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What a name for a lovely autumn flower – Toad Lily. I wonder who thought up that name?

The photo that I’ve posted today is of Toad Lily flower buds. If you ask me they’re more than a little phallic looking. I took that photo a couple of weeks ago and now the flowers are blooming.

This is what the Toad Lilies look like when they are blooming –

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Aren’t they so much more lovely than their name?

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Too warm inside – too cool outside

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Last week it started getting cool here so we made sure our furnace was turned on. It went on several times last week because it really was cool outside, but the last few days it’s been seasonably warm – not too warm, but pleasant outside. Obviously with it being fairly nice outside our furnace hasn’t come on for a few days, but I’m finding it warm inside the house.

We’ve been opening the windows for a little while during the warmest part of the day, but again, it’s cool enough that you don’t want to keep them open too long and make the furnace come on. However, I’m finding it pretty warm inside the house. Especially at night.

It’s 13 Celsius outside at 3 in the morning. That’s 55 F for those that don’t understand Celsius.

I don’t really feel comfortable opening the doors and windows at this time of night so I’ve turned on all the ceiling fans. They’re helping a bit as they stir the air, but I wish the house were a little cooler.

Maybe I will go upstairs and open a few windows.

Don’t you just hate it when you’re too warm and you can’t do much about it?

I spoke too soon!

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Correction.

Yes we have our passports, BUT …

Mine has errors! Oh no, oh no!

Stupid Passport Canada! Even though you have to provide documentation as to where you were born ie birth certificate …. they listed my birth place wrong!

Now I have to go to the main Passport Canada office on Monday morning and get them to quickly change my passport!

If I wasn’t traveling out of the country in early November this wouldn’t be that big of a deal. Still it’s a mistake that shouldn’t have happened.

I just hope that they can put a huge rush on my passport correction.

Cleared to Travel – Our Passports have Arrived

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Well I’m happy to say that the passports that we were very slow to apply for arrived yesterday. Just as the Passport Canada office said they would!

We filled out our passport paperwork and handed in our applications at the Passport office on October 2nd. They told us that our Passports should be finished and would be mailed out on October 17th. Yesterday, the 18th, my husband was walking to work and he ran into our mailman, a friend, and our mailman gave them to Chris.

Unfortunately this was a mistake on both their parts. Chris didn’t feel good about leaving the passports that we’ll need for our November trip to Las Vegas in his locker at work, nor did he feel secure about leaving them at the nursing station so he gave them to his boss to keep in her locked office.

Uh oh – she left early and our passports were locked in her office!

Hopefully Chris will have remembered to get a hold of our passports today and brings them home! I want to take a good look at them and make sure that there isn’t a mistake on them or that we don’t have to fill out anything else.

I’m really happy that they arrived so fast though. I mean we’re going away the second week of November and I stupidly waiting to get our passports until the beginning of October? Yeah, I’m lucky!

Oh and when we booked our trip we went through a special discount travel club and got a membership. So now that we have our passports I hope we’ll do a lot more traveling. Lets see Vegas in November, maybe the Caribbean in the late winter or early spring and Branson perhaps sometime in early summer? Yeah that sounds good. Who knows, maybe I can even talk Chris into going to Europe next year?

Art imitates life?

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Wordless Wednesday

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Ok we’ve all seen new stories that show cars that have crashed into buildings or that have been carried by strong storm winds into trees or the top of buildings.

Some commercial buildings place cars or even airplanes in settings that make them look like they’ve crashed into the building … Well, now even home owners are beginning to do their own take on “car crashes into building” scenes.

I guess this is a new art form?

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