13 Monday Oct 2025
Posted in garden, life, moments, nature, Photography, retirement, Uncategorized, weather
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begonia, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, moments, nature, pictures, shocked, spider, widow
I was a bit shocked when looking at the photographs that I’d taken this morning…
I had taken a few nice pictures of one of the fancy begonias that had come in from outside, which had surprised me with a lovely flower…
and when looking at the picture of the flower, I discovered a spider, yikes…
wonder if it is still there😱…
18 Friday Sep 2015
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big girl pants, bikers, collection, flowers, geese, morning glory, Odysseo, spider, web
have an interesting collection of pictures that I’ve taken over the last week…
on our walk through the zoo Tuesday finally got a shot of the geese flying over…
hard to get them flying in formation and in camera range…
came across this very large spider in a web at the front door when I got dropped off after Odysseo on Tuesday night…
the web keeps coming back after I remove it on a regular basis… this was the first sight of the spider…
driving to work on Wednesday morning I came across this group of bike riders who had a police escort as they were travelling down Portage Avenue… 
never did find out who they were and what they were doing…
caught this morning glory opening…
nice flowers today… received these at work from my kids…
just because…
and then when I got home was so happy to see the fully open morning glory…
been a lot of interaction with the natural world this week…
27 Thursday Aug 2015
started the day with a lovely photo of the pond… spent some time talking with a friend about possibilities for this area as I am still not happy with how it looks…
had a lovely lunch out and supper at IKEA…
very happy because I also picked up some of the potato pancakes they have… I love them and had run out…
also picked up a couple of plant pots…
on our way home the sun was quite lovely with a bit of a haze…
was having a lovely phone conversation with my daughter in Ottawa when I felt something brush against my arm…
I looked down thinking it might be a ladybug only to discover a huge spider which was on the side of the couch…
screamed a bit and ran around trying to figure out how to deal with it… tried a Kleenex which didn’t work and then lost sight of it… finally found it again on the side of the couch… took a shoe and didn’t care if it was going to leave a mark because I wanted to be rid of it…
thankfully my daughter stayed on the phone, even if she was laughing… felt much better having someone with me…
still feeling kind of creepy…
13 Saturday Sep 2014
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alyssum, big girl pants, chicken soup, cold, hot tub, spider
been a very quiet day… taking it easy in the hopes of shaking this cold…
went outside a few times, mainly to put chemicals in the hot tub…
while I was out there took a pic of the fish in the tub pond…
one of the pots is gorgeous, filled with beautiful alyssum which smells absolutely gorgeous…
made some chicken soup in the hope that it will help fight the cold…
had my big girl pants on when a huge spider ran across the ceiling in the bedroom… got a book and dealt with it without even cringing…
20 Wednesday Aug 2014
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a few days ago as I was driving on my way to work, I saw a plastic cup, a water bottle and a soft drink can within about four blocks in my neighbourhood… downtown it is much worse, even though there are garbage cans in many places…
makes me crazy and also worried that people are just not caring about their surroundings…
I still put wrappers or other dry garbage in my pockets to take home when I am out and there isn’t a garbage can or recycling bin close by…
although George smoked he rarely tossed a butt out the window of the car or left it on the street…
the girls learned very early that littering was just not done…
crazy…
tonight I took a picture of another scary thing… a spider den in the basement… it has been there for a while now and every time I go down to the basement I have to check to make sure the spider, which is very big, is not out of his nest…
spider den in the drywall…
will have to have my son-in-law deal with it this weekend…
big girl pants aren’t fitting so well today…
23 Tuesday Jul 2013
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big girl pants, caterpillar, fly, George, proud, spider, wildlife
was outside a while ago looking for wildlife in the garden…
swallowtail caterpillar eating the flat leafed parsley…
found one of the swallowtail caterpillars and some flowers which should be bringing the butterflies to the garden…
butterfly bush although it isn’t the kind I have had previously…
came in the house and discovered a fly in the kitchen which I then had to try to get out of the house…
few minutes later I was in the bathroom and discovered a good sized spider staring at me from on top of the towels…
not so long ago, I would have come running out calling for George at the top of my lungs… so that he could save me and get rid of the spider… I am not fond of spiders at all, lol…
now, I put on those darn big girl pants, find some Kleenex and deal with the intruder all on my own…
George would be proud…
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