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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, grandson, happy, moments, pond, repaired, rock, waterfall, widow
the waterfall rock has been repaired…
looks great…
rock…
14 Monday Jun 2021
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check…
04 Friday Jun 2021
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achy, big girl pants, blessed, bruises, check, friends, garden, injuries, moments, pond, treat, twisted ankle, widow
a friend stopped by today to bring me a treat and some bandaids…
and to check on my injuries;-)…
she decided I was okay but did suggest that more bruises and soreness are likely to keep popping up for the next few days…
as it happened, I took some drugs this morning as a fair bit of my body was achy…
we agreed that I likely twisted my ankle in the process, so I spent time on the bed with a pillow under my leg…
haven’t taken anything else, but I may take something before bed…
fell…
03 Thursday Jun 2021
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big girl pants, fell, garden, injuries, moments, nature, plants, pond, twenty-five years, widow
well, the day didn’t start off so great…
I had made breakfast and brought it out to the back deck to enjoy…
I realized that a plant pot next to the waterfall needed to be turned so that more sunlight would encourage the dahlia to grow…
I stood on one of the blocks surrounding the waterfall area and a stone and started to turn the pot…
and I fell backwards into the top portion of the pond… in an effort to save myself, I grabbed the waterfall rock… it broke off in my hands and I ended up sitting in the water…
as you can imagine, I was rather shocked… I quickly removed my phone from my back pocket and put it on the stone surround as I tried to figure out how to get out…
there was blood on my hands and when I lifted my right foot there was blood on my toes as well…
after I removed my flip flops, I was able to slowly and carefully get out…
I went into the house, took off the wet clothes and sat down for a few minutes… eventually I called and spoke with my daughter and settled down, lol…
after a shower to get rid of the pond smell I sat in the garden and texted with a friend about what I needed to do for my hands and foot…
polysporin for my hands, soaking and more polysporin for my foot and quiet time for the rest of the day, trying not to use my hands too much or get them dirty…
over twenty-five years with ponds in the garden and this was the first time I fell in…
umbrella…
02 Wednesday Jun 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, hibiscus, moments, nature, pond, purple, Spring, time, umbrella, weather, widow
I have been spending as much time as possible in the garden during these lovely days, enjoying every moment…
today, I put an umbrella on the hibiscus, which is getting a sunburn, even though I hardened it off… I came across the umbrella yesterday in the shed and it worked perfectly…
I switched two planters on the deck so that I can see the morning glories more easily… one of the chairs has been in front of them, so it hasn’t been as easy to see them… this will be much better…
finally I cleaned the pump again… I am getting good at it, lol… it makes a huge difference to the water flow…
I also followed the shade around the space as it was very hot in the sun…
I am so blessed to have the time and space to be able to enjoy the garden each and every day…
lattice…
24 Monday May 2021
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, decks, garden, grandson, grass, lattice, lunch, moments, plants, pond, repairs, safety, trees, trim, waterfall, widow
spent the entire day in the garden… nice to enjoy the warmth and sun…
my grandson came over and a contractor friend of his arrived to do some work on the decks… we had arranged the appointment before the newest regulations were out… I was very happy that he wore his mask the whole time he was here…
he fixed a piece of the decking beside the hot tub, which was falling apart… then he tacked up loose boards under the main deck and finally he repaired a loose piece under the gate pergola which is going to make opening the hot tub much easier…
then the two of them made sure that all the lattice along the garage was in the proper spot… it was quite a process and looks so much better now…
after lunch our contractor friend left and my grandson cleaned the pump in the pond, mowed the grass, trimmed up some cedars, and dug out a bunch of flower pots from the shed…
after he left, I moved and rearranged pots, and planted a few items which can go in and out of the garage until the weather warms up…
I am truly blessed…
toolbox…
18 Tuesday May 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, bloodwork, family, fish, garden, grandson, moments, pond, repair, son-in-law, steps, toolbox, tools, widow
crazy day today…
no one has been inside my house for weeks and three people were in it today…
nice man from Dynacare to do bloodwork…
my grandson to bring up the toolbox from the basement… he also brought us breakfast, chose tools and discussed a landscaping job that needs to happen in the garden… thankfully we did all of that outside…
and my son-in-law to catch the fish and take them out to the pond… he also repaired the very broken bottom step on the deck so I won’t fall through it, and fixed a rocking bench in the shade garden…
I’m exhausted from all that company, lol…
harden…
15 Saturday May 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, harden, moments, nature, plants, pond, seedlings, Sentruhl, sunshine, widow
lovely day in the garden…
read, ate a delicious chowder from Sentruhl and napped…
did not plant anything, although I really wanted to;-)…
thinking I will start to harden off the seedlings tomorrow… I’ve learned that the plants which are growing in the house need to go out a bit longer each day for a week or two, out of the sun and wind, to acclimatize them for the outdoors…
I see lots of lifting and carrying in my future;-)…
vanishing…
13 Thursday May 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, family, garage, garden, moments, nature, pond, repair, son-in-law, steps, tools, vanishing, waterfall, widow
this afternoon my son-in-law came over and got the waterfall going… looks like he has also solved the vanishing water problem by moving the large standing stone and levelling it… this is very exciting as we’ve been struggling for a few years trying to fix it…
he also spent a bit of time in the garage sorting the tools to give away, toss, and the items he wants to keep… we already have a couple of toolboxes with most of the things I might need…
finally, he did a quick fix of the step so I can use it until he brings over the board to repair it properly…
so happy to hear the water running in the garden;-)…
salad…
10 Saturday Apr 2021
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, food, garden, moments, nap, nature, pond, potato salad, read, salad, Spring, squirrel, weather, widow
made my first potato salad of the season this morning and then spent the rest of the day in the garden…
apparently snow is coming so it just makes sense to be out there while it is nice…
napped in my rocking lounger and sat in one of my repaired chairs…
watched and listened to many birds… saw what might have been a purple finch, which stood on a chair to oversee the garden, but I didn’t take any pictures;-)… the sparrows and juncos were enjoying drinks of water when they weren’t searching for food… the red squirrel hopped all over the deck for some reason… it was fun to watch…
when I wasn’t watching the wildlife, I was reading a new book and eating potato salad;-)..
gunk…
09 Friday Apr 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, fish, garden, grandson, gunk, leaves, moments, nature, pond, sump pump, weather, widow
even though it was chilly and overcast my grandson arrived this morning to clean up the pond… it was filled with a ton of decaying leaves…
our time didn’t start very well… the pump that worked perfectly in the fall when it came out of the water would not work… felt like we tried everything, but no luck… so, he had to run to the store to replace it, sigh…
eventually, after getting most of the water pumped out, he used the shopvac to suck up the majority of leaves from the bottom…
this technique worked well, but took quite some time, and was very smelly… then we rinsed it, and I filled it back up… he plans to come back, we will drain it again, and finish sucking up the gunk…
then we will fill it and get the waterfall flowing… I don’t think the fish will go in for another few weeks, when the chorine has dissipated and the water temperature has warmed up a bit;-)…
happy with our progress and looking forward to sitting and enjoying the beautiful sound…
