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Harte…

30 Thursday Oct 2025

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went for a walk on the Harte Trail section of the Trans Canada Trail with my adventure buddy…

it was quite lovely, other than the puddles from the recent rain, lol…

we may have seen some cedar waxwings, although they were a long way off and high in a tree…

I am looking forward to going back in different seasons to see the changes…

we had a fun time;-)…

counted…

29 Wednesday Oct 2025

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a few fish came into the house around Thanksgiving…

on Tuesday morning we went out to collect the rest, as it is seems to be getting cooler every day…

part of the process was to empty a good amount of water, particularly as the pond was as high as I’ve seen it, since we’ve had so much rain lately…

then it was fairly easy for my housemate to catch the remaining fish…

once they were in the tanks, I counted thirty, which is about right, so we were pleased that we’d got them all…

we will check the pond over the next few days to see if there are any stragglers that we missed…

lumber…

26 Sunday Oct 2025

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well, what a day, phew… it was chilly, overcast, and windy…

spent the morning in the garage moving bits and pieces out into the driveway to make room for an empty table to work on…

then my housemate met up with his grandfather to go and pick up lumber for the new shelves planned for the basement and the garage…

once he returned home, we moved more things and then updated a shelf beside the door for my gardening gloves and tools…

it is stronger, looks amazing, and now each tool is much more accessible underneath;-)…

we worked on the basement shelves, his brother arrived, and they finished them…

they ended up looking excellent and adding more useful space for organizing our stuff, lol…

they continued to work in the garage to redo a section of shelves and add counter space…

I didn’t quite get a picture of the finished product, before we moved all the bits and pieces back into the garage for the night…

it is going to be so organized that I might not be able to find anything 🤪…

dawdle…

24 Friday Oct 2025

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went to The Park Cafe and met up with two friends…

we had a lovely breakfast and then a couple of us took a quick walk through the English and Leo Mol Gardens…

it was cool out so we didn’t dawdle… still a few beautiful colours out there…

then I walked across the bridge to where I’d parked the car…

invasive…

21 Tuesday Oct 2025

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out in the garden and front yard on Sunday morning…

pulled out a huge clump of self-seeded morning glories in the front flower bed… the frost got them a few days before…

I can understand how they are considered invasive in BC… but they weren’t causing any problem in the flower bed and added some lovely flowers for the last month or so…

nearly filled one of the yard waste bags and then I swept up Virginia creeper branches on the bottom decks… the bag was pretty full by the time I was done…

final piece of work was removing all the morning glory vines from the butterfly bench…

still a few jobs to do to close down the garden for the season…

dragon…

18 Saturday Oct 2025

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last week we went through the garden and collected flowers from the pansies, bachelor buttons and petunias, as they will be a special snack treat for the bearded dragon, lol…

next they went into the dehydrator to dry…

took about twelve hours and then they were nicely dried and put into a bag for future snacks;-)…

hope the dragon likes them…

time…

10 Friday Oct 2025

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well, it took lots more time, and water, to get the houseplants watered Wednesday morning, lol…

seems there are a great many of them;-)…

I’ve had to rearrange some of the ones that are now in the window so that I still have a good view of the bird feeders…

especially these days as the birds prepare for migration and are very busy getting their meals…

thriving…

06 Monday Oct 2025

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yesterday, as I was reorganizing the plants that have come in from outside, my housemate helped me with the monstera plant…

he brought it with him when he moved into the basement and had it down there for a while, but had to move it to the main floor as it wasn’t thriving…

It isn’t my favourite plant, but when all the plants were being moved around, we trimmed it and attached it to a pole and it looks much better…

in the same corner, I put one of the ferns that had been in the garden and was much happier than when it went outside… hope it continues to thrive there;-)…