Jeff@709🫐

@jeffkeefe.bsky.social

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CYQX Gander, 🇨🇦 Dad, non-practicing lawyer, family mediator. Blue Jays baseball. Happiest in a garden with a ball game on the radio.

A pot of turkey soup on the stove top that has b made better by adding leftover gravy. There is a ladle in the soup.
A copy of Keegan Matheson's book, The Franchise, on a Toronto Blue Jays throw blanket.
A plate with two cookies and a glass of milk for Santa, and a gingerbread house in front of a fireplace.
A piece of wet brown cardboard that was in a compost bin. The cardboard has a piece of white fungi that is fuzzy at the bottom and has two fingers or peaks.
A thick group of canes that have many red ripe and ripening raspberries. What you can't see is just how delicious those berries taste when picked fresh and eaten while still warm.
A small round Early Canada Improved watermelon growing in a backyard greenhouse. There is a sharpie marker for scale that shows the watermelon to be about half as long as the marker.
A small bowl of freshly picked wild Newfoundland low bush blueberries and 10 raspberries. About just as many were claimed by the "pickers tax" and never made it to the bowl 😋
A group of 6 & 7 year old girls sitting on a folding bench while cheering on their teammates and waiting for their turn to be subbed into the match
A thermometer in a compost bin showing a temperature of 58 degrees Celsius 136 Fahrenheit.
A bed of yellow and red tulips that are just about ready to bloom. In the foreground is an old fashioned bleeding heart.
Yellow daffodils blooming through woodchip mulch. Some crocus leaves are in front.
A handful of leaf mold that's been sifted and is ready to be used in the garden.
Canadian icons and friends to all, Mr. Dressup, Casey and Finnigan standing next to Casey's treehouse.
Purple and yellow snow crocus pushing through a snow covered lawn.
A mostly brown patch of lawn with yellow and purple snow crocus beginning to open thus signaling the beginning of the spring in Canadian zone 4.
Shoots of rhubarb crowns poking through the recently frozen ground.
A pruner about to cut off a dead raspberry cane. There are smaller first year canes that will be left to bear fruit this year. There is a light covering of snow on the ground.
A bowl of hearty homemade turkey soup and saltine crackers
A decorated gingerbread house, gingerbread man along with a glass of milk and a cookie left for Santa in front of a fireplace with stocking hung from the mantle.
A Princess Holly bush with green leaves and red berries
A pair of handknit woolen mittens that have index fingers. These were traditionally worn by hunters in Newfoundland and Labrador as they kept your hands warm while allowing you to pull the trigger on a rifle. These are red with a black diamond pattern on the back.
Many bags of leaves are stacked in front of a black compost bin.
Looking out of hotel windows to see air conditioning compressors and mechanical units. Beyond that, there is thick fog.
A medium sized Holiday Cactus in a brown pot is sitting on a mahogany table. There are many fuschia colored buds and open flowers.
Daffodil bulbs equally spaced in egg cartons ready to be planted.
Four bulbs of white porcelain garlic that was harvested and dried several months ago, lying on top of the soil where they will be planted.