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07 Thursday Jul 2016

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big girl pants, bunnies, cat, empty, outside, pond, squirrels, summer school, visitor, widow

seemed like the outside was front and centre today…

woke up early to a strange noise outside and when I went out to see what it was, discovered that the pond was nearly empty…


spent the next 45 minutes topping it up…

as I was backing down the driveway looked to my right and spotted this guy snacking on the neighbour’s lawn…


I must have sat there for five minutes watching… fun start to the day… I do love bunnies…

by the school, as I was waiting for the light to change, I watched a couple of kids waiting to cross the street going to the school… summer school, maybe…


as I drove up to the house at the end of the day I discovered this on my front step…


didn’t move while I went back to the car to get the phone to take a picture… sat there while I took out the garbage, recycling and yard waste… four trips back and forth… didn’t move…

finally sauntered off the step when I opened the door from the inside to see if there was any mail… apparently that carpet is cozy…

been watching the squirrels fight over the feeder for the last few hours… they are unable to share, so one tosses the other off every few minutes, lol… not clear to me if the same one is always the one left…

peaceful…

01 Friday Jul 2016

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barbecue, big girl pants, book, Canada Day, garden, goldfinches, hibiscus, peaceful, planting, squirrels, widow

been a quiet Canada Day for me… 

spent the day in the garden and did some final planting, a tiny bit of weeding and lots of reading and relaxing…

watched at least three squirrels at the feeders… they were the only wildlife in the garden for a good portion of the day… quite entertaining as they fought over who would be at the feeder… one was literally tossed off by another…


the hibiscus has a ton of buds and this lovely bloom early in the day…


sitting in the shade reading and enjoying the peaceful sound of the waterfall…

then I spotted this little beauty as it came in for a drink…

the next thing I knew the couple were at the feeder…


a bit later a chickadee stopped by for a snack too, and as I was cooking my dinner they were all taking turns, although they weren’t pleased that I kept going into the garage…


decided to barbecue my dinner… went well, other than the fact I over cooked the steak, lol… tasted good anyway…

the burners are rusted through so I may need to watch for a small barbecue on sale to replace this one…

off and on throughout the day the music from the celebrations at the Park have wafted over…

well, back to my book…

tracks…

28 Monday Dec 2015

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big girl pants, bunnies, cats, coconut, Guylian, laundry, Lindt, shortbread, squirrels, sun, tracks, treats

sun was out again today… yay…

spent a bit of time at the window watching to see if I could spot any of the critters that have made numerous tracks through the garden…

  
didn’t spot any… I’m sure that some are from the squirrels and the neighbourhood cats, but maybe some are from bunnies too…

finished up the laundry from when my company was here… now towels, sheets and tablecloths are all clean and put away…

 
tonight I treated myself to a shortbread cookie from a friend and one of my Lindt coconut balls… they only come out at Christmas time and my daughter brought me a little collection of them…

  
also have some Guylian chocolates to enjoy…

being careful not to have too many treats because I don’t want my A1C to be high when I next have it tested…

odd…

27 Saturday Jun 2015

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big girl pants, bunny, goldfinches, hail, odd, squirrels, weather

very odd weather day…

got up and went outside first thing… it had been sunny but by the time I got out it was starting to cloud over…

decided to only put out the cushions for the chair I was sitting on… which turned out to be a good plan, lol…

there was so much activity that I couldn’t stay focused on the book I was reading…

  
the bunny stopped by and dealt with a number of dandelions… good thing because I never did manage to get any weeding done…

   
 

the goldfinch family were all over as were the sparrows…

  
there were at least three squirrels in the garden at the same time… beside these gray ones there was one cute little red squirrel…

  
seemed like they all wanted to get as much food as possible before the weather changed…

and change it did… rained, cleared, rained, there was thunder, rained, cleared and so on for most of the day… eventually about four it seemed to have settled down…

  
just a little while ago it got instantly dark followed by thunder and lightning and then the hail came down…

  
yikes…

look…

08 Wednesday Apr 2015

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big girl pants, look, robins, squirrels, walk

can you believe this crazy weather…

  

this morning everything was covered in a light dusting of snow… really, sigh…

dull and overcast for most of the day… sun finally came out about 4:15 but it wasn’t out for long…

walked part way home and saw my first robins of the year… three of them… they moved too fast so I couldn’t get a picture… wonderful to hear their song though…

looked out the back window and saw this little guy…

  

he was eating some of the bird feeder sunflower seeds… there’s been another squirrel hanging around… got red and gray ones this year…

amazing what you can see if you take a moment to look…

CPR…

03 Wednesday Dec 2014

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CPR, first aid course, moon, squirrels

spent the morning in a refresher first aid course… we’ve done one every couple of years… this is my third…

always seem to do them in early December… just before or after George’s birthday…

the whole conversation around CPR is always difficult and brings me right back to the night he died… but practising what to do is also cathartic…

