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crushed…

24 Saturday Sep 2022

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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;-)…

ensconced…

23 Friday Sep 2022

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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;-)…

chipped…

19 Monday Sep 2022

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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…

bud…

13 Tuesday Sep 2022

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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…

drying…

01 Thursday Sep 2022

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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…

banner…

31 Wednesday Aug 2022

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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…

combining…

23 Tuesday Aug 2022

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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…

interruption…

17 Wednesday Aug 2022

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on Monday had a great time in the garden with 3/4 of our BS group…

I had moved the car to the driveway and put chairs into the garage on the chance that rain or a thunderstorm decided to cause an interruption during our gathering… I didn’t rearrange the chairs and put out the cushions until a few minutes before they arrived as the sky was still covered in clouds…

while we visited, we saw a monarch flit about and land on the milkweed flowers… then a baby bunny stopped by…

the sparrows came by for drinks and baths…

and the fish were swimming all around the pond, including at least one of the babies…

the babies move amazingly quickly, and I spent quite a while trying to catch a photo of one of them…

in the end, the sun came out and it got kind of hot, lol… then, about 7:30 pm we had a huge thunderstorm…

strange weather day…

solar…

24 Sunday Jul 2022

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ordered some solar motion sensor lights for the garden last Wednesday…

wasn’t sure if they would work, but was hopeful they would frighten the raccoons away…

they arrived on Monday and were easy to install… one went at the edge of the bridge and the other is set on the top of the deck…

was so excited that night when they worked… happily it had been sunny all day…

the next night it stormed and they were on most of the time as the wind was blowing all the leaves and floating plants around when the rain wasn’t pouring down…

will see how they work when the raccoons stop by again…