chameleon…

21 Friday Jun 2024

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Friday morning, as I was uncovering the couch on the upper deck, I spotted this cute little visitor… I got a few photos as it moved around the various cushions looking for just the right spot to sun itself in…

looks like it is a tree frog and apparently they can change colour, like chameleons… clearly it went from dark gray to light gray…

last night there was a nice lightening and thunderstorm so the cushions were a bit damp, even after being covered…

but they didn’t take too long to dry in the sunshine…

the water was calm and the birds were trilling away…

hail…

17 Friday May 2024

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yesterday we had a hailstorm… it started as a bit of rain, then a thunderstorm, and then it turned into this crazy pounding of pieces of hail that went from pea to marble sized…

it happened around five and there was still lots left at nine-thirty…

the garden seemed to get it much worse than the front yard…

the poor baskets took a real beating… fingers crossed that they all come back…

this morning I discovered that two of the cucumber plants had been nearly broken in half, so I created splints for them and we will see if they recover…

what a sight…

soil…

05 Monday Jun 2023

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on Friday, Hilda the Gardener arrived just before a thunderstorm to work in the garden… while we waited for the rain to stop we made tea and drank it on the deck once the storm was over…

then she planted up the front pots and moved a few things around in the garden…

the pots were filled with the bits and pieces left over from the plant collection that hadn’t made it into soil… they look pretty good considering, lol…

curb…

25 Tuesday Oct 2022

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woke up to a thunderstorm yesterday… then had a nice walk, even in the wind and rain…

had to hang on to my hood so that it didn’t blow right off my head, lol… leaves were flying all over the place, but the rain had stopped…

when I came to a corner, the street was filled with water… up to the curb and edge of the tires on a nearby car…

when I walked by, maybe half an hour later, thankfully the water was all gone…

I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the walk…

duel…

18 Monday Jul 2022

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there was quite a thunderstorm early Saturday morning…

it was the first day in a long time that I ate breakfast in the house as I’ve been doing a great job of being outside if it isn’t raining…

eventually it was dry enough to spend some time in the garden where I had a bit of a duel with the gray squirrels that have found a way to get to both of the slinky protected bird feeders…

and then, I spent a lovely time watching a monarch flit around the space, landing a number of times on the milkweed and then flitting around some more…

what a treat and how lucky was I to get to enjoy those moments;-)…

clap…

16 Friday Jul 2021

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I was laying on the bed upstairs yesterday watching the end of a movie when I heard a huge clap of thunder…

jumped up and ran outside to put away the cushions… I don’t like it when they get wet and they were on all of the chairs…

almost got the last ones into the garage when the downpour began… I stood in the garage doorway and watched rain and hail pelt down for a while and then, when it slowed down a little, made it into the house…

all of the windows were wide open as well as the screen door, but luckily only the kitchen and bedroom had issues…

had to take up the rug at the door and wipe up the water in the kitchen… the other rooms were pretty good… thankfully, the blinds were down in the bedroom so the water only came in a bit in one corner of the frame… once I wiped it up it didn’t take long to dry…

it remained overcast for a while, but then the sun came out and it was beautiful…

brought Barbie the barbecue out and grilled a steak for my dinner to go along with the potato salad I had made earlier in the day…