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We were so lazy on our vacation!

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Chris was on vacation for the last two weeks and I just realized this morning that we didn’t even do the laundry once during his StayCation. LOL

It’s ok, we’re not smelly … we have lots of clothes. I guess I’ll have to put a few loads on tomorrow though!

We don’t have a dishwasher and we even managed to go several days without doing the dishes! By the time we did them on Saturday we had enough to fill both kitchen sinks.

I guess we were being lazy. We were going out and doing summery things in the city – like the hike I described in my Horses in the City post. We also had lots of drop in guests or went to visit relatives and friends during Chris’ vacation so we were busy, but in a relaxed kind of way. I guess that’s why my posts slowed down for a while too.

What did you do for your summer vacation – if you took one?





Horses in the city

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On Saturday Chris and I had a leisurely day. No plans, just enjoying a nice warm summer day.

Late in the afternoon Chris decided that we should go to a place called “Sunnybrook Farm”. It’s part of a park and there’s a horse stable there and I guess members can ride the horses. We just went there to observe. We wanted to take our puppy to see the horses. We thought she’d enjoy seeing a different kind of animal and I think we were right.

here’s one of the horse that was wandering around in the open coral.

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I just love horses and I must admit that I haven’t seen one in person in a very long time. We stood watching the horses for quite a while, then we went for a hike in the adjoining park, through the forest and even into a creek with our dog.

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That’s Chris and Midnight stumbling over rocks in the water. At least they got to cool off! It was a very hot day.

Leaking shower head – drip, drip, drip

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Late last night after Chris had gone to bed and the dog was fast asleep I started hearing this funny noise … blop, blop …. bloop … I’d been watching TV in the living room so I turned the TV volume down and got up to investigate the sound.

As it turned out it was the the upstairs shower head that was leaking. That makes two shower faucets that we have to replace. The one in the basement has always leaked. Chris is the main user of the basement shower and he’s tried to fix that leak several times, even new shower heads don’t help.

So what he does for the basements leaking shower head is to turn off the water supply to the shower after he’s used it. Luckily the water control for that shower is easily accessible since our basement isn’t finished.

I think the upstairs leak will be easier to fix just by replacing the shower head or a washer, but the basement is a problem. We’re planning on renovating the basement sometime in the near future and we’ll be redoing the plumbing when we do it so we might be able to get by with Chris’ fix for a while longer.

Don’t you hate leaky taps and shower heads?

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?

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