16 Friday Jun 2023
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great excitement around here…
two water lilies are going to bloom at the same time… don’t think this has happened before;-)… what a treat…
this was one of them yesterday afternoon…
and this is how they both looked today…
I think if the sun had come out they might have both been completely open…
maybe tomorrow;-)…
13 Tuesday Jun 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, buds, flowers, garden, moments, nature, overwinter, plants, pond, shock, surprise, treat, water, water lilies, weather, widow
Saturday morning I was surprised and amazed to spot a water lily flower popping up in the pond…
the reason I am surprised is that this water lily was in the pond all winter…
when I closed up the pond in the fall, just before I put a tarp over it, I was only able to bring out two lilies… this one was so stuck in the bottom I couldn’t remove it…
when I uncovered everything this spring, before I put water in, it had already started to sprout a bit, but was purpley-red…
it stayed that colour for weeks and only recently turned green… some of the leaves still have the purple colour around the outside edges…
and there is a second bud now… two buds at once has never happened before;-)…
what a shock…
so this fall I am going to leave all of them in the pond and see what happens, lol…
03 Friday Jun 2022
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big girl pants, broken, bruises, edges, fell, garden, memories, moments, pond, shock, walk, widow
it was a year ago today that I fell into the pond…
I must say that I am still very careful when I walk around the edges of it…
wonder how long it will be before I am not so deliberate about moving in that area…
I can still feel the shock… and now I laugh when I think how I pulled my phone out of my back pocket, in the water, and dried it on my shirt even before trying to get out🤪…
the other memory involved the huge bruises that came up across my breasts days later from where I hit the waterfall rock… although they were a beautiful shade of purple… apparently I really hit it hard, lol…
13 Wednesday Nov 2019
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pitch dark at 5:59 am and I am jerked awake by the sound of the phone ringing…
heart pounding I grab the receiver to hear an automated voice telling me my credit card has been used to make a purchase…
this is not the first time I’ve had this call so I know it is a scam and hang up…
takes at least fifteen minutes for my heartbeat to return to normal…
not really the way I want to start my day…
23 Sunday Dec 2012
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beloved, differences, gift tags, immediate family, interesting, parcels, peaceful, pity party, shock, wrapping
well, now I know why I’d been putting the wrapping off…
I gathered all the packages from the couple of locations where I had been storing/hiding them, and brought everything to the dining room table… had some great paper from Costco this year, a lovely snowflake theme in whites, blues and silvers… this will go beautifully with Crystal’s tree…
had to search for quite a while before I found the gift tags… took some time to decide on which paper would work for whom, and then began the actual wrapping…
the wrapping went well… I even got fancy with ribbon… then I had to write the first tag…
“love Mom”…
hadn’t anticipated the shock… my eyes welled up and I thought about all the parcels that I had made tags for over the last 40 years…
oh my, I miss my beloved…
so, after a little pity party, I moved on and finished wrapping and tagging the gifts…
collection of gifts for Christmas…
I also realize that I have focused on my immediately family with a very few exceptions… again, this is not my norm, but apparently there will be a number of differences this year… maybe tomorrow I will make some more sugar cookies for those who I have let drop off the list…
the kids came over, and we went Christmas pajama shopping for everyone… we returned home, had dinner and looked at things we might do while in Mexico…
then they were gone, and the house returned to a quiet peace-filled space… tonight it does feel peaceful, not empty like yesterday…
interesting…
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