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Our home theater system isn’t working

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I’m so ticked off. Our home theater system still doesn’t work. Every time we try to turn it on it says “overload” yet we’ve tried unplugging just about everything that the Home Theater system is connected to (excluding the TV) and it still says overload.

At first we thought there might be a fuse inside that had blown, but now I think it’s just the machine that’s not working right and this is it’s way of telling us.

So the other day Chris and I were in Costco (that’s like Sam’s Club) to do a little shopping and I suggested that we look at new home theater systems. They only had three to choose from and we didn’t really like any of the choices so I guess we’ll keep looking.

I really miss using the home theater system. Chris loved to use it when watching sports – particularly hockey. I could do without that, but it was nice when we’d watch a movie, dvd or when I wanted to listen to music. We had it hooked up to or 200 CD disk player so with the surround sound it was perfect if you were having a party or wanted to listen to music for hours without changing CDs.

I guess we’ll eventually get a new Home Theater system or figure out what really is wrong with our current one. Sometime in the future, when we renovate the basement, the wide screen TV, home theater system, PVR, DVD player, DVD recorder, Disk player and even the home theater seating will all move to the basement. I want that to be our rec room area and as long as our basement stays dry (crossing fingers as it really is a dry basement) it would be a great area for settling in and watching a great movie.

Has your home theater system ever given you and overload message? Ours is a Panasonic. If so, what did you do about it?





Our Lab puppy sure has grown!

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Wordless Wednesday

Midnight at 15 weeks old:

Midnight our Lab puppy

Midnight – a day short of 11 months old (44 weeks)

Midnight relaxing on couch

When she was only 15 months old she barely took up one cushion on our couch and less than a third of the width. Now that she’s 11 months old and much much bigger she takes up more than one couch cushion (more like half the couch when she stretches out!) and almost the full width of the cushion.

BTW she was watching TV while chewing on a toy in both pictures. She loves sitting on the couch and watching TV with us.

She’s grown a lot in the 7+ months that we’ve had her, yet she’s still a little on the small side for a Lab of her age. That’s ok though … she’s very strong. I can’t imagine how much worse it would be to be dragged around by her on a walk if she were even bigger!

She’s cute though! Or I think she is, anyway!

Midnight smiling for camera

My little rose garden

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I grow roses in my front yard and back yard gardens. My front yard is very tiny … there’s maybe only a 10 by 8 foot plot of grass and I have that bordered with raised flower beds.

These are some of the lovely roses that I grow in my front yard:

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This is Iceberg. It’s an easy to grow Floribunda rose.

Another pretty rose that grows against the front of my house is The Fairy. It produces clusters of tiny pink roses almost constantly throughout the summer.

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This rose is Yves Piaget. It’s a Romantica rose. I love it’s full double petals and delicate scent.

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My Morden Sunrise Explorer Rose is doing very well this year. It always has lovely blooms throughout the growing season, but this year it has twice as many flowers as it usually does. It’s quite happy and as you can see from the photo below it’s also quite pretty.

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I have a total of nine roses growing in my small front flower beds along with peonies, daylilies, blue fescue grass, oriental poppy, bee balm, pincushion flowers, hostas, sedum, Russian sage, and many more perennials, plus several kinds of spring bulbs, and annuals such as petunia and impatiens.

You can see a picture of my front yard on my gardening blog – I know the flower beds sound like they must be packed with plants just from the list of the plants I can remember off the top of my head above, but it really doesn’t look too full. Take a look.

Do you garden just in one specific part of your yard (front or back) or do you create flower beds where ever you can make space for them like me)?

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information. GTS participants remember to check in at As the Garden Grows each week so that we’ll know you made a new post!

We’ll be taking a holiday soon!

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Chris is off work the last two weeks of August so we’re trying to plan a short vacation.

We don’t have a lot of extra cash at this time so mostly our vacation will be a staycation, however we’ve been thinking of taking a short trip to Niagara Falls for a few days … perhaps a weekend trip although it won’t matter exactly when we do it as we’ll have 14 days to chose from. Perhaps I can find a better hotel package deal for a Tuesday or Wednesday night stay rather than a weekend stay?

We haven’t been on a holiday on our own for a long time. For some reason we always end up going to visit relatives – ie trip to Vancouver or joining friends rather than being on our own. Hmmm maybe now that we’ll actually have a vacation just for the two of us perhaps I should try to find some cheap lingerie. By cheap I mean inexpensive … not truly cheap!

More than likely we’ll be bringing our dog with us soI guess we won’t truly be alone, but close enough.

Did you take a vacation this summer? What did you do?

Change of heart: I suddenly like peanut butter after hating it all my life

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It’s four in the morning? What am I still doing up?

If I was asleep I wouldn’t have just had a snack disaster! Well … it was a disaster for my taste buds at the very least.

I’ve hated peanut butter all my life. I’ve even written posts about how much I hate peanut butter, but much to my surprise, about two months ago I suddenly got a craving for peanut butter. Why … I’m not sure. No, I’m not pregnant, but I did wonder if I was when these strange yearnings to eat peanut butter started.

The only thing I’ll eat peanut butter on is soda crackers. You know those little crackers you buy to crumble into your soup? The thought of eating a peanut butter cookie or peanut butter or just about anything with peanut butter still disgusts me … but I’ll eat it on crackers it seems.

Usually when I buy a box of soda crackers I get the unsalted kind. We usually only use them in soup. My husbands favorite soup is Chicken noodle and mine is Vegetable and both are way too high in sodium (well unless I make a homemade soup that is) so why add even more salt by using salted crackers.

We ran out of crackers last week and on Sunday when we were grocery shopping the store only had salted crackers. I decided to buy them just in case my peanut butter craving hit again.

Big Mistake!

It tastes horrible! I know because I just had a snack and ughh … that was gross! If I had spread peanut butter on salted soda crackers when I first had my peanut butter craving two month ago my desire to eat peanut butter would have ended right then and there. Absolutely disgusting I tell ‘ya.

Isn’t that weird though? I suddenly got a craving to eat a food that I’ve avoided and hated my whole life for no apparent reason.

My craving really startled my husband. He can still remember me telling him to get away from me or to go and brush his teeth after he’d eaten peanut butter just because I couldn’t stand the smell of it on his breath, so imagine his surprise when I wanted to buy a big jar of the stuff?

Perhaps using peanut butter on my puppies toys (as a treat and to keep her occupied and out of my hair for a while) might have helped trigger this craving?

Have you ever had a sudden change in taste? Craved a food that you hated? If so, what was it?

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