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What’s with all the nice cars in my area?

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When my husband and I were outside working in the front yard earlier today, enjoying the beautiful weather, I couldn’t believe how many really nice cars I saw driving by.

I saw not one, but three different Ferrari’s and a few Porches too! I live in a decent neighborhood (you’d never know it the way I’ve been talking about the bad renters next door) but it’s not THAT nice. LOL

Also, one of the Ferrari’s that drove by a few times is actually owned by a guy that works in the hospital with my husband. Not the guy isn’t a top guy at the hospital either … we think he owns several buildings and perhaps that’s how he an afford such a nice car.

As much as I loved seeing the nice cars driving past us I certainly wouldn’t want to see the auto insurance quotes for a Ferarri! I’ll bet it’s more per year than our car cost us to buy!

Anyway I don’t know why there were so many nice cars driving by my house today … maybe everyone else was out enjoying the great weather like we were, but I was surprised!





Looking forward to a long weekend and good weather

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It looks like we’re all set to have an amazing weekend here in Toronto. Not only is the weather going to be perfect but it’s a long weekend! Whooohooo Happy Easter!

Tomorrow it’s going to be 25 C (77 F) and we’re supposed to have similar temperatures on Saturday … possibly even higher temps with humidity. It could get to over 80 F!

No this is not an April Fools joke. Seriously, the weather has been amazing here all year so far .. just like spring instead of winter.

I imagine that the few people who have motorcycles that haven’t pulled them out yet will get them out this weekend. I sure hope they have good life insurance rates LOL. Yeah, I’m not a fan of motorcycles for some reason, maybe it’s because they’re so loud or maybe it’s because I’m an Emergency room nurse?

Anyway, I’m looking forward to the nice weather, maybe having a bbq, working in the garden and then come Sunday we’ve been invited to the in-laws for an Easter Sunday dinner. So it should be a good weekend over all.

Are you looking forward to this long Easter weekend too?

I should be able to hook our Wii up to our new TV soon

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Well I still haven’t been able to get our Wii to work with our new TV. That’s the problem when you buy the thinnest plasma TV on the market … it lacks a lot of ports in the back!

We’ve tried to hook up the Wii through our receiver and that hasn’t worked either so about two and a half weeks ago I broke down and bought a composite to HDMI converter that upconverts the composite cable feed to 720p. It’s supposed to work well with Wii consoles …. so if it ever arrives from Florida I guess I’ll find out if that’s the solution to our problem or not.

Why does it take so long for packages to be sent from the US to Canada?

I certainly wasn’t using our Wii as much as I should have been lately … but now that I can’t use it at all I’m quite disappointed. I’ve been using the Wii as a workout tool doing Golds Gym boxing and Wii fitness as well as a few games. It certainly helped to keep me in shape (or to attempt to get me into shape) throughout the winter.

Now I’m also looking into getting a KVM switch to hook up our three computers, but I think I need to learn a little more about them before I bi. Anyone use one of these things?

Our neighborhood is going through a lot of changes

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Our neighborhood is quite a mix! It used to be pretty much all Greek – since it is of course part of Greek Town here in Toronto, but now that many of the residents are getting older they are moving out (or passing away) and their homes are being filled by young couples from all backgrounds … like my husband and myself I suppose since we bought our house from people who had lived in the neighborhood for over forty years!

Sadly, I’ve noticed that over the last few years a number of our older neighbors have been passing away. We just lost one a month ago and now I hear that a dear lady that lives only two houses away is starting to become extremely forgetful. I have a feeling her daughter will be trying to persuade her to move in with her or perhaps go to a nursing home sometime in the near future.

I also heard from her son that she’s been appealing a decision for social security disability in the last few months. She certainly shouldn’t have to fight for coverage, but it seems that’s the way it is these days.

It’s funny how neighborhoods change over time isn’t it? We’ve only been in our house for about 9.5 years and it’s changed a lot in the last few years.

Have you been in your neighborhood for a long time? Have you noticed that some of the people that have lived there for 30 or 40 years are selling their homes making way for a younger group of neighbors?

Our dog is finding golf balls in the park

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My husband does most of the dog walking in this household. Our Lab gets a walk each morning and evening with my husband. If I’m feeling up to it (remember I have Crohn’s so I feel awful quit often) I give her an additional walk in the afternoon.

We try to vary where our dog is walked. It’s never the same route, however, my husband has been taking our Lab to the park just down the street a little more often than he usually does in the dead of winter. Why? Well … since we’ve had an extremely rare lack of snow here in Toronto this winter the park is a great place to go with the dog. Usually the park gets all the excess snow dumped in it in the winter, but that hasn’t really been happening this year. So as long as we don’t mind a slightly muddy dog it’s a great place to take her.

Some of our neighbors must have been taking advantage of the mild winter we’ve been having because our dog has become a great source for used golf balls LOL. Yep, she’ll come up to us with two or three golf balls in her mouth. Someones been getting in a little putting practice it seems.

When you walk your dog does he or she find interesting or unusual items to bring home?

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