{"id":3046,"date":"2010-07-06T10:54:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T14:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/?p=3046"},"modified":"2010-07-06T10:54:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T14:54:30","slug":"day-53-small-wonders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=3046","title":{"rendered":"Day 54 – Small wonders…"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year I made a bigger effort than in past years to try to pretty up the outside of the house. \u00a0I am by no means a gardiner. \u00a0Not even a little bit. \u00a0My skills are very lacking in that department, but I am trying and I am learning. \u00a0We were lucky to have\u00a0Grandma Dianna here for a week who helped transform our yard from lacking to lovely in just a couple of days.<\/p>\n

One of my simple attempts was to buy one of those pre-planted flower pots to hang in the front of our house. \u00a0Jaia picked the pink one. \u00a0We brought it home and hung it up. \u00a0A little water, a little sunshine and it was good to go. \u00a0Or so I thought. \u00a0Despite my efforts, the plant just wasn’t doing well. \u00a0The flowers were dying quickly and falling off and the leaves were yellowing. \u00a0It wasn’t pretty. \u00a0But it turns out there was a very good reason for the demise f the plant.<\/p>\n

So in order to try to save it, I headed out with my scissors in hand and began snipping off the dead and dying bits. \u00a0As I proceeded to turn the pot to get to the other side, a bird flapped it’s wings from inside the pot and flew out. \u00a0It scared the bejeezus out of me and I let out a high pitched scream which in turn, scared the bejeezus out of Dan and Jaia.<\/p>\n

As you may know, we are no strangers to feathered friends<\/a> in our yard. \u00a0But it never occurred to me that birds would make their homes in those pots. \u00a0But that is definitely what was going on. \u00a0Every time we took a peek, there she was – a beautiful grey dove – looking back at us.<\/p>\n

This morning though, we got the most lovely surprise. \u00a0It seems our dove is a new mama.<\/p>\n

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My dad tells me that having a dove nest on your property is good luck. \u00a0Looking around, I’d have to say that I think he’s right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year I made a bigger effort than in past years to try to pretty up the outside of the house. \u00a0I am by no means a gardiner. \u00a0Not even a little bit. \u00a0My skills are very lacking in that department, but I am trying and I am learning. \u00a0We were lucky to have\u00a0Grandma Dianna […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[36,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}