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Fire, electricity and stupid people

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We had quite the scare yesterday. I plan on writing out the full details on my main blog Tricia’s Musings sometime later today but I’ll just tell you it involved fire and electricity, neighbors stupid people!

Remember how I was mentioning we had a really bad storm here in Toronto early last week and that trees fell down and crushed houses in our general neighborhood but luckily not on our block? Well it appears that the tree next door to us might have had a bit of damage.

Just to summarize a branch fell on the power line that was under the tree. The power box is right there too beside the power line and the branch got zapped by the electric wire. Neighbors all round were outside staring at the flames but were too stupid to call 911!

I called 911 and got the fire department and police to come and check out the problem. Meanwhile the electric box attached to the wire exploded!

The neighbor who owns the tree is our Karaoke neighbors and they were terrified and stayed in their house. Right … there’s a fire in the tree that’s hanging over my house and I’m going to stay inside? No way!

Anyway, I’ll give a full account on my other site at some point later in the day. It was a bit of excitement that got the adrenaline pumping!





Shop online and save money at KeepCash

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If you enjoy shopping and you enjoy saving money you must visit a great site that I’ve just discovered called KeepCash. This is an online coupon and hot deals sites and I’m fairly certain that online shoppers will love it.

There are hundreds of popular online stores listed on KeepCash. Just visit the site and either browse by deals, store, category, recently added or expiring soon listings until you find a store and coupon that you can use. Then, all you’ll have to do is click on the coupon and start shopping at the chosen store. It’s that easy!

I happen to love The Body Shop so I was happy to see that it’s listed on KeepCash. At this time there are 14 different The Body Shop coupon codes listed. I love it!

KeepCash is updated daily with new coupons and great deals that will save you money as you shop. Hey … if you were going to go shopping online anyway why not save some money while you’re at it?

Bad days

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Can you believe I’m still feeling ill and getting worse. I think my Crohn’s is in full flare. I hate this. The week before last I spent the majority of the week, day and night, lying on the couch. That’s how sick I was.

Then last Saturday evening I suddenly felt a lot better – for about 36 hours. Of course I chose that time to get a lot of gardening work done and probably over did it so I slowly went downhill again over the week and by Friday I was back to being a couch potato again.

Yesterday was the worst. I have lots of meds that I take and some of them are pretty heavy duty pain meds. One of the pain meds I take twice a day as it’s a long acting pain medication. Two of the others are faster acting and I can take them when I’m having bad pain that needs immediate control. Well .. I almost never take the short acting pain medication during the day. The worst of my pain is in the evening and through the night.

Yesterday however my pain was so bad that I ended up having two percocets through the day on top of my long acting pain meds. I never do that!

Today is a bit better. Maybe I got on top of the pain again. I don’t know. All I know is that I can’t take much more of this constant yoyo’ing back and forth between tolerable pain and unbearable pain.

Need to book a hotel room for your upcoming vacation?

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Planning a holiday or going on a business trip? If you want to save some money you should visit cheaperthanhotels.co.uk. The site has listings for over 30,000 hotels in 130 countries worldwide. It would be almost impossible to not find a hotel on this site.

Another thing that I like about this site is that you can view it in 8 European languages. The prices of the hotel rooms can also be viewed in the countries currency. See the Cheap Hotels in Sweden for an example.

You can book hotel rooms in advance, up to a year in advance if I’m not mistaken, or you can search for last minute deals.

When you are viewing the site in search of a hotel room in a particular city you can sort the search results by location, star rating, price, hotel name, and by last minute deals and year round accommodation. Once you click on a hotel you’ll not only learn more about the type of rooms available, but you’ll also be able view photos of the hotel and the hotel rooms.

There are listings for hostels, usually priced by bed, and serviced apartments.

Visit the site and check out the great prices for yourself.

Head hung low

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Aquilegia

This isn’t the best photo that I’ve ever taken but I do love this flower. It’s a columbine or Aquilegia. Sometimes this flower is also called a honeysuckle but that’s a misnomer.

Isn’t it pretty? I love the pale mauve and the way the flower hangs it’s head.

I grow this beautiful flower in my garden. It’s a spring bloomer. Here in Toronto it blooms usually by mid May or so, and by this time of June it’s foliage is dying down and disappearing. In a little while you’d almost never know the plant was there.

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