09 Thursday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cheery, family, garden, happy, houseplants, light, moments, nature, plants, sunshine, weather, widow
the plants in the basement were not doing well, so they were moved upstairs…
they, along with some others that had been on the dining room table, moved into the den…
it looks like a garden in there now;-)… a lovely cheery location to start the day…
22 Friday Sep 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, delicious, food, fritters, garden, health, lunch, moments, sunshine, waffle maker, widow, zucchini
made zucchini fritters with two lovely zucchinis I got from Jonathan’s Farm…
grated them and wrapped them in a towel to wring out extra moisture…
after they were mixed with egg, cheese, and breadcrumbs, added them to the waffle maker…
came out nicely, although they could have used a bit of flour, which I decided to leave out…
I will make these again;-)…
16 Friday Jun 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, bloom, excitement, flowers, garden, moments, nature, pond, shock, sunshine, treat, water lilies, weather, widow
great excitement around here…
two water lilies are going to bloom at the same time… don’t think this has happened before;-)… what a treat…
this was one of them yesterday afternoon…
and this is how they both looked today…
I think if the sun had come out they might have both been completely open…
maybe tomorrow;-)…
03 Wednesday May 2023
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begun, big girl pants, blessed, garden, happy, moments, nature, photos, pond, pump, reading, Spring, sunshine, tarp, tarpaulin, water, wet-vac, widow
spent Tuesday in the garden… the first part on the deck reading in the sunshine…
there was no wind, so I was able to flatten out and fold up the tarpaulin…
then I moved to the back deck and did a bit of reading before starting to remove the last of the leaves and water from the pond with the wet vac… it took a number of trips to get it done… but, I did it, yay…
next, I found the hose, hooked it up and started the water running… finally I hooked up the pump and finished filling it…
so happy when the waterfall started up… worth all the work…
what a treat to sit, watch and listen to the sound;-)…
garden season has begun…
02 Tuesday May 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, leaves, moments, nature, pond, popped, pump, reading, sunshine, tarp, water, weather, widow
had a great day in the garden on Sunday…
spent most of it on the deck, reading in the sunshine…
I also spent time working at the pond… we tried to take off the tarp a few days ago but it was too heavy as it still had a lot of water and a ton of soggy leaves in it… the plan was to wait for another person to help us…
I put the pump in the pond again… the other day when I tried this the hose popped off and gave me a pond-water shower;-(… this time I got rid of most of the water… then I put it into the tarp and got a fair bit of water out of it…
after that I was able to drag it out of the pond and bag the leaves… they filled half of a garbage can, lol…
then the tarp was spread out in the grass, hopefully drying, so it can be folded up and put away…
maybe in the next few days I will vacuum the bottom of the pond and fill it with water…
26 Wednesday Apr 2023
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art, big girl pants, blessed, Connie Bart Hamel, drive, friends, fun, happy, ice cream, lunch, moments, mushrooms, nature, Roxy’s, sunshine, Syl’s, treat, widow
Tuesday we went to aquasize as my buddy had an appointment on Thursday…
from there we drove to Oak Bluff, where we had lunch at Roxy’s Restaurant & Lounge… I was very excited to find battered mushrooms on the menu, so we started with those… and they were delicious;-)… then I had a tasty beef dip with Caesar salad… the service was excellent, the food good and it was a nice spot…
onward to Carman where we visited the Golden Prairie Arts Council to see an exhibition by Connie Bart Hamel which was filled with a variety of mediums… she is very talented and a neighbour of my friend…
we stopped at Syl’s for ice cream and had a lovely drive home in the sunshine…
wonderful day;-)…
16 Sunday Apr 2023
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spent time in the garden because the sun was shining… and apparently that might not be the case for the next week…
enjoyed my book, even though I wore my jacket and had a blanket over my legs… mornings are always warmer on the deck than the weather reports, as the sun beats down on it…
later in the day I removed the tarp from the chairs and small tables on the back deck, folded it up and put it away in the garage…
I swept off the deck, placed two chairs on it, and moved the two others to the hot tub area…
starting to get organized out there…
13 Thursday Apr 2023
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Tuesday, the patio door was open for a good portion of the day… guess it is time to connect the spring again…
always such a treat when that day arrives each spring… spent a good portion of the day sitting on the deck…
started the morning in one of the new deck chairs… after I pulled out one of the cushions from the garage… needed a blanket and jacket, but the sun was shining;-)…
then I brought out the wicker set from under the tarp on the back deck… I purchased and put them together last year…
and got very comfortable… by that time the jacket was off and the blanket put to the side…
wonderful way to spend the first day that was warm and sunny enough to be outdoors…
27 Monday Feb 2023
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had some fun with shadow pictures… it reminded me of the great photography class I took with a colleague many years ago… we had so much fun…
the vase looks pretty cool in these photos…
enjoying the afternoon sunshine…
29 Sunday Jan 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, butterflies, flowers, garden, moments, Morpho, nature, plants, search, Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden, sunshine, Technology, widow
lots of butterflies in the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden… also many people…
the sun was shining so they were flitting about the whole space…
the blue Morpho butterfly is very sneaky and would not let me catch a single photo of it with the gorgeous blue when the wings are open…
next time I will take a video and then a still from that, lol…
the butterflies arrive as chrysalis from Costa Rica on a regular basis and are released into the space once they emerge…
so, each time you are in the Garden, there will likely be different varieties…
it is such fun to search for them in amongst the foliage…
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