You are in My World Now

You are here: Home / 2009 / Archives for November 2009

Archives for November 2009

We’re thinking of putting a pond in our small garden

by

I was just wondering if any of you have a pond in your backyard? If so – did you install it yourself?

My husband and I have a very nice backyard garden with raised garden beds made with stackable formed stones. It looks great. We even separated our garden into two areas – a patio entertaining area separated by an oval garden bed, and then the back area surrounded by the majority of all of our garden plants.

The only major garden feature that’s missing is a pond, and my husband has always wanted us to have a pond back there. So … I’m thinking about it.

The trouble is that we have a really small yard to begin with. it’s only something like 20 feet wide and 35 feet long and with three to four foot deep garden beds going around the edges of the yard there isn’t much space left over.

If we do put in a pond it will have to be a small one. I guess I’ll have a look at pond supplies and see what I can come up with. Perhaps a small premade plastic pond would work?

Any ideas? I know that making a pond isn’t all that hard, but getting one to fit into a small established garden … that might be hard!





It doesn’t seem like the end of November

by

Considering that we’re nearing the end of November, I’d say we’ve been having pretty good weather here in Toronto. I mean, by this time last year we’d already had a small snow or two. Melted quickly of course!

I’m not saying it’s warm here, but the temps have been slightly higher than normal in the last couple of weeks. At this rate I don’t think we’ll have our first real snow until December. Hopefully it’s not a huge storm!

I still have a bit of yard work to do before the snow falls and stays. I’ve got to remove some plant leaves and stems, cut down the huge sunflowers in the front boulevard and just generally tidy up the yard. Oh and I have to bring in the patio sets outdoor cushions. They’re weather proofed, but I still don’t want them out in the extreme cold of winter – surely that can’t be good for them.

Has the weather been decent in your area? If so, do you still have outdoor chores that need to be done?

Too many photos, too little time to edit!

by

I finally finished going over all the pictures I took this summer. What a job! We had a busy summer with more house guests than usual, and somehow I just never found the time to go over all the pictures that I took of the things we did this summer.

Of course, I transferred the pictures from our digital cameras to the computer, but I didn’t spend time editing them like I usually do.

As a result I have several folders of photos that need to be cropped or resized. I don’t know why, but I hate editing my photos! It’s not like it’s hard to do, but I take a LOT of pictures … so it’s very time consuming and I never seem to have a lot of spare time! Maybe it’s a good thing that this summer was kind of cold and rainy … I didn’t take as many photos as I normally do!

Do you edit your digital photos? If you do, do you enjoy doing it, or is it a task that you put off like I do?

BTW if you’d like to see some of my photos check out my photo blog Breath of Life.

I hate being stuck at home on medical leave

by

I’ve been off work due to Crohn’s for going on five years now. It’s tough being on medical leave from a job you love for so long. I’m sick of feeling sick all of the time and frankly I’m more than a little bored.

Unfortunately it doesn’t look like I’ll be returning to work any time soon. I’m just not getting better. I tried a new medication this month that was supposed to help lower my pain levels and of course I ended up getting hives and having other reactions to it … so, so much for that. Too bad too, because I think it was helping a bit!

So now my doctor wants me to put in a new disability appeal. I did that the first year I was off work but they turned me down, but now that I’ve been off for so long my doctor thinks I might have a chance at getting disability coverage from work … so I might give it a try.

It was so disappointing last time when I was turned down though. That’s one reason why I put off trying again. So wish me luck!

Need a great wedding gift idea

by

We just found out recently that my niece will be getting married at the end of the year. She had been planning to get married next June, but her fiance joined the armed forces and he’ll be shipping out in January (I think) so they pushed the wedding date up.

So now I’m trying to figure out what to get them for a wedding gift. Of course, we’ve had a lot of financial problems this year so while I want to get them something very nice I also have to try to keep the expenses down.

At least it’s a good time of year to be looking for a gift since there will be lots of Christmas sales coming up! No Black Friday sales here in Canada of course – since we already had Thanksgiving in October (and we don’t have a big sale associated with it unlike our US counterparts).

They are just starting out so I guess they need just about everything … well everything but Couture Jewelry since my niece grew up with a mom and aunt me) in the jewelery trade. LOL

Any good wedding gift ideas for a couple just starting out?

Meta

Pages

Connect with Us