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I need to take better care of my skin!

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Wow, is my skin ever delicate! For some reason I was looking at my arm earlier today, don’t ask me why, and I noticed that I have all these little tiny scars on my arm. I looked at my other arm and the top of my hands and the same thing is going on.

I think some of the scars go back to when we used to have a very very large iguana. His nails would scratch my skin when I’d hold him – not enough to make me bleed … just a scratch or scuff .. but then I’d end up with a very light scar.

Now that we have a dog she scratches me up pretty good too. If I ask her to shake hands she paws me quickly several times and scratches me with her rough nails!

So .. now I have tiny, white criss crossed scars all over my hands and arms! The only times I’ve really ever notices it before was in the summer when my skin gets a light tan. Hmmm I wonder what I could do to fix it? I wonder if acne scar cream would work or if I’d have to get something stronger?

Does your skin scar from just a tiny scratch like mine does? When I say scratch I mean just a little skin scuffing – no cut, no bleeding, just a faint mark …





My dog is a nut!

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My dog is a nut … I’m sure that any other Labrador Retriever owners out there feel the same about their precious pet.

I’m biased, but I think she’s really smart .. smart enough to purposely ignore us when we tell her something, yet completely understand if there’s a food treat involved. LOL Midnight even knows how to lie! When she was a puppy she’d fake pee, crouching down on the ground in a pee making position so that we’d think she went .. yet she didn’t realize she was on snow and that we’d see that there was nothing beneath her. I’m sure she just did that for a trip outside.

Last week, when I was upstairs having a shower our Lab came up for a visit. She’s only recently been permitted to come upstairs so it’s a big deal for her. I guess I didn’t close the bathroom door fully (hey it was just me and her in the house) so she pushed the door open and the next thing I knew there as a dog head pushing the shower curtains aside to see what I was up to in there.

After a moment or two of watching the “rain” come down on me, she decided to jump into the tub! Yeah, I had a dog in the shower with me. It was a little weird, but I didn’t mind all that much.

Since she was in the shower I thought about giving her a bath, after all, I was dressed for it! However, she stayed near the end of the bathtub, away from the shower water. Did I tell you that while she loves swimming and water in general, she doesn’t seem to like rain? So we nixed the doggy bath idea.

It took me a few minutes to get her out of the bath/shower once I was done. I think she’s a little nervous to jump over the side of the tub. Once she did jump out she slipped on the tile flooring a bit, since her feet were wet. Just that alone might be enough to discourage her from visiting me in the shower again as she got a little scared when she slipped and once she’s scared of something she avoids it. Luckily she hasn’t encountered much that’s scared her.

Do you have a silly dog? Has your dog ever jumped into the shower or bath with you? If so, what did you do?

Trying to lose a few pounds before the end of the month

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Ahhh! My nieces wedding is coming up soon! It’s on the 30th of December – just 24 days from now!

I’m not ready!

I’ve been working out every day over the last week and a half, but it hasn’t helped much yet. I want to lose about 10 lb before the wedding. I need to lose weight fast so that I’ll look great by the time her wedding day arrives.

My meals are low calorie (low fat, low sugar) and I’ve been taking long walks with the dog each day. In addition to this I’ve been using Wii fit Plus, Gold’s Cardio workout and AE Sports Active on my Wii for at least an hour a day. All of which get my heart rate up and get me sweating.

I’m pretty sure that if I keep this up I’ll lose the 10 lb that I want to lose, but so far I really haven’t seen much in the way of results … well if you don’t count sore muscles! The work outs are definitely doing something to my body because my arms, ribs and thighs hurt!

What do you do when you need to lose 5 to 10 lb in a month?

We’re thinking of putting a pond in our small garden

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I was just wondering if any of you have a pond in your backyard? If so – did you install it yourself?

My husband and I have a very nice backyard garden with raised garden beds made with stackable formed stones. It looks great. We even separated our garden into two areas – a patio entertaining area separated by an oval garden bed, and then the back area surrounded by the majority of all of our garden plants.

The only major garden feature that’s missing is a pond, and my husband has always wanted us to have a pond back there. So … I’m thinking about it.

The trouble is that we have a really small yard to begin with. it’s only something like 20 feet wide and 35 feet long and with three to four foot deep garden beds going around the edges of the yard there isn’t much space left over.

If we do put in a pond it will have to be a small one. I guess I’ll have a look at pond supplies and see what I can come up with. Perhaps a small premade plastic pond would work?

Any ideas? I know that making a pond isn’t all that hard, but getting one to fit into a small established garden … that might be hard!

It doesn’t seem like the end of November

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Considering that we’re nearing the end of November, I’d say we’ve been having pretty good weather here in Toronto. I mean, by this time last year we’d already had a small snow or two. Melted quickly of course!

I’m not saying it’s warm here, but the temps have been slightly higher than normal in the last couple of weeks. At this rate I don’t think we’ll have our first real snow until December. Hopefully it’s not a huge storm!

I still have a bit of yard work to do before the snow falls and stays. I’ve got to remove some plant leaves and stems, cut down the huge sunflowers in the front boulevard and just generally tidy up the yard. Oh and I have to bring in the patio sets outdoor cushions. They’re weather proofed, but I still don’t want them out in the extreme cold of winter – surely that can’t be good for them.

Has the weather been decent in your area? If so, do you still have outdoor chores that need to be done?

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