29 Sunday Oct 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, corner, moments, projects, shelves, step stool, Tea, tidy, widow
had a bit of fun tidying up the corner cupboard…
had to get out the step stool to reach the top shelf…
didn’t take too long and reminded me of how much tea I have up there, yikes…
now it is organized nicely, with the items I use least located on the top shelf…
happy that I got one of my little projects completed;-)..
03 Tuesday Oct 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, fall cleanup, flowers, garden, Hilda the Gardener, moments, nature, plants, pulled, tidy, weather, widow
it was a bit sad on Friday, when Hilda the Gardener came to put the garden to bed…
it always feels awful when the flowers that are still blooming get pulled out of the soil and pitched into the yard waste bags…
of course, it also makes me happy that everything is organized and ready for the next season… a number of plants went into the ground that had been in pots so they will overwinter before moving into pots, or new spots in the garden next year…
we will meet up in midwinter to plan for spring…
06 Friday Jan 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, bloom, cutting back, growing, hibiscus, moments, nature, plants, scraggly, tidy, tree, trimmed, widow
spent some time trimming the hibiscus now that most of the buds have opened…
here it was before the haircut, kind of scraggly…
and after, being careful not to cut off any of the remaining buds;-)…
I think it looks much tidier and it is much easier to walk past it, lol… and then it had another bloom;-)…
here it is five years ago… so tiny…
and since then it has lost one whole stem…
22 Tuesday Mar 2022
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tossed all of the old flowers out today and reorganized a few pots…
moved one of the violets into the lovely head vase from my New Year’s Day bouquet…
and spotted some new blossoms…
that was a lovely treat…
house is tidy and ready for company;-)…
29 Sunday Aug 2021
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had a burst of energy and spent a couple of hours in the garage cleaning…
was able to give away a few outdoor games to a neighbour… filled up the garbage and recycling bins… and cleaned off about half of the bench and one shelf…
thinking about painting the bench purple;-)…
every little step feels like progress;-)…
09 Monday Aug 2021
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busy time in the garden on Saturday…
my grandson came, whipper snipped, trimmed the weeds in the driveway, and blew all the leaves and detritus… we do like the blower, which can also act as a vacuum… everything looks tidy… he also helped get one of the bubble machines going…
a bit later Hilda the Gardener spent time weeding and tidying so that the garden looks well cared for… it is always such a treat to see how lovely everything looks after she’s been here…
meanwhile, I had lightly fertilized the plants that are heavy feeders, filled bird feeders and pulled out a few weeds in the new grass…
bubbles make me happy…
08 Sunday Aug 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, drink, fertilizer, flowers, friends, garden, moments, nature, plants, tidy, widow
I’ve spent a good part of the last few days cleaning up the flower pots, removing dead leaves, trimming, and deadheading as I went around giving the plants a drink of slightly fertilized water…
friends were coming over and I want everything to look its best;-)…
07 Saturday Aug 2021
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big girl pants, birds, birdseed, blessed, garden, nature, reorganized, table, tidy, widow
managed to get the table in the garage cleaned off, and reorganized my toolbox and drill in a corner…
good timing because The Preferred Perch will be delivering two fifty pound bags of birdseed and it goes on the table until I can put it into containers;-)…
then I finally cut back the Virginia creeper that was making it difficult to enter and exit the garage…
good day’s work;-)…
11 Friday Dec 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, Christmas, company, dishes, fingertips, home, moments, plates, tidy, widow
finally put away some dishes the other day…
I figured I didn’t need thirty plates available at my fingertips for feeding all my company so I moved a number of plates and bowls and added a few Christmas ones where I can reach them;-)…
interesting how long it took me to let go of that stack… also moved some of my favourite dishes off a counter to fit in with the rest..
looking tidier in the kitchen…
29 Wednesday Jul 2020
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big girl pants, contractor, garage, garden, Indi, roof, shingles, tidy, widow
had someone come by and look at the garage roof…
when the house was reshingled a few years ago, they felt the garage would last for another five years… not!
over the winter I was able to see light through a couple of little holes when the sun was shining…
recently I realized that water was leaking in whenever it rained…
so, Monday, Brian, the contractor, came… he removed the old shingles and put them into his truck without leaving any mess… certainly much cleaner than the folks who did the house… there were shingle bits and nails everywhere when they were done…
after he made a trip to the dump, he picked up shingles that match those on the house, then removed every nail still in the roof and used a cool magnet that picked up any loose ones… then he swept the entire roof before placing down plastic sheeting over the entire surface… I was mesmerized with the light patterns when the shingles were off;-)…
Tuesday he returned and laid the shingles… there were a few problems including both roofing nailers jamming and having to remove all of the Virginia creeper that has grown into and over the eavestrough…
and then – it was done… and it looks wonderful…
Indi will be happy when she comes home;-)…
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