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30 Saturday May 2015

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not sure why, but I am missing George tremendously these days… he would have helped bring the flowers in and figure out what to do with the pond…

the kitchen is a mess with all the plants and pots that I brought in last night… was going to take them out this afternoon but the forecast is a bit iffy, so decided to leave them till tomorrow… cooking at the stove has been an interesting activity with the greenery crowded right up to it…

  
looks like the ones that were left outside are fine…

spent a while topping up the pond… could hear the pump straining while putting chemicals into the hot tub so realized it needed water…

  
have pretty much given up hope that the pond people are going to fix it… think that my son-in-law and I will start trying some stuff… he already put a strainer over the pump which is keeping it cleaner…

  
brought in a few lily of the valley flowers and they smell divine…

gardening…

23 Saturday May 2015

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what a wonderful day…

up early, had breakfast and headed into the garden… set out the cushions and cleaned all the tables… took out all the plants from the dining room and set them beside the pond…

  
got all the water plants into the pond and then took a little break…

  
still looks a bit empty…

  
before long the water hyacinth will multiply and the water lilies will pop up to the surface and fill in with green lily pads…

the kids came over and my grandson and his friend worked away in the side garden cleaning up two years worth of weeds… looking very nice… I am so happy that we got this done as last year I just pretended there wasn’t anything there, lol…

my daughter and I went to a couple of garden centres and got most of the plants I will need…

the little boys picked up twigs and swept the decks while we were gone… had pizza for supper and they headed home…

filled the planters around the deck, made three baskets, and planted about seven pots before I finally came in tonight…

took a few breaks to read and watch the goldfinches at the feeder…

all around, an excellent day…

plodding…

22 Friday May 2015

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laying in my swing by the pond enjoying the sound of the water running down and over the rocks…  

  
beautiful out… looks like it made it to 27 and it is still 20 right now… gonna put out those plants tomorrow:-)…

early this morning a very chatty bird was at the front feeder… didn’t get a good shot because it was dancing from perch to perch… think it might have been some type of small woodpecker…

  
nice shot of the orchid as it gets ready to bloom again… rather slow process but fun to watch day by day…

 

there’s a robin singing in the tree above me as the solar lights come on around the pond… 
  
spent some time today thinking of friends who are struggling with various problems… wishing there was more to do than sending good vibes their way to support them in these difficult days… remembering back to similar difficulties in my life and how dark the days were as I plodded one step after the other… and wishing them the kind of peace I have since received, further down the road…

amazing what a person can get through and how life really does get better…

frost…

20 Wednesday May 2015

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as the weather is supposed to be back to normal here, I moved a basket of flowers outside this morning, to one of the planters at the front… looked beautiful…

  
took a few minutes to put out the solar lights that I picked up yesterday… 

 

the creek is very high from all that rain on the weekend… was rather surprised how full it was…

once I got home from work I stuck the lights into the ground around the pond… looking forward to seeing how they look after dark…

gorgeous day so I ate my dinner on the deck… yay spring…

still a chance of frost, so I have brought the flowers back in, lol… 

one of these days I’m sure they will be able to go out and stay… preferably before they die from being in the house…

weeds…

16 Saturday May 2015

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a while ago I was weeding in the garden but couldn’t tell if this one plant was a weed… decided to leave it for a bit and see how it grew…

well, today I figured out that it was a weed, fast growing and with deep roots… deeper than dandelions… couldn’t get one out no matter what I did… 

spent some time reading in between the weeding… day turned out to be lovely… put my new gazing ball into the pond… will see how it does there…

  
the fish are quite skittish… hiding under the bridge most of the time and rushing back there if they are elsewhere and hear any noises… even a car driving down the lane… odd but we will see what happens as the weather warms up and they get used to the space…

  
thankfully the kids came by for supper and mowed the grass, whipper snipped and vacuumed some of the garden… and pulled out that weed…  looks great out there…

we ran out to Home Depot and I found some white wooly thyme which I hope to plant tomorrow if the weather holds…

  
best thing today was seeing a goldfinch fly through the garden in the afternoon… made sure to fill all the feeders so maybe next time it will stop for a snack…

lonely…

12 Tuesday May 2015

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was so happy to get the fish moved outside on Sunday…

 
partly because they are very happy when they are out there… and partly because the pond is much more alive when I am sitting by the edge of it… and I love watching them…

but in the morning I am a bit lonely because there are no friends swimming around and keeping me company… last thing in the evening I would feed them before heading to bed…

has been very quiet as the tank is empty and the rather noisy pump is turned off… 

  
made sure to water all the plants and flowers tonight as they wait their opportunity to move into the garden…

maybe tomorrow night I will plant the dahlia tubers in a couple of pots and get them started in the house… I love dahlias and am excited to see them blooming throughout the summer…

also picked up a new gazing ball, that glows in the dark, when we were at Shelmerdine on Sunday… need to get it outside soon…

condo…

07 Thursday May 2015

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been feeling a bit guilty that the fish are still in their winter condo…

told them, last week, that they were heading to the pond as it appeared to be leak-free…

when the kids were here my son-in-law felt it was still too cold for the big move…

the pond is looking great and the time is coming fast when they will be relocated…

this weekend, for sure…

think they are worried that they won’t ever get out there, lol…

outside…

02 Saturday May 2015

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spent a good part of the day outside in the garden…

sun shone for the majority of the time and I got some weeding done and put a few plants back into the pond…

  
lots of time thinking about the hours that my beloved put in weeding and maintaining the garden… still amazes me how much I miss him…

between weeding, cause I take lots of breaks, I finished a book I started last weekend… got a few great shots on my camera of a white-throated sparrow as it came to the pond for a drink…

mid afternoon I went in for a nap and the sky looked a bit threatening while big winds tried to knock things over…

  
no rain, and then it cleared up again…

now as I sit on the deck writing this, the sky is very ominous looking but there is no longer much breeze…

  
just over the garage you can see the neighbour’s apricot tree blooming… I’ve been smelling it off and on all day…

I can also smell the barbecue next door as the next door neighbour prepares dinner…

another wonderful day… what a blessing to have this time…

splash…

29 Wednesday Apr 2015

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I was so excited when I got home tonight…

  
the pond was running…

I knew that someone was coming to look at it, but was so busy that I had completely forgotten…

when I stepped out onto the deck I could hear it… I love the sound of the water running… 

sadly when I got close I could see that the waterfall is leaking… spoke to the pond guy and he is aware and will be checking into it…

hope the water doesn’t drop too low while they are figuring it out…

looking forward to the fish moving back in…

 
can almost hear the splash…

the window is open, and even though it is dark, I can hear the water running in the pond…

bliss…

noisy…

25 Saturday Apr 2015

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birdsong and squirrel chatter filled the morning in the garden…

energized by the lovely weather, I worked in the garden and trimmed back the plants beside the pond… so excited to see the new growth starting in most of them… careful not to pull out things that I wasn’t sure about and there were two or three of them…

working in the garden always makes me think of George and today was no exception…

not only was I missing his hard work in the garden, I miss having him to talk to… he would have been excited by the duck flying over and he certainly would have been interested in the squirrel sitting on the garbage can right below the hole they’ve dug in the shed wall… he’d have been over there covering it with a scrap of metal and digging through the shed to find and destroy the nest, lol…

  
put out all the cushions and read a magazine… 
emailed my pond guy to see when they will be coming by to get the pump in and sort out the leaking problem…
the afternoon was a bit more noisy as my neighbours’ were building a planter box by their garage… circular saws, drills and hammers are also signs of better weather, lol…
looking forward to more wonderful days in this little piece of heaven…