08 Wednesday Sep 2021
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big girl pants, garden, growing, careful, moments, plants, secateurs, trim, virginia creeper, widow
decided the Virginia creeper over the hot tub was starting to creep too much towards the water…
grabbed my secateurs and a pail… moved the steps to the other side of the hot tub and climbed up…
was careful not to fall as I climbed onto the cover and along the edge to get to the window…
happy to get back on the ground when it was done…
looks much tidier now…
and I am still in one piece;-)…
06 Friday Aug 2021
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big girl pants, creeping, garden, nature, plants, trim, virginia creeper, widow
I think I need to trim some of the Virginia creeper around the garage door soon… it is creeping across the doorway;-)…
if not I won’t be able to get in there, lol…
01 Thursday Oct 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, Captain's Table, garden, memories, moments, nature, pictures, plants, trees, virginia creeper, visit, vivid, weather, widow
a dear friend brought my favourite fish and chips, from Captain’s Table and we had a great visit…
after she left I went out, filled the garbage bin with more goodies from the garage, and set it out for tomorrow’s pickup…
then I wandered around the yard and took some pictures of the Virginia creeper… it is a vivid and glorious colour although many of the leaves have already dropped…
I’ve been contemplating how lucky I am to have the time to spend on such activities;-)…
25 Friday Sep 2020
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beloved, big girl pants, eavestrough, family, garden, leaves, moments, nature, pond, remembering, virginia creeper, widow
dragged the ladder onto the deck, hoping I could reach the eavestrough to clean it out…
had my pail ready and my gloves on, but the height was more than I could manage… was not prepared to take that last step…
moved the ladder over to the garage, set it up and it worked perfectly… was able to clean about four feet of the eavestrough… clearly it needs to be cleaned out more than once every eight years, lol…
will need helpers to clean the rest of it, but it already looks better after I cut down some of the Virginia creeper…
03 Friday Jul 2020
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attach, big girl pants, blessed, family, friend, garden, grandson, hot tub, ladder, moments, process, siding, virginia creeper, widow
my grandson and one of his friends came over yesterday afternoon…
they were here to finish trimming the Virginia creeper and put the piece of siding back up…
it was quite the process as a door was put onto the hot tub, then a ladder on top of the door and then one would climb up and remove bits and pieces of the vine… then they worked from the driveway side to finish… once the vines were removed, they had to do some fancy work to get the siding back up and properly attached…
eventually it was all done and the area cleaned up…
we had a laugh as this particular friend had also helped with landscaping work in the front yard a number of years ago;-)… nice to have him back and helping…
it looks much tidier and more spacious now… after they left I finished cleaning the hot tub and filled it with fresh water… it takes an hour to get it to the top…
it took until around noon to heat it up, although I’ve set the temperature at 99℃ to see if that might be a nice temp for cooling down in this very hot spell we are dealing with…
01 Wednesday Jul 2020
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big girl pants, creeper, garden, grandson, hot tub, light, memories, moments, trim, vine, virginia creeper, widow
my grandson came by today for lunch and to do some trimming of the Virginia creeper for me…
I had emptied the hot tub as we had planned to move it out of the way so that a ladder could go up next to the house…
unfortunately, it wasn’t being cooperative so he ended up climbing onto the tub and reaching as high as he could…
it was a stretch but he was able to remove most of the overgrowth… it already looks much better…
I think the plan is for he and Jeff to come by on Friday to move the tub, make a few repairs to the deck and finish the trimming…
the light is already much brighter in the main floor tv room…
one of the things they will do on Friday will be to put that piece of siding back where it belongs, lol…
guess I won’t be refilling the tub for a few days, lol…
09 Saturday May 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, cards, delicious, friend, moments, napkins, nature, purple, scones, treats, vines, virginia creeper, widow
got a text this afternoon from a wonderful friend advising she was going to drop something off…
one day last week I had gathered up some Virginia creeper vines and she had picked them up, so I think this was a little thank you…
I was excited because she makes the world’s best scones… and I was hoping that was what she was bringing…
we had a lovely chat and exchanged items… she got a card from my stash for Mother’s Day, and I got craisin scones, made with sweetener, and some purple napkins… I think I got the best of the deal, lol…
I said I wasn’t going to eat them until tomorrow, but I had to have a taste, lol…
what a lovely surprise…
22 Sunday Sep 2019
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berries, big girl pants, birds, cane, Fall, flicker, nature, virginia creeper, widow, window, woodpeckers
for the last few days I’ve been watching the flickers on the roof of the garage enjoying the berries on the Virginia creeper… it has been a nice distraction as I go up and down the stairs, still using the cane…
they seem to gather around this time of year to fill up on ants and berries before heading south…
the other interesting thing about them is although they are woodpeckers, usually I see them on the ground, or in this case, on the garage roof…
11 Sunday Aug 2019
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beloved, big girl pants, garden, hot tub, tidy, trimming, virginia creeper, widow
the Virginia creeper had completely taken over beside the hot tub… the tv room was basically always dark because the window was covered with vines…
I’ve tried to get it trimmed down by others, but timing hasn’t worked…
today I did it myself… put on those big girl pants and climbed onto the edge of the hot tub…
afterwards I went back into my photos to find some I knew were there of my beloved trimming the same area…
these photos were from July 2011… it is always bittersweet when I look through old pictures… fun to see and relive the memories, but missing him at the same time…
25 Saturday May 2019
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addictive, big girl pants, cleaning, garden, Spring, tv, virginia creeper, widow
I think Spring has finally hit me…
spent time cleaning a cabinet and shelf unit in the bathroom…
also did a bit of work in the garden…
cut back some of the Virginia creeper… always feel such satisfaction trimming it, and find it rather addictive, lol… sometimes it is hard to stop…
and then, while I was watching some tv, I touched something on the remote and the screen misbehaved for a while… eventually I unplugged everything and when it started up again it was fine… not that I am addicted to tv…
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