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disintegrate…

08 Tuesday Jul 2025

Posted by sulis303 in garden, health, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, blessed, blooms, disintegrate, flowers, garden, happy, moments, morning glories, nature, plants, purple, starting, weather, widow

so happy to see that the morning glories are opening…

the butterfly bench hasn’t had any open lately but the planter by the backdoor has been blooming over the last few days… today there were three…

then, as I was driving out of the garage, I stopped the car, got out and took photos of the blooms by the large garage door…

the blooms don’t last long and if it rains they kind of disintegrate, so I wanted to be sure to get a photo of them;-)…

shoots…

29 Tuesday Apr 2025

Posted by sulis303 in garden, health, life, moments, nature, retirement, technology, Uncategorized, weather

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big girl pants, blessed, corms, dahlia, garden, humidity, moments, morning glories, plants, seeds, shoots, starting, weather, widow

on Saturday I brought up the dahlias and put them in the sun on the dining room table…

after doing some reading I put some of them in plastic containers to give them a bit of humidity…

we will see if that makes any difference…

happy that a number of them have already started growing…

I also started some morning glories… I was rather sad to discover that I hardly had any seeds, so I only put one in each of the containers…

looking forward to seeing some shoots in the near future;-)…

losing…

15 Wednesday Jan 2025

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big girl pants, blessed, blossoms, ending, flowers, losing, moments, nature, orchid, plants, starting, widow

as the last couple of orchids are losing their final few flowers, I am watching four plants which have begun new buds…

two are quite a way along…

one is a bit further behind…

and the final one has just barely begun…

most of them are in the den, which is interesting, as I would have expected the ones in the front rooms to do better…

looking forward to the new flowers;-)…

fifty-seven…

19 Monday Feb 2024

Posted by sulis303 in business, life, moments, retirement, technology, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, blessed, books, collect, collection, fifty-seven, friends, happy, in Death, JD Robb, moments, reading, starting, Technology, widow

a few days ago a friend dropped by with some books for me and in the process brought me a couple of my JD Robb favourites…

we have both read the entire series and she has the collection, so now I am going to start collecting the series…

two down and fifty-seven left to collect…

starting…

17 Thursday Mar 2022

Posted by sulis303 in garden, life, moments, nature, Photography, retirement, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, blessed, garden, Japanese Maple, memories, moments, nature, pictures, plants, purple, shamrocks, St. Patrick's Day, starting, weather, widow

yesterday I put up a photo on Instagram that showed my Japanese Maple just starting to leaf out… this picture below came up in my Google Photos today showing the same tree two years ago… made me laugh because it is so different, lol…

the good news is that it is starting…

and obviously, I should have put it up today, on St. Patrick’s Day, when we are all Irish;-)…

at the bottom of the tree, shamrocks have been growing since the first summer it went outside and the shamrock plant jumped into the pot…

it was fun taking the pictures;-)…

ruthless…

24 Wednesday Mar 2021

Posted by sulis303 in food, garden, health, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, moments, ruthless, seeds, starting, tomatoes, widow

planted the first of the seeds… spent time one day getting the containers set up… most of them have lids so they will be like little greenhouses…

used a couple of egg cartons for the grape tomatoes…

last year I popped some tiny wrinkled tomatoes into a bit of soil and they did very well, so I have decided to try again this year;-)…

I have learned to be ruthless and will remove some from each container once they start growing…

starting…

23 Saturday Jan 2016

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

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beloved, big girl pants, bloggers, journey, Kyla Roma, MBlog, skating, starting

spent the morning at MBlog 2016 with a room full of bloggers wanting to grow… many great tips on organizing and content creation… a blog is a conversation advised Kyla Roma… we spent time looking at our own blog and working through our brand and who we wanted to be having the conversation with…

  
as the speaker, Kyla kept us moving forward so that by the end we had lots of content to work with for the coming year… 

I spent time remembering that the reason I started to blog was to share some of my experiences following my husband’s death and my desire to share as I move forward in my life’s journey…

it was energizing to hear the sound of wisdom being shared and see the animated faces of the bloggers as everyone soaked up knowledge…

  
left the event filled with ideas floating around in my head…

once home I watched figure skating on tv and had a nap… hadn’t slept well last night… snow started just after I arrived home… 

  dreamt of my beloved coming in after shovelling and when I woke up thought he was in the basement watching tv… took a few moments to realize that he wasn’t… 

maybe a combination of thinking of his loss, snow falling, and the skating, brought on the dream… my neighbour and I would call one another whenever skating was on to be sure the other didn’t miss any programs… I would watch upstairs while George would watch his programs in the basement… shook me up a little…

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