28 Saturday Mar 2020
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avocado, big girl pants, blessed, garden, hot tub, moments, outside, planting, pond, reading, Spring, sunshine, widow
had a wonderful day outside yesterday…
topped up the hot tub and added chemicals to it…
found my gardening gloves and planted an avocado…
although it is still messy on the deck, I sat in the sun and read for a while…
noticed that there is actually water in the pond;-)…
Spring is really coming, yay…
19 Thursday Jul 2018
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big girl pants, East Coast, family, kids, moments, outside, raining, shells, sky, sun, sunshine, treasures, widow
this morning I put all the shells that my kids brought home from their trip to the East coast on the table outside to dry in the sun…
they have been soaking in soapy water for a few days to clean them and get rid of the fishy smell…
when I arrived home they were rather wet from the afternoon rainfall…
I was thinking they would have dried out and been cleansed by the sun…
right now it is pouring out and I am hoping that the shells don’t blow away in the storm…
wish me luck;-)…
06 Thursday Jul 2017
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big girl pants, chocolate, daughter, outside, screen, serendipitous, trees, widow
tonight I enjoyed a delightful bit of chocolate… Brookside Dark Chocolate Tart Cherry Crisp with pomegranate flavour… might just take longer to say the name than it did to eat it, lol…
it has a very cool tree on it…
just minutes after that my daughter sent me a picture of some screen printing she did at a class tonight…
another tree… how cool is that…
the really funny thing is that this was the picture I had already prepared to post tonight…
it is of two of my colleagues sitting in the sun for a few minutes over lunch yesterday… we try to get outside for at least a few minutes on sunny days…
the whole serendipitous thing is amazing… great way to start my weekend;-)…
02 Sunday Apr 2017
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Assiniboine Park, big girl pants, branta, bridge, geese, honking, hot tub, outside, walk, widow
so, today it was all about the geese… and a few ducks… found the Latin name for them – branta – as I was doing some research…
wrote about my mom’s drawing of a goose a while back…
early this morning I was out in the hot tub and watched hundreds of them flying overhead…
took my first walk since the fall to Assiniboine Park and wandered around the English and Leo Mol Gardens…
lovely day although a bit windy, and I was very happy to be outside walking… the sidewalks were all clear and dry…
as I was crossing the walking bridge by the Park I caught these geese along the riverbank…
as I looked from the Boy with the Boot to the flag on the Pavilion, a few more were walking on the ice at the Riley Family Duck Pond…
there was open water as well as ice, lol…
on the tour of the Gardens I could hear the geese honking as they flew over and talking to one another in the river…
before crossing the bridge to come home took this picture of a pair… one was guarding while the other was eating…
they are so majestic and beautiful… and their honking still makes me stop and look up, wherever I am…
too bad about all the fertilizer they leave behind…
07 Thursday Jul 2016
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big girl pants, bunnies, cat, empty, outside, pond, squirrels, summer school, visitor, widow
seemed like the outside was front and centre today…
woke up early to a strange noise outside and when I went out to see what it was, discovered that the pond was nearly empty…
spent the next 45 minutes topping it up…
as I was backing down the driveway looked to my right and spotted this guy snacking on the neighbour’s lawn…
I must have sat there for five minutes watching… fun start to the day… I do love bunnies…
by the school, as I was waiting for the light to change, I watched a couple of kids waiting to cross the street going to the school… summer school, maybe…
as I drove up to the house at the end of the day I discovered this on my front step…
didn’t move while I went back to the car to get the phone to take a picture… sat there while I took out the garbage, recycling and yard waste… four trips back and forth… didn’t move…
finally sauntered off the step when I opened the door from the inside to see if there was any mail… apparently that carpet is cozy…
been watching the squirrels fight over the feeder for the last few hours… they are unable to share, so one tosses the other off every few minutes, lol… not clear to me if the same one is always the one left…
17 Tuesday May 2016
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beloved, big girl pants, evaporation, fish, frog, lonely, outside, pond, tadpoles, widow
