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14 Sunday Dec 2025

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I’ve been watching the amaryllis that I purchased in early November…

it is now in the sleigh with some of the snow people and it seems to be doing okay… I added some of the solar lights in and around the melt (group of snow people)… I kind of like it…

both of the little babies on the sides of the main bulb have started to shoot up, and even the original bulb is starting to have a bit of green peek out…

thaw…

24 Monday Nov 2025

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bought a few tree greens while at the grocery store…

dug out two birch branches, some small white twigs, and a stem of red berries from the shed…

went through a Christmas box and brought out some large ornaments…

last week I’d brought in the planter from the top step so it could thaw out so all the dead plants could be pulled out…

took the planter into the garden, removed all the dead plants and added in the greenery…

after everything was included, it was carried to the front steps…

added some solar lights…

looks good…

entrance…

22 Saturday Nov 2025

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spent Friday morning at the entrance to the zoo as a zoo concierge…

this was my little nook by the doors…

learned lots of tips and tricks from the staff and got a few pictures of some of the Zoo Lights which started that evening…

four layers of clothing was perfect and toward the end of my shift, the top layer came off;-)…

delightful…

13 Thursday Nov 2025

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had a delightful morning yesterday…

spent time talking with the plants as they were watered and turned… a few are struggling with the move indoors but most are happy…

then I spent a glorious hour on the deck, in the sunshine, reading my current novel…

invasive…

21 Tuesday Oct 2025

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out in the garden and front yard on Sunday morning…

pulled out a huge clump of self-seeded morning glories in the front flower bed… the frost got them a few days before…

I can understand how they are considered invasive in BC… but they weren’t causing any problem in the flower bed and added some lovely flowers for the last month or so…

nearly filled one of the yard waste bags and then I swept up Virginia creeper branches on the bottom decks… the bag was pretty full by the time I was done…

final piece of work was removing all the morning glory vines from the butterfly bench…

still a few jobs to do to close down the garden for the season…

dragon…

18 Saturday Oct 2025

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last week we went through the garden and collected flowers from the pansies, bachelor buttons and petunias, as they will be a special snack treat for the bearded dragon, lol…

next they went into the dehydrator to dry…

took about twelve hours and then they were nicely dried and put into a bag for future snacks;-)…

hope the dragon likes them…

lizard…

17 Friday Oct 2025

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my housemate has been preparing for over a month for a pet bearded dragon…

he picked up a large glass enclosure which he then adapted (a lot) for the lizard to live in…

it took a great deal of thought and ingenuity to get the tank the way he wanted it…

once it was done, he moved the tank to its location and added in bricks, rocks, plants, driftwood, and a number of lights…

everything was ready about four hours before the lizard arrived;-)…

time…

10 Friday Oct 2025

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well, it took lots more time, and water, to get the houseplants watered Wednesday morning, lol…

seems there are a great many of them;-)…

I’ve had to rearrange some of the ones that are now in the window so that I still have a good view of the bird feeders…

especially these days as the birds prepare for migration and are very busy getting their meals…

thriving…

06 Monday Oct 2025

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yesterday, as I was reorganizing the plants that have come in from outside, my housemate helped me with the monstera plant…

he brought it with him when he moved into the basement and had it down there for a while, but had to move it to the main floor as it wasn’t thriving…

It isn’t my favourite plant, but when all the plants were being moved around, we trimmed it and attached it to a pole and it looks much better…

in the same corner, I put one of the ferns that had been in the garden and was much happier than when it went outside… hope it continues to thrive there;-)…