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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.





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.

Loving the great weather

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As I was saying in my last post I’m really enjoying the fact that spring has truly arrived in Toronto. We’ve had some amazing weather here in Toronto this week. Yesterday it reached 19 Celsius (66.2 F), but it was kind of windy so it didn’t feel quite that warm.

Our puppy’s really been enjoying Spring as well. We got her at the end of November and she only had a very short period of time to enjoy the great outdoors before snow started to fall. She didn’t mind the snow at all, but the cool temperatures and poor walking conditions did lessen her time outdoors for most of her time with us so far.

Now that the weather is so nice though we’re taking her out all the time. We’ve been to a few of Toronto’s fantastic beach areas three times in the last week and a half, The brickworks, the local park and have been taking longer walks.

On the really nice days such as yesterday we’ve even been sitting outside on the front porch. She loves watching the cars, squirrels, birds, people and school kids going by. I’d say the kids are loving the nice weather too. I’d swear I heard a couple of them talking about soccer trophies yesterday which of course means they’re out playing a lot of sports now too.

Midnights only gone through a heavy shedding period with us twice. Shortly after she arrived and the month of March. I guess she’s still shedding but I think she’s on the tale end of it now. I took advantage of the nice weather today and brought her outside and groomed her as she watched everything that was going on in the neighborhood. We both got some fresh air and time to enjoy the lovely day and she has a few less hairs to lose in the house now too. Bonus.

Have you taken advantage of the great spring weather? What have you been doing?

Puppie’s got a head scarf on

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A few days ago I posted about having fun with dressing up our puppy. Well I didn’t really dress her up … I just put the bandanna that we’d been given by the Petsmart groomers on her in a different way.

I made it into a scarf …

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I didn’t post photos the other day when I mentioned what I’d been up to with our little Lab. The photos were still on the camera, but I finally got around to uploading them onto the computer so now you can see how silly our dog looked.

We have a lot of elderly neighbors – mostly Macedonian and Greek and they tend to wear head scarves when they are out and about. Midnight really looked like one of my neighbors that day. We’d just put ointment in her eyes – she might have an eye infection (she’s been treated with medicated ointment several times since we got her) or maybe allergies – and the ointment made her eyes look a bit watery in the photos.

So what do you think? Does she look like a pitiful little dog with the scarf around her head or what?

New neighbors soon!

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Well our next door neighbors finally sold their house! I have no idea what the final offer was, but I suspect it was several thousand lower than what they’d originally asked. Looks like we’ll have new neighbors moving in in early April.

Chris thinks he saw our new neighbors to be when they were looking at the house. It’s a young couple. Hopefully a friendly and fairly quite people. By quiet I don’t mean I’m wishing they are excessively quiet … just no noisy Karaoke parties like our current neighbors please!

Sometime this year we’ll have new neighbors on the other side of the house too. My elderly neighbor Sofie – the one I call my stalker – had a mild stroke two weeks ago and she’s in the hospital. Her family had finally talked her into moving in with them so I guess the house will go up for sale sometime soon.

Her oldest son has been busy working in the basement over the last week or so. I’m not sure what he’s doing down there but it sure is noisy! Maybe he’s digging the basement foundation out to make the floor to ceiling height better. As I’ve probably mentioned a few times our basement was made for very short people. I’ve got to walk around ours hunched over and I’m sure all our neighbors basements are like that too unless they’ve done some work to increase the height.

So I guess we’ll be seeing moving vans around here soon. I think the new couple moving in is from New York so maybe we’ll see some New York movers vans.

It’s kind of exciting getting new neighbors. I just hope they’re good people.

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