Monday, 24 February 2025

Monday Chit Chat

 I picked up this pretty primrose at the grocery store. Once it's milder out I'll transplant it but for now it brightens up my sunroom.


 My Thanksgiving Cactus is blooming again. Not as abundantly as in November but still doing its best!


 A bouquet for the table.


 The latest puzzle that we finished on the weekend.


 Eldest brought an early Easter gift!


 That's it for me on this lovely Monday morning. All our snow is gone. The temperature this morning when I got up was 8C.  We had a pleasant walk around the lake. Blackbirds are beginning to sing their Oka-lee song. A Northern Flicker was drumming on a lamp post.  Here's what the internet has to say about that:

 The males search for a hollow tree, an old telephone pole, or even a chimney with metal flashing or a metal top, to drum out their mating call, telling all the other male flickers nearby that this is their territory, and saying “have a look at me baby” to all the females.

 

I hope your week is off to a good start.  Thanks for visiting.   GM

 

 

15 comments:

  1. My cactus is attempting to flower again too!

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  2. My cactus is full of flower after doing so well in October and November. A lovely splash of colour.

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  3. Lovely flowers, lucky you no snow it will be a while before ours melts.
    Cathy

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  4. Such beautiful flowers in your post.
    Have a good week.

    All the best Jan

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  5. The primrose sure is pretty. Love the color. No blooms on my cactus but it is doing fine. :)
    We had a sunny day and it was wonderful!!!

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  6. Such a pleasure to see the flowers. I have not seen primrose in our stores yet. I always buy one and plant it later, but they never survive here. Still, hope springs eternal.

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  7. Our temperature today was 90 degrees warmer than it was last Monday! Isn't that crazy? I hope it means spring is truly on it's way. Your primrose is so pretty and so is the cactus.
    Blessings,
    Betsy

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  8. All your flowers are so beautiful! And that's just the kind of puzzle I like!!!

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  9. Your flowers are so pretty. I had to look up what a Norther Flicker was, we don't get those in England. I enjoyed my blog visit today :) Have a lovely week.

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  10. This pretty primrose will be a nice guest in your garden for the following time. The cactus is flourishing two times: what a sign of best treatment! Flowers and love are always around you, humans and animals 🎀

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  11. Very pretty flowers and congratulations on finishing the puzzle. The doormat says spring!!

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  12. Flowers are such a treat in winter.
    We had a severe windstorm over night with debris everywhere and lots of power outages. The rest of the top of of the madrone tree came down and took out the neighbor's power. There will be a lot of clean up.

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  13. So many pretty flowers at your house. I am amazed that your Thanksgiving cactus is blooming again. What a nice bonus!
    Good job on the puzzle. Love your new doormat.

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  14. Your flowers are beautiful. Just the bit of cheer that one needs this time of year.

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