At the end of August my brothers and sister, nephews and nieces and I all got together for a big family reunion. One of the activities that most of us did together was to go on a dinner boat cruise on Lake Ontario.
This is a photo of Toronto’s harbor front as our boat approached it’s dock at the end of the cruise:
Isn’t that pretty?
It was such a nice evening too!
I haven’t begun my Christmas shopping yet, but I am thinking about it.
Our basement is a mess! We have a lot of tools in the basement – among many other things. Our basement is a general storage area and isn’t used for anything but storage, washing and drying clothes, the toilet and showering.
My husband tries to keep the tools in order. There’s a work bench in the basement and he keeps the majority of our tools on or above it, but I think I might try to find a better form of tool storage if I can. Depending upon what I find and how pricey it is I could perhaps make a gift of a tool storage system one of Chris’ Christmas gifts.
It’s not like he needs a Christmas gift this year though … I mean we got him an HD video camera this summer. That should cover at least one birthday and Christmas I think! Me too. I don’t need anything. I got a really nice SLR camera this summer when we got Chris the video camera. I think we’re both good for a while.
But we could use something that would help us organize the basement. That would be practical, wouldn’t it?
Wow! I’m very happy right now. I’ve just won my first Internet related prize! I have an extra $100 in my paypal account thanks to PayU2Blog.
I do a little work here and there for a great blogging company. I’ve been working with them since May, 2007 I believe.
They offer bloggers another way to make some money blogging. Each week I’m given a few assignments for the blogs that I have registered with them and I’m always given a few days to work my assignments into my sites posts. No pressure, good pay – what more could I ask for?
As I said the money is good and they often have promotions for their advertisers where bloggers are given products to try. I’ve only been given one free product to try out so far and it was the beautiful canvas that I told you about back in July. That’s right – I was able to turn one of my beautiful photographs into a canvas (by canvasondemand.com) that I can display in my home. It’s gorgeous and it was FREE!
Not only am I given easy assignments such as writing about home decor, drug rehabilitation, popcorn machines and things like that, I’m also paid every two weeks and occasionally have a chance to try free products, but I also have a chance each week to win a draw for $100.
they holds a draw once a week – usually on Fridays or more often Mondays. Any of their bloggers who have added their banner (and notified them) to their blogs are entered in the weekly draws. This week this blog “My World” was chosen as the winner.
Want to see how they picked my site? It’s a good video … come on watch it … 😉
I was just saying on my gardening blog that it’s time to buy some new bulbs for the garden. My oriental lilies didn’t come up this year and neither did my Lucifer crocosmia.
I think I know why my lovely red crocosmia didn’t come up though … Chris got out in the garden this past spring before I did, and he thought he was doing me a favor by tidying up the garden beds. I think he might have pulled out the crocosmia. It would have looked like long dead grass in the spring and he might not have noticed the tiny bulbs at the ends when he pulled them out of the ground.
Oops!
Hopefully I can find some new crocosmia bulbs in the store. Perhaps I’ll go later today and have a look.
Do you grow Crocosmia? It’s pretty easy to grow. Well, provided that no one pulls it out on you in the Spring.
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