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Everyone needs a friend

August 1, 2007 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

Whenever I see this photo I always think of the lyrics to the song You’ve got a Friend by Carol King and James Taylor.

When you’re down and troubled
And you need a helping hand
And nothing, whoa nothing is going right.
Close your eyes and think of me
And soon I will be there
To brighten up even your darkest nights.

You just call out my name,
And you know where ever I am
Ill come running, oh yeah baby
To see you again.
Winter, spring, summer, or fall,
All you have to do is call
And Ill be there, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You’ve got a friend.

That song is actually my husband and I’s song. We danced to it at our wedding. It suits us perfectly because we are best friends.

That poor monkey. Looks like he needs more than a stuffed toy.

Stella’s a little wet

July 29, 2007 by Tricia

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I decided to add this site to Green Thumb Sunday … You know I take a lot of photos – why not, eh?

This is a Stella Dora day lily. As with many of my flower photos these days I happened to take this while outside on a rainy day a couple of weeks ago. The petals are covered in water droplets.

I think everyone has Stella Dora. They might be a bit of a stereotype, but they are pretty, they re-bloom and they are easy flowers to grow. I have a few other types of day lilies as well and I enjoy each and every one of their blooms.

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

Slacking on the Celebrity news front

July 27, 2007 by Tricia

I just realized that I haven’t been writing in my Celebrity blog Celebrity Scoop at all! I used to write at least three posts a day there, but in the last few weeks I’ve barely written anything.

I think I’ve just been too busy with my other sites, and well web hosting woes. Actually I think the web hosting woes are the main cause of my not getting over to some of my blogs in a more timely manner.

Now that my hosting problems have hopefully been resolved I should be getting over there more often – daily I hope!

So if you like keeping up on celebrity gossip please do drop by, I promise there will be something interesting to read when you visit.

I wish I’d planned our patio better

July 27, 2007 by Tricia

When we created our lovely garden and patio we were planning more for the garden than anything else. While I love our garden I often wish that I’d made our patio area at least 15 square feet larger than it is. Why? Well, we have plenty of room for our really nice patio set, and we have garden beds around two sides of the patio creating a nice intimate feel … but we have no room for our barbecue!

Our barbecue is in the driveway chained to the wall. That’s where we cook. Then we either bring our food to our patio table or back inside if it’s too hot or if it’s raining.

We need to create an outdoor kitchen. With that extra space that I really should have planned for when we landscaped our yard we could have had a built in barbecue or even a stone stove. We could have even had cabinets to keep our various utensils and BBQ supplies in.

Perhaps I’ll redo our patio area one day. All I’d really have to do would be to move one raised garden bed back a few feet. Not as easy as it sounds but quite possible.

Do you have a landscaped yard? If you do, did you plan an outdoor kitchen into it?

In the old days before our PVR

July 20, 2007 by Tricia

I was just thinking about something I used to do when people would call while I was watching a television show that I didn’t want to miss. I used to switch the TV over to closed captioning. Sure it distracted me a little bit from my telephone conversation, but I could still keep up to some degree with what was going on in the show.

Now of course we have a PVR. That’s like a TIVO for those of you who don’t know what a PVR is. We almost always record our favorite shows on the PVR because we don’t always watch the shows when they are on TV. We watch them hours later. One bonus to this is we can skim through all the commercials.

The PVR also lets us pause or even rewind a live program. I love this! If the phone rings while I’m watching something interesting or if I need to use the washroom or go cook dinner I can either just pause the program or let it run and rewind it back to where I’d left off when I’m ready to watch the show again.

I love it!

Who else has a PVR?