19 Monday Oct 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, dark, lit, moments, nature, plants, solar lights, widow, window
was walking past the dining room and spotted the solar lights across the three plants that are in the window…
they only stay lit for a few moments so I often don’t see them…
what a lovely treat 😊…
03 Monday Feb 2025
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big girl pants, coyote, den, garden, moments, nature, solar lights, strong, stunned, sunlight, tarp, weather, widow
I’ve been watching the solar lights in the garden over the last few days and have noticed that they are lighting up, having not been working for the last few months…
clearly the sun is getting much stronger, even though it has been cold…
so, tonight I was trying to get a shot of the solar light on the deck working and was stunned to see a coyote cross the pond and go behind the tarp which covers the outdoor furniture…
of course, I wasn’t fast enough to catch it in a photo…
I am a bit worried that it might be using the tarp as a den, so we will have to check into that in the morning 😬…
10 Tuesday Dec 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, Christmas, family, hopeful, housemate, Japanese Maple, moments, nature, plants, solar lights, Technology, weather, widow, wrapping
I came up with the idea of wrapping my Japanese Maple with some solar lights…
so, my housemate lifted the plant onto the living room table and then I spent an hour walking in circles with the string of lights…
had to stop occasionally when I got a bit dizzy, lol…
it came out nicely, although I had to wait a day so that the power in the solar panel had a chance to charge…
I am hopeful that I can leave the lights on, even in the summer when the Maple moves outside;-)…
21 Sunday Apr 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, casting, family, moments, pattern, presents, solar lights, Technology, widow
On Friday morning I turned the switch on one of the new solar lights that are currently hanging in the dining room…
later in the day it was lit for just a few minutes which was amazing as there hadn’t really been much sunshine…
when I looked into the living/dining area after dark, it was on again…
and casting a beautiful pattern on the floor…
on Saturday, I hung up two in the dining room and switched all on… then I put one outside by the backdoor…
lovely patterns everywhere…
18 Sunday Feb 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, blinking, Christmas, habits, happy, light, moments, nature, snow, solar, solar lights, sunshine, Technology, weather, widow
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;-)…
27 Tuesday Jul 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, coffee, deck, friends, garden, moments, nature, solar lights, Technology, time, together, treat, weekly meeting, widow
together at last;-)…
last night I made coffee, set out cushions on the deck, and watched some Olympics while I waited for my BS friends…
everyone is now two weeks since being double vaxed and we met outdoors… one was away, but everyone else turned up in person…
it was the first time we’ve been physically together for our Monday evening gatherings in more than eighteen months…
I was pleased that the coffee turned out as it had been a very long time since I’d made any, but apparently the muscle memory was there, lol… and they told me it was good;-)…
we’ve been meeting via Skype each Monday, but it just hasn’t been the same…we’ve also found that we could only meet in that manner for about an hour as it is so much more tiring…
what a treat to be together… we had snacks, laughs and lots of chat…
after everyone left, I took a wander around the garden as the solar lights came on…
a delightful evening…
03 Saturday Apr 2021
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. soup, big girl pants, blessed, family, fancier, food, garden, moments, nature, potatoes, recipe, solar lights, weather, widow
today I made a new and fancier version of scalloped potatoes… was a bit of fun…
made up packages for a friend and my grandson…. felt good to prepare food for others, lol…
also moved the rain barrel, swept off the back deck, put out the solar lights, and set up a few chairs…
my Easter dinner for tomorrow is basically ready… ham is cooked and I will just need to make some asparagus or Brussels sprouts… not sure which it will be…
currently, soup is simmering on the stove…
23 Thursday Feb 2017
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big girl pants, blessed, chocolate, City Place, flowers, garden, health, money, solar lights, widow
enjoying my flowers…
been thinking about how blessed I am…
have enough money to be able to go and pick up a few things at the Farmers’ Market if I want…
and so I did today… got some Stak Company soup mix, some micro greens for today’s lunch and a couple of chocolate bars just for me…
my health is good and I am able to get out and about whenever I want… did all that walking downtown on Tuesday with the kids…
was very excited to see the solar lights shining through the snow in the garden…
usually a sign that the sun is getting stronger and it is getting warmer;-)…
I am ready for Spring…
20 Wednesday May 2015
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as the weather is supposed to be back to normal here, I moved a basket of flowers outside this morning, to one of the planters at the front… looked beautiful…
took a few minutes to put out the solar lights that I picked up yesterday…
the creek is very high from all that rain on the weekend… was rather surprised how full it was…
once I got home from work I stuck the lights into the ground around the pond… looking forward to seeing how they look after dark…
gorgeous day so I ate my dinner on the deck… yay spring…
still a chance of frost, so I have brought the flowers back in, lol…
one of these days I’m sure they will be able to go out and stay… preferably before they die from being in the house…
17 Wednesday Jul 2013
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had to giggle when the light was installed in the pond…
came with a remote…
George loved remotes… he had quite a fabulous one for all his equipment in the basement… I couldn’t even get the tv to turn on with it, lol…
now I have this cute little waterproof job which I am stroll trying to figure out…
the solar lights I put around the pond are looking very nice…
took a few pictures of the light in the pond but it is hard to get a good representation… maybe I’ll try with the actual camera tomorrow…
