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covering…

01 Monday Nov 2021

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this week our group is moving indoors as it is cold outside, so I have been getting the living room organized… another chair has been added so that everyone has a separate place to sit…

a few days ago I spent some time covering a black and white chair so that it fits better in the living room…

it didn’t come out perfectly, but I am happy with the outcome… it is purple, after all…

side tables were moved, pledge applied, plants resituated, cushions replaced…

can’t wait for my friends to see it…

tubers…

25 Monday Oct 2021

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spent time outside in the garden digging up some of the dahlia tubers…

although it was sunny, it was cool and it got windier as I worked… my fingers were cold inside my work gloves and I had a cup of tea to warm them up when I got in, lol…

I only ended up bringing in the tubers from two of them… one is still out there but I will finish digging it out in a few days…

these are the tubers from my favourite Eveline… there are quite a few pieces and it took a lot of work to get them out of the planter…

once they dry out I will take off the rest of the soil around them… then I will put them into paper bags in a dark and cool part of the basement…

Eveline at the end of August.

there were two of these in one pot and they bloomed a lot and made me very happy… I hope that there will be more next summer…

and this clump came out in one piece… it is the Robann Regal and also had multiple blooms… I am hopeful that they will be viable in the spring…

the flowers were a bit smaller than I expected but the plant produced many blooms…

Robann Regal in early September.

looking forward to bringing in the Mick’s Peppermint, which also bloomed beautifully…

shrank…

03 Sunday Oct 2021

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had a bit of a giggle the other day… I was folding towels and facecloths from the dryer…

I looked at this one and thought oh no my favourite towel lost its colour and is more mauve now… and that was okay, purple and all, but odd…

when I picked it up from the other items, I thought that it also shrank…

at that point I realized it was actually a hand towel that came from the lavender farm in Maui… and it did have mauve stripes…

here is a photo of my favourite towel… not sure why it is the favourite as I have other, purple ones, but this is definitely the most used…

and now I am going out to the hot tub with that very towel…

winnow…

26 Sunday Sep 2021

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been collecting seeds for the last week or so…

the morning glories are very simple… I just put one hand under the little pod and squish it with the other… then I winnow the part holding it together by blowing over my hand… the excess blows away and the seeds remain and can be popped into a container…

the datura are a bit more complicated… the seed pods are covered in very sharp spikes which try to hurt me, lol…

I now have a container for each of the two types I have grown this year… the lovely white ones and the smaller, but cute, purple ones…

it is best to wait for the pods to start cracking as they dry, which makes removing them slightly easier… the dryer they are, the easier to remove…

I have quite a collection…

begonia…

16 Thursday Sep 2021

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yesterday I went around the garden and gathered all of the open dahlias and one of the begonia flowers…

made a lovely little bouquet…

I am happy to see that the begonia has stayed fresh looking…

on this rainy day I have enjoyed these flowers…

they look great on the new coffee table;-)…

berries…

07 Tuesday Sep 2021

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the other day I took a photo of some beautiful Virginia creeper berries… they were climbing on the cedars on the back lane side of the garden and were a bright purple…

today I spotted these red berries in amongst the lily of the valley…

I’ve never seen berries on lily of the valley before…

burst…

29 Sunday Aug 2021

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had a burst of energy and spent a couple of hours in the garage cleaning…

was able to give away a few outdoor games to a neighbour… filled up the garbage and recycling bins… and cleaned off about half of the bench and one shelf…

thinking about painting the bench purple;-)…

every little step feels like progress;-)…

twenty-one…

10 Tuesday Aug 2021

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today, my grandson turns twenty-one…

apparently I am getting lax in my old age as I haven’t been taking as many photos as usual…

these are three of the most recent ones with him in them, lol… but they cover the important things…

in this first one he is cleaning out the hot tub for me… he often comes over and looks after various household and garden jobs…

currently he has my car and here he driving me home after my first Covid-19 vaccination where he kept me company through the entire process… and suggested we get an ice cream treat…

this last one is him heading out in the car after delivering items off for me… he runs errands for me and drops off bits and pieces whenever needed…

what a wonderful time these twenty-one years have been…

he is a wonderful support…