tonight I found some tadpoles in the pond after I finished filling it up…
very exciting because we were worried that they had just vanished… guess the fish will be staying in the condo a bit longer as we wait for frogs to be big enough not to be eaten by them, lol…
took nearly an hour to fill the pond up, which shows how low it was…
I’m starting to think that maybe it really is evaporation and the wide waterfall that is leading to the water loss…
tonight as I was working around the garden I was missing my beloved a great deal…
maybe it is Spring, not sure really… continue to feel lonely these days…
walked a few blocks on my way home and came across these lilacs which are just starting to open… brought back memories of our oldest daughter’s wedding… she loves lilacs…
looking forward to the delicious smell in the next week or so, as there are a number of lilac bushes close by…
a beautiful day with a few opportunities to spend time outside… hoping that the warmer weather stays around…
it has been so cold that I turned the heat back on in the bathroom floor…
not going to turn it off for a while…
26 Tuesday Apr 2016
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big girl pants, bunny, canna, Japanese Maple, outside, squirrel, warmth, widow
started the day by spotting these two out the window…
a squirrel under the feeder and a bunny across the street… can you see his ears by the sidewalk…
the Japanese Maple is so ready to move out into the garden…
can’t take it out too soon because it isn’t fond of the cool weather…
nearly missed the canna blooming…
was thinking that it had just put out a new leaf at the top, lol…
think it wants to be outside as well… mushed right up against the glass…
we all want to get outside into the warmth…
now, if it would just get warm;-)…
20 Friday Nov 2015
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last night when I got home the bathroom window looked cool…
the glass blocks were covered in snow on the outside…
not sure if there wasn’t any wind during the night, or whether I was just so exhausted that I didn’t hear the flapping siding… had a good sleep and didn’t even need my Fitbit to tell me that, lol…
woke up with a stuffy head and sore throat, but felt better as the day progressed…
got this shot of the drift in front of the garage as we were leaving for work…
glad I didn’t need to take my own car because it might not have made it through…
am so blessed with my great kids… my son-in-law stopped by on his way home from work at 7 pm to shovel so that I can get out tomorrow…
he did the whole driveway…
even the backyard… so I can get out to the hot tub:-)…
and my grandson has agreed to do the shovelling again this winter… this weekend he is out of town, thus the son-in-law…
well I guess winter has arrived…
02 Saturday May 2015
spent a good part of the day outside in the garden…
sun shone for the majority of the time and I got some weeding done and put a few plants back into the pond…
lots of time thinking about the hours that my beloved put in weeding and maintaining the garden… still amazes me how much I miss him…
between weeding, cause I take lots of breaks, I finished a book I started last weekend… got a few great shots on my camera of a white-throated sparrow as it came to the pond for a drink…
mid afternoon I went in for a nap and the sky looked a bit threatening while big winds tried to knock things over…
no rain, and then it cleared up again…
now as I sit on the deck writing this, the sky is very ominous looking but there is no longer much breeze…
just over the garage you can see the neighbour’s apricot tree blooming… I’ve been smelling it off and on all day…
I can also smell the barbecue next door as the next door neighbour prepares dinner…
another wonderful day… what a blessing to have this time…
18 Saturday Oct 2014
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had a great sleep last night and as I was heading downstairs saw this lovely view outside…
the leaves were a beautiful shade of yellow…
spent most of the day resting but I did work on some chicken soup…
not quite done yet…
this afternoon my pond guy came by and put in a new pump…
it looks good, so far… we’ve decided to take out the uv filter and try putting a skimmer in beside the pond to collect algae and other debris… the thought is that it will be outside of the pond where I can get to it easily… this likely won’t happen until the spring… the fish are still happy outside but soon they will need to come in to their winter condo…
while out there I got a few pictures of some flowers that are still hanging on.. sadly we’ve already had a few frosts…
no sun today, maybe tomorrow…
