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Beautiful Chicago Peace rose

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Last year my Love and Peace Hybrid Tea rose died and I replaced it with one of it’s relatives – Chicago Peace. I think Chicago Peace put out a few blooms last year and it’s been fairly sporadic this year, but when it does flower they are simply gorgeous:

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I still think I liked the Love and Peace better as the flowers were so darn colorful, but Chicago Peace is growing on me with her large pink blooms.

Do you grow any Hybrid Tea roses? Maybe some of the Peace roses?

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Last long weekend of summer

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I think that we are going to have the last taste of summer this weekend. It’s been a strange year weather wise, from heavy heavy snows throughout the winter (we got at least twice as much as we normally do here in Toronto) to record breaking rainfall this summer, not to mention cooler temperatures too.

Most of July and August were a lot cooler than normal. The two main benefits we got out of this odd summer were the fact that we didn’t have to water our garden as much, thus saving a lot of money on water, and we didn’t run our air-conditioner anywhere near as much as we normally do, so that should decrease our energy bill.

This weekends going to be nice. It’s supposed to be warm right into the middle of next week or longer. I suspect that this might be our last bit of warm weather though as they keep saying we’re supposed to have an early winter … yeah, what else is new after the year we’ve already had! LOL

Even though we’ve had a strange cool and wet summer it’s hard to believe that we’ll soon be preparing for Thanks Giving and picking out Halloween costumes isn’t it?

Ah well … I’m going to enjoy this weekend as best I can! We might go up to my sister in laws cottage. We’ll take the dog and let her swim in the lake. It should be a good time for all!

Plus it’s my birthday next week, so I might as well start celebrating this weekend!

Do you have plans for Labor Day Weekend?

Cat bloopers for all the animal lovers!

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Several times a week I try to go around and visit a number of blogs.

I do this either by visiting bloggers sites who have left a comment for me on one of my own sites or I log into Entrecard and visit sites that way.

As I’ve traveled around visiting blogs I’ve noticed that there are a number of sites dedicated to cats or ones that have the occasional picture of a cat on it so I figure there are a lot of cat lovers out there.

I thought of all the people who love cats or who are animal lovers when I found this funny cat blooper video and I thought I’d share it with you.

Cat bloopers

What was your favorite part? I think mine was the cat and the bear!

We had a little outdoor get together on Saturday

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Saturday was such a beautiful day here in Toronto that I brought my laptop outside in the late afternoon so that I could enjoy the day, the garden and get some work done while I was at it. Needless to say I didn’t get much work done!

We’d been expecting a friend to come over for the weekend. He was going to arrive on Friday night and spend the whole weekend, but his parents got word that they could move into their retirement home so he pushed back his visit by a day so he could help them move. Unfortunately the moving went into overtime and he wasn’t able to make it to our house for the visit.

Since Chris is on holidays this week he really wanted to do something on Saturday so he ended up inviting his cousin and our 15 year old God son over for dinner.

That of course is why I didn’t get any work done! My god son loves movies and he talked my ear off for oh … 6 hours about all his favorite movies, actors, scenes from movies and even brought over part of his movie collection so that he could show us movie trailers!

It was all a little too much movie talk for me, but I did come up with an idea for him. I suggested that he start a blog and write movie reviews. He basically memories all the lines and scenes in movies (oh did I mention he’s legally blind?) so he’d be a great reviewer … or at least I think so after hearing how he describes movies all these years.

In the rare non-movie discussion that I got to participate in I learned of a new health drink by Orovo that I might try. It might help with my Crohns, certainly it probably won’t hurt to try it.

We ended up having dinner outdoors. Chris, his cousin and I had steak and our God son had hamburgers. We all had fresh corn on the cob as well (not great for my Crohn’s but I love it). It was a great dinner.

Oh … I also had a couple of beers that night. I don’t drink much in part because of all the medications I’m on and also because it just hits me too hard. So by the time our guests left around Midnight I was feeling tipsy and tired! Guess I’m a cheap date!

Hows the weather in your area? We have a cool and rainy summer, but the end of last week and most of the weekend was fairly nice (we’re back to too cool again) so that’s why I had to take advantage of Saturday being such a nice day. Who knows when it might be nice enough to sit outside into the night entertaining guests.

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