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Man I take a lot of photos!

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I can’t believe how many photos I can take at one time with my camera! It’s amazing.

I often take my camera with me when we go downtown, to the beach, when I walk around my backyard looking at my garden and I often pull it out these days when my puppy is doing something terribly cute. Hey what can I say, I like to capture the various stages of my garden throughout the year and well my puppy is only going to be a puppy for a while longer now.

I think I need to get a larger memory card for my camera though. I’ve got a 1 gb memory card but I’m thinking of getting one of those 2 gb micro sd cards. Actually they are a good price right now so maybe I’ll even get two of them!

As I said when I’ve got my camera in my hands I just keep clicking. It’s not unusual for me to be out in my garden with my camera for 15 or 20 minutes and to come back inside to discover that I’ve taken 250 photos! No wonder it takes me a while to get them from my camera to my flickr account … I’ve got to resize and then upload all those photos each time!

Do you take a lot of photos with your digital camera? How big is your memory card?





Our old house

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This weeks theme is Old Fashioned

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This weeks photo theme is old fashioned and well … my house is of an old fashioned North American style since it was build in 1927.

When we first moved into the neighborhood we met a man who lived across the street at the corner house. He remembered the houses being build and in fact had lived in his house as a child! He moved away as a young adult but bought the house when it was available later in life. So he lived most of his life in that home!

We got a lot of stories about the old neighborhood and what the area used to be prior to housing going up. Basically it was farm land. I guess back then, this was the outskirts of the city, but these days it’s almost downtown!

The photo above was taken a couple of years ago when my husband and I, with the help of some friends, were putting a skylight in the roof of our enclosed porch. That’s why there’s a big hole in the roof … we were only half done the job at that point!

Our house is triple brick and the walls are plaster and lathe – with no insulation! Luckily the house was very well build and it seems warm enough even on very cold winter days.

BTW see our narrow driveway? Our car barely fits in it and it’s a compact car! Believe it or not that’s a shared driveway. We only own half of it! Luckily our older neighbor (Sofie my stalker) doesn’t have a car and doesn’t mind us hogging the driveway all the time. Otherwise we’d have to make a deal with the neighbors to use the driveway half the time or something. No wonder I sometimes think about getting a Smart Car … it would probably fit our half of the driveway easily!

I hate having allergies

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Last night we took our puppy to her 7th puppy training class. Next week is graduation! I think we’ve got a bit of work to do in the next week practicing our “stay” command as that’s the one command that she really doesn’t do well and she’ll be tested next week.

This class was a grooming class. Why we really needed that I don’t know as I’ve already been grooming my puppy on my own … but oh well. One of the things our trainer discussed was using shampoos, dry shampoos and doggy colognes!

He passed around bottles of the doggy colognes and sprayed a few of the dogs with them too.

Now I’ve got a lot of allergies and one of my major ones is to scented products … usually it’s products that are artificially scented (that means almost all products these days!) as the scent is often petroleum based. Well it got my allergies going and I was hoping I wouldn’t need my asthma inhaler as I didn’t bring my purse to class. So that meant I didn’t have my puffer with me at all! Not a good move.

Heck … I don’t even have a medical bracelet anymore. I had one but I seem to have misplaced it. I guess I need to look over the various styles of medical id bracelets again and pick one out.

I’ve got some serious chronic health problems and a few serious allergies that cause anaphylactic reactions so I should wear a medical ID bracelet.

Do any of you have severe allergies? Do you wear a medical id bracelet?

New watches for all

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Chris and I got new watches last week. His watch had died a few days before – or at least we thought it had since it didn’t work after he’d replaced the battery, and my main watch was on it’s 3rd watch band and frankly I was getting sick of replacing the band. So we went out watch shopping.

We ended up looking for new watches in a department store. It has a good selection with watches made by Timex, Bell and Ross, Swatch, Roots, Cardinal, and a lot of designer names too.

I ended up getting a womans Ironman Timex watch. It has a build in rubber or rubberish? watch band that feels really comfortable. Chris got a Cardinal stainless steel Chrono watch.

Funny thing is that just a day or two ago when our puppy saw Chris’ old watch on the telephone table and jumped up to try to grab it we noticed that it was working again! Ha .. isn’t that a strange co-incidence? Oh well, the way Chris loses things it’s probably good that he’s got two watches now.

Thief stole his cone!

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Wordless Wednesday

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See the look on the mans face? Isn’t that priceless?

I’d be mad too if a sea gull stole half my ice cream cone!

When we go to the Beaches area here in Toronto we have to watch out for the birds too. There’s all kinds of Canadian geese, ducks, pigeons and yes – sea gulls. If you have food you have to guard it because any of the above mentioned birds would be happy to steal it.

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