08 Tuesday Aug 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, blooms, flowers, garden, leaves, left-out, lily, memories, moments, nature, photos, plants, pond, remembering, water, water lily, weather, widow
been looking through my photos and came across a few pond pictures which demonstrate how crazy the water lily has gone, lol…
this is it yesterday…
this was last year about the same time…
and the year before…
still not sure if it is the weather or a response to being left-out over the winter…
07 Monday Aug 2023
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air mattress, big girl pants, blessed, comforters, deck, dew, garden, moments, moon, preparation, reverse, sleeping, sleepout, weather, widow
spent another night out on the deck;-)…
this time I brought up the air mattress, laid down a comforter to set it on, and filled it up;-)…
then up came more comforters and down came pillows from my bed…
had a good sleep but the top cover of the comforter was wet from the dew… and my glasses were completely fogged over…
last view of the moon before the entire process was repeated in reverse…
05 Saturday Aug 2023
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barrel, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, irrigation, moments, nature, pictures, planters, rain barrel, rainwater, Technology, watering, weather, widow
spent the first part of this morning watering everything…
while the irrigation system was looking after the veggie patch and pond garden, I used the rain barrel at the front to water the planters out front…
I’ve been lazy and have been using the hose most of the time, but I did enjoy using the rainwater from the barrel… and I’m pretty sure the plants were happy;-)…
01 Tuesday Aug 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, creeping Charlie, garden, happy, Hilda the Gardener, lily of the valley, mixed, moments, nature, plants, projects, weather, widow
had fun on Saturday when Hilda the Gardener came to work in the garden… I’d been thinking a bit and had a few projects in mind… it is wonderful to have her here to do the heavy lifting;-)…
the creeping Charlie was removed from one of the beds and a few plants were moved around…
while she was doing that, I mixed soil and grass seed and filled a few low spots in the grass…
the lily of the valley and Virginia creeper were removed along the house in the veggie garden… I think we are going to add some hostas in this area… I am happy that we can separate plants rather than have to run out and buy new ones…
and the Virginia creeper around the gate was trimmed up…
we always like to take before and after pictures when we are working on some of the bigger projects;-)…
looks good…
31 Monday Jul 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, camping, comforters, deck, garden, lounger, moments, nature, nest, night, rain, sleep, stars, weather, widow
on Friday evening I brought the lounger onto the deck and put a number of comforters on it…
then, once it was dark I headed out for my version of camping, lol…
had a pretty good sleep and enjoyed looking at the stars whenever I woke up during the night… and there were no mosquitoes;-)…
the weather looked good and that went so well that I decided to sleep out again on Saturday night…
around 4:30 am drops began to land on me😳, and shortly thereafter all of the paraphernalia was on the kitchen floor and I headed upstairs to my bed, lol…
18 Tuesday Jul 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cool, cushions, garden, July, moments, nature, rain, vest, weather, widow
it was chilly on Saturday morning so I had on a vest and put my Assiniboine Park Conservancy blanket over my legs…
it is mid July;-(…
a few times later in the day, I had to put away all the cushions because it rained for short periods of time, lol…
and I kept that vest on all day…
12 Wednesday Jul 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, brush, butternut squash, cucumber, drafting, flowers, food, garden, moments, nature, pollen, sun, weather, widow
been spending a bit of time each morning in the veggie patch (aka the side garden)…
the tomatoes have been doing well and there are now pea pods beginning to fill out, flowers on the beans, a few new cucumbers starting and, just maybe a squash…
there have been many squash flowers, but they have mostly been male… I have been trying to pollinate the female flowers in hopes of getting at least one squash…
one batch of cucumbers haven’t put out even the start of a cucumber, so I have been brushing them with a drafting brush that was my beloved’s in the hope that some might get pollinated and produce fruit…
think I will try to plant another few beans and see if they have enough time to produce;-)…
10 Monday Jul 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cottage, fireflies, moments, nature, night, shooting stars, sky, stars, Technology, trees, weather, widow
as I was sitting in the hot tub on Saturday night and watching the few stars that I am able to see from there, I was reminded of a Saturday night we spent at the lake…
we went out, with blankets and warm clothes, and laid on the couch on the cliff deck and watched the stars through the tree canopy…
it was a beautiful night with few bugs and the sky was spectacular…
we saw satellites, constellations, and shooting stars… even some fireflies;-)…
and I even got a few photos with my iPhone…
09 Sunday Jul 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cupcakes, food, friend, friends, garden, High Tea Bakery, home, moments, pond, sharing, time, treat, walk, weather, widow
enjoyed the sun in the garden on Saturday and had a visitor who brought cupcakes from High Tea Bakery…
we shared two of them and they were very tasty…
really, there is nothing better than spending time in the garden with a good friend;-)…
08 Saturday Jul 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, family, favourite, garden, happy, home, moments, nature, pond, rug, weather, widow
pleased to get back to my usual schedule…
my daughter had been staying with friends and my grandson was working so I’ve had the house all to myself…
finally got everything put away from the trip and was able to set up the new chair cushions and the cute little rug I picked up…
I am loving how the garden is looking and have been spending as much time as possible in this, my favourite space…
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