23 Saturday Aug 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, cool weather, exploded, family, garden, moments, morning glory, nature, rain, self-sown, weather, widow
the self-sown morning glories in the front flowerbed have exploded with all this rain and cooler weather…
I took this first photo yesterday and the second one this morning;-)…
12 Tuesday Aug 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, frogs, Leo Mol Garden, moments, nature, photos, pond, rain, search, water lilies, weather, widow
had a lovely time on Monday taking photos of the water lilies in the Leo Mol Garden…
it sprinkled a few times throughout my time there, so I did end up putting on and taking off my rain jacket, lol…
there were also quite a few frogs in the pond and I do love to search them out and get a few pictures, lol…
too bad I didn’t have my Nikon so I could have gotten closer shots…the warm water in the lily pond certainly helps with all the blooms…
there are also lilies in the arbour pond, but more pads, than lilies…
reminded me of my art installation…
09 Saturday Aug 2025
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big girl pants, birds, blanket, blessed, bunny, critters, garden, moments, nature, point, rain, Technology, treat, weather, widow
was up early this morning and went out to sit in the garden… it was a bit chilly, so I had a blanket around my shoulders…
it was sunny at that point, although the weather network was suggesting it would rain for a good portion of the day, so I decided to enjoy the weather while I could…
usually I would read, but instead, this morning I just watched the antics of the critters in the garden…
as I sat there the birds were visiting the suet and a bunny was snacking on the clover close to me…
what a treat;-)…
29 Tuesday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, friends, garden, grass, lawnmower, moments, mow, nature, rain, Sunday, Technology, things, weather, whipper snip, widow
the lawn didn’t get mowed last Sunday because the grass hadn’t grown much, and this Sunday because it rained most of the day…
my friends were coming over yesterday afternoon so I decided to mow and whipper snip the garden… I waited until just before noon to give it more time to dry out…
moved a chair and some tables and then figured out how to get the mower going (been a while since I used it)… there are many things in the garden so it takes a bit of effort to get around them, even though it is a small space…
once that was done I pulled down the whipper snipper, found the battery, attached it, and went around all the edges… apparently, at some point I should have tapped it on the ground to extend the line that does the cutting…
I was rather pleased with the result, and then put the furniture back…
just before I brought out the cushions, it started to rain😣…
so we met in the house, lol…
28 Monday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, friends, garden, grass, lawnmower, moments, mow, nature, rain, Sunday, Technology, things, weather, whipper snip, widow
the lawn didn’t get mowed last Sunday because the grass hadn’t grown much, and this Sunday because it rained most of the day…
my friends were coming over this afternoon so I decided to mow and whipper snip the garden… I waited until just before noon to give it more time to dry out…
moved a chair and some tables and then figured out how to get the mower going (been a while since I used it)… there are many things in the garden so it takes a bit of effort to get around them, even though it is a small space…
once that was done I pulled down the whipper snipper, found the battery, attached it, and went around all the edges… apparently, at some point I should have tapped it on the ground to extend the line that does the cutting…
I was rather pleased with the result, and then put the furniture back…
just before I brought out the cushions, it started to rain😣…
so we met in the house, lol…
27 Sunday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, carpet, delay, disappointed, family, flowers, garden, moments, morning glories, nature, plans, project, rain, weather, widow
I was disappointed today… plans had been made for weeks to have my middle grandson come and help the oldest prep and lay new carpet on the front steps…
I was up at 7:30… it was overcast, but not wet, and I took some nice photos of various morning glories…
then, it rained (which we needed) for most of the day… didn’t stop until around three… that of course destroyed all of the morning glory flowers🥺…
made me sad as I was looking forward to this project getting finished… it had already been delayed once and we’ve had the carpet and glue all ready for ages…
now we will have to wait for another opportunity to make the carpeting happen, sigh…
09 Monday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, drywall, family, fresh, grandson, happy, moments, paint, rain, sand, weather, widow
my middle grandson came over Sunday to help replace the carpet on the front steps… of course it poured so that didn’t happen…
instead he did a final sand of the drywall in the laundry area and gave it two coats of paint…
what a difference it makes, and it looks so fresh with the white paint…
today we put everything back… those dressers were heavy…
17 Saturday May 2025
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alyssum, big girl pants, blessed, cold, flowers, garden, moments, nature, pansies, planted, purple, rain, sun, tomato, weather, widow
did a bit of planting on Wednesday, on one of the warm and sunny days, lol…
added pansies to a section of the bathtub area as well as two pots on the stairs… included a bit of alyssum in the pots… looking forward to the scent as I walk up and down the steps…
the tomato went into one of the planter boxes in the side garden… I tried to get the calla into a floating container, but it didn’t want to cooperate so I left it for a bit, lol…
18 Wednesday Sep 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, geese, inukshuk, moments, nature, orange, overcast, pavilion, pictures, rain, walk, weather, widow, yellow
went just a few streets further on my walk this morning…
it was overcast and a bit cool, which made it perfect for walking;-)…
today, orange and yellow seemed to be the colours that drew me…
it is fun to look at houses and how front yards are designed… even came across an Inukshuk…
caught some geese that were flying right above me…
and had a different view of the Park bridge, ice sculpture and pavilion…
glad I went early, as not too long after I got home it rained for ages…
16 Tuesday Jul 2024
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basil, beans, big girl pants, blessed, cucumbers, garden, moments, nature, peas, plants, rain, some, tomatoes, veggie garden, weather, widow
all of the rain has made some of the veggie garden plants quite happy…
the tomatoes are doing well and growing bigger each day…
the peapods are filling out rather nicely and I had my first peas… from just one pod, lol…
the beans are growing up the arch but don’t have any flowers yet and the cucumbers are very slow in flowering…
I think that I may need to plant more beans and even cucumbers… sadly the butternut squash seed did not produce…
and, finally the basil has started to fill the pot;-)…
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