01 Saturday Oct 2022
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spent some time in the garden repotting a few plants to come into the house…
this silver falls had been in a pot hanging on the side of the house and was so pretty I thought I’d give it a try in the house…
I separated a couple of plants and put them in a slightly smaller pot…
finally, I brought in some of the floating pond plants…
it will be interesting to see how they all manage…
29 Thursday Sep 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, food, groceries, hibernation, meals, moments, preparations, recipes, weather, widow
made a hot breakfast, cause it felt like that kind of day, and then gathered the ingredients to prepare ham, cabbage and potatoes…
this would give it time to cook and then cool before heating it up for supper…
while that was cooking, I finished shredding the rest of the cabbage, a bit of green onion, and some carrot… I added the last of the dressing I had in the cupboard and finished that recipe…
finally, I cut and scooped three ripe avocados into containers to go into the freezer for smoothies…
yesterday I prepared zucchini basil soup…
feels a bit like I am getting ready for hibernation…
28 Wednesday Sep 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, moments, nature, orchids, overwinter, plants, pond, tank, weather, widow, winerack
spent time in the living and dining rooms reorganizing the plants…
took the orchids out of the new fish tank, trimmed, and found other places for them to go…
gave up the winerack and now have a spot for the fuchsia from outside to come to…
found a pump that might work in the tank, which is going to be used to house pond plants…
I’ve tried to overwinter water hyacinth before without success, but am going to try once again… also hoping that the two floating baskets will make it as well;-)… some of the water lilies will go into the tanks with the fish, but may put one in this tank if there is room…
24 Saturday Sep 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, crushed, food, garden, google, moments, nature, parsley, plants, weather, widow
prepped some items from the garden…
gathered morning glory seeds and brought in a ton of parsley… it didn’t get eaten up this year, lol… talked with Google about ways to prepare it for the winter…
two suggestions sounded like something to try… I pulled off most of the stalks and put half of the parsley onto parchment paper and then baked it in the oven for about twenty minutes… when it cooled I crushed it by hand and put it into a bottle… looks good…
next I took the rest of the stalk-free parsley and bagged it… six bags went into another and went into the freezer…
it will be interesting to see which type I like the best;-)…
23 Friday Sep 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, ensconced, experiments, flowers, garden, Hilda the Gardener, memories, moments, nature, plants, weather, widow
well, Wednesday was that day in the garden, sigh…
Hilda the Gardener came by and most of the planters in the front yard and garden were cleaned out…
as an experiment, a few plants which had been in the planters were put into the ground to see if we could reuse them in the spring… and we tried that with the strawberry basket as well…
everything looks tidy and ready for the next seasons…
I am going to miss time spent in the garden although I am so happy with how many days I was ensconced in the space…
there will be many wonderful memories to enjoy during those freezing cold days in the middle of winter…
but for now, here’s hoping for more beautiful days in this magical space;-)…
19 Monday Sep 2022
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back door, big girl pants, blessed, chipped, door, garden, moments, nature, paint, purple, scraped, weather, widow
finally scraped the chipped areas on the back door…
then I pulled out the paint, stirred it for quite a while and painted the bare portions… it was very interesting to see how blue it looked before being stirred up… that probably explains why so many of my purple things turn blue after sitting in the sunlight, lol…
it has been drying and is looking good… I think I will give it one more coat…
13 Tuesday Sep 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, bud, flowers, garden, moments, nature, plants, pond, treat, water lily, weather, widow
so excited last Wednesday to discover a water lily bud… I had pretty much given up hope of seeing one this year…
throughout the day I took photos as it worked towards opening…
it was at its peak on Saturday…
today it is getting ready to slide under the water… as the next bud begins to open…
what a wonderful treat as we move into cooler weather…
talk about blessed…
01 Thursday Sep 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, doors, drying, family, kitchen, memories, moments, rain, shopping, son-in-law, weather, widow
Monday was a bit of a slower day with rain during the morning… we had breakfast out and I put the foodstuff back on the shelves while my son-in-law ran out to get a few things we needed…
then we took everything out of all the bottom cabinets, and while he washed the shelves and removed a few extra shelves in the back of two of them, I went through and set aside items for the giveaway boxes…
the frame and all the doors were primed and there were doors and drawers drying all over the place, lol…
31 Wednesday Aug 2022
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banner, big girl pants, blessed, chocolate, family, happy, moments, projects, rain, son-in-law, Technology, weather, widow
Sunday, now that the two coats of primer were on, the actual paint went onto the shelves and the doors… and because it was going to rain, we had to do the doors inside, rather than on the deck, lol…
then we got to relax as we waited for it to dry…
we checked out a few other projects and I put back the banner that had come down in the hall…
looks so much better now that the holes have been repaired…
23 Tuesday Aug 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, bouquet, combining, drill, flowers, glads, happy, moments, weather, widow
started the morning gathering up all my bouquets, combining a few together, and tidying up another…
a bit sad as the glads were done…
then I took out the drill and put the second screw into the motion sensor on the deck… angling it as my son-in-law suggested… and it worked perfectly…
the rocks that were holding it up are now back in amongst the trees…
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