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When can I stop shoveling?

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This weeks theme is Heavy

We’ve had a few snow storms here in Toronto in the last week or two and I’ve been out shoveling the heavy snow! I guess it’s good exercise but it’s awful hard work when the snow is packed and heavy. My back ached each time.

Look how high the snow is on my tiny front lawn:

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It’s almost as high as our car!

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We’re supposed to get more snow over the weekend and next week. I don’t know where we’ll put it! The snow was blowing so hard the other night that you could barely see the led tail lights of the few cars trying to drive on the streets!

Please visit two of my other blogs that are participating in the Photo Hunt – We’ve had a lot of snow this week here in Toronto and if you want to see some snow damage in my garden take a look at As the Garden grows, then if you want to see what my puppy finds heavy over at Tricia’s Musings.





Starting to plan our bathroom renovation

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Speaking of our basement renovation. We’re going to put in a really nice bathroom downstairs. We have a bathroom down there but it’s just a roughed in bathroom with a tiny grungy dark shower and a toilet. Right now it’s the main bathroom that my husband uses. I hate going down there!

Our upstairs bathroom is really tiny. It has everything we need but it’s sooooo small. So … if we renovate the bathroom in the basement when we do our basement reno I want a really nice bathroom … one that I’d consider our main bathroom and one that I won’t mind using one tiny bit.

We haven’t decided exactly what we’ll do down there, but I’m picturing a whirlpool bathtub with an overhead shower, toilet, basin style sink with perhaps Danze faucets and nice lighting. Since the bathroom won’t have a window it will need to be bright, but I suppose we could put a dimmer on the lights or perhaps have two sets of lights controlled by different switches so the lights could be lower if one was having a relaxing bath and wanted to set the mood with low level lighting.

Did I tell you that my nephew is going to plumbing school? Uh huh. I’ve already talked to him about our bathroom renovation and he’s more than willing to help us out. He even said he might be able to get a discount on some of the things we’ll need.

I hope we can start our reno sometime this summer.

If you have any cool ideas for a bathroom reno I’d love to hear them.

I hate having allergies

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Last night we took our puppy to her 7th puppy training class. Next week is graduation! I think we’ve got a bit of work to do in the next week practicing our “stay” command as that’s the one command that she really doesn’t do well and she’ll be tested next week.

This class was a grooming class. Why we really needed that I don’t know as I’ve already been grooming my puppy on my own … but oh well. One of the things our trainer discussed was using shampoos, dry shampoos and doggy colognes!

He passed around bottles of the doggy colognes and sprayed a few of the dogs with them too.

Now I’ve got a lot of allergies and one of my major ones is to scented products … usually it’s products that are artificially scented (that means almost all products these days!) as the scent is often petroleum based. Well it got my allergies going and I was hoping I wouldn’t need my asthma inhaler as I didn’t bring my purse to class. So that meant I didn’t have my puffer with me at all! Not a good move.

Heck … I don’t even have a medical bracelet anymore. I had one but I seem to have misplaced it. I guess I need to look over the various styles of medical id bracelets again and pick one out.

I’ve got some serious chronic health problems and a few serious allergies that cause anaphylactic reactions so I should wear a medical ID bracelet.

Do any of you have severe allergies? Do you wear a medical id bracelet?

New watches for all

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Chris and I got new watches last week. His watch had died a few days before – or at least we thought it had since it didn’t work after he’d replaced the battery, and my main watch was on it’s 3rd watch band and frankly I was getting sick of replacing the band. So we went out watch shopping.

We ended up looking for new watches in a department store. It has a good selection with watches made by Timex, Bell and Ross, Swatch, Roots, Cardinal, and a lot of designer names too.

I ended up getting a womans Ironman Timex watch. It has a build in rubber or rubberish? watch band that feels really comfortable. Chris got a Cardinal stainless steel Chrono watch.

Funny thing is that just a day or two ago when our puppy saw Chris’ old watch on the telephone table and jumped up to try to grab it we noticed that it was working again! Ha .. isn’t that a strange co-incidence? Oh well, the way Chris loses things it’s probably good that he’s got two watches now.

Diverting from their main product line?

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I always find it kind of strange when I come across a new product that’s made by a company that is well known for making a totally different type of product.

Take Nike for example. When you think of Nike you probably think of running shoes or some type of sports related shoes. You might also think about their sports or outdoor clothing lines, but would you think of Nike golf clubs? I honestly had no idea that they made golf clubs. I wonder if they make any other sports equipment?

I guess in a way the product is still related to the types of items they are well known for, I mean it’s not like they’re making Nike Coffee. Still I found it surprising.

Can you think of any other companies that make a product that doesn’t seem to fit with their brand?

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