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salad…

10 Saturday Apr 2021

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made my first potato salad of the season this morning and then spent the rest of the day in the garden…

apparently snow is coming so it just makes sense to be out there while it is nice…

napped in my rocking lounger and sat in one of my repaired chairs…

watched and listened to many birds… saw what might have been a purple finch, which stood on a chair to oversee the garden, but I didn’t take any pictures;-)… the sparrows and juncos were enjoying drinks of water when they weren’t searching for food… the red squirrel hopped all over the deck for some reason… it was fun to watch…

when I wasn’t watching the wildlife, I was reading a new book and eating potato salad;-)..

soak…

29 Monday Mar 2021

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did a bit more planting…

already have grape tomatoes and milkweed going…

added white alyssum and dahlias… I am not expecting anything from the dahlias… I brought them in and bagged them in the fall, but they don’t feel full, so we will see if anything pops up… if not I already have new ones ordered which should come sometime in May…

also put datura and morning glories in to soak before they get planted…

found this sunflower smiling at me in one of the planters where I will be putting morning glories, lol…

light…

09 Tuesday Mar 2021

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over the last week I’ve been enjoying the sunlight…

in the morning it is shining into the den, which it hasn’t done for months…

and in the afternoon it now shines on the spot where I usually sit…

yesterday, I sat on the deck in the sunshine for an hour… and the sun was warm on my body…

spring is coming;-)…

chewed…

26 Sunday Apr 2020

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this morning, while I was searching for something in the garage, I came across an envelope of morning glory seeds that had been there for at least a year… apparently a critter had chewed open the end of the envelope, but left the seeds… not so tasty maybe…

I sprinkled them over two planters along the deck and then covered them with soil… will watch and see what happens…

no idea if they will sprout, but I thought it was worth a chance…

will be fun to watch;-)…

doorbell…

10 Friday Apr 2020

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big girl pants, blessed, doorbell, Easter, friends, gift, Good Friday, hot cross buns, memories, Spring, treat, widow

been a quiet day, although I did get dressed, lol…

this afternoon, as I sat reading in the living room, the doorbell rang… sounded odd as the doorbell has not rung for quite some time…

on my steps was a brown bag with Happy Easter on it and a dear friend standing on the sidewalk… she had made hot cross buns … which she does every year, and usually brings to our Monday night gathering closest to Easter…

she was dropping off these treats to each of our doors so that we could enjoy them;-)…

I couldn’t wait and warmed it up, buttered it and enjoyed every bite…

what a wonderful Good Friday surprise and treat…

avocado…

28 Saturday Mar 2020

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avocado, big girl pants, blessed, garden, hot tub, moments, outside, planting, pond, reading, Spring, sunshine, widow

had a wonderful day outside yesterday…

topped up the hot tub and added chemicals to it…

found my gardening gloves and planted an avocado…

although it is still messy on the deck, I sat in the sun and read for a while…

noticed that there is actually water in the pond;-)…

Spring is really coming, yay…

stressful…

13 Friday Mar 2020

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big girl pants, flowers, grocery store, health, purple, shopping, Spring, stressful, virus, washing hands, widow, worry

I went grocery shopping this morning…

I was almost out of tea and spinach and decided that today would be quieter (with less people) in the grocery store, rather that on the weekend…

while there I wondered whether I should keep my gloves on when pushing the cart… I tried to stay away from other people in the aisles… I picked up items with just a few fingers, and wondered how many people had punched in their codes at the credit card terminal…

as soon as I got home I hurried into the bathroom and washed my hands…

I could not believe how stressful the whole thing was…

brought home a pot of Spring flowers to help make the kitchen a brighter place…

planning to stay home for the next while unless really needed;-(…

noticed…

12 Thursday Mar 2020

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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, dryer, family, friends, leggings, lunch, noticed, purple, sheets, shirt, Spring, widow

had a bit of a giggle on Monday night…

while I was having a visit with my BS buddies, one of them noticed that I had a dryer sheet attached to the back of my shirt… when she took it off, there was a second one as well…

what made it particularly funny was that I had removed two sheets from the sleeves of the shirt in the morning when I got dressed… apparently that particular shirt likes to collect stuff…

I rip the sheets in half and reuse them a number of times which means that there could be a number of them in a load of laundry…

I also went out for lunch… there were no diners behind me and luckily my friend didn’t notice, I hope, lol…

the next day I put on a pair of Spring-looking leggings which I thought I’d worn before… at the end of the day I discovered they had the plastic size information still on the leg…

lucky for me, I spent the day at home;-)…

my beloved would have noticed these things…

forward…

10 Tuesday Mar 2020

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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, forward, growth, moments, nature, orchid, plants, purple, Spring, sunshine, weather, widow

had a lovely wander around the living room and dining room to check on the plants…

a few of the orchids are starting some new buds and the other plants are doing nicely…

it was a nice treat to wander around and see the growth…

we just sprang forward on the weekend and I think Spring is really coming…

addictive…

25 Saturday May 2019

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addictive, big girl pants, cleaning, garden, Spring, tv, virginia creeper, widow

I think Spring has finally hit me…

spent time cleaning a cabinet and shelf unit in the bathroom…

also did a bit of work in the garden…

cut back some of the Virginia creeper… always feel such satisfaction trimming it, and find it rather addictive, lol… sometimes it is hard to stop…

and then, while I was watching some tv, I touched something on the remote and the screen misbehaved for a while… eventually I unplugged everything and when it started up again it was fine… not that I am addicted to tv…

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