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14 Sunday Dec 2025

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I’ve been watching the amaryllis that I purchased in early November…

it is now in the sleigh with some of the snow people and it seems to be doing okay… I added some of the solar lights in and around the melt (group of snow people)… I kind of like it…

both of the little babies on the sides of the main bulb have started to shoot up, and even the original bulb is starting to have a bit of green peek out…

gauge…

17 Thursday Apr 2025

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went to Shelmerdine with friends on Sunday…

after checking out all the plants, we sat in on a workshop about using all your outdoor space…

and I won a prize;-)… because it is almost my birthday… woohoo…

a rain gauge with solar flowers;-)…

lovely to be in a space filled with so much greenery…

and the flowers lit up after a sunny afternoon;-)… gotta find just the right spot for this in the garden…

nearly…

12 Tuesday Nov 2024

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Friday afternoon I took out the solar small Christmas tree lights and put them into one of the flower pots…

wanted to be sure the pics would be able to go into the nearly frozen soil…

I also filled the snowflake with solar mini lights…

they came out very nicely…

sprinkler…

05 Saturday Oct 2024

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for the last few weeks I have been annoyed by a sound I could hear on the deck…

it sounded like wood rubbing against something…

I have walked all around, looking and listening with no success as I’ve tried to figure out what it was…

on Friday I asked my housemate if he could figure it out…

it took him all of two minutes to point out the solar floating sprinkler, which was sitting upside down on a corner of the deck, mainly in the shade…

apparently, a bit of it was catching the sun’s rays and causing it to attempt to run, which caused the sound…

it has now been moved into the garage and there is blissful silence on the deck;-)…

longest…

18 Sunday Feb 2024

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so happy to see that all the solar lights came on after a day filled with sunshine…

what a treat…

the funny part is that this one set wasn’t working for the longest time (as in, over Christmas) but started up in the last few weeks…

and is doing a blinking pattern…

it is such fun to see them light up as it gets dark out…

at some point I guess I will need to turn off the trees in the planters, but I am enjoying them too much right now;-)…

glimmer…

17 Friday Nov 2023

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so excited to see how the sparkle lights work…

the hope was they would work with the wooden lamp standard that we discovered up in the rafters of the garage (since its discovery, I’ve added extra garland to fill it out)…

I’d been waiting for some sunshine since they arrived and on Sunday afternoon the sun finally came out…

I rushed out and set them in the planter on the front step to gather power… then, once it was dark, I hurried out to see how they looked…

nothing, not a glimmer;-(…

on Monday, I searched through the box and found the directions, lol… apparently you need to attach the stand to them before they can work… and, that they can work in a window in the house… so I was outside again and connected them to the fastener…

fingers crossed…

that still didn’t work, sigh… yesterday I took one of them and looked carefully on the back and really pushed the on/off button…

well, that worked… took quite a while to wrap two sets around the lantern post but I am pleased with the results;-)…

and we got it outside…

solar…

24 Sunday Jul 2022

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ordered some solar motion sensor lights for the garden last Wednesday…

wasn’t sure if they would work, but was hopeful they would frighten the raccoons away…

they arrived on Monday and were easy to install… one went at the edge of the bridge and the other is set on the top of the deck…

was so excited that night when they worked… happily it had been sunny all day…

the next night it stormed and they were on most of the time as the wind was blowing all the leaves and floating plants around when the rain wasn’t pouring down…

will see how they work when the raccoons stop by again…

snacking…

09 Wednesday Mar 2022

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enough snow has melted on the table on the deck so that the squirrels have been able to find the sunflower seeds again…

this little guy was busy snacking away…

the snow is going down very slowly… this is a picture taken February 20th…

and this photo shows the back corner of the yard last night… for the first time the solar dragonflies were lit…

encouraging to see a tiny bit of melting…

tape…

24 Saturday Apr 2021

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prepared the last five solar lights that my grandson had picked up for me…

I’ve put them all into a flower pot until the weather settles down and the ground is frost-free… at which point they can go into various areas of the garden…

the cap on one wasn’t closed and it took me a while to figure out how to fasten it… once I had it fixed, I went and found one that had seemed to have a similar problem from the first batch I received…

unfortunately, that one didn’t work, but I dug out some duct tape and got it connected…

duct tape was one of my beloved’s favourite things;-)…

skiff…

28 Thursday Mar 2019

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such a beautiful start to the day…

the sky was gorgeous, the flowers were blooming… and it was warm… although there was just a skiff of snow on the ground…

amazing how fast we can forget the cold weather…

tonight it was great to see the solar lights coming on… in the garden they are shining through the snow…

more signs of Spring…