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It’s the May 24 weekend already!

May 16, 2008 by Tricia

I didn’t realize until yesterday that this weekend is our famous May 24 weekend here in Canada. I have no idea why we are having our Victoria Day weekend so early. Very odd. I think the long weekend should be the following weekend, but I guess not this year.

Anyway, now that I’m up to date as to which weekend is our long weekend I now realize we have a few party invitations that we have to decide whether to accept or not.

Some old friends of ours are having an outdoor barbecue and party on Saturday night. I’m pretty sure we’ll go to that, but I’m not sure we’ll make it to another friends Sunday brunch if we go to the party on Saturday night!

On both Sunday and Monday evening we’ve been invited to join a few friends to watch the fireworks at two different areas in the city. Monday nights will be the most spectacular as the ones we’ll go to see are the Cities Victoria Day Fireworks at Ashbridges Bay.

Perhaps we’ll do what we did a few years ago to avoid the crowds. We went to the boardwalk on the beach with our folding lounge chairs and sat on the beach rather than going right to Ashbridges Bay park. It was much nicer to do it that way. Of course if it’s cold out it might be better to be in the crowd rather than sitting on a cold windy beach.

Any other Canadians planning on attending Victoria Day celebrations?

Lovely hyacinths

May 11, 2008 by Tricia

JoinI’ve been enjoying my hyacinths this year. I don’t seem to have as many as other years though so the bulbs must be starting to die out. I’ll have to purchase more this fall for planting.This coral one is one of my favorites. I just love the color:

Then there’s these pink ones. In this photo they were just starting to develop. I think this particular plant had sparse blooms too.

Finally, there’s this deep blue hyacinth. I have some purple ones as well, but this one is more blue than purple, even though the photo makes it look purple.

I hope that you’re enjoying this lovely Mother’s day weekend and spending some time with family.

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Chris has been out of town more than he’s been home this week

May 10, 2008 by Tricia

I think my husbands been out of town more days in the last week than he’s been home. His cousin died last week and we traveled to Brantford – about an hour and a half outside Toronto to visit with the family.

Unfortunately on our first trip there last weekend our car broke down on the road. We managed to make it to the in-laws but that evening we left our car in Brantford and drove back with Chris’ brother. The way things worked out – Chris went back to Brantford on Monday and couldn’t pick me up to go to the visitations or the funeral because the car wasn’t fixed until Tuesday afternoon.

Now he’s back in Brantford for a big party for his dad. I’d be there too but his father booked non-pet friendly hotel rooms for the whole family (his house would be overflowing with guests if he hadn’t) and that meant that we couldn’t take the dog. So I’m home dog sitting.

Before Chris left this morning he told me something that he’d forgotten. When he was talking to the people at the garage they offered to put one of those fancy Ford grills on our car. Huh … our car was there for an emergency repair in a city that wasn’t our home city. What were they thinking? Not that we don’t like the fancy grills or anything, but no … if we were going to get something like that done we’d do it here in Toronto.

Anyway I’m home this evening and I’m totally bored. When Chris comes home tomorrow afternoon we’ll have to get out and do something. Perhaps we’ll take the dog to the beach. I just hope Chris isn’t too tired to do something interesting … I’m so bored I’m going to have to do something by tomorrow or I’ll go squirrelly.

Spring in Toronto

May 10, 2008 by Tricia

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I took this photo a few years ago, but this is what Toronto looks like right now. Well, ok the leaves on the trees are almost fully filled out right now, but it’s close to how it looks. Ok? 🙂

This photo was taken as we drove along LakeShore Blvd. There’s a clear view of Lake Ontario.

This is a popular area for anyone who loves the outdoors, getting fit or walking their pets. Chris and I have gone to the beach to walk along the boardwalk with our puppy Midnight a few times already this year. We’re hoping to make it a regular weekend outing.

Strawberry plants are flowering already!

May 9, 2008 by Tricia

Look at this! I took this photo about a week and a half ago – my strawberry plants are beginning to flower already!

You know what that means don’t you? We’ll probably have strawberries by early June! Yeah baby, fresh strawberries. Yum.

the best thing about the strawberry plants that we have is that they keep producing fruit well into late September or even early October! Some strawberry plants only produce one or two crops early in the season, but ours are every producing ones.

I can’t wait to taste a fresh strawberry from my garden. I just hope my puppy doesn’t get to them before we do!