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Some of my solar lights aren’t working

August 21, 2007 by Tricia

I think I’ve got to get some new solar lights for my garden. We actually bought some new ones this year and they’ve got a switch on them so that you can activate them, but a couple of them don’t seem to be working.

I’ll have to go out in the garden at night and figure out which ones aren’t on. It could be that the batteries just aren’t recharging in the sunlight, or there might be something wrong with the light fixtures, or for all I know maybe we simply didn’t turn on that little switch that activates the light.

I guess I should check them before I think about buying new ones huh?

I’m just disappointed. We have a fair amount of solar lights spread out throughout the garden, but when a few areas aren’t lighting up properly at night it looks funny to me.

I’m the only one bothered by it since they’re in the backyard … but still … I want the things that I buy to work.





Filed Under: Decor, Great Sites, Home and Garden, Home and Lifestyle, Home Decor, Living Green, Recreation, Shopping, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: backyard, batteries, buy, buying, garden, light, light fixture, lights, night, plants, solar lights, sunlight, turn on, work

What’s been eating my daisies?

August 19, 2007 by Tricia

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Rudbeckia fulgida – Goldsturm – Black Eyed Susan

What do you think has been munching on my black eyed susans? Do you see the big chunks missing out of some of the petals?


I took a number of photos of my daisies, but I decided to put this one up today, even thought it’s not as lovely the one I’ve got up on my photoblog at the moment simply to show you the damage.

I’m not too worried about a few chunks out of some petals. It’s not like my whole garden or even all the daisies have been attacked. I’m just curious as to what might have done this. I suspect it might have been a caterpillar of some sort.

I’ll have to try to catch the culprit in the act.

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Filed Under: Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: brown eyed susans, bug, caterpillar, chunk, daisies, Daisy, damage, damaged petals, dark eyed susans, eating, flower, Gardening, green thumb, Green Thumb Sunday, insect, nature, pest, petals, photo, photoblog, photos, sunday, yellow

Bumble Bee feeding station

August 18, 2007 by Tricia

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I took this photo last year when I noticed that there were lots of bumble bees visiting some sedum flowers that had just started to bloom.

I swear the plant must have had twenty bumble bees visiting at once. It was like a bumble bee flea market or something.

I’m actually allergic to bees, but I’m not really afraid of bumble bees.

They are very gentle creatures and are very unlikely to bother you unless you lean on one or sit one one. Wasps and hornets on the other hand … don’t make them mad!

Filed Under: Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Photo Hunters, Photography, Recreation, Tricia's Garden, Wildlife and Nature Tagged With: bee, bees, bloom, Bumble bee, creature, feeding, flower, flowers, Food, photo, photohunt, photos, plant, sedum, sedum flowers, visiting

Someone’s been in my garden

August 16, 2007 by Tricia

Do you remember I wrote about a friend from work coming over a week or so ago? I say friend, but I use that term loosely. He knocked on the door while Chris was at work and then told me that he’d pretty much been hanging around outside our house for a few hours?

It creeped me out. This guy is kind of creepy to begin with, but to hang out around our house and to have gone into our backyard a couple of times when he thought no one was home that day was just plain strange.

Well … I think he might have come back on Tuesday. The reason I think that is because some things were moved around in our backyard and now that Chris is back from visiting his family I know Chris didn’t do it.

On Tuesday, after Chris left to go to Brantford I happened to look out into the garden and I saw that my brother in law had hung towels that they’d used at the beach on the clothes line. I also notices that one of our patio chairs was no longer on the patio, but was under the clothes line. I figured that my brother in law didn’t use the clothes line properly and perhaps had stood on the chair to place the towels on the line. Strange, but whatever.

Well I went out later in the day to retrieve the towels, but I didn’t move the chair. It was still mostly on the lawn, partially on the patio.

On Wednesday I noticed that the chair was on the patio again.

Hmmm … I know I didn’t move it and I’m certain that it was on the lawn after Chris had left to go to Brantford … who the heck moved it? A couple of the other chairs appear to have moved as well.

I know it couldn’t have been my elderly neighbor. The chairs are heavy and I’m certain she wouldn’t have moved one, let alone two or three of them.

All I can figure is that Joey might have come back on Tuesday afternoon or sometime on Wednesday and maybe knocked on our door and when he didn’t get an answer hung out in our garden … again.

I haven’t been feeling well this week and I’ve spent a good portion of my time on the couch or sleeping so it’s more than possible that I missed a knock or two on the door. Actually even if I’d heard a knock it’s unlikely I would have answered the door this week since I’ve been feeling so ill.

Come to think of it our car was missing since Chris was out of town so it’s possible that a visitor might not even have knocked and just assumed no one was home.

We actually know a few people that would take the liberty of sitting in our backyard while we were away from home – mainly because they might have just dropped by from work on their lunch break since our workplace is so close, but two of them are on holiday right now so I’m pretty sure it was Joey again.

I don’t want to call this guy and ask him though. He’d take it as an invite to come over if we called him and I’d like to cut our association with him down as he’s really creepy and once you let him into your house he won’t leave! Even if you tell him to leave! Yeah … he’s a strange one. So I guess this will remain a mystery for now.

Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Socializing, The Neighborhood, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: backyard, beach, brother, Chris, clothes line, couch, creep, elderly, Family, friend, garden, holiday, home, house, hung to dry, knock, lawn, moved chair, neighbor, patio, patio chair, plants, sitting in garden, sitting in yard, sleep, sleeping, strange, towels, visit, visiting

It’s just a rose

August 15, 2007 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

Just Joey Rose

Yes, it’s just a rose, one called Just Joey. Isn’t it just lovely?

This rose doesn’t bloom far enough for my tastes. I’d be happy if it bloomed from late spring right into late autumn, but it only seems to bloom at most three times a season and only has five to ten flowers at a time.

The flowers are quite large at approximately four inches in diameter. Just Joey is also a scented rose. It’s not strong smelling, just a light pleasant smell when you are close to it.

Filed Under: Gardening, Hobbies, Recreation, Tricia's Garden, Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: bloom, flower, flowers, Just Joey Rose, Love, photo, photos, rose, scent, Scented, smell, Wordless Wednesday

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