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Oh what a headache!

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I’ve barely posted on any of my many blogs over the last two days. On Wednesday I woke up with a severe migraine. I’d been headachey the night before, but I thought a good sleep would make it go away. It didn’t.

My headache just got worse and worse throughout the day. I just lay on the couch unable to get up.

I’m so grateful that we have a crate for our puppy. She ended up being in the crate most of the day because of my migraine. If we didn’t have a crate or if she’d been out she would have been jumping on me all day and making me feel worse. Don’t worry. I did let her out twice during the day and she had lunch too. She wasn’t totally deprived!

I still had a bit of headache on Thursday when I awoke and I guess it stayed with me most of the day but it was a lot better than the day before!

I haven’t had a headache that bad for a long time! I don’t know if I was fighting something or if the headache came on as a result of the strange weather we’ve been having here. On Wednesday we had snow and an ice storm all day and today we’re expecting a LOT of snow.

What do you do when you get a bad headache? Or are you like my mother in law and you’ve never had one?





Dogs in the park

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Speaking of capturing funny dog pictures! LOL

Now that we’re taking our puppy to the park on a regular basis it probably won’t be too long before we’ll see something like this ourselves. Midnight’s already got some doggy friends that we run into in the park and each time she goes we meet new dog owners and new dogs.

On Sunday we brought her to the park with a frisbee. She had a ton of fun playing with it. Unfortunately she mainly wanted to chase it and catch it and then chew on it rather than bring it back to us.

The frisbee attracted other dogs and it wasn’t long before another lab, a 13 month old, got a hold of her frisbee. It was cold out and the frisbee was made of a hard plastic that must have become brittle as it eventually cracked.

We took the frisbee away at that point as I was pretty sure that one of the dogs would end up with a cut mouth or something!

I guess we’ll have to get a softer rubber frisbee to play with next time.

It was fun bringing a toy to the park though. That was the first time we brought anything for Midnight to play with and it went over well.

Do you bring along something for your dog to play with when you go on a long walk or a visit to a park?

New neighbors soon!

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Well our next door neighbors finally sold their house! I have no idea what the final offer was, but I suspect it was several thousand lower than what they’d originally asked. Looks like we’ll have new neighbors moving in in early April.

Chris thinks he saw our new neighbors to be when they were looking at the house. It’s a young couple. Hopefully a friendly and fairly quite people. By quiet I don’t mean I’m wishing they are excessively quiet … just no noisy Karaoke parties like our current neighbors please!

Sometime this year we’ll have new neighbors on the other side of the house too. My elderly neighbor Sofie – the one I call my stalker – had a mild stroke two weeks ago and she’s in the hospital. Her family had finally talked her into moving in with them so I guess the house will go up for sale sometime soon.

Her oldest son has been busy working in the basement over the last week or so. I’m not sure what he’s doing down there but it sure is noisy! Maybe he’s digging the basement foundation out to make the floor to ceiling height better. As I’ve probably mentioned a few times our basement was made for very short people. I’ve got to walk around ours hunched over and I’m sure all our neighbors basements are like that too unless they’ve done some work to increase the height.

So I guess we’ll be seeing moving vans around here soon. I think the new couple moving in is from New York so maybe we’ll see some New York movers vans.

It’s kind of exciting getting new neighbors. I just hope they’re good people.

Muscles don’t fail me now

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Well it’s the end of the month and it’s snowing yet again. I think this is the fifth or sixth big snow storm we’ve had this month here in Toronto. It’s also set a record for the amount of snow during this month too!

I believe I heard the weather man say that we’d get about a foot of snow in just a few hours this afternoon. I believe it. It’s snowing quite heavily right now.

I guess I’ll be getting some exercise shoveling all that snow in a while. Oh boy! Muscles don’t fail me now!

All kinds of Tulips

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I think for many people, when they think of spring flowers they think of tulips. Am I right?

I grow several different types of tulips. There are fringed ones, lily tipped, long stem, short stemmed or dwarf tulips, regular garden variety tulips … I’m sure there’s another type or two that I grow.

Did you know that some tulips bloom in early spring, others in mid spring and that there are also late spring varieties? I grow some of each so that my garden is filled with tulips for the majority of the spring season.

I believe the white tulip that I included above is a lily tipped tulip. Some of it’s outer petals are longer than the rest and they arch up above the flower elegantly.

Do you grow tulips in your garden? Do you sometimes buy bulbs that have been forced so that you can have tulip or other spring bulbs blooming inside your house in late winter?

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information. GTS participants remember to check in at As the Garden Grows each week so that we’ll know you made a new post!

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