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A beautiful Sunny Day for some Yard work

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It seemed like everyone in our neighborhood that didn’t go away for the long weekend must have been out cutting their grass and doing yard work today. I couldn’t believe how much the neighborhood smelled of fresh cut grass. It was kind of strange .. and strong smelling. LOL

One nice thing about our neighborhood is that we all kind of take turns helping each other out with the yard work or lawn care. Early this morning one of our neighbors from a few houses down cut his grass, our grass and the two neighbors lawns between our houses. Nice huh? Especially nice for the older lady on social security benefits between us because she just can’t get out to do yard work any more at all. We do her lawn when we’re cutting our grass too.

It’s supposed to rain tomorrow so we enjoyed the nice weather today. It got up to 27 Celsius (80.6 F)- the warmest day so far! If the weatherman is wrong and it doesn’t rain too much tomorrow maybe we’ll go to a garden center and get some annual plants for our garden and do some planting.

What are you doing this long weekend? It’s Victoria Day weekend here in Canada and Memorial Day in the USA.





I love this time of year

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I love this time of year. The weather is just starting to get nice after a long cool winter and now the trees are beginning to fill in with leaves and flowers are beginning to bloom – I can’t imagine who wouldn’t love this time of year after taking a good look outside on a nice day.

My garden is just lovely. It changes almost daily. I bought one of those digital camcorders back in February just so that I could tape the silly things that my dog does and record how my garden changes throughout the year … I guess I should be out there taping daily or at least taking pictures at this time of year because every day I look out my window and new flowers are blooming or something else has grown or new leaves have opened up. It’s just constantly changing. It’s beautiful.

Do you enjoy Spring too? Do you love seeing things green up and begin to bloom as much as I do?

A lot of friendly neighbors

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I was outside earlier today, walking the dog around the block, and I ended up talking with my next door neighbor for about half an hour. Why is it all my close neighbors love to talk and talk and talk? Believe me .. it’s not me! LOL … it’s just a really friendly neighborhood I guess. I shouldn’t complain, I suppose.

Anyway .. my neighbor just left her job and right now she’s been staying home with their young toddler. I kind of already knew she or her husband must be home during the day with their child because there’s been a lot more day time noise next door lately. A lot more noise – believe me. Anyway .. she’s now looking for a new job and in the meantime she’s doing a bit of work from home. She might even do a complete change of career. She mentioned she was toying with the idea of possibly taking a medical assistance program which really would be a change of job for her since she’s in the computer field right now.

I guess sometime in the next few weeks she’ll decide what new job she’ll be doing or looking for, in the meantime she’s just trying to enjoy her extra time at home with her daughter. Oh and they’re also going to put up a new fence between our houses since the one that’s there is starting to fall down … so it’s probably good that she’ll be home when that’s going on too.

Are the people in your neighborhood friendly? Do you stop and talk with your neighbors or do you barely know the people that live near you?

talking with the neighbors

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I was outside earlier this morning with my dog and I ran into one of my neighbors. She was also out with her dog. I hadn’t seen her for a while so we stood and talked while our dogs played.

She works in the hospital where I work. Well … I’m on medical leave, but I still do work there, although you wouldn’t know it lately would you?

I always see either her or her husband out walking their dog. It’s a beautiful brindle American terrier and he just seems to love our Labrador Retriever.

I hadn’t talked with her for a while, maybe since Autumn even though I see her pass by my house regularly. I guess I hadn’t taken a close look at her either because when I did stop to talk with her this morning I noticed that she’d really lost weight. I don’t know what she’s doing, maybe she found diet supplements that work or she really stepped up the walking or something, but whatever she’s up to it’s working! She looks great.

Maybe I should have said something, but I didn’t want to make her self conscious about her looks or anything. I was just really impressed. I mean, you don’t see people really shaping up in the middle of winter – not in the middle of a bad Canadian winter anyway. Not usually. Good for her!

Do you ever notice that about your neighbors or co-workers .. that they’ve suddenly started to lose weight or get into better shape?

Our absent neighbors

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I was just thinking that we haven’t seen our new neighbors in a couple of weeks. Can you believe they haven’t even moved in yet? They bought the house next door in April or maybe early May and here in is near the end of December – 8 months later and we barely ever see them.

Still … it’s a big change from our old renter neighbors! I’m so glad they don’t live next to use any more. If they still lived next to us not only would we still be hiding behind locked screened doors (not just locked doors) but we’d have a few security cameras up around the house too. Those people were scary nasty!

I guess what I’m saying is that the new neighbors that actually own the house next door are a huge improvement over the criminal renter neighbors – even if we never see them. It’s not that bad that we don’t see them really … apparently they’re off at parties every weekend. My only fear is that once they actually move in they might start having parties in their house every weekend.

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