11 Saturday Jul 2026
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air conditioner, big girl pants, garden, hot, humidity, moments, nature, outside, Technology, weather, widow
it was hot and humid out there today…
I didn’t spend much time in the garden, although when I first got up and ran the irrigation system, I did put out the cushions, but didn’t sit out for too long…
even at 7 when it is usually quite pleasant, with the humidity, it felt like 42°C, sigh…
may have to leave the air conditioner on all night…
07 Tuesday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, family, forget, garden, hoses, label maker, moments, reminder, soaker, Technology, weather, widow
my housemate recently demonstrated how to change the label maker cartridge and then I got to work…
each of the four hoses connected to the water supply outside now have labels noting what they are for, lol…
I often forget which one is the soaker hose, so this should help me remember 🤪…
03 Friday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, family, garden, housemate, invisible, moments, nature, trimmed, virginia creeper, weather, widow
apparently, the virginia creeper is the happiest plant in the garden…
it is growing by leaps and bounds…
along the garage it has been trying to make its way back into the eavestrough and it also thinks it should get to the hot tub, lol…
the baskets were nearly invisible on the other side of the garden…
my housemate was able to get it all back under control in just a few minutes… looks so much better now…
it will probably look like that again in a few weeks😊…
29 Monday Jun 2026
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this pesky knee is being a bit of a pain, so on Sunday I didn’t spend any time getting steps…
made for a quiet day, although with the rainy and overcast weather it was fairly easy to lay around reading and napping…
I also got to watch the F1 race in Austria…
that was fun…
26 Friday Jun 2026
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had a lovely walk to the English and Leo Mol Gardens, where I met up with my adventure buddy…
as I waited, I sat with the woman who spends all her time reading… I wasn’t able to see the name of the book, lol…
the gardens are looking much nicer than the last time we walked through them, although everything is still a bit behind…
after we’d been around both areas, we popped over to the Park Cafe and had the Berry Good Sundae, which we had enjoyed just the week before when we were there for a birthday celebration;-)…
tasted like a lovely treat after all that walking in the heat;-)…
then a walk home… and a nap😄…
11 Thursday Jun 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, damaged, garden, hostas, marble-sized, moments, nature, poppies, thunderstorm, weather, widow, windows
the storm on Tuesday was quite something…
I was worried the hail was going to come right through the windows even though it was only marble-sized in our neighbourhood…
yesterday when I wandered around the garden, I could see how much the hail had damaged the plants…
the hostas took a real beating and the poppies were knocked over by a branch which fell down from the elm tree next door…
but their colour still popped;-)…
08 Monday Jun 2026
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air conditioner, big girl pants, blessed, family, fixed, garden, happy, moments, old, repaired, splits, Technology, virginia creeper, weather, widow
great anticipation and excitement on Saturday…
we’ve been looking into air conditioner splits, as well as a new air conditioner for a while now…
the current air conditioner hasn’t worked for at least three years, and maybe even five… I can’t remember…
when I had someone in to look at it, they said it was leaking freon and couldn’t be repaired… it has sometimes been very hot upstairs but I managed with a tower fan…
last year I’d been quoted around $5,000 to replace it and that just seemed too much, particularly as the cold air never really made it upstairs, lol…
we had an HVAC person in the other day and the splits just weren’t going to work here… before moving forward with a new air conditioner, they suggested trying to get the old one working… they came back on Saturday to see if they could get the old one going…
they were here for a couple of hours and got it working😁😆😄…
the problem was the virginia creeper which had wound its way around the motor… I guess the other company was just wanting me to purchase a new air conditioner…
it is recording 13 something and the optimum is 20, so that sounds quite wonderful to me…
my housemate is going to be exceedingly happy…
06 Saturday Jun 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, dozen, garden, light, moments, plants, poppies, warm weather, weather, widow
the light was shining nicely on the poppies as they get ready to open…
looks to be about a dozen buds, and possibly more to come…
this year everything is quite behind, but the hot weather has made some things bolt;-)…
I always feel that the warm weather is finally here once the poppies start blooming;-)…
still going to be a few days before they open, I think…
29 Friday May 2026
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big girl pants, family, garden, grandson, hardening, houseplants, moments, nature, outside, plants, weather, widow
Tuesday afternoon the majority of the larger house plants made it outside…
they have just made it onto the deck and a few will be moved elsewhere soon…
the smaller ones will come out in the next few days as space is made for them in the garden…
I’m being wild and crazy this year and not hardening any of them off…
this is also the first year in quite a while that I didn’t start any plants in the house…
we will see how they adapt to the rather warm weather and bright sun… 🤞
24 Sunday May 2026
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