11 Friday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, gone, moments, nature, plants, rain barrel, snow, straighten, weather, widow, wind
shhhhh… the snow is gone from the front yard…
and I finally took a few minutes to straighten up the rain barrel which had been blown over weeks ago from some of the crazy winds we’d been having…
now we are ready for some rain;-)… and plants popping up from the ground…
05 Monday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, moments, nature, nylon, pantyhose, plants, stalk, tied, tomato, veggie garden, weather, widow, wind
went out to the veggie garden the other afternoon to see how everything was doing… it had been a much cooler day…
I’ve been spending most of my time in the house in front of the tv…
discovered that a stalk on one of the tomatoes had bent right over, I think from the wind…
I found a stick, put it in alongside the injured stem and then tied a nylon strip (from pantyhose) to the stick in a few spots…
I am hopeful that it will recover because there are two nice looking tomatoes on it…
fingers crossed…
01 Friday Sep 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, deeper, falling, flowering, flowers, garden, grandson, hole, mandevilla, moments, nature, plants, weather, widow, wind
a few days ago my grandson dug the hole deeper where the mandevilla has been residing for most of the summer… it lives in the house during the winter months and has just started to bloom…
it has also been blowing over fairly regularly and I’ve had to bungee cord it to the upright umbrella on really windy days so it wouldn’t fall over again… I had dug the hole to what I thought would work, but it wasn’t deep enough, lol…
Thursday, the wind was very strong and the mandevilla stayed put with no leaning or falling at all;-)
21 Monday Aug 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, completing, digging, family, fence, garden, gate, grandson, level, moments, nature, rain, sky, weather, widow, wind
we’ve been working away at completing projects that have been started, but not quite finished;-)… I’m sure this doesn’t happen to anyone else, lol…
Wednesday, it was the back gate in the new fence…
the dirt was dug up under the gate area, two old concrete pads were discovered under a few inches of the dirt… they were removed and then some quarter down was laid, packed down, levelled, and new blocks put down, level with the lane… soil went into the spots on either side and some work on the slope up to the shed took place…
this is going to make the taking out and bringing in of garbage and recycling bins so much easier…
meanwhile the sky filled with threatening clouds, spots of sun, and then more of the “going to rain” cloud variety…
the project is not quite done, and just as we came in for lunch the wind went crazy and some rain started down…
good timing;-)…
25 Sunday Jun 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cliff, cliff deck, family, happy, moments, nature, power, read, Technology, water, waves, weather, whitecaps, widow, wind
spent a good portion of my day on the cliff deck… it was sunny…
in the morning, it was a little breezy, but by the afternoon, it was very windy…
watching the whitecaps and waves pounding the shore reminds one of the huge power of nature…
01 Thursday Jun 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, chairs, friends, garage, garden, gathering, lilacs, moments, nature, rain, storm, sun, suntea, tables, weather, widow, wind
the weather presented a variety of options on Monday… from hot and sunny to rainy, to thunderstorms, we had them all…
after seeing how much rain was possible, I decided to set up for our Monday gathering in the garage…
the motorcycle got moved to the back of the space and chairs and tables were moved in…
I also added the lilacs that my neighbour gave me in the morning as well as some suntea…
it was lovely, particularly when the wind blew through the space, and watching and listening to the rain coming down was delightful…
27 Saturday May 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cold, cover, dahlia, garden, mistake, moments, morning glories, nature, weather, widow, wind
just possible that I made a mistake when I brought out the morning glories and the dahlia from Lily Stone Gardens and planted them last Saturday…
the wind has been very strong and it has been cool in the evenings…
the dahlia hasn’t been looking at all happy and on Wednesday evening I covered it with sheets hoping to block the wind…
it is still not happy… we shall see…
25 Thursday May 2023
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big girl pants, broken, garden, hammock stand, moments, nature, repaired, umbrella, weather, widow, wind
I was surprised yesterday morning when I looked out the window to see the hammock stand on its back against the planter… clearly the wind had lifted the umbrella and blew it over…
when I went out I saw that the umbrella on the top was perfectly fine so I took it off… the wind has been very strong since Tuesday and may continue for a number of days… a section of the edging had broken right off…
the umbrella went into the garage and I was able to put the stand back up… not going to put the umbrella back on until the weather improves…
now to arrange to have the planter repaired;-)…
15 Monday May 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, chimes, garden, grandson, happy, moments, nature, weather, widow, wind, wind chimes
we ran to the store recently and picked up a wind chime I’d been looking at for a while…
it is hanging close to a corner so it gets a bit of wind and sounds beautiful…
recently a neighbour commented on how nicely it pealed…
14 Friday Apr 2023
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arch, big girl pants, blessed, construction, fits, garden, moments, nature, snow, tall, trellis, weather, widow, wind
took all the pieces of the arch out onto the deck and finished putting it together…
tightened all the screws and voila… done…
it looks very tall, and should work perfectly… sure hope it fits…
had to lay it down as the wind was picking up and I didn’t want it to fall over before it made it to its new home, lol…
still waiting for the last of the snow to melt so we can try it out…
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