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Mailbox tipping teens

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Over the weekend when the weather was unusually warm and muggy here for October I was up late and I happened to hear some noise outside on the street.

There was a group of teenagers going by and they looked like they were looking to cause trouble. Twice this past summer someone has knocked over the large postal drop off mailboxes across the street. Worst of all, each time it’s been in the middle of the night and man are those things loud when they crash to the ground.

I have no proof of course, but I suspect that the mailbox tippings were caused by teenagers looking for some fun.

Oh I know, knocking over a large mailbox doesn’t cause any permanent harm, but I do hope that one day when those kids have their own homes someone does that in their neighborhood so that they realize how loud and jarring the sound really is! It’s like a car crash, maybe even louder!





I love my daisies

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Wordless Wednesday

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I just love daisies. They look like such a simple flower, yet they brighten up a garden and give reliable blooms from late July until early autumn.

I grow my daisies beside white phlox and pink roses. Well, that’s where I planted the main clump, but they’ve spread over time and I have several clumps growing throughout an 8 foot area now.

Do you grow daisies?

Strangely warm weather keeps us supplied with berries

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Can you believe this? It’s October already and look what’s still producing delicious fruit in my backyard …

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Yummy raspberries ripening on the vine.

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There are so many berries that I can still go out and pick enough for my husband and I to enjoy at least every three days or so.

The raspberry bushes have been producing raspberries since as early as mid-July, which is early for raspberries in these parts. They usually don’t start producing ripe fruit until mid-August or so.

Yesterday the humidity here in Toronto was so high that we had our air conditioning on. It was only in the mid-20’s Celsius wise (72 – 75 F) but the humidity made if feel much warmer and made us feel sticky and wiped out. So on went the air conditioning.

Normally at this time of year it’s not uncommon for our furnace to have come on at least once or twice on a few cold evenings or nights. So far our furnace has been silent. We’ve either had windows open to let nice fresh air in the house, fans on or as I said above we’ve even had the air conditioning on. It’s getting ridiculous as I don’t believe I’ve ever had air conditioning on in October.

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Facebook connections on and offline

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My sister has discovered Facebook. I figured her daughter was on it, but I never really thought of my sister as the Facebook type.

Earlier this week we became “friends” on Facebook and nearly every day we’ve been sending messages back and forth. I think we’ve talked more online this week than we have on the phone or even in person in months!

Of course the way we discovered that we were both on Facebook started with a phone conversation. My sister had called to say hello and to ask me if I knew anything about the care of hedgehogs. She’d just bought her daughter a hedgehog and since I specialize in the care of exotic pets she thought I’d know something about them and their diet. Unfortunately that’s one of the few exotic animals that I don’t know much about. I was able to help her with the diet though.

The conversation moved on to a discussion about vacuum cleaners of all things. She really needs to get herself a new one. I know she bought a Shark about four or five years ago, but it doesn’t seem to work anymore. I suggested that she take a look a Miele vacuum as they seem to be a popular brand and I think they’re probably fairly reliable. It was sometime after that, that we got on to Facebook.

Oddly, later that evening we were talking with one of our old friends on the phone. Chris and I were busy filling out our Passport applications (we need them for our Las Vegas trip in November!) and our friend Todd asked why I haven’t added him as a friend on Facebook yet.

I’m used to having my online friends ask me to add them to my Facebook account, but not my offline friends or relatives! So it was really strange to have two people ask me on the same day. Well, three really because my niece also added me as a friend too.

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