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sneaky…

04 Tuesday Oct 2022

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my grandson came over to help with some garden jobs… he cut down baby elm trees, emptied rain barrels, and then spent a lot of time trying and catching the sneaky fish in the pond…

after a few minutes, we decided to pump out a good portion of the water, hoping it would make the catching easier, lol…

it did, a bit… the fish still found all the nooks and crannies amongst the rocks…

eventually he caught most of them and we are down to about six left… so far we haven’t been able to catch any of the babies…

later in the afternoon I sat on the bridge with my feet in the pond, not moving at all… after about fifteen minutes I gave up… not a single fish went by… the minute I stepped out they swam right past, lol…

winerack…

28 Wednesday Sep 2022

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spent time in the living and dining rooms reorganizing the plants…

took the orchids out of the new fish tank, trimmed, and found other places for them to go…

gave up the winerack and now have a spot for the fuchsia from outside to come to…

found a pump that might work in the tank, which is going to be used to house pond plants…

I’ve tried to overwinter water hyacinth before without success, but am going to try once again… also hoping that the two floating baskets will make it as well;-)… some of the water lilies will go into the tanks with the fish, but may put one in this tank if there is room…

dismantled…

20 Tuesday Sep 2022

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Monday some jobs got done…

I met the kids at the “A” for breakfast and then we worked in the garden…

Virginia creeper was pulled from behind the hot tub and some tiny holes were filled in the foundation close to the door…

the hammock was dismantled and pieces put into the shed…

then we started catching fish to bring into the condo… we got nine so far, including all the biggest ones, and will do more every now and again…

they caught them and I put them into the tanks…

happy to get some of the fall chores done…

bud…

13 Tuesday Sep 2022

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so excited last Wednesday to discover a water lily bud… I had pretty much given up hope of seeing one this year…

throughout the day I took photos as it worked towards opening…

it was at its peak on Saturday…

today it is getting ready to slide under the water… as the next bud begins to open…

what a wonderful treat as we move into cooler weather…

talk about blessed…

tad…

02 Friday Sep 2022

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Wednesday, the kids met us for breakfast and then came by to pick up a few items from the giveaway collection…

while they were here, they pulled down some wayward Virginia creeper along the garage and moved some unsightly cord off the pond bridge…

then they ran over to Nestor’s to get me a shubunkin to add to the pond… there weren’t any available, so they came home with this beauty…

which was a tad bigger than I expected, lol… they all seem to be getting on fine in the school so we are good;-)…

interruption…

17 Wednesday Aug 2022

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on Monday had a great time in the garden with 3/4 of our BS group…

I had moved the car to the driveway and put chairs into the garage on the chance that rain or a thunderstorm decided to cause an interruption during our gathering… I didn’t rearrange the chairs and put out the cushions until a few minutes before they arrived as the sky was still covered in clouds…

while we visited, we saw a monarch flit about and land on the milkweed flowers… then a baby bunny stopped by…

the sparrows came by for drinks and baths…

and the fish were swimming all around the pond, including at least one of the babies…

the babies move amazingly quickly, and I spent quite a while trying to catch a photo of one of them…

in the end, the sun came out and it got kind of hot, lol… then, about 7:30 pm we had a huge thunderstorm…

strange weather day…

shim…

14 Sunday Aug 2022

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moved the backyard wifi camera down a bit… also put a shim in so that it points down a touch more…

now it gets a little more of the area in front of the pond… may see critters as they wander past the pond, lol…

getting quite handy with the drill… no trouble to remember how to have it reverse when taking out the screw;-)…

what a pro…

mystery…

07 Sunday Aug 2022

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the other day I swept the steps between the pond and back garden so that I could walk along them in my bare feet…

yesterday I noticed that they were covered with dirt again…

today I watched the birds having dirt baths, all the way along the walk, lol…

solved that mystery;-)… and thinking there is no point in sweeping it again…

morphed…

01 Monday Aug 2022

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started the day looking at photos of my beloved…a few tears were shed in the process… we were married 52 years ago today… I still remember looking out the window of the apartment to see him dropping off the decorated car… in those days, getting the car turned out with paper flowers was the thing to do, lol…

then I had a walk around the garden… in the 49 years we’ve been in this space, it has morphed from a square green grass covered area, to a swing set with some cedars, to a small swimming pool space, to a huge sandbox with a two story playhouse, to a parking area for a camper trailer… to a space filled with ponds and lovely gardens…

thanks to the help of Hilda the Gardener, a lawn service, and the kids, it is looking wonderful and I know that he would be pleased…

I am truly blessed, but I miss him every day…