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Boys and their toys

July 17, 2007 by Tricia

Do you remember I was talking about how Chris wanted our basement, when we are done our renovation, to be a true rec room? Well, after having so much fun over the weekend with his sister and brother-in-law he’s adamant that the basement must be a rec room full of manly toys to play with or on.

You see, once my brother in law came back from the concert that he’d gone to – Roger Waters, he said it was fantastic! – they all went out to play pool, and later they came back and we played poker. Now along with the pool table that he’s got his eye on he wants us to look at poker tables too!

Geesh! I just bought him a new video camera! Now he wants more toys? Don’t they usually say it’s the women that spend all the money shopping?

Well at least we never impulse buy. Anything that I write about that we’ve purchased, particularly if it’s an expensive item, is something that we’ve thought about and discussed for quite a while.

Maybe he’ll get his new toy, but we’ve got to finish the basement first!





Filed Under: Decor, Entertainment, Family, Games, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Home Decor, Life with Chris, Recreation, Shopping, Socializing, Sports Tagged With: basement, brother, buy, Chris, game, Home and Lifestyle, men, Money, play, Poker, pool table, rec room, renovate, renovation, shop, Shopping, spend, spend money

House Guests, the Museum and a Psychic Reading?

July 17, 2007 by Tricia

Don’t you just hate it when people drop in unexpectedly? I do. Since I’m sick and never know how I’m going to feel from one day to the next I like to at least know in advance when someone might be coming over.

Well on Saturday we got a call from Chris’ sister. Her husband was coming to Toronto to go to a concert. We knew about this because he’d called the day before to ask Chris if he wanted to go – he didn’t, and to see if he could stay over Saturday night.

Ok, so we knew our brother in law was coming for a visit. Fine. But when Chris’ sister called she said she’d decided to come and that they were bringing their young daughter with them.

Needless to say I didn’t get any work done over the weekend. I have several posts to write and I’m slowly catching up. If you are one of the advertiser that’s waiting for an article it’s coming!

While our brother in law was at the concert Chris and his sister partied a bit – even going over to the neighbors who had pestered us twice that day to come visit with them while I ended up spending time with my niece. I wasn’t about to turn my back on my little niece and leave her to amuse herself in a very adult household. She’d have been bored to tears poor girl.

The next day we went to the Royal Ontario Museum. I’ve got some great pictures of the buildings! They re-did the ROM and the architecture is amazing! It’s all glass and crazy angles. Beautiful.

We also ended up visiting a psychic! There are few shops near my house and my sister in law had always wanted to get a Psychic Reading so she did. It was pretty interesting.

Guess what? She’s going to have some turmoil in her life, maybe around her job, but then things will settle down over the next few months and she’ll be very happy with both work and family. Wow … She is actually in the midst of changing jobs. Her new job is a government position and she’ll have to draw on all her past experiences in her new career.

I didn’t get a reading done. I didn’t want to end up depressed.

Filed Under: Entertainment, Family, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Recreation, Toronto Tagged With: amazing, Art, brother, Canada, Chris, concert, entertaining, Family, house, house guests, husband, neighbor, neighbors, Niece, online, over night guests, partying, Psychic, psychic reading, ROM, Royal Ontario Museum, sister, Toronto, unexpected guests, visiting

I’m thinking of trying a Voice Recognition Program

July 17, 2007 by Tricia

I’ve been thinking about trying a voice recognition software program again. Years ago when Dragon Naturally Speaking first came out I used the program.

I used it to answer email and I even experimented with using it to write articles in word that I would then use on my websites. It worked pretty well and I’m sure the latest version probably works quite well.

It would certainly give my fingers a bit of a rest if I could use a voice program to write all the posts that I create each day!

Does anyone use Dragon Naturally Speaking? If you do, are you happy with the program? Does it work well with blog software?

Filed Under: Blogging, Software, Web and Technology Tagged With: article, articles, blog, dragon naturally speaking, email, posts, program, Software, use voice to write, voice, voice recognition, website

I have to tell my sister in law about Real Travel

July 17, 2007 by Tricia

I just visited a website that my sister in law – my brothers wife, will absolutely love. My brother and his wife have been taking absolutely amazing trips over the last few years. I think their last trip, in January, was to India. The year before they went to Africa and went on Safari.

I say their trips are amazing because she plans their itinerary to a T. When I first heard how much planning she did I was a little put off. Not at her – but she’d plan something for morning, afternoon and evening. My husband and I tend to be free spirits at times so I couldn’t imagine such a rigorously planned vacation, but you know what? I’ve changed my mind.

They see absolutely everything and come back with the most fascinating tales and beautiful photos.

She’ll love the RealTravel site as it’s a travel guide that helps you plan a vacation using their free trip planner.

I’m sure that some of you might also like the travel guide as you can use the information on the site to learn more about a Country or area that you’d like to visit. Then using the trip planner you could build an itinerary as exacting as my sister in laws or perhaps a little more relaxed with only one sight to see each day.

There’s even a forum at the Real travel guide where you can talk to others who are planning their holidays or perhaps to others who have been to the area that you are hoping to go.

I think I’m going to email the link to the site to my sister in law right now before I forget. I’m 99.99999% certain that she’s already planning their next big trip. Perhaps this will help.

Filed Under: Family, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Vacation and Travel Tagged With: amazing, forum, guide, holiday, holidays, India, information, photos, Real Travel, sister, travel, travel guide, trip, vacation, vacation planning, visit, website

Maltese Cross – a flower?

July 15, 2007 by Tricia

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The other day when I was experimenting with my new camera while out in the rain I discovered a perfect looking Maltese Cross bloom. I took several photographs of it, getting closer and closer as I did.

The cluster of flowers is actually only an inch or so in diameter so you can imagine just how close I was zooming in to get this close up.

Don’t the petals actually have a bit of a plasticized look to them?

The Maltese cross is a great plant to grow. It’s fairly hardy. I think it’s a zone 3 or 4 plant. The plant grows tall stalks that develop flower buds on their tips which develop into clusters of flowers as shown above. There’s often 20+ stalks at a time.

My Maltese Cross plants bloom at least twice a year. Usually in late June to early July and then I cut down the stalks when the flowers are finished. The plant then blooms once more in late August or early September. The flowers tend to last for about two weeks at a time.

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Filed Under: Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Hobbies, Photography, Recreation, Toronto, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: bloom, bloom and rebloom, buds, close up, flower, flower clusters, flowers, Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, hardy plant, macro, Maltese Cross, new camera, petals, photo, photograph, photos, plant, rain, rebloom, Red, stalks

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