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closer…

17 Saturday Jul 2021

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another great day in the garden…

it always looks particularly nice after Hilda the Gardener has been;-)… she spent a few hours in the morning weeding and trimming…

she also helped me move one of the bird feeders to a new spot closer to the pond where, just possibly, the squirrels won’t be able to get to it…

I am hoping that it isn’t so close that sunflower shells find their way into the water…

once she left, I watched sparrows having a garden party, testing out the feeders and enjoying drinks from the pond…

after a short nap, through the hottest part of the afternoon, I finished my book on the deck…

damselfly…

11 Sunday Jul 2021

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had some fun watching dragonflies around the pond…

caught one as it was having a rest on the grass in the pond…

also watched one dive-bomb the water as it apparently dropped eggs into the water…

I still haven’t been able to spot any of the eggs when this happens…

also spotted a cute little damselfly sitting on that same grass, but didn’t get a picture…

leak…

05 Monday Jul 2021

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silly waterfall continues to leak so I am now turning it off at night…

it had been working perfectly until I fell in and messed it up…

the nights are much quieter…

between it and watering the grass every day my water bill is going to be a bit high, lol…

tonight as I was doing a final walk through, I heard running water and realized that water was pouring out of the neighbour’s hose… gave them a quick call and they were able to get it stopped…

gold…

04 Sunday Jul 2021

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I spent a lovely and quiet hour sitting right next to the pond this morning…

I had planned to turn the waterfall on as soon as I got into the garden, but decided to sit close to the pond and watch the fish…

yesterday, when I was in the pond cleaning it up, I spotted a baby swimming by… they move really quickly, so I only saw it for a moment…

my goal this morning was to check for any others that might be there…

and I spotted two… maybe the whitish one I saw yesterday and an actual gold one… they are much harder to spot in the pond as they look black… of course I didn’t get any pictures, lol…

great excitement and I will keep watch for more;-)…

sure miss the water hyacinth as its roots were a wonderful safe hiding place for babies as they started their journey as the goldfish eat them when they are very small…

chair…

03 Saturday Jul 2021

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had a great day in the garden… started with watering the grass and plants, and getting all the cushions out… then time in the pond cleaning the pump out and tidying some water grasses…

finally sat and enjoyed the space…

this was the special chair…

in the morning a friend came over for a visit… it was her birthday and we had a lovely visit… a few presents, some tasty snacks, and a great wander around the garden…

a short time later my sister-in-law and nephew came by with lunch… can’t think how long it has been since I’ve seen her… she had flown in for the weekend so it was a real treat to spend time with them…

great way to spend a Saturday;-)…

teasing…

02 Friday Jul 2021

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the butterfly bushes are so close to opening, although it feels like they are teasing me…

when I come out in the morning, I think, today’s the day…

but no…

finally, they are starting to bloom, although still not completely open;-)…

they are a stunning deep purple…

chipping…

30 Wednesday Jun 2021

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I’ve been watching a chipping sparrow for the last few days…

it keeps coming to the floating basket in the pond to have a drink and a bath… apparently it is just the right depth…

yesterday a house sparrow decided it wanted to drink from that particular spot…

the chipper wasn’t thrilled but they did share the space…

moving…

27 Sunday Jun 2021

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I’ve spent most of the last week in the garden…

I have watered the grass and the plants and even done a bit of deadheading and weeding…

watched birds, bunnies, baby squirrels, and the goldfish…

and I have read at least one novel a day as I move around the garden to find shade…

retirement is quite a lovely thing;-)…

vaccinated…

26 Saturday Jun 2021

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Wednesday was a busy day…

got the bathtub pond up and running…

then climbed into the main pond to clean out the pump…

after lunch my son-in-law and middle grandson came by… one levelled the waterfall stone so that water doesn’t leak out and need to be replaced as much… he also spread soil in the front, filled containers and tidied up the dirt pile…

the other mowed and whipper snipped the front and garden, including along the lane (sometimes we forget about that area)… he also helped with the soil cleanup…

they left, and the oldest grandson arrived to take me downtown where I got vaccinated for the second time;-)… as a treat we got ice cream cones on the way home;-)…

once home he changed a leaky hose and carried many boxes of books to the front step for pickup… we put them in plastic bags because they weren’t being picked up until Friday, but were too heavy for me to move, lol…

really was a busy one…

bathtub…

23 Wednesday Jun 2021

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bathtub, big girl pants, blessed, cleaning, garden, goldfish, moments, nature, pond, pump, sunflower seeds, widow

on Sunday, I spent the majority of the day working on the bathtub pond…

started out emptying it with the watering jug… realized that was going to take too long and would be difficult to get as the water went down, so I used the shop vac instead…

as it filled with water I scooped it out and used it to water the grass seedlings around the garden…

then the shop vac sucked up a million sunflower seeds along with Virginia creeper remnants…

eventually I got in and removed the rocks and plant and also trimmed back some of the Virginia creeper… nice to have it cleaned up;-)…

ordered a new pump for this pond and waited a few days for it to arrive…

this morning I filled up the tub with water and got the new pump working… it is going to be excellent and shouldn’t get plugged up…

next, I think a few feeder fish might go into it…

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