24 Friday Sep 2021
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so blessed to get to spend time in the garden watching the birds…
yesterday, there were house sparrows, white throated sparrows, chickadees, nuthatches, juncos, and even a couple of blue jays…
lots of chatter, songs, dust and water baths… also they are gobbling up the birdseed and had many trips to drink from the pond…
only saw a couple of squirrels, lol…
23 Thursday Sep 2021
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busy time in the garden…
last night we moved the filing cabinet raised bed from the garage to the side garden…
today on this beautiful, mostly sunny, day, I lifted and repositioned a number of the rocks in that area to sit around it… some of them were rather large and heavy, lol… I have collected them from all over Manitoba…
I think the area looks good and plan on filling the raised bed with bits of wood and soil to get it ready for spring…
21 Tuesday Sep 2021
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16 Thursday Sep 2021
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begonia, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, moments, nature, purple, rainy, weather, widow
yesterday I went around the garden and gathered all of the open dahlias and one of the begonia flowers…
made a lovely little bouquet…
I am happy to see that the begonia has stayed fresh looking…
on this rainy day I have enjoyed these flowers…
they look great on the new coffee table;-)…
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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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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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…
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