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Deep freeze in Toronto

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I’m my last post I was talking about how rude people kept blocking the sidewalk as I tried to walk to my doctors office the other day.

When I got home the running shoes I’d been wearing were caked in mud. Not only did the rude people tick me off because they blocked the sidewalk but they also gave me a clean up job to do!

I’d been wearing my running shoes since it was above zero that day and it felt fairly nice out for a winter day in January.

Now that we’re in a deep freeze again it’s time to pull out my sheepskin boots. I’ve got to stay warm! Tonight it’s going down to -16 Celsius. That’s 3.2 F .. and that’s darn cold!

I think I might pull out my puffy winter coat too. It’s a short coat, like a ski jacket but it’s stuffed full of microfiber and no other coat I’ve owned has been warmer!





Trying to decide on a gift for Chris

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I’m trying to think of what to get Chris for Christmas.

The way we’ve been spending money what with our trip to Vegas, buying a puppy – the training crate for her, 3 sets of vet bills in two weeks since she’s sick, toys and so on, plus the car windows motor broke the other day so that was another expensive bill … oh and the DLP TV needed an expensive new light bulb last week … I’m just not sure whether we should even exchange gifts at all. BTW the expenses I just mentioned above are several thousand dollars worth all in just a months time!

I mean, we’ve got to get gifts for family members, but we don’t really need anything and the puppy is like a Christmas gift for both of us.

If I were going to get Chris a gift I thought about maybe getting him a new watch. His current watch is nice enough and still works but it would be nice to get him a dressy watch. I can’t afford any of the beautiful IWC watches, but if I could find another brand that was similar I think it would be a gift that he would appreciate.

What do you think? Is the puppy enough of a gift for the two of us? I think she is. We have pretty much everything else we need and want.

I must visit Arizona some day

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I was just thinking about our recent trip to Las Vegas and how lovely the scenery was as we flew over Arizona and Nevada.

We got to see a bit of the Grand Canyon from the airplane window and the rest of the landscape we saw was so beautiful! I love the red rock and rich colored sands of Arizona.

I’d love to visit the State sometime. Hey perhaps when I get older I’ll even look for Arizona real estate and retire there. Why not? So many other people go to Arizona to retire.

I wish I’d thought of trying to take some photos from the plane. They probably wouldn’t be that great, but I could at least have shown you what I saw from so far above.

Have you been to Arizona? Is it as lovely as I think it is?

Tons of photos whenever anything new is purchased!

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One of my brothers is really into electronics and cars. Whenever he buys a new computer, a new television or any other gadget he sends tons of photos by email. He barely says anything in these emails … it’s just huge picture after huge picture.

I have no idea why he does this. I think I’m going to have to teach him how to use Flickr or another free photo storage place!

His latest set of photos were of his new car. The photos included the cars interior, exterior, car spoilers and well, everything!

I think he’s just so proud of what he’s purchased that he’s got to show it off right way by sending us 40 megabytes of photos!

Do you have any relatives that are like that?

We’re getting a puppy!

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I was just telling my readers at Tricia’s Musings that we’re going to be putting a small dent in our checking account later this week when we buy a new puppy!

I’m so excited!

We’re going to drive out of town on Friday evening to go and see a couple who breed Labrador Retrievers. If all goes well we’ll be coming home with an exactly 11 week old puppy. The pups were born on September 7th, one day after my own birthday. If we do get one of the pups it won’t be hard for me to remember it’s birthday, we’ll celebrate together.

At this time the breeder has five pups. I think three are black and two are yellow. I haven’t decided if I have a preference of the dogs sex or color yet. My husband doesn’t have a preference right now either. We’ve decided that we’ll go and see the pups, hopefully we’ll still have a choice between the five as I don’t know if there are any other people heading out to that farm this week to pick up a pup, and we’ll see which one responds to use best and which one we like best. Hopefully we’ll both want the same one!

Yesterday evening, while we were still deciding if we’d drive out to where the pups are, we went to the Toronto Humane Society to look at the dogs waiting to be adopted. As I said in my post on Tricia’s Musings we’d originally thought about rescuing a dog in need of a new home, but the majority of dogs in rescues are older and I truly wanted the puppy experience. Still, we looked at all the dogs at the Humane society and I was right – most are between 7 and 12 years of age and many have behavioral problems as well as health problems. I’m not opposed to caring for an animal with problems, I’ve done it for years with reptiles, but with my own current health problems I think it would be best to have a healthy yet energetic new pet.

There was one 11 month old German Shepherd mix at the Humane Society that I did stop to consider adopting. He was so cute!

The Lab pup rules though. I sure hope we are happy with the conditions at the farm where they are currently living. The couple who has the pups breeds their dogs as a hobby and their dogs are registered with the Canadian Kennel Club and their pups will be too.

If you have a Labrador Retriever I’d love to hear your experiences, especially the puppy stage ones!

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