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I want to make some home made wine

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I think it’s been at least a year since I signed up to several sites like Groupon and Social Living. I love getting the emails that tell me about local deals even though I rarely buy into any of the offers.


One of the offers that I wish I’d bought into, that I’ve seen a few times in the past but haven’t seen for months, is from a wine making company. It was a deal to make something like 40 or 50 bottles of wine for about $50. Sounds too good to be true – right?

So now I’m watching every email that comes in from all of these daily deal companies hoping for a wine making deal. I just haven’t seen one for quite a while. It’s so odd. I even priced out a wine chiller for when our wine would be ready if we managed to get a bargain.

Have you made wine at at wine making company? Did it go well, did you enjoy the wine you made?





We’re having a halloween party

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It’s almost Halloween! You’d never know it on my street. Almost no one decorates their home for Halloween in my section of my street. It’s so strange.

At first, when we first moved into the area ten years ago, I thought it was because most of our immediate neighbors were elderly and they just didn’t want the bother of Halloween, but now a lot of the older neighbors have moved and younger ones have moved in and it’s still the same – no decorations for Halloween or sometimes even Christmas. As I said it’s odd.

I think we’re still going to decorate this year. Either way, I know for sure that we’re having a few friends over and we’re going to have our own Halloween party. I’ve been getting some ideas from Personal Creations at their facebook page and tomorrow I’ll be making a few recipes that I found online for some Halloween treats – for the party – not kids.

It’s been a while since I’ve had a party on Halloween. We get a lot of kids coming to the door around here so it will be interesting seeing all the kids and having a party going on at the same time. I’m sure our dog will be barking the whole time too.

What are you doing for Halloween?

Autumn maintenance in the garden

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My husband and I have spent part of the last two weekends working in our front and backyard gardens preparing them for the long winter ahead. Fall is here and it’s getting cooler every day. I hate to say it, but I suppose it won’t be all that long before we have our first snow – maybe a month if we’re lucky. Less if we’re not.

We’ve been busy putting away everything from our patio furniture to solar lights and our garden ornaments. I’ve also been tidying up the garden beds, clearing away the dead plants, cutting off dead plant branches and trimming back some of the over growth on some of the really big plants.

One of the things that I must do as part of my garden maintenance is to take care of my gardening tools. I usually clean my pruners and other tools and then oil my cutting tools. I like to keep them in good shape, especially going into the winter when they’re going to be sitting for a while unused.

Do you garden? If you do, do you spend time each Autumn tidying up your garden preparing it for winter just as I’ve been doing these last two weeks?

What’s with everyone going on vacation this week?

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A few people I know are on vacation this week. My brother is in Mexico and and so is another girlfriend of mine and another friend took a trip to Florida. It figures … just when it starts to get cold and rainy here in Toronto several people I know head off to warm places. Sigh!

Actually … one of my friends is on a scuba diving trip and she sent an email the other day with a few pictures that she took underwater. I’m a photographer as well so loved seeing the images she sent.

In her email she also told me about a new toy that she was going to try on her next dive – they’re liquid image summit series goggles and they’re basically diving goggles that allow you to film your dive. Pretty cool! I’m waiting to hear back from her so I can find out how it worked.

Have you gone on a vacation recently or are you going on a vacation? I won’t be going on one anytime soon even though I’d love to!

Get away for the long weekend?

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It seems like almost everyone in my family is getting away this weekend or next week. Except me and my oldest brother.

I’d love to get away if I could. It’s a long weekend here since it’s Thanksgiving and for once it seems we don’t have plans with my husbands family for the holiday. Obviously we don’t have plans with my family either … so … I wonder if it’s too late to find a place to go for the weekend .. even if it’s just overnight one night?

Maybe a quick trip to Niagara Falls or a cabin with rustic barnwood furniture or something? Since it’s a long weekend it might be hard to get a booking and it might be more expense, but you never know. Hmmm .. my husband is out right now, but when he gets in I’m going to see what he thinks of the idea.

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