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Our neighborhood is changing!

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Well our new neighbors have moved in. So far so good … they seem to be quiet. Not bad considering they have three kids!


I do hope that they are better than our last – Redneck – neighbors! I’m still getting over them and I’m so happy that they moved!

Sadly I do think we’ll have another set of new neighbors in the house a few doors away from us – maybe by early next year. One of our neighbors was recently diagnosed with cancer and he was only given three months to live. He’s getting treatments for Mesothelioma but it really doesn’t look good.

Our neighborhood’s changing. When we moved in most of our closest neighbors were older … like in their ’80s! and they’d lived in the area for 40 years or so. In the last year or two we’ve had a few neighbors pass away and others move either to nursing homes or went to live with their children … My guess is that five years from now we’ll have a whole new set of neighbors and we’ll be the ones who’ve been here the longest. LOL

Is your neighborhood going through a change?





How do sick people stay in shape?

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I’m so frustrated. I keep wanting to get back into a fitness routine, but because of my Crohn’s I just can’t seem to get started.

Seriously. Right now my right side is aching so bad that I can barely walk around my house let alone think about picking up the ‘ol Kettlebell and start doing a bit of a work out.

Seriously – how does a person with a chronic illness that keeps acting up manage to stay in shape? I certainly haven’t found a way!

Luckily I was fairly active in the summer – getting out and walking more and of course doing work in my garden. Believe me … when I work in my garden it is a workout because I’ll stay out there digging and stretching over the raised garden beds until I get whatever job I’m working on done … sometimes I’m out there for eight hours at a time – even if I’m in excruciating pain! I call it extreme gardening. LOL

Now that the weather is beginning to get a little cooler I want to try to find a way to stay active and in shape indoors. Yeah I could go out and walk or even jog in the winter, but when it’s -25 Celsius out and there’s three feet of snow that’s not really the best kind of activity.

As usual I’m going to hope that this pain goes away so that I can do something that keeps me active. I certainly have enough fitness equiptment in the house to get me in shape. I just need to feel well enough to use it.

I’m so bored!

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I’ve noticed over the last month or so that I’m becoming really bored with being at home. The problem is there isn’t much I can do about it!

I’m stuck at home because I’m sick and since I don’t feel all that well most of the time I can’t really get out and do things – not as much as I’d like to any way!

I try to keep busy working on my various website and blogs, doing a bit of gardening when I can and of course playing with my Labrador Retriever … but I’m bored.

Maybe I should look into one of those Cancun packages and plan a vacation? I’ll be a change of scenery would do me good! Only problem is we are so strapped for cash I can really only dream about a vacation right now. I have been working on some things that might change our financial picture for the better – hopefully by the new year … so maybe if that happens we’ll be able to go on a holiday … just in time to get away from the horrid cold weather here in Toronto. LOL

Do you ever get bored with your life? What do you try to do to stop the boredom?

Last week was cold, this week it’s hot and humid! Strange Weather

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It’s hard to believe that today is the second day of Autumn! It’s 27 C outside and with humidity if feels like 35 C (95 F). Now those are summer temps!

The weather’s been so weird this year. Last week it was getting so cool at night (6 C (42 F) that I was thinking about bringing in my tropical plants like the Orchids, passion flower, jasmine and other vines and putting the patio furniture away for the rest of the year. We even took the air conditioners out of the windows last Sunday so that the house would be warmer. LOL and now we’re having a mini heat wave!

It’s been so humid in the house that the chewable calcium tablets that I put out each day to remind me to take them have gotten all wet from soaking up the humidity! That’s a first!

I guess I shouldn’t complain about humid weather though … I heard that people in some parts of Colorado had snow yesterday! With any luck we won’t see snow here until December or late November at the very earliest.

How’s the weather in your area?

Covered in Bruises!

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As most of my regular readers know, we have a Labrador Retriever. She just turned two, two weeks ago, so she’s finally starting to calm down a bit, but not nearly enough for me!

She’s a pretty good dog, fairly obedient and definitely regards me as the Alpha in the house … except every once in a while she’ll try to pull one over on me.

Her quest for power usually takes place in the evening when I’m lying on the couch watching TV. She’ll jump up on the couch beside me and make her wookie (whooo whoo, grughhh) sounds to indicate that she wants to play and doesn’t want to take no for an answer. Then she’ll try to climb on top of me or over me to reach the top of the pillow that I’m usually lying on while on the the couch.

Once she’s perched near my head she’ll sit there contentedly, occasionally turning around to lick my face, ears and neck. Labs are kind of slobbery so I need to wipe my face after a lick attack!

The bruises I’m getting are from her walking over me when she’s instant on playing and getting really close to me so that she can give me a lick attack.

When she tries to do this I usually try to hold her back by putting my leg up to bar her from climbing over me but this past week she just keeps coming! She’ll even fake me out by looking like she’s just going to sit down beside me when I’ve said no and once I relax she just jumps on me! She’s a smart dog!

My husband thinks she just does this because she “loves” me … but I think it’s a little bit of doggy dominance coming out. As I said above she’s a fairly obedient (yet hyper and excitable) dog.

She weighs about 70lb and while my husband doesn’t seem to find her walking on him painful it really hurts me when she walks on my legs, stomach and even my chest. There’s been many a time when I’ve woken in the morning wondering why one of my boobs is sore and then I remember that my dog walked on it the night before! LOL

I also take medications for my Crohn’s disease that make my blood a little thinner so I’m more prone to bruising as it is, let alone having a large dog jumping all over me.

I have to find a way to stop her from jumping on me like this. When she does manage to walk all over me this is the only real time that she is being Alpha or has any kind of dominance over me.

Any suggestions from other dog owners out there?

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