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Going to a concert tomorrow night!

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Tomorrow Chris and I are going to the Canadian Open golf tournament at Glenn Abbey. My brother managed to get the two of us free passes for the day.

My husband is more into golf than I am. I’m not into it at all, but I still think it will be kind of interesting to go to the tournament as I’ve never been to one before and there will be some big names there. Plus who knows I might even see some celebrities too.

My brother had a choice of day passes to get us. He could either get us day passes for the semi finals on Saturday or the Finals on Sunday. He went with the Saturday passes because from Thursday to Saturday each evening after the rounds are finished there’s supposed to be a free concert. Tomorrow night Tom Cochrane and Red Rider are playing and unbeknownst to my brother that is one of my favorite bands of all time. I’ve never been to a Tom Cochrane concert so I’m super stoked to go.

The only problem with our day and evening away from home is that we have to leave our puppy alone. We can’t bring her with us unfortunately. We do have an idea though … We’re trying to reach one of our friends that lives in this condo hotel in the West end of town to see if he’ll doggy sit for us. He loves Labs and if he’s free it will be the perfect solution to our little problem.

If we can’t get our friend to doggy sit we’ll just go to the tournament in the late afternoon. As I said neither Chris nor I are that into golf. The main reason we want to go is for the concert. Even if we don’t go until the late afternoon I imagine our puppy will be alone for 6 or 7 hours. Since I’m home most of the time she’s never been alone even that long! This could be interesting.





The Lilies are Blooming

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My lilies are finally blooming! They started blooming last weekend and they are still going strong!

Orange tiger Lilies 3

These lilies came with the house. There were tons of them, so many that I gave several away to neighbors and even threw some out!

I’m not sure why, but the first two or so years that we lived here the lilies were a paler or duller orange. However over the last few years the lilies seem to have become much more vibrant. They glow with their fiery orange and really stand out in the garden when they are in bloom. Same for the yellow and red ones that I grow.

I guess they are enjoying something in my soil. I just wish I knew what it was! Perhaps it’s the doses of Alfalfa tea that I make up and pour on the plants a few times each year. That really gives the roses a boost and I’ll bet it gives the lilies a boost too.

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My desktop computer is so much faster than my laptop

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Lately I’ve been using my desktop computer more often. We got our Laptop two years ago and I let myself fall into the habit of using the notebook pretty much 100% of the time, however lately my laptop has been slowing down and it’s becoming frustrating to work on it.

My desktop computer on the other hand is nice and fast! We did a memory upgrade last year and well I guess the computer chip is faster than the laptops as well even though the Desktop computer was purchased in 2004. You’d think it would be the other way around with the laptop being faster … not in this case!

The main reason I had started using the desktop computer more often lately is because I purchased some programs that don’t seem to work on the laptop. I have something wrong with my .net framework installations on the laptop. They’re installed for programs that need them, but the programs won’t work, so there’s got to e some corrupted files or something else going on.

I guess I’ll have to completely remove all the .net framework installations, clean the computer up with a net framework cleanup program that I downloaded a while ago (through Microsoft) and re-install. I’m just worried that some programs will crash badly when I remove the installations and then I’ll have even more trouble.

So for now I’ll just have to use the software that I purchased recently only on the desktop!

I am enjoying working on my old computer again though. As I said earlier it’s so much faster than the Laptop. Even blogs and websites I visit seems to load faster. Now if I could only get my laptop working close to the desktops speed I’d be happy.

Does your computer make you frustrated with it loads programs or websites slowly?

Houses are selling like hotcakes in my neighborhood

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I wrote a post on one of my other blogs about a week ago about the number of houses close to us that have gone up for sale lately. They’re selling like hotcakes it seems!

I’m pretty sure that there was a news story a few days ago where some real estate companies were saying that house sales were slower than normal this past spring and so far this summer here in Toronto, but the way houses are going up for sale and being sold within a week or two I don’t think there’s a problem in this particular neighborhood.

I’m glad our housing market is doing so well. I keep hearing about people losing their homes in the US or requesting foreclosure help. I think it’s particularly bad in California if I’m not mistaken. I hope it doesn’t get that way here in Canada. Our economy has been doing better than the US economy since 2001. It’s starting to have some trouble, but as I said hopefully things don’t get that bad here.

One neighbor just a few houses down sold her house in just under two weeks and to the best of my knowledge it went for about $350,000. Her house is pretty much the same as ours so I guess if we put ours up for sale we’d get somewhere around that price too. Good to know but we aren’t planning on selling anytime soon.

I just hope that all of our new neighbors are nice people. We have a great neighborhood and we are all fairly friendly – at least to say hi or wave at each other when we see one an other if not actually visiting each others homes.

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