September 27, 2022 Wed
high of 13C
Looks cloudy outside today. I have check one of the upcoming job at st andrew circle and im headed back to the office for more catching up work to do.
Yesterday tuesday, there was a sunny break and I was able to do some gardening.
The Southland Street gardens have beautiful blooms, of while Rose of Sharon.
sept 24, 2022
saturday
18C high temps, sunny day
woke up late, or early, 12 midnight. did lots of housework and in the afternoon, i did some work. planting some sunchokes, cleaning some areas for kyle too
Friday
23 September 2022
Ottawa City, Ontario, Canada
Sunrise: 6:50am
high: 13C
I can feel the cold air, it is currently 5degrees C, so I need my jacket to go for a walk and bring my food scraps to my composting pile.
I might be able to harvest the pumpkin from yesterday before heading out to work.
One of my favorite things to do is to go for a walk in the morning in the fields. Well, i better bundle up because it will be colder these day.
One good thing about fall: there are vegetables to harvest and weeds stop growing. So, it is thanksgiving for all the bounty and reward for all the hardwork
We will be servicing a garden in Westboro today - Roosevelt Street. ( moved to Monday)
I did harvest some sunchokes for replanting. I have a big mature field in front of my house, so I like to experiment if I can use a new batch as windblock by the greenhouse wooden frame.
It was a sunny day and my body was out of whack - I slept at 4pm.
Thursday 22 Sept 2022
Ottawa City, Ontario, Canada
Its 14C, and its officially first day of Fall, September 22nd
Drop off Ken at Kanata work.
Meet Heather at Carlington Community Garden -shed is finally in.
Its a warm sunny day here in Ottawa.
Ettrick gardens - Phlox are cut down, starting to mildew.
Rideau Bend - The pond area is cleaned out and around the gazebo.The long garden along the garage, spread the mulch. The yellowing hostas are cut.
Master Gardener in person meeting at the churchm 7pm
at farmers way, will continue digging some composting and planting some sunchokes.
Despite Storm Derecho hitting us this summer, 21 May 2022 - we manage to plant some pumpkins and sunflowers.
Here they are, the fruit of our labors!!!
Dad
After 12 years hiatus, I was able to come home to my birthplace. A bittersweet trip, it coincides my dads 1 year death anniversary. I was not able to come home in August 2021, the COVID was as it heights, and it was a tough year for me.
Dad has been my connection to home, losing that makes me feel helpless and it severed a very huge part of my identity.
I have not process grief well, nor do I experienced how to properly handle it. Each of us really journey this world without a guide and we figure out ourselves in relation to anything quite by trial and error.
My best friend Jay died in 2021, same year as my dad. I neglected our whole community garden project, knowing that I was not in right frame of mind to take on anything at all.
I saw my nephews tinkering few motorcyles are the house. I took a deep breath knowing that my dad lives on within us.
There are estate taxes to do, paperworks to sign. The month flew by and I just coast along, maybe carrying my grief and processing what has been home to me. This hits me that this is not my home anymore, I used to live here, but passing by. I know I once live here, but I have moved on for the last 30 years and made Ottawa City my home.
All my kids were born in Ottawa City, Ontario. I struggled for years a single mom, but I also feel this is have a very careful choice to live here despite the wider and bigger provinces of Canada. I settled my roots here, and it seems coming home to the Philippines just connect me to the old trunk that I have laid my life foundation.
It was a strange trip, it may take me awhile to process it, but it did give me a glipmse of life itself, in my own identity, and interesting conversations with me mom. I sense my anger, yet I feel at peace, some kind of understanding about who my mom is and why things happened to me as I grew up. I felt an amazing priviledge of knowing my mom - a little bit more. And she is dedicated to be just that -mom.
I have take my birth certificate with me, and with that, I will be able to get my Philippine citizenship and passport. So, it will be a new beginning as well.
My greatest hope it that I will have enough time to tell my story, as it is, whenever I get the chance.
