22 Monday Jun 2026
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ageratum, big girl pants, garden, moments, monarch, monarch butterfly, nature, plant, widow
spotted a monarch butterfly in the garden…
it was very interested in the ageratum…
and I’m very happy as there are two of these plants in the garden;-)…
woohoo…
03 Thursday Jul 2025
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, blooming, coneflower, family, flowers, garden, memories, moments, nature, plant, remembering, weather, weed, widow
the coneflower has finally bloomed… this one was planted on the south side of the house, next to the furnace vents… I think this is a much better spot than the pergola garden…
whenever the hose has been put out it has gotten water and has been growing nicely since it was planted…
not too long ago it produced a bud and it has slowly been opening over the last few weeks…
the petals still need to bend completely, but it is looking pretty good now;-)…
seeing it reminds me of how every year I would buy one, we’d plant it in the garden, and then in the spring my beloved would pull it out thinking it was a weed, lol…
memories 😉…
05 Thursday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, dirty, haircut, moments, nature, plant, plants, pot, trim, Ultracuts, walk, widow
walked over to Ultracuts for a trim and on the way spotted a plant that had not been put into the soil in one of the big city planters…
I didn’t want to arrive at the salon with dirty hands so I decided to wait until I was on the way home…
when I did arrive back at the planter, it was clear that the plant had not been planted as it was just laying on the soil… I had wondered if a critter had maybe pulled it out of its spot…
I dug a hole and popped it in… hope it is happy now…
25 Sunday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, cover, delicious, food, garden, hamper, moments, nature, plant, plants, pollinated, strawberries, strawberry, tasty, treat, widow
the strawberry plant, from last year, is doing very well…
we found a hamper at the store on July 5th, after either the birds or squirrels had eaten the ripe strawberries before we got to them, lol…
I kept the cover on them until a few ripe ones were ready to eat and then after we had those ones, I took the cover off so that the flowers could be pollinated…
as a number of yellow/green berries started to appear, the cover went back on the plant…
on Thursday I could see the ripe berries, through the screen…
removed the cover and picked three beautiful strawberries…
they were so sweet, yum…
02 Thursday May 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, circle, cleaned, creeper, garden, hot tub, leaves, moments, nature, plant, shelf, weather, widow
spent a little time the other day cleaning the shelf beside the hot tub…
there were tons of vines from the Virginia creeper and dead leaves around the circle of friends…
it looks so much tidier now…
thinking about what plant might go on the shelf when the weather starts and stays warm…
19 Friday Apr 2024
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African Violet, big girl pants, blessed, moments, over-watered, perk, plant, sad, water, widow
I’ve noticed that this African violet was looking very sad…
a few days ago, I picked it up to check it out and discovered it was sitting in 2 inches of water… poor thing was drowning, sigh…
it has already started to perk up;-)…
06 Wednesday Sep 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, leaves, moments, nature, plant, pothos, purple, repotted, rootball, water, widow
had some fun on the deck…
brought out the pothos vine from the dining room… it had overgrown its container and really needed to be repotted…
pulled out one of the purple pots that I bought from the Dollar store months ago and filled it with compost and soil…
before setting the plant in, I loosened the roots which were circling the rootball… centred it in the new pot and filled it up with soil… gave it a good water and wound the vines around the pot…
and finally, moved it back to its spot on the shelf;-)…
I think it will look better in a few weeks when the leaves turn to the light…
28 Tuesday Mar 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, climbing, mandevilla, moments, nature, plant, widow, winding
noticed the other day that the mandevilla has been sprouting new leaves at the top… must be sensing spring…
and they have started winding up the line that the pictures hang from…
took some time on Sunday to climb up and unravel the pieces and get them wound around the obelisk…
going to have to keep a closer eye on it to be sure it doesn’t do that again…
would have been a disaster if I had turned it within noticing, lol…
29 Monday Mar 2021
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alyssum, big girl pants, blessed, dahlias, datura, flowers, garden, moments, nature, plant, soak, Spring, widow
did a bit more planting…
already have grape tomatoes and milkweed going…
added white alyssum and dahlias… I am not expecting anything from the dahlias… I brought them in and bagged them in the fall, but they don’t feel full, so we will see if anything pops up… if not I already have new ones ordered which should come sometime in May…
also put datura and morning glories in to soak before they get planted…
found this sunflower smiling at me in one of the planters where I will be putting morning glories, lol…
28 Sunday Jun 2020
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alyssum, beloved, big girl pants, garden, memories, moments, nature, plant, remembering, shed, softball, wasps, widow
today I was particularly missing my beloved…
as I still had to plant the last few alyssum and couldn’t find a container I liked, I decided to brave the shed and choose something from in there… it is a mess and needs someone to clean and tidy it up and that would have been something he would have done, likely tossing things I thought we should keep and keeping things I thought were junk, lol…
anyway, I moved the recycling bin and opened the door… it seemed to catch on the Virginia creeper, which needs to be trimmed, and I was waving the vines away from my head when I heard lots of buzzing… and as I looked up I spotted many wasps flying around my head… I stepped back and saw a softball sized nest on the inside of the door…
lucky for me, I wasn’t stung… yikes…
my beloved would have sorted that nest out no problem… I found spray in the house, consulted with my son-in-law on the best time to use it, but can’t yet as it is too windy… guess that door is going to stay open until tomorrow, lol…
I moved away and found a container in the garage and finished the last bit of planting…
for my lunch I had leftover pork and beans and because it was so hot, ate them cold… he often ate them that way… the other way he liked them was warmed up with a fried egg on top, euuuwwww…
funny what you remember;-)…
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