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Life insurance offers from the bank?

February 6, 2008 by Tricia

Twice in the last month our bank has sent us a letter offering us a deal on life insurance. It’s life insurance that’s tied in with our mortgage.

I don’t know why, but it seems strange to get a life insurance quote from your bank. Especially one that will end up raising our mortgage payments!

What do you think? Does this just seem like a bank gimmick? Yes, I’m sure all the banks are doing it. Have you purchased extra life insurance through your bank as part of your mortgage package?

It just seems wrong to me to buy insurance from my bank. Perhaps I’m just being traditional in thinking that we should get our insurance from companies that specialize in life insurance.





Filed Under: Finance, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Services, Toronto Tagged With: bank, buy, home, insurance, life, life insurance offer, mortgage, mortgage package, pay, strange

Pretty pink Octavia Hill

February 3, 2008 by Tricia

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This rose has the lovely name of Octavia Hill. It was developed in the UK by Harkness and introduced in 1995.

I’ve had this rose growing in my garden since 2002 – the first full year we had our house and landscaped our back and front yards to include raised garden beds! So it’s one of my older roses.

I don’t photograph this rose very often because I mistakenly planted it at the back of one of my garden beds and now that my garden has matured this rose has plants of equal height around it and frankly it gets lost in the crowd!

I’m always delighted though when I discover that it’s blooming as it’s flowers are so pretty.

As you can see Octavia Hill has light pink flowers, glossy green foliage and grows to a height of about 3 feet. It’s a repeat flowering rose and I’d say mine blooms three or four times each growing season.

The flowers give off a mild scent. I find you have to get close to the rose to really smell it, but it’s a lovely scent.

I must remember to seek out this rose this coming summer and take more photographs of it’s lovely blooms.

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Filed Under: Green Thumb Sunday, Home and Lifestyle, My Garden, Photography, Recreation, Toronto Tagged With: 1995, As the Garden grows, bed, behind plants, bloom, blooming, crowd, floribunda, flower, flowering, flowers, foliage, garden, garden beds, glossy green, Green Thumb Sunday, grow, growing, GTS, Harkness, House, lovely scent, mature, medium scent, mild, mild scent, mistake, My Garden, name, Octavia Hill, old, petals, photo, photograph, photos, pink, planted, plants, pretty, raised beds, rose, summer, UK

The CN tower – Tall, Long and Narrow

February 2, 2008 by Tricia

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This is Toronto’s CN Tower … it’s sometimes mistakenly called “The needle” – as in Seattle’s “Space Needle” – by our American visitors and while it does look a bit like a long, tall narrow needle it’s real name is the CN Tower. CN stands for Canadian National.

Up until September of 2007 it was the tallest free standing structure in the world. I think it’s title has been replaced by another tower called the Burj Dubai which is located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

The circular part near the top of the tower holds a restaurant and observation decks. One of the observation areas has a glass floor and let me tell you it’s pretty scary to stand on and look down! The tower is exactly 1815 feet and 5 inches tall. You can get to the top by riding one of the elevators that travel up the outside of the tower, or by climbing many many flights of stairs.

It’s certainly and impressive structure that draws many tourists each year.

Filed Under: Canada, Photo Hunters, Photography, Recreation, Toronto Tagged With: Canadian, Canadian National, CN tower, free standing structure, glass floor, high, long, mistakenly, narrow, observation, observation decks, outside, photo, photo hunt, photohunt, photohunter, photohunters, pretty, restaurant, september, tall, tallest, Toronto, Tour, US, visitors

Walks in the park

January 29, 2008 by Tricia

The weather finally warmed up enough over the weekend and today that we were able to take our puppy to the park for the first time.

We’ve had her since the end of November but because she still had two sets of shots and a rabies vaccination to get we weren’t officially able to take her to parks or other places frequented by a lot of dogs until about a week ago. Trouble was we were in a deep freeze here in Toronto when we first would have been able to take her to the park that I can see from my front door!

