23 Wednesday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, happy, moments, morning glory, nature, pansies, photos, plants, purple, ragged, weather, widow
it is interesting how some days the flowers put on a show and other days they look ragged and very sad…
today the pansies next to the house were very happy…
just a few days ago I was thinking they were completely done…
only one morning glory was open, but it was lovely…
still waiting for the mandevilla and hibiscus to bloom;-)…
lots to look forward to…
16 Wednesday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, camera, eggs, fields, flowers, friend, fun, garden, happy, Miss Millie’s Flower Farm, moments, mug, nature, Nikon, picking, plants, time, weather, widow
this morning we drove to Miss Millie’s Flower Farm and had a lovely time in the fields…
my adventure buddy gathered flowers, and I gathered photographs with my Nikon… great fun for both of us…
of the 125 photos I took, I was very pleased with about 75…
the weather was perfect, overcast and cool, and there were few bugs… we had been there in August of 2022 and the mosquitoes had been voracious at that time…
the fields were not as far along due to the weather but it is a beautiful place to spend time in… so happy I remembered that taking pictures was more fun for me than gathering flowers;-)… and nice to get the camera out for a change;-)…
I also brought home some fresh eggs and a new tea mug (Sugar & Spice Pottery);-)…
15 Tuesday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, blossoms, buds, garden, hibiscus, mandevilla, moments, nature, plants, scraggly, weather, widow
great excitement over the last while when I discovered two different new buds…
the first one I noted was the tiny little buds on the mandevilla…
it had been looking very scraggly when it came out from the house…
and then, just a few days ago, I spotted a bud on the hibiscus;-)…
can’t wait to see the blooms as they open…
08 Tuesday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, blooms, disintegrate, flowers, garden, happy, moments, morning glories, nature, plants, purple, starting, weather, widow
so happy to see that the morning glories are opening…
the butterfly bench hasn’t had any open lately but the planter by the backdoor has been blooming over the last few days… today there were three…
then, as I was driving out of the garage, I stopped the car, got out and took photos of the blooms by the large garage door…
the blooms don’t last long and if it rains they kind of disintegrate, so I wanted to be sure to get a photo of them;-)…
25 Wednesday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, cut back, daisies, dancing, flowers, garden, grow, moments, nature, plants, widow
the daisies have been blooming for a few weeks and they had grown very tall… I got some lovely videos of them dancing in the breeze…
the other day I cut them back, hoping they will come back and be a bit shorter, lol…
now, we will wait and see;-)..
24 Tuesday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, hibiscus, irritated, leaves, lemon, moments, nature, outdoors, plants, weather, widow
well over a week ago, the lemon tree made its way from the house into the garden…
since then it has been rather irritated with the weather… the leaves were all hanging down as though it was thirsty, but watering it didn’t seem to make any difference…
finally, a few days ago the leaves had perked up and it looks happy again…
the hibiscus has also forgiven me for bringing it outdoors… it had enjoyed being under the cedars but was miffed when it was moved out to the edge of the pond… where it proceeded to get a bit of a sunburn;-(…
the two of them are looking very nice now…
23 Monday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, moments, nature, neighbour, plants, remembering, rosa, rose, weather, widow
happy to discover that the red rose bush in the front garden has begun to bloom…
it came from my neighbour (and very good friend) who lived next door for many years…
it always makes me smile and remember the good times we had together over the years;-)…
brought a few in and put them in the den…
22 Sunday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, complaint, expanding, garden, grass, happy, hose, kink, moments, plants, widow
sometime back, we picked up a new hose as the old one had sprung a leak…
we ended up with a different type… not an expanding one…
I have used it and discovered that it didn’t work for me… it was 100 feet long, like the old one, but it seemed to kink more and the water flow seemed to come and go…
I’ve been sharing my complaint about it for weeks, so finally, we picked up the type I’d had before;-)…
it isn’t exactly the same as the old one, but is much better and lighter than the one I’ve been using…
now it is much more fun to water the plants and grass;-)…
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;-)…
19 Thursday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, discourage, food, fresh, garden, happy, moments, nature, plants, snack, squirrels, strawberry, strawberry plant, treat, weather, widow
excited this morning to spot the strawberry that was ripe enough to eat… and pleased that the birds and/or squirrels hadn’t beaten me to it…
I did paint those rocks red and put them around the plant to discourage thieves, lol… maybe they worked…
the strawberry was delicious;-)…
this plant was purchased two years ago and lives in a pot over the summer…in the fall it is transplanted back into the bathtub garden to overwinter;-)…
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