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We have new neighbors!

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Our neighbors finally sold their home a couple of months ago and they moved out this past Thursday and Friday. I really didn’t think they’d manage to sell their home since they had the price so high – very high considering they hadn’t done anything to the home and I’ve just found out that the kitchen doesn’t even have a stove! No wonder they were always using their deep fryer on their side of the enclosed back porch. Geez!

Anyway, the new neighbors came by on Saturday and we met them. Well, Chris talked to the husband a few times, and he and I both spoke with the wife. From what we can tell they seem like a really nice couple.

They’ve decided to do a bit of work around the home before they move in and don’t plan to fully move in until the beginning of July. We didn’t ask, but I suspect that they are currently living in an apartment. When we bought our house we kept our apartment for an extra month as well (cashed in on that first and last and as a result didn’t pay rent for that last month) as we did work around our home.

Apparently our area is quite hot in the Real Estate market. Our new neighbor told me that her agent and all their friends said this was really an up and coming area. Cool .. No wonder there are so many houses going up for sale and new people moving in so often lately! We might have to hang theater rope to keep the potential buyers at bay!

The new neighbor – the man – plays in a band so I’m sure he and Chris will end up getting together to jam. Both are guitar players.

As I said I only met the new lady of the house once, but she seemed very nice, down to earth and I have a feeling we’ll get along quite well.





Things to do with our dog this summer?

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Chris and I are excited about having our puppy around and the fact that we’ll more than likely be outside doing more interesting activities this year as a result.

We’ve even gone so far as to brainstorm regarding all the different places we can take our dog and what interesting things we can do with her. I’ve mentioned many times that I’ve enjoyed just getting out each day to take her for a walk, but we can do so much more.

For example we love taking her to the park and watching her run around on her long leash. We aren’t comfortable with her going leashless yet although she’s fairly responsive when we call her to come to us. We’ve also taken her to a few of our Toronto beaches already. I’m sure she’ll really enjoy that in the heat of the summer when she can take a nice dip in the cool waters of Lake Ontario to cool off.

Lately I’ve been considering getting skate shoes. She loves her walks, but if I get skate shoes I could go even farther with her without over tiring myself.

I think she’s still a little too young and not obedient enough to tag along beside our bikes if we went riding … plus they say you really shouldn’t take young dogs running for any major distances until they are about two years old as they can hurt themselves more easily.

Anyone have any great suggestions as to what else we can do with our dog this summer?

BTW we’re enjoying a feast today thanks to our neighbors and the fact that they are celebrating Greek Orthodox Easter. Take a look at the delicacies they gave us! Yummmmm!

Interesting bike storage

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Wordless Wednesday

novel bike storage

Live in an apartment? Don’t have any storage space or even a balcony? Take a cue from this savvy apartment renter and hook your bike outside the window. Heck you could even lower it to the ground to make it easier on yourself when you want to take a ride.

Crazy teen drivers

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Late last night I took the puppy outside to do her business before putting her to bed in her crate. While we were outside we both heard loud voices and suddenly headlights came at us from the street opposite our house.

Dumb teenagers! They were revving up the SUV they were driving and the driver must have put his foot on the gas because the vehicle came roaring right at us for a moment or two before the kid hit the brakes! We were both a little frightened after that. It made me think I’d better make sure my Life and term insurance is up to date! LOL

Chris had been getting ready to go to bed and he was upstairs in the bedroom window. He’d heard the kids voices and saw what happened as the vehicle came at us. He was ready to run outside and tell the guys off, but they backed up their SUV and took off backwards down the street!

They had to have been drinking!

I think I know what house that SUV belongs to and I’m going to keep an eye out for it. I wonder if the boys parents know what he was up to last night.

Strange messages

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Over the last month or two, every time I talked about our bad weather (remember that huge snow storm we had here in Toronto at the end of March?), and my desire to get away from it all for a vacation on one of my other blogs someone came along and left me a message. The message always suggest that I visit check out one of the Outer Banks rentals if I needed to get away.

It was kind of strange. It was always the same person and they weren’t even leaving a link to a vacation rental site. So I’m not certain that it was a spam message. Perhaps the person really thought I’d have a great time visiting the Outer Banks?

Certainly I get enough spammy comments on each of blogs day in and day out. Those get marked as spam so those people won’t end up being able to bother other WordPress bloggers once Akismet gets there number.

Do you get strange comments on your sites that make you wonder what the persons getting at?

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