Archive for June, 2008

Zoo Country - great for kids and animal lovers

Posted by Tricia in Monday, June 30th 2008

I’ve just been browsing a site that I think would be perfect for kids and anyone in general who loves animals. The website is called Zoo Country and it’s chock full information and pictures of all kinds of Zoo Animals. Are you starting to see why I think kids would love this […]

Topics: Education, Entertainment, Family, Games, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Pets and animals, Recreation, Reptiles and Amphibians, Wildlife and Nature Tags: adults, animal activities, animal art, animal books, animal categories, animal characteristics, animal information, animal lovers, animal toy, art project, book, books and toys, child, children, crafts, creature, cutest, cutest animals, exotic vacation, fun, interesting facts, kids, looking at photos, parents, reading, site, stuffed animal, Summer, summer vacations, trip, ugliest animals, weirdest animals, wild animal, wild animals, zoo, zoo animals, zoo country, Zoos

There’s lots of things going on in Toronto for Canada Day

Posted by Tricia in Monday, June 30th 2008

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Tomorrow is Canada Day. It will be Canada’s 141st birthday. Our country seems so young, but we have a history that goes back into the 1600’s.

I hate it when the holiday falls in the middle of the week. Some employers give either the Monday or Friday off closest to the holiday to compensate […]

Topics: Canada, Dining and Restaurants, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Recreation, The Neighborhood, Toronto Tags: barge, Canada, Canada Day, canada day event, canada day fireworks, canadians, celebration, city, concert, corn on the cob, Entertainment, event, festivities, fireworks, having a good time, hill park, history, how to photograph fireworks, husband, Lake Ontario, mel lastman square, Music, music canada, photograph, sirloin steaks, Toronto, toronto area, weather

Man that was a great dinner

Posted by Tricia in Sunday, June 29th 2008

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I’m pleasantly full right now. Chris and I just had a delicious dinner. Yum.
Earlier this evening we went out grocery shopping. The stores will be closed tomorrow by the time he gets home from work since the next day is Canada Day so we had to get everything we’d need for the […]

Topics: Canada, Dining and Restaurants, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Life with Chris, Toronto Tags: angel food cake, australian shiraz, BBQ, blueberries, Canada, Canada Day, Cheese, Chris, corn, corn on the cob, corn salad, crohn, cucumber, delicious dinner, delicious steak, dinner tonight, feta, Food, fruit, grocery, grocery store, holiday, light dessert, meal, montreal steak, perfection, raspberries, Shopping, sirloin, steak sauce, steaks, strawberry, strawberry shortcake, wine, wine of the month, wine shop, yum

Couldn’t they come up with a better name for this flower?

Posted by Tricia in Sunday, June 29th 2008

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It’s time for yet another Green Thumb Sunday post, yet as I was just saying on my gardening blog I had a very hard time deciding which pictures to post today.

My garden is probably at it’s high point right now and it’s just packed with blooms! So many lovely flowers to show […]

Topics: Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Photography, Recreation, Toronto, Tricia's Garden Tags: ants, balls, bloom, blooms, buds, coral, feather like, feathers, flower, garden, glory, green thumb, Green Thumb Sunday, GTS, high point, Karl Rosenfield, karl rosenfield peony, name, pale shade, peonies, peony, peony pecher, petals, rose color, sap, swirl, white

Where’s the off switch on a puppy?

Posted by Tricia in Thursday, June 26th 2008

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Gawd … our puppy is so hyper right now and it’s almost 11:30 pm! While we were outside gardening this evening we kept her inside in her crate. Obviously that was too long cause she’s got energy to burn … and of course Chris and I are both tired after doing all that […]