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It pays to lend our barbecue to neighbors!

May 28, 2008 by Tricia

On Sunday night Chris and I were going to have a nice steak barbecue dinner to celebrate my Google Adsense Break through. However, our neighbor had borrowed our BBQ as he was having a big family dinner and much to his dismay he discovered that his barbecue had suddenly stopped working.

Lucky for us, when Chris went over to get our BBQ he asked us if we wanted to join them for dinner as he’d cooked up several extra steaks, chicken breasts and lamb. I wasn’t feeling that great and since I’d meant our dinner to be a bit of a celebration we declined his offer for dinner. So … he loaded up two plates full of meats, grilled veggies and desserts!

The food he gave us was enough for four people!

Needless to say we didn’t barbecue our steak that night. We ate our neighbors bonanza of food. We also opened a bottle of Red Wine. It was an Australian Shiraz-Grenache. The wine was lovely. It reminded me of a beautiful Merlot that some doctors that I used to work with make in their Grimsby Winery – Thirty Bench.

We had a fantastic meal, accompanied by a wine that I’ll be sure to purchase again. In fact we enjoyed that wine so much that I’m thinking of joining a wine club so that I can try new wines regularly. We aren’t big drinkers, but we do enjoy a glass of fine wine every now and then with our meals.

As for that steak that we were going to have on Sunday evening … well we had it this evening. I’d put a marinade on it on Sunday and leaving it on that long turned out to have been a great idea. The steak was great.





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Foiled by the weather

May 19, 2008 by Tricia

It rained yesterday and into the evening. Our plans ended up being foiled … yes … ruined.

Do you remember that I mentioned we were supposed to get together with friends on Sunday evening for some fireworks to celebrate our Victoria day weekend? Uh huh …. well that didn’t work out.

I’m a trooper though. I really thought we’d still go out even though it was lightly drizzling. I got dressed up to go out for dinner with our friends – designer jewelry and all, and then, when our dinner was finished and we were about to go to the fireworks it started to pour outside!

Fireworks get canceled when it rains so hard that the rain drops are bouncing off the pavement.

Oh well … we still have a chance to go to see fireworks this evening. We might watch them from the beach if it’s nice enough out.

Filed Under: Canada, Entertainment, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Socializing, Toronto Tagged With: Beach, cancel, dinner, dressed up, evening, Fireworks, friend, friends, get together, hard rain, outside, pavement, rain drops, Sunday, sunday evening, the beach, victoria day, victoria day weekend, weather, weekend

It’s the May 24 weekend already!

May 16, 2008 by Tricia

I didn’t realize until yesterday that this weekend is our famous May 24 weekend here in Canada. I have no idea why we are having our Victoria Day weekend so early. Very odd. I think the long weekend should be the following weekend, but I guess not this year.

Anyway, now that I’m up to date as to which weekend is our long weekend I now realize we have a few party invitations that we have to decide whether to accept or not.

Some old friends of ours are having an outdoor barbecue and party on Saturday night. I’m pretty sure we’ll go to that, but I’m not sure we’ll make it to another friends Sunday brunch if we go to the party on Saturday night!

On both Sunday and Monday evening we’ve been invited to join a few friends to watch the fireworks at two different areas in the city. Monday nights will be the most spectacular as the ones we’ll go to see are the Cities Victoria Day Fireworks at Ashbridges Bay.

Perhaps we’ll do what we did a few years ago to avoid the crowds. We went to the boardwalk on the beach with our folding lounge chairs and sat on the beach rather than going right to Ashbridges Bay park. It was much nicer to do it that way. Of course if it’s cold out it might be better to be in the crowd rather than sitting on a cold windy beach.

Any other Canadians planning on attending Victoria Day celebrations?

Filed Under: Canada, Culture, Entertainment, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Recreation, Socializing, Toronto Tagged With: ashbridges bay park, barbecue, Beach, boardwalk, Canada, Canadian, canadians, celebrations, city, crowd, crowds, evening, Fireworks, friend, friends, lounge chairs, may 24, night, old friends, outdoor barbecue, park, party, party invitations, planning, pretty, Saturday, saturday night, Sunday, sunday brunch, the beach, the boardwalk, the city, victoria day, victoria day fireworks, victoria day weekend, walk, watch, weekend, windy beach, work

I love Toronto

January 19, 2008 by Tricia

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This weeks theme is Important

There are quite a few things that I hold important to me. My husband, family and friends are at the top of the list, however living in a great city such as Toronto is also important. I love this city!

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Enjoying the city is important to me too.

Toronto has lovely beaches, parks, hiking and biking trails, fantastic restaurants and entertainment areas (the theatre district is in the top five largest in the world), great clubs and bars if you’re into the nightlife and a world of opportunities as far as employment goes.

As far as I’m concerned Toronto is one of the best cities to live in. There’s always something going on. Throughout the year there are many different festivals ranging from comedy to photography to simply celebrating the city.

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I need to keep my guard up when walking my puppy

January 16, 2008 by Tricia

Yesterday when I was walking our puppy a man crossed the street to come over and pet her.

I had a strange feeling about the man as he approached. He was very short and looked like some of the patients I’ve cared for many times in the ER. I have no proof but I wouldn’t be surprised if he’d just come out of our drug rehab or possibly the psych ward. Remember I live only three blocks from the hospital so there are patients that are currently being treated for a disorder walking around at times as well as those that have been recently discharged.

The man turned out to be nice. He said he really loved Labs and that they always loved him. Judging from my pups reaction what he’d said was true as she greeted him as enthusiastically as she would anyone else.

Still … the whole encounter got me thinking about safety. Walking up to someone with a small or young dog could be a good way to get close to someone when you have bad intentions. I mean, most people that have approached me when I’ve been walking my dog are very friendly and I’m sure they are just dog lovers who want to meet my puppy, but it would be a good way for someone that wanted to mug you or perhaps even steal the dog to get close.

I think I’ll keep my guard up a bit more when I’m walking Midnight – well at least until she’s fully grown and hopefully a bit more protective (or at least might intimidate a would be robber). I know labs aren’t known for being guard dogs but I’d hope someone with bad intentions would think twice before approaching someone with a mature lab.

I walk the puppy at all hours and for the most part I feel very safe walking around. This was the first time that I felt really uncomfortable when we’ve met someone that wanted to pet her. I guess that was a little wake up call.

Filed Under: Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Our Puppy, Pets and Wildlife, Recreation, Socializing, The neighbors, Toronto Tagged With: approach, bad, care, crime, criminal, dog, drug rehab, friend, good, grow, hospital, mature, meet, mugging, night, patient, pet, pet dog, petting dog, psych ward, puppy, rehab, strange, stranger, walk, Walking

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