03 Saturday May 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, cold weather crop, crop, garden, moments, nature, peas, planted, plants, Technology, trellis, weather, widow
a few days ago, after I read something about cold weather planting, I spent time in the side garden…
after I removed a trellis from the file cabinet planter, I fluffed the soil (lol), and then planted a row of peas…
some of the seeds were from last year’s crop and some new ones from a box…
can’t wait to see what happens with them;-)…
02 Friday May 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, door cam, goldfish, moments, nature, pond, raccoons, rings, spotted, Technology, widow
caught this activity on the door cam this morning… quite lucky because it only saves things for three hours…
not very clear, but the rings on the tail tell the story…
it was just a few days ago that I had a conversation with someone and we were discussing the good news that the raccoons hadn’t been around, sigh…
rather happy that the fish haven’t made it outside yet;-)…
01 Thursday May 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, bunnies, camera, croaking, driveway, frogs, garden, moments, movement, nature, pond, Technology, weather, widow
often, now as I lay in bed at night, I listen to the frogs at the creek croaking their little hearts out…
it is quite lovely to hear and reminded me that I needed to move the camera – which was facing the driveway for the winter – back to its spot on the deck, facing the pond…
made the move today, after I charged the battery…
it will be interesting to see if it catches those bunnies that have been tearing around the garden at night, lol…
30 Wednesday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, car, completely, happy, Indi, memories, moments, owner, purple, seven years, Technology, wheels, widow
Indi is seven years old today…
hard to believe that all this time has gone by…
and she is finally completely mine, lol…
now to get those pretty wheels back on;-)…
28 Monday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, connected, empty and fill, filter, garden, hot tub, moments, pump, Technology, time, water, weather, widow
it was time to change the water and filter in the hot tub…
once I brought out the pump and connected it to the hose, I started the process at 10:20 am… twelve minutes later the pump came out and I emptied the last little bit of water with a pail and cloth… that took another twenty minutes…
once the new filter was in, I brought out the hose from the basement, repaired a piece of it, and hooked it back up to the outside tap…
filling the tub took about an hour and a half and just after 1 pm, the electricity was back on and the heating up process began…
it took just over a day to heat to 103°C…
27 Sunday Apr 2025
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accomplish, at last, big girl pants, blessed, garden, gardener, Kingfisher Spa, memories, moments, nature, Technology, widow
had a bit of a giggle when this photo came up in my Facebook memories…
it was from 14 years ago when I was visiting my daughter in Courtenay and we had spent the day at Kingfisher Resort and Spa…
and yesterday, my own gardener was here;-)… just took a few years to accomplish…
and, of course, she isn’t here every day, or just my gardener, lol…
but, still…
22 Tuesday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, card, health, moments, plastic, Technology, wallet, widow
I received a letter from Manitoba Health the other day…
in it was my new health card, woohoo…
I’d been planning to give them a call as I had gone online and filled out the application what seemed like many weeks ago, lol…
it looks great and I was quick to pull the old paper one out of my wallet and put in the new plastic one…
21 Monday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, birthday, blessed, cards, family, flickers, flowers, food, friends, geese, gifts, google, grandson, lobster, moments, Technology, treats, whoever, widow
on Friday, woke up to geese honking as they headed out looking for something to eat… and spotted flickers in the field across from the house;-)…
opened the beautiful cards and gifts from friends and family I’d been saving over the last few days, and laughed at Google singing to whoever was having the birthday, lol…
received a gorgeous purple handmade book, filled with photos of the garden and a book about monarchs with things I didn’t previously know… going to have to read that more thoroughly…
tried to vote, but the lineup was long, so headed out for breakfast at The Pancake House…
decided to vote Saturday when I would have more time…
friends arrived with cards and flowers and we had a lovely visit… the neighbour stopped by and gave an update on the house next door and collected Easter books for the littles…
received many texts and phone calls and had fun watching some F1 on tv…
cookies and hot cross buns arrived as I was reading in the living room, so I had to eat one of the hot cross buns, yum…
supper was steak and lobster, with fries and asparagus;-)… followed by a blizzard, yum…
what a delightful day it was…
19 Saturday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, birthday, blessed, family, food, moments, rolls, supper, sushi, Technology, treat, widow
my birthday week continued;-)…
went out for sushi on Wednesday and then took a drive to pick up a computer part for my grandson…
hadn’t had sushi for quite a while and the food was excellent… only had a few leftover rolls to bring home which is good because sometimes we order way too much, lol…
15 Tuesday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, enthralled, friend, moments, playwright, PTE, season, Technology, widow
a busy weekend;-)…
on Saturday we went to see Raised by Women at PTE… it was our last play of the season…
it was a seventy minute performance by the playwright Keith Barker… he did a great job and the time went by quickly as he held everyone enthralled with his stories…
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