Sunday evening, after a busy day, we brought her to the park. We’d wanted to get a long lead but given how she still likes to taste everything that crosses her path we decided to take her to the park on her normal 6 foot leash.

She loved the park! Her nose was down to the ground most of the time as she smelled all the others dogs that had been there previously.

We met a couple of other dogs and their owners too.

After we left the park we realized that her leash had actually broken. The rivets that held the handle together had fallen out! All four of them! We also noticed that the little plastic trash can that holds the poop bags was missing.

Around that time we heard a man coming. He was calling out a name, lets say it was “Morty” … he was yelling “Morty get over here” … “Here” … “come here!” As he staggered along. We looked up and saw quite a large dog heading our way. It stayed away from us as it was just walking peacefully to the park it’s leash dragging behind it, as it ignored his probably drunk owner.

We waited for the man and dog to pass and then headed back to the park. The man and loose dog made us nervous. Our puppy is small and Chris is actually a little bit afraid of strange dogs. Never the less Chris went into the park while I waited outside the fence. We figured it would be safer to keep our puppy away from the loose dog.

Chris ended up having a very strange conversation with the drunk or maybe schizo man. The man really made Chris nervous and I was getting weird vibes from him too.

Chris came out of the park and we walked to another entrance. We then tried to retrace our previous path to try to find our poopy bag container. We found it way on the other side of the park where I thought it would be. Where we should have walked in the first place but the weird man with the loose dog was in that area so we retraced our steps from the beginning.

The next day we went to Petsmart to return the broken leash that we’d only had for about three weeks. We also returned a few other items like treats that we’d given to our puppy that had given her diarrhea. She’s got a very sensitive tummy! With our refund we got a new leash and a 30 foot lead.

We figured what the heck. She didn’t try to pick up anything in her mouth while in the park the night before as she was too busy smelling everything and or playing with other dogs. So on Monday we took her to the park on the long lead and she had a BALL.

That night she met a dog named Cooper … a mix that looked like it might have had a bit of Golden Retriever in it, and a Black Great Dane called Luna. The Great Dane was only 7 months old. We have two Great Danes in our Puppy class that are supposed to be about 5 months old and both are huge compared to the 7 month old that we met last night.

Anyway, we had fun and going to the park will become a regular part, hopefully, of each day. At least one walk will be to the park … well unless it’s freezing cold out!

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Our Puppy, Pets and Wildlife, Recreation, Toronto, Walking Tagged With: afraid, broken leash, Chris, Cold, dog, dogs, drunk, evening, lead, leash, loose dog, mouth, name, November, outside, park, pet, pets, play, played, played with dogs, playing, poo, puppy, rabies vaccination, returned, safer, shots, strange, strange man, Toronto, vaccinations, walk, walk in park, Walking, warm, weather, weekend

Winter in the garden

January 27, 2008 by Tricia

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This past fall I didn’t clear out all the dead plants and now that winter is here in full force it’s interesting to take a look at the various plants when they have snow and or ice on them.

The above photo is of one of my Monkshood plants. This is a very poisonous plant who’s flowers bloom in autumn. It’s very pretty when it’s stalks are covered in rows of hooded flowers.

I fear that I’ll probably have to get rid of my Monkshood this year though. We have a puppy and I plan on trying to keep her out of the garden beds, but we all know accidents can happen and given how curious young dogs can be it’s probably safer if I remove any truly toxic plants from my garden … as much as I hate to lose a nice plant.

Anyone want some Monkshood?

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Filed Under: Green Thumb Sunday, Home and Lifestyle, My Garden, Photography, Recreation, Toronto Tagged With: accidents, autumn, bed, bloom, curious, dog, flower, flowers, garden, get rid of, Green Thumb Sunday, grow, monkshood, move, photo, plants, poisonous plant, pretty, puppy, safer, snow, toxic plant, winter

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