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painter…

15 Thursday Apr 2021

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art, big girl pants, blessed, fun, moments, paint, painter, pictures, purple, widow

I’ve been doing a little more painting with watercolours… I was asked to paint some lavender which I did… and this is how the best picture came out…

clearly I am not a painter and I’ve figured out that what I like most is how the paint ends up on the plate, lol…

see, they are pretty, right;-)…

swipe…

14 Wednesday Apr 2021

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big girl pants, cold, garden, grandson, moments, nature, snow, swipe, weather, widow

well, I now understand why my neighbour brought out his snowblower yesterday… that snow is deep and heavy…

I checked in with my shoveler, who isn’t available until tomorrow, but I couldn’t bear thinking about my mail person and any delivery people having to trudge through the snow… that meant I had to go out to the garage to get the shovel, which apparently got put away too soon, lol…

I was astonished at how deep the snow was as I made my way to get the shovel… then it took a while to clear a path to the back door… my back wasn’t enjoying the exercise…

I tiptoed through the house and out the front door to get the snow removed from the sidewalk before the mail arrived…

there was only a single swipe because that snow is so wet and heavy…

then I sat down with a cup of tea;-)…

jacaranda…

13 Tuesday Apr 2021

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big girl pants, blessed, cacao tree, chocolate, flowers, jacaranda, lavender, Maui, memories, moments, nature, purple, vacation, widow

I’ve been looking back at photos from our trip to Maui two years ago… enjoying it a lot…

lovely to have reminders of that special time…

on this day, we visited a lavender farm where we walked through a garden filled wth beautiful flowers, many of which we couldn’t name…

we spent time at Maui Chocolate Coffee tours where we chatted with the farm owners, got to see cacao growing on trees, and tasted a chocolate drink…

and we saw jacaranda trees in bloom… they are purple;-)…

perk…

12 Monday Apr 2021

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big girl pants, blessed, corms, flowers, moments, nature, perk, plants, snow, weather, widow

it has been snowing off and on since early this morning… very depressing… I had to open the window to get this shot because all the windows were covered in water drops…

and then this box arrived in the mail…

the dahlias I ordered…

that perked me up;-)…

wait…

11 Sunday Apr 2021

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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, growing, memories, moments, morning glories, nature, patience, plants, poppies, wait, widow

this morning I sprinkled poppy seeds in the garden… hope they take… the poppies are always the first flower to bloom… they self-seed and some years there are just one or two and other years there are lots of blooms… it is amazing that they come back, even after the garden bed was completely dug up eight years ago…

I have also been enjoying the morning glory seedlings… I can hardly wait to plant them outside;-)…

I can see morning glories everywhere;-)…

salad…

10 Saturday Apr 2021

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big girl pants, birds, blessed, food, garden, moments, nap, nature, pond, potato salad, read, salad, Spring, squirrel, weather, widow

made my first potato salad of the season this morning and then spent the rest of the day in the garden…

apparently snow is coming so it just makes sense to be out there while it is nice…

napped in my rocking lounger and sat in one of my repaired chairs…

watched and listened to many birds… saw what might have been a purple finch, which stood on a chair to oversee the garden, but I didn’t take any pictures;-)… the sparrows and juncos were enjoying drinks of water when they weren’t searching for food… the red squirrel hopped all over the deck for some reason… it was fun to watch…

when I wasn’t watching the wildlife, I was reading a new book and eating potato salad;-)..

gunk…

09 Friday Apr 2021

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big girl pants, blessed, fish, garden, grandson, gunk, leaves, moments, nature, pond, sump pump, weather, widow

even though it was chilly and overcast my grandson arrived this morning to clean up the pond… it was filled with a ton of decaying leaves…

our time didn’t start very well… the pump that worked perfectly in the fall when it came out of the water would not work… felt like we tried everything, but no luck… so, he had to run to the store to replace it, sigh…

eventually, after getting most of the water pumped out, he used the shopvac to suck up the majority of leaves from the bottom…

this technique worked well, but took quite some time, and was very smelly… then we rinsed it, and I filled it back up… he plans to come back, we will drain it again, and finish sucking up the gunk…

then we will fill it and get the waterfall flowing… I don’t think the fish will go in for another few weeks, when the chorine has dissipated and the water temperature has warmed up a bit;-)…

happy with our progress and looking forward to sitting and enjoying the beautiful sound…

seedlings…

08 Thursday Apr 2021

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big girl pants, blessed, garden, moments, nature, planting, plants, seedlings, walk, widow

been having a little trouble getting all my steps in…

I keep stopping to check out all the seedlings, lol…

optik…

07 Wednesday Apr 2021

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big girl pants, birds, blessed, colourful, Facebook, learning, live feed, moments, nature, optik, Swarovski Optik, Technology, treat, widow

spent a wonderful hour this morning watching live bird feeds from Sri Lanka, India, Africa, and Latin America on Facebook via Swarovski Optik Birding…

what a treat…

came across this by accident and not sure how often they do these live feeds…

it appears they sell some very upscale binoculars and likely providing the feeds brings them customers, but it was lovely to watch…

real…

06 Tuesday Apr 2021

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big girl pants, blessed, COVID, dose, fish and chips, grandson, happy, mask, moments, organized, protection, purple, real, vaccination, widow

big day today…

put in my contacts, found my purple sandals and put on real clothes, even a bra;-)… can’t remember the last time I got dressed to go out… searched for my thickest mask and then waited…

ready even before the three hours email reminder came, lol…

my grandson picked me up and we headed downtown to the RBC Convention Centre… this is also the first time since August that I’ve been in a vehicle with another person, yikes…

not thrilled about being around hundreds of people, as I’ve stayed alone in my house for months to protect myself…

we walked in at 5:24 pm and left there at 6:22… had to stay after the shot for thirty minutes as I have some drug allergies…

the process and space were well organized and all of the staff were kind and friendly… those of us in the special chairs were watched over the entire thirty minutes to be sure we were fine;-)…

we stopped and picked up fish, shrimp and chips on our way home… sadly, my fish wasn’t in the bag but there were two orders of shrimp, which again, unfortunately, were over cooked…

thankful to get this first dose and so happy to have the support of my grandson;-)…

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