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Post by passingtime on Jun 17, 2016 13:53:57 GMT
There were sooooo many by 3pm my day was full pack with favourite tasks, but i am going to choose only one:
- Continuing to create the Heart - shaped pond in our back garden.
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Post by passingtime on Nov 4, 2016 18:04:32 GMT
There were sooooo many by 3pm my day was full pack with favourite tasks, but i am going to choose only one: - Continuing to create the Heart - shaped pond in our back garden. The pond never finished off being Heart- shaped
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Post by snowstorm on Nov 7, 2016 18:05:02 GMT
Ah well, it's the thought that counts. Wildlife will enjoy the pond whatever it's shape :-)
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Post by passingtime on Nov 7, 2016 22:58:10 GMT
Hahaha, NOPE ! ~ they won't Snowstorm, i was gonna to continue to say i have 'done away with it' for now. It was more like a 'paddling pool for them all, i would clean it out mostly daily so ferrets could have it clean / fresh. This i always intended doing i knew i wasn't supposed to put it under our largest tree, but i did anyway! Then realised that all the dusty white specks floating on the pool now during Autumn were actually 'live' aphids... it was only a matter of time, before i couldn't tolerate their 'inconsiderate' drowning attempts. So the day before ( i think ?) i wrote up here, i had gone out in a 'Manic Force' & sorted & shifted it all with half a hour. We did have a lovely 8 or 9 weeks with a crippled male blackbird we called Gin, he was unable to 'fly' & so i managed to keep him in the garden, feed him, shed him up safely at night & he was able to bath daily or more in the pool (pond) He left approx. 3 weeks ago now. His ability to lift off the ground to fly had improved after 8 weeks, the night my son visted & stoppe over with us, Gin had gotten in the border hedge. I made a decision to attempt to retrive him from the hedge for safety..... i knew it was a risk, either way ..... thought i had to take the chance of trying to get him in the shed for the night. He shot out of the hedge & flew 'freely' across the road & landed on the neighbours roof, he hopped to thetop of the roof & flew out of site the other side. Suprisingly, the next day whilst my daughter & i were outside with our ferrets, we heard 'Gin's call' couldn't believe it was him, that he would be still alive without the protection of our garden. The gate was shut & he seemed unable to get through the small gap. My daughter went towards the gate & i went around the otherside to attempt to usher Gin back into safety.... A cat's 'bad-timing' caused Gin to 'freak' & he whizzed back towards the neighbour's garden, my daughter 'thinks' the cat walked on by & that Gin got to Safety... We've never seen Gin since .. i was constantly 'asking' for Gin to 'leave us' by 'flying' away back to a 'whole Blackbirds Lifestyle'. He DID 'fly-free' ..... only he came back the next day when he heard our voices, we failed to 'HELP' him then..... We didn't have to deal with his DEATH or his DEAD BODY...... so it was the Best it would of been.... it's Better.. --------------------- in spring next year i will put the pool in a better position, make it smaller & deeper & more easy to manage, .... 'THAT'LLL BE FUN'
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Post by snowstorm on Nov 8, 2016 12:39:12 GMT
I hope Gin flew to safety. It sounds like he got quite tame for a wild bird. Reminds me of when my Grandad rescued an injured owl from the side of the road and looked after it until it was ready to fly away.
Ferrets must be interesting pets to have.
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Post by passingtime on Dec 31, 2016 7:06:03 GMT
yesterday's evening was gardening, until a branch poked our dog in the eye, another large branch chopped from above hit me in the left hand, first finger & then face & then went on to hit the dog too.
guess my pussy willow tree does not appreciate having it's limbs lopped, sawn & chopped off, as i found out. made my hand bleed & ache, dogs eyes seemed un damaged thankgod!
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Post by passingtime on Dec 31, 2016 7:21:59 GMT
ferrets are vey good at helping 'clear& sort through stuff'
i have rescused & attempted to heal many types of birds now at different stages, the most 'marked'onewas ''spillameana' a female baby blue tit less than a wk old.
that mt demands & myex.'sactions had caused to betossed from it's living enviroment to the ground, it's sister / brother was sit in egg vitro, so exploded when hitting the ground.
i found them a little while after x has felled the top of this particular fir tree. i was DEVASTED as usual, i can't live without killing or harming those i adore / love... it's just impossible, everytime.
i put her on the window sill, her little dead body, but when i went back to check, it was breathing.... / moving, it was alive ....she lived for sum days, but i was unable to provide the necessary care, (i was in 'processing' myself, so very managed by the 'sim' (puppet teer master's) & very much struggling with everything including body malfunctions . incapacities & agony.
i was stringe feeding her, holding her in my hands & the radio blaring next to my head in my old bedroom reported a fire where a woman & 2 children had been killed, instantly on this 'statement' 'spilla (meana)' 'snapped' in some way & was dead in my hands.
i tried to suck out / away the last food from her throat, i even tried to give her mouth to mouth .... to no avail her body was DEAD' & her spirit was not coming back into that little deceased corpse, no matter how hard i tried, or how much dis-belief i had at losing her.
i had felt certain she would 'survive' i just knew it, so when she didn't i was in complete utter shock, not coomputing at all.
this is a Re-experience of losing my mother (2000) & my sheepdog soul mate (11.05.11)
both those occasions i just couldn't imagine it happening, it WAS BEYOND my comprehension to accomadate.
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Post by passingtime on Jan 9, 2017 8:10:26 GMT
There were sooooo many by 3pm my day was full pack with favourite tasks, but i am going to choose only one: - Continuing to create the Heart - shaped pond in our back garden. Climbing to the top of our tallest ladder [not falling / or ladder breaking... i have experienced both] & getting into our tallest tree & altering the rope swing to ensure tree is 'ok' not harmed [need to do other side still] whilst it was still dark outside
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Post by passingtime on Jan 16, 2017 8:52:16 GMT
There were sooooo many by 3pm my day was full pack with favourite tasks, but i am going to choose only one: - Continuing to create the Heart - shaped pond in our back garden. The pond never finished off being Heart- shaped pictures of our back garden & pond exploring times ...
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Post by passingtime on Jul 1, 2017 13:16:51 GMT
Gardening
- Clearing stones off the concrete path & brushing them onto the soil path
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Post by passingtime on Jul 1, 2017 13:20:07 GMT
Garden duties- Refreshing the water in the 'mini' pond for the birds to drink / bathe
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Post by snowstorm on Jul 1, 2017 21:53:44 GMT
Like your dalmatian in pic 1, a helper with the stone clearing?
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Post by passingtime on Jul 2, 2017 11:04:09 GMT
Like your dalmatian in pic 1, a helper with the stone clearing? Yep, he 'HELPED' he started 'digging' the soil path at one point.... i said 'don't dig there!' But he was 'kinda right' ..... he made me realise the soil needed pulling back from the concrete path edge. And then later an 'insight !' i found a small block of concrete in our garden & dug a shallow hole to put it in the soil path next to the concrete edge - apparently.... it's 'crazy-paving'.... or that 'seems to be the idea' x x
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Post by passingtime on Jul 3, 2017 4:46:26 GMT
Yesterday's [02/07/17] favourite task: gardening Pruning two of my forsythia trees. These trees originated [were cuttings] from the large forsythia tree/ bush in my childhood home's front garden. (i'll see if i can find an old colour photo of this beautiful yellow flowered tree, we have some i'm sure, my mum liked her trees) forsythia in back garden by gate
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Post by passingtime on Jul 3, 2017 4:50:04 GMT
forsythia tree in back garden
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