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It seems like everyone is trying to sell their home in our area

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Over the last few months it seems like 30% to 50% of our neighbors have thought about selling their homes. I’m amazed at all of the “for sale” signs that I see as I walk through the neighborhood with our dog.

The house immediately beside me and the one on the corner (two houses down) are still up for sale. Both have been up for sale for about a month. The housing market here in Toronto has apparently slowed down a bit … not drastically, but there’s been a few articles recently that say it’s slowing down. Hopefully my neighbors homes sell soon. I’m curious as to who our new neighbors will end up being. Hopefully we’ll get along ok!

If the other houses that I see up for sale on neighboring streets are sold soon they’ll be a convoy of moving trucks roaming the neighborhood soon! LOL .. like that will happen.

Are there any homes for sale close to your house? Are they selling slower than they normally do?





Pretty Clematis Seed Heads

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Some of my Clematis vines are putting out their last few blooms of the season, while others have started to develop beautiful seed heads on the remnants of old flowers. I think I almost like the seed heads as much as I do the flowers!

Clematis seed head

I can’t remember the name of this clematis at the moment, but most of my clematis vines develop seed heads that look like this one.

The most unusual clematis seed head comes from my hybrid Seiboldiana. It’s large bluish purple flowers turn into seed heads that look like balls of twine!

clematis hybrid Seiboldiana seed heads and flower

I just love plants that are beautiful to look at throughout all of their stages of life and growth. Don’t you?

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I seriously thought about getting a treadmill today

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Chris and I were out earlier today doing our regular weekend shopping and while we were in a department store to get Chris a new pair of pants for work, I wandered around until I came across a sale on exercise equiptment.

Good thing our money’s tight right now or else I would have tried talking Chris into letting me buy one of the treadmills that were on sale. Yeah, I know … we have an elliptical machine and I’ve been using it again in the last few weeks, but a treadmill would be a good piece of exercise equiptment to have too. Chris would like it better than the elliptical, I’m sure.

Heck, I’ve even heard of people training their dogs to use the treadmill. That would certainly come in handy in the winter on a day when there was a big snow storm … ’cause I don’t take the dog for long walks through streets and sidewalks covered in un-shoveled snow … it’s just too hard to walk in! Midnight and I could both get a work out on the treadmill on snow days. LOL

Do you have any fitness equiptment in your home? Do you use it or has it become a place to hang your laundry?

Our name must be on a telemarketing list, grrr

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I don’t know what it is lately, but in the past few weeks we keep getting calls, like 10 a day, from marketing companies.

These companies are asking us to participate in surveys, offering us free products -in the form of “You just won a …”, or they are from auto insurance comparison companies and so on.

Our name must have been added to some list. We do have our name on a National “Do not call” list, but I suspect some of these calls are coming from other Countries- like the US … and that’s how they are skirting our “do not call” request.

How many calls a day or week do you get from marketers?

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