22 Monday Jul 2013
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today when I arrived at the office I was a little early so I walked over to the Library and checked out the pond… my colleague had mentioned it just last week…
lovely pond on the Millennium Library grounds…
there was a lovely little duck family there…
duck family…
what fun to watch them flit about the area…
great start to the week…
08 Monday Jul 2013
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big girl pants, bridge, pond, pond construction, rock dust, see what tomorrow brings, sod, soil, water not running
today I got home and was excited to see that more sod had been put down… to deal with the grass that was destroyed by the construction…
some of the items in the yard have been cleaned up from all the rock dust and… the bridge has been put down…
I didn’t walk over it just yet… want to be sure it is ready…
more soil has been arranged and I am looking forward to the landscaping…
the one sad thing is that the water isn’t running and I am missing the beautiful sound…
we shall see what tomorrow brings…
21 Friday Jun 2013
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took a picture of the pond this morning, filled with the rain from last night… they haven’t been to work on it for a few days but they are waiting for the slate and pump to come in…
pond after rain storm…
as I was driving out of the garage I stopped and took a quick pic of the clematis ready to bloom… we must have planted a dozen clematis over the years, but this one seems to be happy…
clematis ready to bloom…
and the wild roses at the front of the house, in the right bed… once they bloom will need to cut them back… they really like to take over, lol…
wild roses in front bed…
couldn’t manage to get those big girl pants on today… really missing my beloved…
19 Wednesday Jun 2013
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eager to arrive home each day to see what has happened with the pond…
today I found a fellow out front moving the dirt, sand and rocks onto a trailer… went into the back yard and saw this…
pond, construction day 4…
wasn’t very happy because there was a lot of gravel around the outside of the pond where I thought there was going to be soil and plants…
spoke to the fellow and he contacted Doug the person in charge of my project… Doug called and came right on over…
we talked about the gravel which I did not want and the fact that I couldn’t see any flat spots in the pond for plants… and we agreed to some changes which will look after my concerns…
it was great to meet him in person and no doubt we will meet again to check out mulch and other things…
then I met with Mike from Service Masters and signed off on the basement work… busy day…
06 Thursday Jun 2013
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had a much better sleep and got up just after 7… we packed our bags, tidied the house and headed off…
arrived in Coombs and saw some goats on the roof… had a lovely lunch of crab linguini and Cyndi had salmon 5 or 6 ways… bought a few provisions for our night in Melody, one of the Free Spirit Spheres… and I bought a small Japanese Maple for the garden… my wonderful children will drive it across the country when they travel east later in the summer… I am sooo happy… it’s name is cascading waterfall and I will put it in the back corner by the pond and bring it into the house for the winter…
we drove on to Cathedral Grove to soak up the beauty… this is such an amazing sanctuary and I will miss coming here…
fries and tea in Qualicum Beach and stopped to pick up a bottle of wine…
found our way to the Spheres… they are quite lovely… birds are singing and I can hear Cyndi chatting with the person in the next sphere, but can’t see them or the sphere… there was a lovely basket of treats waiting for us and kind hosts… took some pictures and am sitting looking across the pond… how could I not love such a place:-)…
14 Tuesday May 2013
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blessed, Charleswood, enjoyed, George, Googled, Nanny and Grandpa, pond, soccer, the game
got to spend an evening watching my eldest grandson play soccer… had never heard of the field where he was playing but it was in Charleswood and we found it without a problem as Crystal had Googled it…
had to take a few shots of the pond…
was a bit windy and for the first half of the game we were looking into the sun, but the second half we could see better…
running toward our goal…
the field is huge… but it was fun to get some action shots as the game went on… Nanny and Grandpa were there as well so we had a great cheering section…
middle of the action…
we were kind of cool by the end of the game but it was lots of fun… was thinking how George would have enjoyed the evening…
watching intently as the sun goes down…
way to go Cobras…
grandson in motion…
I truly am blessed…
25 Thursday Apr 2013
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we’ve had ponds in the garden for 20 years…
our first one was a water bed liner in a frame right next to the house… in 2009 when we got the hot tub, we had to do away with that pond… we’ve built them in the back corner of the garden (the biggest one), beside our garage (a recycled bathtub), and in the shade (now mostly sun) garden beside the house…
kidney shaped pond with a barrel in the shade/sun garden…
I would usually come up with the idea and the two of us would discuss it, and then usually George did the heavy lifting… he always went on about “my” ponds although he loved them… usually the first spring job was to clean them out, put the pumps back in and fill them with water… then whatever fish had survived in the condo would move on out to their real home… and in the fall they would move back to the condo…
fish moving to the winter condo…
the big pond has been leaking for a few years and we just couldn’t figure out where the problem was… last year I contacted a landscaping company to see about getting it fixed… they said they would replace it for me while I was in hospital so that I could recuperate beside it following my surgery… they never came but kept saying they were going to…
so, maybe a month ago, I emailed them and a second company that I found on line… once again they didn’t respond but I got a very quick response from B. Rocke Landscaping… he came out, looked at pictures, because there was still tons of snow in the garden, and arranged for a couple of drawings…
catching the fish with Grandpa…
we met a few nights ago to make a final decision and I am anticipating a new pond in the garden by the end of June, all going well…
I feel that it is in homage to George and am very excited to see it take shape… we might even put a boulder with some type of memorial on it…
I can hardly wait…
