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The last of the sunflowers

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I won’t have sunflowers for much longer and it’s not due to our weather getting cooler. It’s because of a city bylaw notice.

Yesterday we got a notice from the city that we have one week to trim our sunflowers down to three feet as they are over grown and I suppose obstructing our driveway view. Well darn … we don’t use our driveway much – we only drive our car about once a week. Grrrr.

You can’t trim sunflowers, they die when you cut them in half … plus some of our sunflowers only have flowers at the top.

I guess I’ll be saying good bye to our flowers and the yellow finches that love to sit in them and eat the seeds.





Recovering from a very busy weekend!

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Well we had our family reunion this past weekend. After five days of getting together with my family I’m totally exhausted. It seems like we were always on the go.

The major highlights of the weekend were attending a baseball game – our team the Blue Jays won of course, seeing some of the cast of Heroes at the game, going on a boat cruise and gazing at the lovely city skyline at sunset from the boats deck, a big family barbecue, going to the beach on the hottest day of the weekend, dining in restaurants twice with family members and going to see my nephews photos at an art gallery.

Busy, busy, busy!

To top it all off on Sunday and Monday I really wasn’t feeling well at all. You know I have Crohns … well I thought I might need to buy some incontinence products! Yeah that’s how bad I was feeling and my stomach was just gurgling. It was awful, but I made it through.

Still, even thought I didn’t feel all that well over the weekend I enjoyed myself. I don’t get to see one of my brothers or his family very often since they live on the other side of our large country so I always try to make the best of his visits.

Did you have a nice holiday weekend? Oh … perhaps you didn’t have a long weekend. It was Labor day here on Monday and that’s a statutory holiday so all of North America had a long weekend.

We had a great time on our dinner boat cruise

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I took this photo while on our dinner boat cruise on Saturday evening. We were on a boat cruising around on Lake Ontario just outside of Toronto. I went up on deck about a half hour before sunset and stayed there until the sun was almost down snapping approximately 200 photos of the lovely scenery as the boat slowly moved across the lake.

What a beautiful evening we had. I’d highly recommend the Toronto Dinner boat cruises if your visiting the city or even if you live in the area and want to impress your date. The dinner was served as a buffet and it was delicious.

Oh, we had a couple sitting at the table beside us who were celebrating their five year wedding anniversary. They were dressed in the same clothes they wore to their wedding. She wore a simple white wedding gown and he wore a tuxedo. Everyone thought that they’d just been married, but it was their anniversary. They must be a very romantic couple.

Edinburgh Job Listings at GumTree

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Do you live in Scotland? Particularly in the Edinburgh area? If you do, did you know that gumtree.com has quite a variety of edinburgh jobs on their site?

Looking at the edinburgh jobs directory I see listings for professional level jobs such as health care, accounting, computer/ IT to legal/ paralegal professions to sales, bar jobs and handyman openings.

I know if I lived in Edinburgh and I was looking for employment I’d be happy to find a site where I could easily look for jobs in edinburgh each and every day. It seems to be quite a well thought out site and it’s free to use.

If you are searching for a job you might also be interested in subscribing to the gumtree.com website. You can select which types of jobs you are interested in receiving listings for and you’ll then receive an email each day listing any available jobs in your field.

If you are a business owner or merchant and you have job openings you can list your job offers on the site absolutely free as well.

Visit Gumtree.com today to check the job listings.

This one reseeds itself well!

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I believe that this flower is called Scabiosa. I grew these flowers from seed about four or five years ago in my front garden beds and ever since then they come up on their own all over the place. Lets just say they are hardy and they reseed themselves quite well.

This one happens to be growing in one of my planters. I didn’t plant it, it just came up on it’s own. I’ve come to think of them as pretty weeds.

Sorry about the very late Green Thumb Sunday post. We had our big family reunion from Friday until Tuesday and I’m just now getting back to blogging. I’m also extremely tired!

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

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