girl pants, blessed, food, garden, happy, moments, nature, planted, plants, weather, widow
big excitement when I discovered 2, yes 2, beans growing, lol…
I had planted a number of seeds but thought that none of them had survived… I’m not sure whether the crazy hot weather affected them…
happily, my neighbour brought me another feed which I had with my supper…
not exactly sure what I will do with two as they still aren’t quite ready, lol…
23 Monday Aug 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, cucumbers, cukes, garden, happy, moments, nature, plants, tomatoes, weather, widow
yesterday I had a nice haul of veggies in the garden…
the cukes all have an odd shape but are tasty…
usually I’ve only planted a few tomatoes and the odd pepper, so I’m rather pleased with this year’s veggie garden…
22 Sunday Aug 2021
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babies, big girl pants, blessed, garden, goldfish, moments, nature, nice, pond, rain, relaxing, water, weather, widow
spent a relaxing morning in the garden, sitting close to the pond…
counted ten babies who are growing every day, and got to watch them swimming around looking for food…
it was particularly nice because it was supposed to rain all day, but it held off until around one pm…
not sure how the pond will look tomorrow because it is already very full from all the rain we’ve already had…
20 Friday Aug 2021
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big girl pants, damaged, flowers, garden, hibiscus, moments, nature, plants, rain, sad, storm, weather, widow
for the last week or so I’ve been wondering why the hibiscus is getting all these yellow leaves… I’d been watering it and had even given it some banana peel water…
this afternoon, between rainfalls, I put a chair up alongside it as the wind is supposed to get crazy tomorrow and I didn’t want it to blow over again…
and spotted this…
this is very sad… I hope I will be able to remove the broken portion and that the other two stems will remain healthy…
it may have been damaged during the big storm last week… the tree had blown over and I didn’t check the stem when I put it back up… too bad, maybe it could have been repaired…
18 Wednesday Aug 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, deck, friends, garden, happy, laughter, memories, moments, nature, Technology, time, widow
had a lovely in-person gathering with my BS buddies…
Monday evening is our usual time to gather, and we’ve been doing that for many years…
since the lockdown we’ve been connecting via Skype, but for the last number of weeks we’ve been meeting on the deck in the garden, unless the weather doesn’t cooperate…
it is wonderful to be together again… we sit apart, but are able to enjoy each other with a cup of tea or coffee…
laughter fills the air…
17 Tuesday Aug 2021
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, Cooper’s Hawk, garden, hawk, moments, nature, photos, surprise, widow
the sparrows, chickadees and a few cute little warblers were having a lovely time eating and drinking in the garden… I was particularly happy as the warblers hadn’t been around for a while…
suddenly they all flew into the trees and a juvenile Cooper’s Hawk landed on the wires over the deck… what a surprise…
the last few sparrows flew right over my head to get to the safety of the cedars…
the hawk watched from the wires and wandered along the top of the deck for about ten minutes before leaving…
it was very quiet for a while…
it was special to see as I’ve only seen hawks twice in the garden, but I hope it doesn’t come back as it really keeps all the other birds away, lol…
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