damaged…

20 Friday Aug 2021

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for the last week or so I’ve been wondering why the hibiscus is getting all these yellow leaves… I’d been watering it and had even given it some banana peel water…

this afternoon, between rainfalls, I put a chair up alongside it as the wind is supposed to get crazy tomorrow and I didn’t want it to blow over again…

and spotted this…

this is very sad… I hope I will be able to remove the broken portion and that the other two stems will remain healthy…

it may have been damaged during the big storm last week… the tree had blown over and I didn’t check the stem when I put it back up… too bad, maybe it could have been repaired…

rainfall…

13 Friday Aug 2021

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Sunday to Wednesday life was very busy…

Sunday, a friend, her husband and daughter came over for lunch… the garden looked beautiful and we had a lovely visit…

lunch was a delightful collection of goodies from Pho Hoang… everything was tasty…

on Monday morning I had an early meeting in the garden and the rain held off just long enough for us to finish…

Tuesday morning, when I woke up after the storm in the night, I discovered that the hibiscus and dahlia planters were both tipped over from the strong wind… when I looked at the neighbour’s yard I discovered a large branch had fallen right next to their house… thankfully, nothing was damaged…

Wednesday morning a friend stopped by and we had a great catch-up…

in the evening my grandson came for his birthday dinner… delicious steak, lobster, mushrooms and twice-stuffed potatoes were on the menu…

once again, great timing… as we were cleaning up the sky turned very dark… we just got all the cushions inside when the wind and rain arrived…

we have certainly appreciated the rainfall;-)…

slinky…

12 Thursday Aug 2021

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on Monday the slinky arrived in the mail…

we’d been looking for a while and apparently everyone has been buying them as there were none available nearby…

this one was ordered on Thursday and turned up just four days later…

once the rain stopped I put it on the bird feeder pole…

I didn’t pin the bottom down as I read that this wasn’t required…

we will see if it keeps the squirrels from getting to the feeder…

odour…

29 Thursday Jul 2021

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I was up at 6:30 am watching the Olympics;-)…

I had made my mind up to water the garden first thing because it has been getting hot so early in the day…

I think the temperature only reached 28 Celsius which feels cool after the hot days we’ve been dealing with…

it turned out to be a beautiful day, other than the odour of smoke in the air… luckily, you could smell the smoke, but the sky was clear…

after watering, I put out all the cushions and wandered around checking out flowers…

the planter with the milkweed and morning glories in it was looking spectacular as the morning glories have overtaken the container… not sure that the monarchs can find the milkweed anymore…

the dahlias are doing well and one of the buds on the Robann Regal plant has started to open…

excited to see it fully open…

I also realized that there are more buds starting on the Mick’s Peppermint… that plant is huge and didn’t look like it was going to have more than a few flowers… interesting that the second flower was about half the size of the first one, although it is hard to see that in my photo… and the colours are different on every flower;-)…

sat and enjoyed the view…

I love my garden sanctuary…

prickly…

28 Wednesday Jul 2021

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this is the first time I have planted/grown cucumbers and I’ve been surprised at how prickly they are…

the cucumber plants had a ton of flowers on them, but no actual cucumbers…

I read online that I should take a broom and sweep over them… this is supposed to help with pollination…

I decided to give it a try the other day… found one of my beloved’s brushes and brushed over as many of the flowers as I could… that was on Saturday…

today, this is what I spotted… plus two others…

not sure if it was the brushing or whether I just had to wait a bit longer, lol…

but I am absolutely thrilled…

overkill…

26 Monday Jul 2021

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I love the Olympics and have watched them for years… I remember a trip we took once and how we had to have access to TVs at the end of each day so that I could keep up with what was happening, lol…

I like to watch in real time so that means reorganizing my sleep schedule to get the best results…

for these ones I couldn’t decide how I felt about them going ahead this year… but now they are happening, I am in… I usually get a Canada Day t-shirt and had purchased one a while ago, but on July 1st I decided not to wear it… as the games began, I put it on;-)…

on Friday I was up at 5:30 am to watch the opening ceremony and ordered McDonald’s for breakfast so I didn’t have to stop watching to make something…

at one point during the first day I was switching between tv channels and streaming on my phone at the same time and I considered turning on the laptop as well… in the end I decided the laptop would be overkill…

I have slowed down slightly… apparently I need a bit more sleep these days…

the great thing about streaming is that I can watch some of the sports that I enjoy most but which don’t always get shown on tv…

the surfing, gymnastics and dressage have been lovely to watch, even if not exactly as they happened…

I’ve even taken the laptop out into the garden so that I can enjoy the weather and not miss anything, lol…

so happy to be able to watch whenever and wherever… retirement is a lovely thing;-)…

spitting…

23 Friday Jul 2021

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a few days ago, I spent the day in the house, other than a few short walks around the garden when it wasn’t raining…

I was happy to find one of the tomatoes starting to turn colour… there are a lot, so it is going to be fun to snack on them as they ripen…

the water lily opened again, even in the rain… I took this picture from upstairs…

and I brought in the Mick’s pepper dahlia bloom to enjoy inside…

seemed odd to not be outside much… but, every time I stepped out the door it was spitting…

activity…

22 Thursday Jul 2021

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hot and partly overcast today, but not nearly as smokey…

and lots of activity in the garden…

must have counted six squirrels at one time and took a few pictures of different ones eating… none of the gray squirrels wanted to have their photos taken, lol…