22 Saturday Oct 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, collect, iPhone, moments, nature, pictures, red squirrel, seeds, squirrel, stink eye, weather, widow
yesterday morning, while I was sitting in the living room, I had some fun watching this little guy collect and snack on sunflower seeds in the sunlight;-)…
they may have given me the stink eye…
06 Wednesday Apr 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, happy, moments, morning glories, nature, purple, seeding, seeds, snow, tomatoes, widow
this morning I was happy to discover two blooms on one of the morning glories…
that encouraged me to do some seeding for the garden…
I had decided not to do any, but felt a need to start morning glories so they can begin blooming earlier…
I cut toilet paper rolls in half, then cut slits at one end, folded them and put a piece of tape across the bottom…
then I put all of those into a spinach clamshell, filled them with soil, and dropped a few seeds into each one… I also planted three of them with grape tomatoes…
watered each one and closed the clamshell…
now for the waiting game… and we won’t mention the snow that was falling as I wrote this, sigh…
04 Friday Mar 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, fun, moments, nature, seeds, snow, snowbank, squirrel, stretching, weather, widow
today I had fun watching a squirrel eat from the feeder at the front…
it was basically just stretching up from the snowbank…
I’ve been waiting to see that as the snow has gotten higher and higher…
looking forward to some melting;-)…
12 Wednesday Jan 2022
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, chickadees, cold, garden, moments, nature, seeds, shovelling, sidewalk, snow, sunflower seeds, walk, warm, weather, widow
spent time in the garden on a beautiful warm day… we’ve been under extreme cold warnings for what seems like forever… shovelled a path to the garbage can and back gate… also cleaned the area around the hot tub…
finally cleaned off a good portion of the upper deck so I can get to the bird feeder… it was difficult to get the snow and old seeds out of the feeder, but I managed…
and just a few minutes later the chickadees were back for fresh snacks…
that made me happy…
09 Thursday Dec 2021
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big girl pants, bird feeder, garden, moments, nature, seeds, squirrel-proof, squirrels, widow
put up a new window feeder which is open in the back so that it is clearer to see the birds stopping by…
once it was up I went and got some seeds from the garage and also went to fill the “squirrel-proof” feeder…
the seeds basically went right through because they had eaten the plastic pieces so there was nothing to keep them inside…
they are serious about getting those seeds and there are often a couple of them discussing who gets the snacks, lol…
rather sad because that was a new feeder purchased this past summer;-(…
30 Tuesday Mar 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, gardening, moments, nature, planters, rearranged, seeds, sprouts, widow
more time working on/in the garden…
changed tables in the living room window to make space to be able to put more of the deck planters in the sunlight… once they warm up, I am going to fill them with alyssum and morning glories…
kind of exciting… I also moved the big planter onto the front step and will put it back into the flower bed in a few days when the weather is warmer…
filled the other planters with datura and morning glories and planted a few additional tomatoes… I’ve moved the tomatoes onto the dining room window ledge…
it will be interesting to see what sprouts…
24 Wednesday Mar 2021
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planted the first of the seeds… spent time one day getting the containers set up… most of them have lids so they will be like little greenhouses…
used a couple of egg cartons for the grape tomatoes…
last year I popped some tiny wrinkled tomatoes into a bit of soil and they did very well, so I have decided to try again this year;-)…
I have learned to be ruthless and will remove some from each container once they start growing…
09 Tuesday Feb 2021
went out to fill the feeders this afternoon… it is so cold out that I didn’t want the birds to run out of food…
started with the front feeders… only took a few minutes to fill one and put out fresh suet in the other…
then I went through the house and out the back… filled the first feeder and took the second into the garage to fill it… by then my fingertips felt very cold… I had hoped to add more to the first feeder, but my fingers were numb… clearly I had the wrong gloves on…
I quickly added seeds to the feeders on the deck and came in…
took a long time for my fingertips to warm up…
22 Saturday Aug 2020
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Alaska, big girl pants, blessed, delicious, family, garden, grape tomatoes, growing, moments, plants, seeds, tomatoes, widow
so far, I’ve had two grape tomatoes from my plants…
I started these in the house in a cardboard egg carton from wrinkled grape tomatoes that weren’t good enough to eat, lol…
rather pleased with the result…
also finally have one of the vine tomatoes starting… I found the seeds for these in a pile of items from our 2013 Alaska trip… wasn’t sure they would still be good;-)…
not sure how big this one will get, but happy to check daily;-)…
14 Thursday May 2020
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big girl pants, bird feeders, birds, chickadees, eat, flowers, garden, hand, moments, nature, seeds, treat, widow
recently spent most of the day in the garden watching the comings and goings at the bird feeder…
my goal this summer is to teach the chickadees to eat from my hand…
starting by putting food out close to my chair and sitting fairly close to the feeder so they get used to me being there…
had a few conversations with the squirrels who kept coming to eat, but I encouraged them to leave… later, I noticed two at the feeder… making up for lost time I guess…
saw juncos, song sparrows, nuthatches, and finches, but no chickadees, lol…
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