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Stalker neighbor, power outages and battery clocks!

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I think I’ve mentioned my neighbor Sofie before on this site. She’s my elderly neighbor that I call my stalker because she’s constantly knocking on my door or following me around the garden or worst of all staring at me from her window as I work on my desktop computer.

Thankfully I have a laptop now so I can hide from her sometimes!

Well … lately we seems to have a lot of small power outages. I’ve actually noticed that this has been happening at about 6 a.m most days. Most of the time the outage is so fast it doesn’t knock out our clocks or anything else, but early this morning I guess it was a fraction of a second long enough to mess with our electric clocks.

When our clocks go out so do the neighbors! Arghhh … Sofie hasn’t banged on our door yet to reset her clocks but she will. I know she will.

One of our electric digital clocks has batteries in it and even if a power outage is a few hours long it will say the correct time when the power comes on. We’ve spoken to our neighbors family about getting her some of these clocks. They aren’t expensive so I have no idea why they haven’t yet.

I’m at the point now where if they don’t buy her a clock today or tomorrow I’m going to go out and buy her two and give them the bill. Gas and time expenses included!

Why do some families not take care of their elderly relatives properly? I’m certain it’s their lack of care causing her to fixate on us .. me .. so much.





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!

Idiot neighbors finally quieted down

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My neighbors finally quieted down on Saturday night. I still didn’t end up getting much sleep though. I was so mad that they had destroyed my evening! I swear they were so loud with their awful Karaoke music that it almost seemed like they were inside my house.


The next time we buy a house it will not be a semi-detached. There’s nothing much wrong with semi-detached homes, but if you have noisy neighbors you can often hear them through the walls. Now I live in an old well built house … I really shouldn’t be able to hear my neighbors through a couple of feet of brick and plaster should I? I do though so that means they are extremely loud!

I guess we’re going to have to have a talk with them this week. They already know that we can hear their music and singing. We’ve even brought them inside our house when they had their music up loud and they agreed that it was outrageously loud.

So I have to think that they don’t care how noisy they are since they know how loud they are – they’ve heard themselves!

Strange weather

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Man, we just had a huge storm roll through the area.


My mother in law called about an hour ago – she lives outside of Toronto and she said that big old trees were down on the streets and that she had a hard time getting home because of all the damage to the trees from the wind.

I would not be surprised at all to hear that a tornado rolled through the area!

It was 31 C (88F) when the storm hit but it dropped down to 19 Celsius, 70 F or so, now. That’s more than a 10 degree drop! Unfortunately it’s still extremely humid!

When we get hot humid weather like this we almost always have a big chance of a violent storm.

Planning a big family get together

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I got together last night with two of my brothers and my sister for dinner. One of my brothers was visiting the city on business.

While we had a nice meal in a fantastic restaurant we talked out the big family get together that we’re planning for the end of August / beginning of September.

We’re going to have a big family barbecue one day so I’ve got to get folding tables and chairs for the party. Yep, that’s one of my assignments.

The other is to plan another activity that we can all do. Since Toronto is on a lake I was thinking that perhaps we might go on one of the boat cruises on Lake Ontario … They have dinner cruises so we could spend a nice evening on a boat and have a great meal too. I think I’ll be making some calls later today to see how much that would cost. There’s going to be about 30 of us!

Maybe they’ll give us a group discount?

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