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I think I’m afraid to cruise

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Have you ever gone on one of those caribbean cruises? I’ve always wanted to, but I’ve been hesitant.

Why?

Well the idea of being out on the water for that long bothers me for some reason. I can swim. I’m not afraid of water at all. In fact I often say that I was born in a canoe (not literally!). I’ve been a canoist all my life, but it’s mostly been on creeks, rivers and lakes. I’ve also white water canoed and rafted.

So yeah, I’m not afraid of water. I think I’m just afraid of open water. The ocean.

I know it’s irrational. Cruise ships travel at night and dock in different ports during the day letting passengers out to visit whatever island their docked in for the day. So it’s not like I’d be out in the middle of nowhere on the water for a week or two.

One day I will go on a Caribbean cruise. I did promise my sister when she was sick that I would, so I have to. I’m just nervous about it.

Anyone else feel that way about cruises?





The Traffic lull is over – I think

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Well, looking at my site stats for yesterday it seems that most people are back from their holidays, back to work or back in school. Why do I think that? Well, my stats are up. All of my husband and I’s sites had a lot more visitors yesterday than we’ve had most days over the last couple of weeks.

It’s not like there was a huge drop in site visitors, but enough that I noticed. Fewer comments, and lower visitor numbers when I check my stats.

Have you noticed that your site or sites had a slight drop in traffic through maybe mid July until at least the end of last week?

I’ll be keeping an eye on my stats over the next week, but I think I’m correct. I know that a lot of schools opened up this week so the kids are back to school. Moms that stay at home might have a bit more time on their hands for visiting blogs, and with luck the advertisers will be back and creating more work for all of us too.

Planning our kitchen remodel

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I want to bounce an idea off of you.

We’re planning our kitchen renovation. The reno won’t happen for a while, but it’s good to plan.

Our kitchen is fairly small. Maybe 18 feet long by 10 feet wide. Since our kitchen is on the small side, and since we tend to eat either in the living room, I’m ashamed to say while watching TV, or in the dinning room at a very nice dinning room table we really don’t need a kitchen table.

I have two ideas.

One is to knock out part of the wall between the kitchen and dinning room. It would end up looking like an open rectangular window with a nice counter on it. I thought perhaps that we could set that area up as a breakfast nook with bar stools in front of it. We could sit there and eat, or if we were entertaining a guest or two could sit on a bar stool and talk to me while I work in the kitchen.

My other idea is to leave the kitchen walls intact, but to get a cupboard, perhaps on wheels, that would most often be near the kitchen window but that could be used moved around the kitchen and used as extra counter space if necessary. I guess it would be a movable kitchen island? I could even have some really nice folding chairs that I could store in the corner of the room and if we wanted to we could sit at this nice cupboard/ kitchen island if we wanted to.

What do you think of those ideas? If you had a small kitchen and were faced with those choices which one would you pick?

Dressing up animals and people too!

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Dog in rain gear

Don’t you find it strange how people love to dress their dogs and cats and sometimes even other pets in clothing? As if they’re trying to make their pet more human? I mean, does a dog really need a rain coat? Really?

I can see the little booties that people buy for their dogs feet. I live in a cold climate and our city used to put salt pellets on the roadways in the winter to melt the snow and ice. Now they use something artificial and more environmentally friendly, but still, those pellets can cut up a dogs paws. So yeah, I can understand the doggie booties, but that’s about it.

Then, when we want to dress up and have some fun we often rent or buy animal costumes. Isn’t that funny. We make our pets look human yet we want to look like animals.

Isn’t that strange?

The Trailer Park Boys

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Have you ever seen the show “Trailer Park Boys”? OMG it’s a show about Canadian rednecks. My husband LOVES this show.

I think it’s funny, but I’m not a huge fan.

It’s about all these men that live in a trailer park in Nova Scotia. Yes women live in the trailer park too but the show centers around about five main characters. Ricky, Julian, Bubbles, Mr. Lehey and Randy.

Randy and Lehey are sometimes lovers and almost always drunk. They are always plotting to catch Ricky, Julian and Bubbles in a criminal act, but it always ends up getting messed up. Usually because Lehey, a cop who lost his job because he was drunk, is always too boozed up to get anything done right.

Meanwhile the three guys Ricky, Bubbles and Julian really are always planning illegal activities like growing pot, stealing things from people and reselling them to people in the trailer park and so on.

In the latest episodes … Bubbles went to Maine to see a model train show and ended up stealing Patrick Swayzes model train. The guys come up with a plan to piece the track together through a small tunnel that runs under a river between the US and Canadian border. The plan is to send dope across the boarder to the US and Sebastian Bach of Skid Row made a deal with them to send cigarettes over to the boys in exchange for the drugs.

The episode that we’re watching tonight has the guys being caught by both the American and Canadian authorities. They boys were in the middle of the river trying to decide which jail to go to. They decided to go to the US jail so they turned themselves in to the US authorities.

It’s a crazy show. I have a feeling that it’s got a US cult following just like our other very silly Canadian series – The Red Green Show.

So who knows what I’m talking about? Check out the Trailer Park Boys website. I think there’s some clips of the show on the site. You’ll have an idea of how strange and funny this show is if you watch a video.

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