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Balloon Flower - White

I love balloon flowers. I had to stop for a moment to think just how many balloon flower plants I have growing in my front and back gardens and I believe that there are seven plants. Only two of them are white balloon flowers.

I think they are a cheerful little flower. They really do look like a balloon when they develop, and they when they finally open they are bright and cheery.

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Two buildings in Downtown Toronto

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These are two buildings in downtown Toronto near city hall. I took this photo about a month ago when I was at an outdoor art exhibition.

I like how this photo is a contrast of old and new and how the buildings stand out against that brilliant blue sky behind them. You can even see the clouds reflected in the glass panes of the building on the left if you look closely.

The only talent show I like

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Did you watch America’s Got Talent? If you did don’t tell me who won because I recorded the shows on my PRV and haven’t watched the most recent episode yet.

It’s funny that I like this show. I really hate shows like American Idol and Canadian Idol (yes I get two doses of the idol shows!), Dancing with Stars and so on. Hate them with a passion, but for some reason I like America’s Got Talent.

I guess it’s because the show has so much variety. There’s magic acts, ventriloquism, acrobatics or physical acts, singers and musicians – plus many of them are funny. Humor always gets bonus points with me.

There’s a singer/ guitar player that I’ve been hoping will win. His name is Cass Haily. When he performs he reminds me of Chris when he plays. My husband is a musician and his vocal range is similar to Cass’ and he enjoys playing as much as it appears that Cass does. I hope he wins or that he’s already won.

Don’t tell me if you know!

It’s funny how people change

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This past weekend we had not only Chris’ brother and his kids from Chicago visiting, but Chris’ younger sister and her husband also came to visit and stayed over.

I find Chris’ sister and her husband a little funny these days. You see, back when Chris first moved to Toronto his brother in law (before he married Chris’ sister of course) was his college roommate. In fact, that’s how they first met and became close friends.

Chris’ sister used to come to Toronto regularly to have fun in the big city and we’d all get together and have a good time. Eventually Chris moved in with me and his sister got together with his roommate. Chris and I and his brother in law were all in the jewelry trade together, so even once we paired off into couples we still got together quite a bit since the jewelry industry is a close knit trade that’s very family like.

Now, Chris’ sister and her husband live in a small town southern Ontario. They’ve lived out that way for years. I think they’ve lived in a small town for too long though because they are now afraid of Toronto.

Chris sister told me no less than five times how many missing women there currently were in Toronto. She was wrong too, some of her tally were missing from other areas of the province. They were afraid of the crowds at the Taste of the Danforth, afraid of different cultures – we have a large Muslim population in our area, and just plain small minded.

I have no idea what happened to this pair to make them so afraid. They were true big city lovers no more than a decade ago. What changed in their lives to make them so closed off?

We all still have a good time when we get together, but my how they’ve changed!

Crohn’s isn’t just a terrible disease – it’s embarrassing!

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My Crohn’s disease seems to be getting worse. I think I’ll have to go and see my gastrointernologist again soon. My medications just aren’t working.

We had guests over last weekend and we went out several times – we went to the very crowded and disappointing Taste of the Danforth, the beach, a private beach club, our for dinner and so on. All in all we had nine people staying in our home over three days.

It was too much for me. I already wasn’t feeling well before our guests arrived and now I’m spending the remainder of the week recovering from their visit. I think they made my crohn’s worse.

This is a terrible disease. I won’t get into all the symptoms, but when you have crohn’s your bowels – large or small intestines – are inflamed and can end up having scar tissue build up narrowing the intestines, abscesses can develop and you can’t digest foods very well. It causes a lot of pain and sometimes it can even cause a loss of control because, well there’s no other way to say this, but if you have crohn’s you probably have the runs a lot.

I’ve been lucky in that I haven’t actually had many accidents but I’d be lying if I said I’d never had one. Geez, even people with the flu have sometimes had an accident.

Anyway, when I go out I prefer to go to places I’ve been before. Places that I know exactly where each washroom is located in case I have to make a mad dash for the rest room. I sometimes even think that I should purchase some disposable underwear for those really bad days when I have to go out, but my system is acting up so much I can’t be sure that I won’t have one of those rare accidents.

What an awful disease eh? The pain, lack of digestion, fevers and abscesses are bad enough, but then you add the embarrassment of possibly having an accident and it makes it that much worse. I hate this disease.

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