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I spoke too soon!

October 19, 2007 by Tricia

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

October 19, 2007 by Tricia

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?

The garden is snapping!

October 14, 2007 by Tricia

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Rich red snapdragons.

Mine are still blooming away thanks to the heatwave we had last week.

In fact just about everything in my garden that had any bloom ability left is blooming away right now.

The temperatures are finally at a more seasonal level – like 50 to 60 F rather than almost 100F. Perhaps my plants will now start to get the message that it’s time to go dormant for the winter?

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Mailbox tipping teens

October 11, 2007 by Tricia

Over the weekend when the weather was unusually warm and muggy here for October I was up late and I happened to hear some noise outside on the street.

There was a group of teenagers going by and they looked like they were looking to cause trouble. Twice this past summer someone has knocked over the large postal drop off mailboxes across the street. Worst of all, each time it’s been in the middle of the night and man are those things loud when they crash to the ground.

I have no proof of course, but I suspect that the mailbox tippings were caused by teenagers looking for some fun.

Oh I know, knocking over a large mailbox doesn’t cause any permanent harm, but I do hope that one day when those kids have their own homes someone does that in their neighborhood so that they realize how loud and jarring the sound really is! It’s like a car crash, maybe even louder!

I love my daisies

October 10, 2007 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

I just love daisies. They look like such a simple flower, yet they brighten up a garden and give reliable blooms from late July until early autumn.

I grow my daisies beside white phlox and pink roses. Well, that’s where I planted the main clump, but they’ve spread over time and I have several clumps growing throughout an 8 foot area now.

Do you grow daisies?