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Potted plants on my front porch

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Each year, in early summer, I spend some time planting annuals in large pots to put on or near my front porch.

I also do all of the hanging baskets and window boxes at the same time. It’s quite a chore as I use window boxes along the side of my driveway between my house and the neighbors. The boxes are on the ground, but they work well to create a large display of flowers in the otherwise dark driveway. (I plant impatiens in those planter boxes).

I’m quite happy with my flower arrangements this year. Here’s some pictures of the planters closest to my front door.

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As you can see the planters are filled with Petunias, Geranium, Impatiens and Spikes.

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Having a potted planter near the front steps isn’t necessary, but I think one or two well placed planters help make the front of a house look more welcoming.

Do you use planters at the front of your house or on your steps?

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Our home theater system isn’t working

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I’m so ticked off. Our home theater system still doesn’t work. Every time we try to turn it on it says “overload” yet we’ve tried unplugging just about everything that the Home Theater system is connected to (excluding the TV) and it still says overload.

At first we thought there might be a fuse inside that had blown, but now I think it’s just the machine that’s not working right and this is it’s way of telling us.

So the other day Chris and I were in Costco (that’s like Sam’s Club) to do a little shopping and I suggested that we look at new home theater systems. They only had three to choose from and we didn’t really like any of the choices so I guess we’ll keep looking.

I really miss using the home theater system. Chris loved to use it when watching sports – particularly hockey. I could do without that, but it was nice when we’d watch a movie, dvd or when I wanted to listen to music. We had it hooked up to or 200 CD disk player so with the surround sound it was perfect if you were having a party or wanted to listen to music for hours without changing CDs.

I guess we’ll eventually get a new Home Theater system or figure out what really is wrong with our current one. Sometime in the future, when we renovate the basement, the wide screen TV, home theater system, PVR, DVD player, DVD recorder, Disk player and even the home theater seating will all move to the basement. I want that to be our rec room area and as long as our basement stays dry (crossing fingers as it really is a dry basement) it would be a great area for settling in and watching a great movie.

Has your home theater system ever given you and overload message? Ours is a Panasonic. If so, what did you do about it?

Our Lab puppy sure has grown!

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Wordless Wednesday

Midnight at 15 weeks old:

Midnight our Lab puppy

Midnight – a day short of 11 months old (44 weeks)

Midnight relaxing on couch

When she was only 15 months old she barely took up one cushion on our couch and less than a third of the width. Now that she’s 11 months old and much much bigger she takes up more than one couch cushion (more like half the couch when she stretches out!) and almost the full width of the cushion.

BTW she was watching TV while chewing on a toy in both pictures. She loves sitting on the couch and watching TV with us.

She’s grown a lot in the 7+ months that we’ve had her, yet she’s still a little on the small side for a Lab of her age. That’s ok though … she’s very strong. I can’t imagine how much worse it would be to be dragged around by her on a walk if she were even bigger!

She’s cute though! Or I think she is, anyway!

Midnight smiling for camera

My little rose garden

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I grow roses in my front yard and back yard gardens. My front yard is very tiny … there’s maybe only a 10 by 8 foot plot of grass and I have that bordered with raised flower beds.

These are some of the lovely roses that I grow in my front yard:

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This is Iceberg. It’s an easy to grow Floribunda rose.

Another pretty rose that grows against the front of my house is The Fairy. It produces clusters of tiny pink roses almost constantly throughout the summer.

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This rose is Yves Piaget. It’s a Romantica rose. I love it’s full double petals and delicate scent.

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My Morden Sunrise Explorer Rose is doing very well this year. It always has lovely blooms throughout the growing season, but this year it has twice as many flowers as it usually does. It’s quite happy and as you can see from the photo below it’s also quite pretty.

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I have a total of nine roses growing in my small front flower beds along with peonies, daylilies, blue fescue grass, oriental poppy, bee balm, pincushion flowers, hostas, sedum, Russian sage, and many more perennials, plus several kinds of spring bulbs, and annuals such as petunia and impatiens.

You can see a picture of my front yard on my gardening blog – I know the flower beds sound like they must be packed with plants just from the list of the plants I can remember off the top of my head above, but it really doesn’t look too full. Take a look.

Do you garden just in one specific part of your yard (front or back) or do you create flower beds where ever you can make space for them like me)?

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We’ll be taking a holiday soon!

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Chris is off work the last two weeks of August so we’re trying to plan a short vacation.

We don’t have a lot of extra cash at this time so mostly our vacation will be a staycation, however we’ve been thinking of taking a short trip to Niagara Falls for a few days … perhaps a weekend trip although it won’t matter exactly when we do it as we’ll have 14 days to chose from. Perhaps I can find a better hotel package deal for a Tuesday or Wednesday night stay rather than a weekend stay?

We haven’t been on a holiday on our own for a long time. For some reason we always end up going to visit relatives – ie trip to Vancouver or joining friends rather than being on our own. Hmmm maybe now that we’ll actually have a vacation just for the two of us perhaps I should try to find some cheap lingerie. By cheap I mean inexpensive … not truly cheap!

More than likely we’ll be bringing our dog with us soI guess we won’t truly be alone, but close enough.

Did you take a vacation this summer? What did you do?

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