06 Friday Sep 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, displays, flowerbed, flowers, house, ideas, moments, nature, plants, Rudbeckia, walk, weather, widow
saw some lovely flower displays on my walk yesterday…
this house looked nice with the lovely manicured flowerbeds…
I often take a photo of this display that looks pretty throughout the entire summer…
and these flowers made me think more about changing out the grass in the front yard…
05 Thursday Sep 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, books, different, little free library, moments, morning, new-to-me, walk, weather, widow
today I added a couple of books to my stair library…
picked them up at a Little Free Library on my morning walk…
both are from some of my favourite authors;-)…
this was a new-to-me library as I took a slightly different route today…
04 Wednesday Sep 2024
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, floating, hot air balloon, memory, moments, remembering, time, weather, widow
ten years ago I was floating over Gatineau in a hot air balloon… along with dozens of other balloons;-)…
I’d been waiting over twenty years for this experience… for my fortieth my beloved bought us tickets to fly at home, but the company ran away with the money…
it was everything I imagined and a very special moment in my life… the memory continues to be bright;-)…
03 Tuesday Sep 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, boat tour, CMHR, early, family, fun, landmarks, moments, nature, treat, water, weather, widow, Winnipeg Waterways Tours
went for a ride on one of the Winnipeg Waterways Tour boats yesterday morning…
while we waited to board, saw some ducks and geese and had to take a few pics, lol…
our driver, Pete, shared lots of interesting facts, many I wasn’t aware of, as we travelled along the Assiniboine and Red rivers…
it was fun to see some of the city landmarks from the water…
I was happy to get a few nice photos of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights…
and this one from the back of it…
a lovely treat;-)…
02 Monday Sep 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, little library, moments, nature, sod, walk, weather, widow
went for a walk around the neighbourhood Friday morning…
was surprised at the huge stacks of sod I spotted at one point, lol… could not figure out where it was all going to go…
lots of flowers and a few people along the way, but no books of interest at either of the Little Libraries I passed…
the weather was lovely though, and I collected a few Poke balls;-)…
19 Monday Aug 2024
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barefoot, big girl pants, birds, blessed, bunnies, dust, garden, moments, nature, stepping stones, sweep, weather, widow
have added sweeping the stepping stones to my morning routine…
the darn birds and bunnies continue to have dust baths and since I have been barefoot outdoors for the last while, the clumps of dirt are irritating my feet, lol…
18 Sunday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, lilies, moments, nature, neighbourhood, walk, weather, widow
went for a walk around the neighbourhood on Tuesday morning… it was a cool and sunny day…
apparently I was caught up by lilies on the walk, lol…
I did catch a few other flowers…
that was fun;-)…
10 Saturday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, growing, memories, memory, moments, nature, orange, plants, red, ripe, Technology, tomatoes, weather, widow
this memory came up in my feed on Thursday… it was from a year ago and clearly the tomatoes were ripe and nearly ready to eat…
this one is from the garden this Thursday…
obviously these ones are quite a ways behind, lol…
07 Wednesday Aug 2024
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, corms, dahlias, flowers, garden, happy, hues, Lilystone Gardens, moments, nature, pink, plants, purple, surprise, treat, weather, white, widow
I have been so excited…
for a number of years, I’ve been overwintering dahlia corms, but haven’t had tons of luck… sometimes I know what they are and other times they are a surprise when they get put away…
one white one has proven very prolific and it has produced at least a dozen blooms so far this year in three different pots…
these are about the size of my palm…
a delightful feathery one that I purchased last year at Lilystone Gardens has come back nicely and has a number of blooms and buds in one pot…
each bloom is bigger than my hand…
these have all been white so I was particularly excited to see one come up in a pot that looked like it was pinky/purple…
it is a bit smaller than the white pompom-looking ones, but stands out in all its pink and purple hues…
nature is so amazing…
06 Tuesday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, digging, family, garden, garden bed, grandsons, heavy, help, moments, nature, plants, project, rock, rocks, weather, widow
doing the happy dance…
Monday, the weather was perfect for being in the garden and my middle grandson came over and worked on the most current project… the soil in this garden bed kept sliding down and covering the stepping stones…
he removed some miscellaneous rocks, dug a trench and then, with my oldest grandson, moved and placed large rocks, which were located all around the garden…
it was interesting to watch as they decided together which rock worked and looked best where…
with my direction, of course…
the rock wall looks good…
so pleased that this project, which has been on my list for quite some time, is now completed…
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