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Blooms, Blooms Everywhere!

August 2, 2009 by Tricia

I just love it when my roses are blooming. It certainly doesn’t hurt if half my other plants are in bloom as well – like now!

Here’s a lovely Antique rose that I grow in my garden. It’s a climbing rose named Prince Napoleon. Isn’t it pretty?

This rose has the most gorgeous scent as well. It’s true rose scent. I adore it!

This little plant with it’s pretty blue flowers is blooming as well. I can’t remember the name of the plant though … it’s something like Agathum ..

Cute, aren’t they?

Another rose that I’m always happy to see bloom, which puts out far to few blooms for my liking (I’d love it to bloom constantly!) is my Chicago Peace Hybrid Tea rose …

I love it’s colors – mainly pink, but as it ages it has yellows and oranges in it that combine in complimentary ways. it’s beautiful. No scent though or not much to speak of!

Do you garden? What’s blooming in your yard this week?

Thinking about getting an MP3 player

July 30, 2009 by Tricia

I know that I’ve said this before, but I mean it this time. I want some kind of MP3 player.

I’m sure I’d walk longer with our dog if I had music playing in my ears as I walked.

So … either tomorrow or some time this weekend I think my husband and I will go out and look at Mp3 players. Naturally I want a good one, but we don’t have a lot of spare cash (none really!) so I need to find a deal!

I guess that if I find they are still too expensive for us right now I can always use our shopping trip as a research mission. You know, find an MP3 player that I really like and then keep an eye out for perhaps an online deal.

Anyone have any suggestions as to what brand of MP3 player we should look at? I don’t need anything fancy … just one that plays music.

Dog with a fetish?

July 26, 2009 by Tricia

My Labrador Retriever, Midnight, who’s almost two years old, had developed a fetish. She loves cardboard and won’t leave it alone!

Any time we have some cardboard around – say an empty box for a 12 pack of pop, an empty cereal box or any kind of thick paper she starts jumping around because she wants to take it back to her doggy bed so that she can tear it up!

It’s kind of funny, but it’s gotten to the point where we can’t carry things around without her trying to grab it out of our hands. Now I’m afraid to take her into the pet store too … they have cardboard displays and I think she’ll try to eat them! LOL

Aren’t dogs fun! They’re nuts!

So how do I get her off this cardboard fetish? Actually she’s not too bad. If we say no she won’t keep trying for it … but still it’s a pain when you’re trying to carry something and at first she’s jumping at you. I mean, she’s a 70 lb dog!

What to do?

We’re officially on Staycation!

July 26, 2009 by Tricia

My husband and I are vacation for the next two weeks. No we’re not going to some exotic local … uh huh … we’re just doing a staycation this year.

We simply can’t afford to go away for a week or two, let along even a weekend!

What we’re going to do is take advantage of the many things that are going on in Toronto. There’s Caribana – a two week long Caribbean festival ending in a huge parade this coming weekend. The Beaches Jazz fest that ended today, which we went to last night and I’m sure we’ll find a few other things going on for us to enjoy.

One thing I’d like to do while my husband is off work is go to his Aunt’s house where we are storing our trailer. One of the beds broke a couple of years ago (that’s how long since we’ve used the thing!) and we need to get it fixed. Hmmm I wonder if that rv extended warranty will cover the damage and repair? Hmmm I’ve got to check into that too!

Otherwise, I guess we’ll just be hanging out here in Toronto, enjoying the garden, having some barbecues – maybe inviting some friends over and of course attending some of the great events going on here in Toronto.

Are you or did you have a Staycation this summer or did you travel somewhere for your holiday?

My dog loves my brother

July 23, 2009 by Tricia

My brother from Vancouver was visiting last weekend and I swear my dog adopted him -and he her!

From the minute the two saw each other it was love at first sight! LOL

My brother was here from Saturday until Monday evening and our Lab, Midnight was at his side every time he was around. Good thing he’s a dog person! He has a 10 year old lab mix at home.

He even took her out for a walk or two. I didn’t expect that at all. Of all the house guests and visitors we’ve had since we got Midnight about a year and a half ago, I’d say that my brother took to our dog the best.

Of course she’s still a little hyper. She’s going to be two at the end of August. We tried asking my brother if his dog did some of the same things she does, but for the most part it sounds like his dog, Danny, was a pretty calm dog. Midnight on the other hand does silly things like blowing bubbles in her water bowl, jumps up and down when she wants us to play with her bone (I have to video tape this, she had all our relatives laughing so hard they were crying on Sunday when they saw my bouncing dog), somersaults on the couch when she wants a rub and so on. Yeah, she’s a nut.

And why do dogs like to lick wounds? As it turns out both my brother and I suffer from psoriasis. My dog is always trying to lick my wrist where my skin is rough and dry from the psoriasis. As for my brother … Midnight spent most of his visit licking his leg where his skin is affected. Now I’m waiting for an email from him to find out if her licking made his leg worse or better. LOL

Has your dog ever become extremely attached to a house guest quickly … and is your dog quirky like mine?