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My husbands bird like aunt

August 19, 2009 by Tricia

My in-laws were visiting over the weekend. I’m still recovering!

They were visiting because my husbands uncle is in poor health and my husband was sort of taking care of his sick uncle (along with his cousin’s help) over the weekend.

I seriously think my husbands Aunt, who was also visiting and staying with us over the weekend will be the next one to get sick. She’s super skinny. Like you can feel every single bone in her back and shoulders when you carefully attempt to give her a hug! It’s like she tried ever supplement on the best fat burner list!

She exists mainly on what we call bird food. Every month or so, she and my mother in law come to Toronto for a visit and during each visit they spend about three hours at The Big Carrot (a huge local health food store). My husbands aunt comes back with products like Millet puffs and things like that. I swear she probably only eats about 500 calories a day.

Do you have any relatives that worry you over their poor eating habits?

Love the heat – hate the humidity!

August 16, 2009 by Tricia

I hate to complain about the weather considering that we’re finally having decent weather and heat (yes our first and probably last week of summer is going on right now) … but it’s so hot and humid that I’ve basically been shut inside all weekend!

I’m sure if I felt better I would have been outside doing things, but my Crohn’s disease is acting up (what else is new?) and combining those symptoms and the pain with the heat and humidity is a bad idea!

I actually like it when it’s nice and warm outside. It’s just the humidity that I don’t like. The air gets thick and it feels like your swimming around instead of walking!

What kind of weather do you like best? Hot, hot and humid, comfortable (21 C to 24 C (70 to 75 F) or do you like it best when it’s cold outside? Me – I like the comfortable to hot range – but not the humidity!

Blooms, Blooms Everywhere!

August 2, 2009 by Tricia

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I just love it when my roses are blooming. It certainly doesn’t hurt if half my other plants are in bloom as well – like now!

Here’s a lovely Antique rose that I grow in my garden. It’s a climbing rose named Prince Napoleon. Isn’t it pretty?

This rose has the most gorgeous scent as well. It’s true rose scent. I adore it!

This little plant with it’s pretty blue flowers is blooming as well. I can’t remember the name of the plant though … it’s something like Agathum ..

Cute, aren’t they?

Another rose that I’m always happy to see bloom, which puts out far to few blooms for my liking (I’d love it to bloom constantly!) is my Chicago Peace Hybrid Tea rose …

I love it’s colors – mainly pink, but as it ages it has yellows and oranges in it that combine in complimentary ways. it’s beautiful. No scent though or not much to speak of!

Do you garden? What’s blooming in your yard this week?

Dog with a fetish?

July 26, 2009 by Tricia

My Labrador Retriever, Midnight, who’s almost two years old, had developed a fetish. She loves cardboard and won’t leave it alone!

Any time we have some cardboard around – say an empty box for a 12 pack of pop, an empty cereal box or any kind of thick paper she starts jumping around because she wants to take it back to her doggy bed so that she can tear it up!

It’s kind of funny, but it’s gotten to the point where we can’t carry things around without her trying to grab it out of our hands. Now I’m afraid to take her into the pet store too … they have cardboard displays and I think she’ll try to eat them! LOL

Aren’t dogs fun! They’re nuts!

So how do I get her off this cardboard fetish? Actually she’s not too bad. If we say no she won’t keep trying for it … but still it’s a pain when you’re trying to carry something and at first she’s jumping at you. I mean, she’s a 70 lb dog!

What to do?

We’re officially on Staycation!

July 26, 2009 by Tricia

My husband and I are vacation for the next two weeks. No we’re not going to some exotic local … uh huh … we’re just doing a staycation this year.

We simply can’t afford to go away for a week or two, let along even a weekend!

What we’re going to do is take advantage of the many things that are going on in Toronto. There’s Caribana – a two week long Caribbean festival ending in a huge parade this coming weekend. The Beaches Jazz fest that ended today, which we went to last night and I’m sure we’ll find a few other things going on for us to enjoy.

One thing I’d like to do while my husband is off work is go to his Aunt’s house where we are storing our trailer. One of the beds broke a couple of years ago (that’s how long since we’ve used the thing!) and we need to get it fixed. Hmmm I wonder if that rv extended warranty will cover the damage and repair? Hmmm I’ve got to check into that too!

Otherwise, I guess we’ll just be hanging out here in Toronto, enjoying the garden, having some barbecues – maybe inviting some friends over and of course attending some of the great events going on here in Toronto.

Are you or did you have a Staycation this summer or did you travel somewhere for your holiday?