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Too many photos, too little time to edit!

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I finally finished going over all the pictures I took this summer. What a job! We had a busy summer with more house guests than usual, and somehow I just never found the time to go over all the pictures that I took of the things we did this summer.

Of course, I transferred the pictures from our digital cameras to the computer, but I didn’t spend time editing them like I usually do.

As a result I have several folders of photos that need to be cropped or resized. I don’t know why, but I hate editing my photos! It’s not like it’s hard to do, but I take a LOT of pictures … so it’s very time consuming and I never seem to have a lot of spare time! Maybe it’s a good thing that this summer was kind of cold and rainy … I didn’t take as many photos as I normally do!

Do you edit your digital photos? If you do, do you enjoy doing it, or is it a task that you put off like I do?

BTW if you’d like to see some of my photos check out my photo blog Breath of Life.





Ugh – Fast food for dinner

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I was so tired tonight that I didn’t cook dinner. Actually I fell asleep for two hours and didn’t wake up until my husband came home from work!

By that time it was 8 pm and a little late to start cooking. So we had McDonalds for dinner. We don’t have that often. It’s rare. But I always feel guilty after eating such a high calorie meal! Where’s some Medifast coupons when you need them!

Oh and the salt! Did you know that Canadian fast food apparently has even more salt in it than American fast food? Why? I don’t know … but it’s sickeningly salty.

Do you ever feel guilty after eating a fast food meal?

What a beautiful weekend (and our injured dog)

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It’s beautiful here in Toronto this weekend … it’s like a very late Indian Summer. The sun is just about to set, but it’s still 17 C (63 F) out- and that’s pretty warm for November!

If only it would stay this warm instead of getting cold again soon! Oh well .. at least it’s still supposed to be warm tomorrow before it slowly begins to cool off again. We’ll make the most of it I guess.

Actually, since it was so nice out today my husband decided to take our dog to the beach for a run and swim. Unfortunately, after being out swimming in the Lake for two hours or so, she limped back to shore. All of her feet were bleeding! It turns out she somehow scraped all of her toenails off to the nub! My poor baby.

We’ve taken her to Cherry Beach here in Toronto to swim in Lake Ontario several times – in the same area – and nothing like this has ever happened before. Maybe there’s more rocks under the water right now? Very strange.

So after cleaning up her feet she’s just resting beside me on the couch. My husband and I are just staying in the living room watching TV so that she doesn’t get up and start trying to follow us around. I figure if her feet have a rest maybe they’ll feel a little better. I hope!

My husband has control of the remote so I’m not having much fun! He’s flipping between sports news, music docs and uh infomercials for things like a dip machine – which BTW I think he’s interested in getting! LOL Why do guys always change channels like every five minutes?

If our dog, Midnight, hadn’t hurt herself so badly I’m sure we would have spent the last couple of hours outside doing the last of our garden work. I still have some mighty tall sunflowers to chop down!

Did you have nice weather this weekend?

I hate seeing my garden die down in the Fall

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I used to love Autumn, but now that I garden there’s some sadness whenever fall arrives.

I hate to see my garden die down for the winter. I know it’s part of a cycle, but I sometimes wish that I lived in a climate where my plants could bloom year round.

Hmm maybe this year I’ll be as successful as last with my indoor plants. Last year, between my garden plants blooming from late March until early December and my indoor plants (Orchids, indoor tropical hibiscus, Amaryllis etc) blooming from late December to April I had blooms all the time. It was lovely.

This is a picture of the Cosmo’s blooming outside my house in my planted boulevard. They’re starting to die down, but a few of the flowers are still stubbornly blooming.

White cosmo bloom 6

I like how the petals of this rose, Yves Piaget, go wild as the flower begins to die down. Isn’t this a pretty rose? I love it’s color.

Yves Piaget Rose bloom 3

What’s blooming in your garden right now as we head for winter?

My neighborhood smells like cookie dough

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Every night when I take our dog outside for her final outing of the evening, usually around 11:30 pm, the air has a sweet scent. Almost sickeningly sweet.

I think I figured out what the smell is. We have a Peek Freans factory not too far away … maybe a few miles, and they must be cooking up batches of cookies or other PK products at that time of night.

I guess it could be worse … I could be smelling industrial products or something! Luckily it’s just a nice, if somewhat overpowering, sweet cookie dough smell. LOL

Do you live near a factory? If so, do you ever smell whatever they are making?

One good thing about living near a cookie factory is that they have an outlet store. We haven’t gone there for a few years, but when we last went there we bought BAGS of stuff … like enough cookies and chips and other items to last for months! It has amazing prices … 50% or more off cookies and other items. Hmmm maybe we should make another trip to the factory?

When we have gone on a shopping spree at the Peek Freans outlet store we don’t just get stuff for us … we give some of what we’ve bought to friends or family or I used to take some of the cookies to work for the other nurses and doctors to enjoy.

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