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It seems like everyone is trying to sell their home in our area

September 30, 2008 by Tricia

Over the last few months it seems like 30% to 50% of our neighbors have thought about selling their homes. I’m amazed at all of the “for sale” signs that I see as I walk through the neighborhood with our dog.

The house immediately beside me and the one on the corner (two houses down) are still up for sale. Both have been up for sale for about a month. The housing market here in Toronto has apparently slowed down a bit … not drastically, but there’s been a few articles recently that say it’s slowing down. Hopefully my neighbors homes sell soon. I’m curious as to who our new neighbors will end up being. Hopefully we’ll get along ok!

If the other houses that I see up for sale on neighboring streets are sold soon they’ll be a convoy of moving trucks roaming the neighborhood soon! LOL .. like that will happen.

Are there any homes for sale close to your house? Are they selling slower than they normally do?

I seriously thought about getting a treadmill today

September 27, 2008 by Tricia

Chris and I were out earlier today doing our regular weekend shopping and while we were in a department store to get Chris a new pair of pants for work, I wandered around until I came across a sale on exercise equiptment.

Good thing our money’s tight right now or else I would have tried talking Chris into letting me buy one of the treadmills that were on sale. Yeah, I know … we have an elliptical machine and I’ve been using it again in the last few weeks, but a treadmill would be a good piece of exercise equiptment to have too. Chris would like it better than the elliptical, I’m sure.

Heck, I’ve even heard of people training their dogs to use the treadmill. That would certainly come in handy in the winter on a day when there was a big snow storm … ’cause I don’t take the dog for long walks through streets and sidewalks covered in un-shoveled snow … it’s just too hard to walk in! Midnight and I could both get a work out on the treadmill on snow days. LOL

Do you have any fitness equiptment in your home? Do you use it or has it become a place to hang your laundry?

Roses and Rosehips

September 14, 2008 by Tricia

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Several of my roses are either blooming again or are starting to bud in preparation for perhaps the last blooms of the season.

Many of my roses never seems to get the message that the weather is cooling and winter is coming so they continue to bloom right into November until the first snow falls.

There are some that bloom around this time of year and then set rosehips. I love the look of Rosehips. They remind me of small crabapples. I’ll have to take some photos of them when they start to form on my roses this year.

Roses like The Fairy fall into the bloom until covered in snow category!

Perhaps this year when it does start to cool down and we start to get frost or perhaps a short lived snow fall I’ll try to remember to bring my camera out and take photos of the frost or snow covered frozen roses. They are quite pretty when they are either covered in frost or dusted with snow.

I know I shouldn’t be talking about winter yet. There’s still time before it arrives. I guess it’s just because it’s been cooling down so much earlier this year that thoughts of winter are upon me. Maybe it’s the huge rainstorm we’re expecting today too … remnants of hurricane Ike … Yikes! Parts of this city are going to get flooded! Hopefully not this area though.

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Bee coming in for landing

September 10, 2008 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

A couple of weeks ago my husband and I and our dog went for a hike in the woods. I found these lovely flowers on a river bank, I think they might be Jewelweed, and as I gazed at the flowers I noticed that the bumble bees were hovering around the flowers.

I caught this one as it was coming in for a landing:

Here’s a shot of the bee in the flower. All you can see is it’s behind!

Another federal election? So soon?

September 9, 2008 by Tricia

If you haven’t already heard Canada will be having an election on October 14th to possibly select a new Prime Minister. Harper, the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party and the current Prime Minister of Canada has been running the country for the last two years or so under a minority government, on Sunday he decided to dissolve parliament and set an election date.

Don’t quote me on this, but I think our last three elections (in four years???) have resulted in Minority governments. That means the ruling party has enough seats to win the election, but not enough to hold a majority. It’s shaky ground whenever this happens.

I do find it kind of funny that in the US they take almost two years to build up to an election, yet here we call snap elections and within a month or two it’s done and over with. This election will only take 37 days from the time it was officially called till voting day on October 14th.

Take a quick look at what other bloggers have to say I think many Canadians are feeling as I do … I don’t have a clue who to vote for. I don’t really like any of the leaders of the three main parties, nor do I totally agree with any of their platforms.

Here’s what others are saying about the upcoming Canadian election:

Canadian Election October 14th … Like I Care.

Finally the election announcement we were expecting up here in the “Great White North” has come to pass. The trickster of 24 Sussex Drive, has exhibited yet another of his talents … that of chameleon. This is the guy who promised …

On the Canadian Election: Why You Need To Vote

One of the things I’ve been hearing a lot in the media is that there’s some idea of election exhaustion here in Canada. Not only are we approaching our 3rd election in 4 years, for the last year, we’ve been his with the US primaries and …

You know it’s a Canadian Election when…

Ed: It seems Ed Stelmach has taken a page from Ralph Klein’s playbook, deciding to play the role of pundit on the federal election campaign. And, whatever, I can’t criticize him for that when you consider that McGuinty and Danny …

Canadian Election Called for October 14

The party leaders by LeDaro They do it fast up here; 36 days from the announcement until the election. But then unlike the States, all the leaders are in place and well known, all of the policies and platforms ready to go, …

What’s your take on the upcoming Canadian Federal election?