I keep thinking about the person who called 911 and then stayed with him until the emergency team arrived… did they hold his hand, did they give him CPR…

I miss him so much, and try to remember the good things and not focus on the sadness…

tomorrow he would have turned 66…

the moon was nearly full as I walked home from the grocery store after work… I was too cold to stop and take a picture of it, but took this when I got home…

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and noticed that a critter has been running all over the roof of the garage…

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maybe one of George’s squirrel friends, lol…

hungry…

20 Sunday Jul 2014

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big girl pants, blue jay, dragonfly, hot tub, hungry, kids, nature, pond, Slurpees, squirrels

another beautiful morning in the garden…

watched two squirrels snacking
under the bird feeder while I had an early morning hot tub… the bluejays were at the feeder and there is obviously a baby in their family who was located in one of the cedars, and he was very hungry from the sound of things…

20140720-194243-70963816.jpgfinished the book and watched squirrels drink and a bluejay bath in the pond…

20140720-194400-71040891.jpgcan’t figure out who is knocking over the plant in the pond… maybe a squirrel…

a dragonfly stopped by… quite red… got a good shot of it with one of the fish swimming over…

20140720-200720-72440681.jpgmade supper for the kids and had a nice visit with them… a beef roast with baked potatoes, cucumber in sour cream, salad and zucchini, mushrooms and fresh peas… they brought Slurpees, which was great as it was hot… even now it feels like 33.2…

mirrors…

19 Thursday Sep 2013

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big girl pants, Champagne Bubble Party, mirrors, squirrels, sunflower

this morning it was overcast but I stepped outside to take a few pictures…

I was particularly wanting a couple of shots of the sunflower, which is about the same height as me… looking out the window daily I can see the seed area filling in…

closeup of sunflower in the front flower bed...

closeup of sunflower in the front flower bed…

also took a couple of pictures in the back yard… for a few days now I’ve been noticing that the mirrors, which were up for the Champagne Bubble Party, and which have been slowly falling off the various surfaces, have been moved around…

when they have fallen off, I have picked them up and put them along the top of the deck… they seemed to sit there for quite a while, but lately they have moved… I don’t think it is the wind because that would have blown them all into one area… there are some on the decks – all three levels, and some in the grass, but very few left on the ledge…

mirrors scattered about the garden...

mirrors scattered about the garden…

am starting to think that maybe my squirrel friends are playing with them, although I haven’t caught any in action…

what do you think…

laughter and lazing…

06 Saturday Jul 2013

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big girl pants, breakfast at the "A", fresh beets, George, goldfinch, kept house cool, laughter and lazing, my beloved, planted, red=winged blackbird, running and rolling, squirrels, without air conditioning, wonderful memories

got up at eight with the boys… they had cereal on the deck and we discussed our plans for the morning… decided to see if Daddy wanted to meet us for breakfast at the “A”… then we watered the new sod and some plants before everyone but me got bored… cartoons for them and tea on the deck for me… we did spot a goldfinch and some squirrels in the garden…

before we knew it, it was time to head over for breakfast… as we walked down the back lane by the toboggan hills I thought of George walking along holding their hands just a few years ago and how excited they were to be with him…

they ran up the hill and rolled down on our way to breakfast… lots of laughter and even spotted a red-winged blackbird for me… if you move through the pictures fast enough you can almost see the motion… should have taken a video, lol…

running and rolling 1...

running and rolling 1…

running and rolling 2...

running and rolling 2…

running and rolling 3...

running and rolling 3…

running and rolling 4...

running and rolling 4…

running and rolling 5...

running and rolling 5…

after breakfast – Mommy came too – they headed home and I had a little lay down… then did some planting and rested for most of the day…

tested out not using the air conditioning and kept the house cool by closing windows when the sun was shining on them… worked very well…

had a lovely dinner of pickerel with fresh beets and greens and potato salad… again was thinking how much George loved beets…

I have wonderful memories of my beloved…

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