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22 Tuesday May 2018

Posted by sulis303 in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, travel, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, family, fish, garden, goldfish, list, pond, sound, widow, work, yard work

I was so excited yesterday when the sound of the waterfall filled the garden…

the kids came over and did a number of jobs around the house and garden… I had made a list for each person of what needed to be done and the items were checked off one by one…

my son-in-law dealt with the pond… he did have a bit of help from the younger boys as they helped clean out the leaves…

the pond was up and running before supper… after supper the fish moved from their winter condo to their summer home… they are really big now although for a while they will be hiding as they get reacquainted with the space…

tonight all the windows are open and I can hear the sound of running water…

chimes…

10 Saturday Jun 2017

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big girl pants, chimes, Christmas, copper, friends, garden, George, heart, neighbours, sound, widow, wind

the new neighbours have put up some wind chimes… the kind that I like, not the high pitched tinkling ones…

wonder how long I will refer to the neighbours as new, lol…

reminds me of the wonderful ones that we had… they were a gift from friends and had a lovely deep sound… 

one year we decided to make similar ones as our Christmas gift for friends… 

George took ours apart to create the template and worked on them for weeks… 

we had great difficulty finding the correct type of copper, but eventually all the bits and pieces were gathered up… 

during that time he came down with an infection which damaged his heart… he just finished the gifts in time, as he was feeling so sick… 

he never did put ours back together… I think the struggle to get the gifts done really tarnished his love of them… 

a couple of months ago I found the bits for our original set, but apparently some of the pieces aren’t there… 

I can’t figure out how to put it together but with the lovely sound coming from next door I think it’s okay…

rose buds getting ready to open…


funny the things you remember…

listen…

12 Monday Sep 2016

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awesome, big girl pants, Canada geese, flight, FortWhyte Alive, geese, honking, listen, nature, sound, widow

been thrilled to get some great shots of Canada geese over the last few days…

I love the sound as they arrive in the Spring… and their calls as they travel through the sky on their way to and from the fields where they are now filling up for their flight south…


I hear them and usually, by the time I get the camera up and focused, they are gone… got most of these at the Park…

a few days ago I started my morning listening to them flying over the house… the next night I heard them flying by just after dark…

one year we went to FortWhyte Alive and watched the evening return of thousands of geese from their feeding grounds… the sight and sound was amazing…

of course the sound in the Fall is a bit sad because they are either preparing to leave or actually going…

still it stops me in my tracks wherever I am, and I gaze up to the sky until I spot them… hope you get to hear some where you are…

nature is awesome…

feeling…

22 Sunday May 2016

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beloved, big girl pants, feeling, garden, journey, missing, sound, weeding, widow

lots done in the garden today… also fit in a nap and some sports on tv…


been thinking a lot of my journey lately and missing my beloved…

with over four years on my own some things are coming more easily… eating out on my own… something I would not do for any reason in the before time… getting more and more comfortable doing that… shopping on my own… doing things with the car, like taking it for gas and to get washed, lol…

working in the garden on my own… George was the one who executed so many of my ideas… he also did a lot of the work in the garden… I would do the planting in pots, but he would often do the digging and heavy work and the maintenance… I can mow the grass but also appreciate when others do it…

he was also the weeder… he’d spend time in the garage (lots of time!) and then vanish into an area of the garden and pull weeds… I did not realize how much time he spent doing that, lol…

I miss him in the morning, I miss him during the day, I miss him after work, I miss him in the hot tub and I miss him at night…

I miss talking to him, reviewing the day, getting his opinion… today I don’t think I spoke except on the phone with my daughter for a few minutes… I miss the sound of another person in the house…

the garden misses him too, I think…


maybe it is the season, or spending time in the garden… not sure exactly what it is, but missing him so much… will continue to feel my way through…

honking…

18 Sunday Oct 2015

Posted by sulis303 in health, life, nature, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, compelled, Duck Pond, gathering, geese, honking, Park, sound

the Canada geese are gathering and preparing to head south…

yesterday they were everywhere when I was at the Park…

  
these ones were at the Duck Pond… this is the most I’ve seen here all year…

as I was watching the game I would hear the geese honking and look up in most any direction and see them leaving in droves…

   
to the north…

 and the south…

a seagull was on the move as well…

  
there were a lot of them, possibly because there were food tents… they like to be around food, lol…

last picture of the day were these three geese heading out to find their buddies, calling all the way…

  
there is just something about the sound of geese that compels me to look up, smile, and listen to the glorious sound…

splash…

29 Wednesday Apr 2015

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big girl pants, bliss, leaking, pond, sound, splash

I was so excited when I got home tonight…

  
the pond was running…

I knew that someone was coming to look at it, but was so busy that I had completely forgotten…

when I stepped out onto the deck I could hear it… I love the sound of the water running… 

sadly when I got close I could see that the waterfall is leaking… spoke to the pond guy and he is aware and will be checking into it…

hope the water doesn’t drop too low while they are figuring it out…

looking forward to the fish moving back in…

 
can almost hear the splash…

the window is open, and even though it is dark, I can hear the water running in the pond…

bliss…

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