Welcome! Effy Wild's daily blog along starts today. I've been looking forward to it all day (well since last week!) and read a few blogs earlier and commented on them. But the day got away and now it's 10:50pm my time and I'm just posting! I think I might try a list tonight as it may be faster. 1. My day got away from me in the loveliest of ways really--a whirligig of connecting with friends, offering rides and arranging lunches, accepting offers of rides together to a retirement party in a couple of weeks, witnessing and giving requested suggestions through email, exchanging messages and an actual physical in person lunch. 2. The lunch was lovely. Ironic but lovely. It had originally been 4 coworker friends but 2 of them couldn't make it at the last minute. So it was Carol and I at the Friendship Gardens (haha!). Carol and I see each other all the time at work as we work in the same building--it's the other two coworkers who we don't see so that was the funny part. But we still had a good chat. 3. We ate at a picnic table in the Chinese pavilion in the Gardens. I love it there. My hubby's parents (from Hong Kong--Rob was born there) and their friends were responsible for building the pavilion which is striking and easily spotted from the main avenue running past the park. When we could get together outside last year, I met friends there for lunches then spent the cold winter driving past the pavilion, warmed by echoes of our summer laughter. 4. While we were chatting, two small birds swooped together close by then one of them flew into the pavilion. It fluttered by the top, trying to escape through the ceiling. Carol and I called directions to it. "Pause. Look. Feel the breeze. Fly lower." It found a perch and we studied it, originally thinking it was a sparrow but it was much smaller, flecked and with greenish wings. It chirped a little differently than a regular house sparrow. Finally it flapped by the ceiling some more before taking a determined low swoop through one of the open sides between two red columns. Carol and I whooped and cheered.
5. The Friendship Gardens is a city park in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada which has pretty flower beds, gorgeous shady trees and two small man-made lakes with lots of ducks and dragon flies. It has also has over a dozen statues and monuments erected by different ethnic groups . Every time I'm there, I like to walk around the park and look at the monuments. Today as I walked to one statue, I was amazed at the springiness of the grass and how it dampened my bare toes in my sandals. Refreshing. 6. My friend Jo-Anne and I exchanged many messages today about our lovely day together yesterday (see previous post, my last Wild Musing with Renee Magnusson). She sent me a photo of the wild sunflowers that clustered at the bottom of some wooden steps that we had noticed yesterday. And I sent her my daily picture and haiku which was of her china tea cup and about our time together. (see end of this post) 7. I love it when my haiku and pictures compliment each other. I wrote this yesterday too. It must be true! Lol. 8. Rob brought dinner home from Swiss Chalet. A nice surprise. And since I was sat outside on the back deck when he came home from work, that was where we ate. So peaceful. All the neighbours were quiet and the air lay soft and warm but not too hot. Rob rarely spends time outside, in fact this is the first time he's eaten outside all year so it was quite a monumental moment. And a delicious supper that neither of us had to cook. 9. I've had a nagging, almost pulsating pain in my left side for the past hour. We'll call it gas! Lol! 10. I used the little sliver of Ivory soap in the bathroom to wash my hands and pondered which soap I'd chose to use next. I love having an assortment of different soaps and am thinking maybe i can let go of two of my more special soaps, both strong patchouli. One I keep on my bedside table which I realise is a funny place for soap but I'm so in love with the scent and find it a comfort to sniff it. The other I bought in Arizona when visiting my son Dane last year. It's called Summer of Love and has a hand drawn picture of a VW van with daisies all over it on the sleeve. Maybe I can let go of one of them and actually use it. I can find other deliciously scented soap, I'm sure and i do have a little mountain of LUSH gift cards which may buy me some Karma soap. So maybe, just maybe I can choose one to put in the bathroom to celebrate September. Maybe... Day 244 #100daysofsybwriting #100daysofhaiku Lake breeze tangles hair tea, sharing and laughter summer’s umbrella
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Helga
9/2/2021 12:19:36 am
Lovely to get to know you as part of the blog along.
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Sue Blott
9/2/2021 12:29:12 am
Helga, thank you! It was indeed a beautiful day. Looking forward to getting to know you too. :-)
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Renée
9/2/2021 02:31:41 am
Oh I reallly enjoyed this wander through your day! ♥️
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Gina Maloney
9/2/2021 02:58:33 am
Oh that cuppa tea looks yummy. What a beautiful bit of musing...
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How lovely to catch up with you again. What a lovely list of things you've achieved today. The park sounds amazing, and having the birds fly nearby, wow. I had a squirrel in my garden yesterday, cute but a pest, I believe he was burying hazelnut seeds, next year I shall be fighting them as well as the oak trees he has planted!
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