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Stella’s a little wet

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Yellow day lily

I decided to add this site to Green Thumb Sunday … You know I take a lot of photos – why not, eh?

This is a Stella Dora day lily. As with many of my flower photos these days I happened to take this while outside on a rainy day a couple of weeks ago. The petals are covered in water droplets.

I think everyone has Stella Dora. They might be a bit of a stereotype, but they are pretty, they re-bloom and they are easy flowers to grow. I have a few other types of day lilies as well and I enjoy each and every one of their blooms.

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.





New furniture and extra room for guests

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I don’t have much spare time these days, but when I do have the time I occasionally visit online stores looking for furniture that might suit our house when we finally have all of our renovations finished.

Right now I’m thinking of what kind of furniture to get for our basement when we are finished renovating it. I’m not sure we’ll have room but I’d like to have a spare bedroom down there. Most definitely it will be a recreation room with a TV and at the very least a pull out couch for guests or if I ever get back to work, a place that I could sleep that would be cool during the day after I’ve done a night shift.

One of the sites I’m looking at right now is Century furniture. They have a very nice selection of household furnishings. Heck … I might even get a new couch for our living room and put our current couches and recycling chair in the basement. That could work too. Well except for the fact that our current living room couches are not pull out couches.

After living in such a small apartment for some many years and having sleep over guests drop by all the time I like having spare rooms (we do now) and if possible a pull out couch. The more comfortable sleeping room the better. I don’t like sleeping on the floor when I visit someones house – I will if I have to of course, so why should my guests?

Do you have a spare room or do you have a pull out couch that comes in handy when you have guests?

Turn a photo into a canvas wall hanging

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I don’t know how many of you read my other blog Tricia’s Musings but I’ve been talking about a great company called Canvas On Demand on that site.

Why? Well I visited their site and discovered that I could use their service to have one of my favorite photos printed on canvas.

When I saw the site and read more about their service I thought to myself “Wow, getting wedding photos printed on canvas would make great anniversary gifts”, not only that, any kind of favorite photo printed on canvas would make a great gift for friends or family or it could be used in your own home.

So I uploaded one of my favorite photos and in less than 10 days they sent me my new canvas! Take a look:

Canvas on demand - Monarch butterfly

Isn’t that gorgeous? I’m thrilled!

The company is great too! They emailed me and kept in touch with me throughout the whole process. I’m very happy with their service and their product.

Now I just have to decide where to put my new canvas!

Slacking on the Celebrity news front

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I just realized that I haven’t been writing in my Celebrity blog Celebrity Scoop at all! I used to write at least three posts a day there, but in the last few weeks I’ve barely written anything.

I think I’ve just been too busy with my other sites, and well web hosting woes. Actually I think the web hosting woes are the main cause of my not getting over to some of my blogs in a more timely manner.

Now that my hosting problems have hopefully been resolved I should be getting over there more often – daily I hope!

So if you like keeping up on celebrity gossip please do drop by, I promise there will be something interesting to read when you visit.

I wish I’d planned our patio better

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When we created our lovely garden and patio we were planning more for the garden than anything else. While I love our garden I often wish that I’d made our patio area at least 15 square feet larger than it is. Why? Well, we have plenty of room for our really nice patio set, and we have garden beds around two sides of the patio creating a nice intimate feel … but we have no room for our barbecue!

Our barbecue is in the driveway chained to the wall. That’s where we cook. Then we either bring our food to our patio table or back inside if it’s too hot or if it’s raining.

We need to create an outdoor kitchen. With that extra space that I really should have planned for when we landscaped our yard we could have had a built in barbecue or even a stone stove. We could have even had cabinets to keep our various utensils and BBQ supplies in.

Perhaps I’ll redo our patio area one day. All I’d really have to do would be to move one raised garden bed back a few feet. Not as easy as it sounds but quite possible.

Do you have a landscaped yard? If you do, did you plan an outdoor kitchen into it?

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