29 Wednesday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, dwarf morning glory, envisioned, family, flowers, garden, nature, obelisk, plants, widow
I planted these morning glory seeds that my daughter sent to me from Ottawa as part of my Advent Calendar…
I didn’t read anything about them and envisioned they would grow up this obelisk…
apparently, they are dwarf morning glories…
and that means they don’t climb, lol…
21 Saturday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, fabric, garden, moments, morning glories, obelisk, planter, plants, umbrella, weather, widow
the other day I removed the fabric from a squirrel-eaten umbrella…
I expected it to be difficult but it was simply a case of removing some nuts and the top and then pulling the fabric off…
my housemate cut off the bottom of the stand for me…
today, I topped up a planter and added the umbrella frame as an obelisk… then I planted some of the new morning glory seeds…
next year this obelisk will go into one of the larger pots;-)…
24 Wednesday Apr 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, dahlia, deck, dragged, garden, moments, morning glories, nature, obelisk, pot, rope, seeds, weather, widow
Tuesday I found a rope and attached it to the biggest pot under the far side of the deck… previously it had been on the main deck… I was able to pull it out and then drag it all the way around to the deck beside the hot tub…
once I got it into its new spot, I set in the large obelisk and then planted many morning glory seeds and one of the dahlias…
put a small pail over the top of the dahlia and hope that protects it from the silly weather, lol…
I think I like it in this new spot and am hoping it will fill up with the morning glories and that the dahlia will grow tall and produce flowers…
07 Thursday Jul 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, Hilda the Gardener, mandevilla, moments, nature, obelisk, unravelled, widow
on Monday morning, Hilda the Gardener came by to weed the garden…
I had dug a pot out of the shed and had purchased and put together an obelisk… nothing seems to come all made anymore, lol…
my plan was to have her take the mandevilla off the old obelisk and replant it with the new obelisk… this should make it much easier to to bring into the house and move around as needed…
the pot I had found wasn’t the right size so she had to move some coleus from a pot that would be a better fit…
then she unravelled the old one and planted it in the new pot with the obelisk…
my job was to wrap the vines around the obelisk…
once that was done she finished weeding the side garden…
it always looks wonderful after she has worked her magic;-)…
and just minutes after she left the rain started, lol…
18 Saturday Jun 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, drill, garden, irrigation, moments, nature, obelisk, pruned, purple, widow, work
was able to complete a few jobs in the garden although not the irrigation system… I am going to need a second pair of hands for that one…
using landscape fabric, I was able to turn a very cute, but not useful, bird feeder into a little planter… think it came out rather nicely… found a couple of morning glory plants, a sweet potato vine and a spider plant to go in it…
then there was quite a production to get a hook up on the garage and put up the planter… the drill, ladder and I had to sort through some stuff, but eventually it was up…
after all that I don’t like it there, but haven’t quite decided where to move it, lol…
reconnected two parts of a little planter that has an obelisk on the top… used zip ties to connect… it looks good and isn’t going to fall apart…
I also did a bit of pruning of the cedars along the back fence…
that’s it for work today;-)…
16 Thursday Jun 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, gusts, hibiscus, mandevilla, moments, nature, obelisk, pond, weather, widow, wind
yesterday the wind came up late in the afternoon and I decided to protect a few spots…
put chairs around the obelisk on the deck so it wouldn’t fall over…
then I took a chair and propped it against the hibiscus… not only didn’t I want it to fall over, I didn’t want it to fall into the pond…
I didn’t feel that the mandevilla needed any protection so left it alone…
everything made it through fine although I have left the chair by the hibiscus as there are supposed to be strong wind gusts tonight…
11 Wednesday May 2022
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, drilled, flowers, garden, google, moments, morning glories, nature, obelisk, planting, water, widow
the large planter on the deck has been full of water from all the rain… it doesn’t have any drain holes because it was originally a barrel liner…
I dug out the drill and then did a Google search to remind me how to change the bit… after a little experimenting I was able to put in one that would make holes…
dragged the planter so it hung over the edge and drilled a number of holes in it and watched the water pour out…
hopefully, in the next few days I can pop a few of the morning glories into it, along with the obelisk for them to climb up…
not sure if they need it to be warmer, but I can always plant more, lol…
some days those big girl pants are quite comfortable…
27 Saturday Mar 2021
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, clamp, garage, garden, memories, mistake, moments, morning glories, obelisk, weather, widow
well, it took most of the day, but I got the obelisk put together;-)…
started first thing in the morning… put a couple of layers together and then made a mistake and couldn’t remove a pipe that was stuck… left it and kept thinking about it… was really missing my beloved… he had the strongest hands and that was what I needed…
eventually I remembered the clamp that is attached to the workbench in the garage…
after using cloth, the clamp and pliers, I was able to separate two of the pieces… finally was able to add a piece upside down and connect the remaining pieces together…
looks great;-)… hoping for a few warmer days so I can set it into the pot on the deck… the morning glories are going to look great on it…
way to go me…
26 Friday Mar 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, family, garden, grandson, moments, obelisk, shopping, Technology, widow
my grandson arrived yesterday morning after picking up a number of things for me…
he brought me a bunch of solar globes, a new squirrel-proof feeder, a kneeler for the garden, stamps, seeds, a new plate and a few groceries…
I am thrilled about the solar globes as I’ve been searching for them since last summer;-)…
he also moved a big planter and my hammock chair so that I can clean up the back deck…
the obelisk I ordered will go into the large planter on the deck… as soon as I put it together, lol…
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