19 Tuesday May 2020
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big girl pants, cutie, elm, flower, garden, memories, missing, moments, name, purple, shady, walk, widow
another great day…
while I was on a walking tour around my space, I spotted this little cutie in the shade garden…
of course the shade garden is no longer shady as the elm that provided that shade was removed a number of years ago…
I still miss it… and clearly I need a new name for this garden, lol…
09 Saturday May 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, cards, delicious, friend, moments, napkins, nature, purple, scones, treats, vines, virginia creeper, widow
got a text this afternoon from a wonderful friend advising she was going to drop something off…
one day last week I had gathered up some Virginia creeper vines and she had picked them up, so I think this was a little thank you…
I was excited because she makes the world’s best scones… and I was hoping that was what she was bringing…
we had a lovely chat and exchanged items… she got a card from my stash for Mother’s Day, and I got craisin scones, made with sweetener, and some purple napkins… I think I got the best of the deal, lol…
I said I wasn’t going to eat them until tomorrow, but I had to have a taste, lol…
what a lovely surprise…
08 Friday May 2020
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big girl pants, birds, birdseed, blessed, feeders, garden, grandson, moments, nature, purple, shopping, widow
I’ve been out a few times topping up the feeders, and I even added a new one I discovered in the garage…
a friend dropped off some sunflower seed for me but I am getting a bit worried that it will run out before I can get more from the store… hopefully my grandson will be by and able to pick some up for me…
watching the new arrivals to the garden is such fun and I’ve started a list of everything I see this spring and summer…
thought I’d spotted a purple finch, but discovered that it is likely a house finch, lol…
06 Wednesday May 2020
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, dahlias, flowers, garden, grow, growth, memories, nature, purple, weather, widow
for a number of days I was moving the dahlia pots outside in the morning and back into the house in the evening…
then they lived in the house for a few days as the weather was rather cool…
and I had such fun checking on them throughout the day to see if they had sprouted, and if so, to see how they had grown…
once again they’ve been moving out and back… most are coming up nicely…
watching new growth is so satisfying, particularly in this time of great unrest in our lives… still waiting for a couple to pop through the soil…
looking forward to the permanent move outside… still haven’t decided where they will each end up…
30 Thursday Apr 2020
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big girl pants, Birchwood Toyota, birthday, blessed, car wash, dirty, grandson, halt, Indi, memories, moments, purple, weather, widow
I started this post many weeks ago after Indi had a second bath in just over a week… that was all before the world came to a grinding halt…
after the first bath, she spent a few days with my grandson and I’m not sure what happened, but when I got back into her she was so dirty I couldn’t see out the windows, lol…
she looked beautiful afterwards and I anticipated that the mucky weather would get her dirtied up fairly quickly…
I haven’t been out of the house for 43 days so she’s been hunkered down in the garage although a few weeks ago I did move her onto the driveway for a short time as I cooked steak on the grill…
today I was reminded by Facebook, and an email from Nelson at Birchwood Toyota, that it is her second birthday;-)…
29 Wednesday Apr 2020
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big girl pants, birthday, blessed, blooming, colleagues, fish tank, flowers, memories, moments, nameless, purple, widow
my plant is flowering… I don’t know what it’s name is…
it was given to me four years ago for my sixty-fifth birthday by my work colleagues…
it is so purple… it was blooming then, but hasn’t bloomed since… I think it likes being next to the fish tank…
very exciting to watch it…
27 Monday Apr 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, dahlia, flowers, garden, growing, planted, purple, rain, tubers, weather, widow
had a busy morning in the garden yesterday…
opened my box from The Dahlia Expert and took out my eight new tubers… I’d set it on the floor out of the way for a few days after it arrived to be sure it was safe;-)…
found pots, cleaned them out and matched the tubers with the appropriate pot…
left them outside for the rest of the day hoping that the rain might give them a drink… it did rain for a very short time but not a lot…
took quite a while, but eventually all eight were nestled in their new homes…
brought them in just before dark and put them back out for the day this morning…
they will be coming in and going out for the next while as I wanted them to get a head start on growing before they can live outside permanently;-)…
so excited to watch them grow…
26 Sunday Apr 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, chewed, flowers, garden, moments, morning glories, nature, plants, purple, Spring, sprout, sun, sunshine, weather, widow
this morning, while I was searching for something in the garage, I came across an envelope of morning glory seeds that had been there for at least a year… apparently a critter had chewed open the end of the envelope, but left the seeds… not so tasty maybe…
I sprinkled them over two planters along the deck and then covered them with soil… will watch and see what happens…
no idea if they will sprout, but I thought it was worth a chance…
will be fun to watch;-)…
20 Monday Apr 2020
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, dahlia, expert, flowers, garden, memories, moments, purple, shopping, The Dahlia Expert, tubers, widow
the dahlia tubers are here, the dahlia tubers are here;-)…
they are a variety of colours and sizes…
I am very excited… I will let them sit in the box for a few days before opening it up and then plant most of them in pots so they can start to grow in the house…
I ordered them through an Ontario company, The Dahlia Expert, and they were very helpful…
the first ones we ever got were from a lovely gentleman on Vancouver Island… we spent hours in his garden and garage deciding on which ones to bring home on the plane…
they grew beautifully but we didn’t store them correctly for the winter and lost all of them… hoping I do a better job with these;-)…
18 Saturday Apr 2020
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big girl pants, birthday, blessed, friends, health, memories, messages, moments, pictures, purple, surprise, Tea, Technology, treat, widow
this morning I started my day with the last bag of Twinning Blackcurrant Tea…
texts, phone calls, and Facebook messages came throughout the day…
and the biggest surprise was my BS buddies singing happy birthday on the road with a sign on a six foot pole so that the two holders wouldn’t get too close… what a treat…
seeing friends, even at a distance, brought such warmth to my heart… thanks to my buddy for sharing her photo;-)…
took Barbie (the BBQ) out and grilled steak and lobster for my dinner… ate with my Ottawa kids via Google Duo… they had McDonalds, lol…
very different from last year, but certainly this birthday will be remembered…
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