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A true prince of a rose

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Prince Napoleon Rose

Prince napoleon is an antique rose. This one is supposed to be a climber but it’s never grown more than six or seven feet tall. I’m not complaining since it’s often lush with beautifully scent flowers.

This rose is also quite hardy. It often has almost fully green branches in late winter and early spring when the snow melts so I have very little to do with it in the way of pruning off winter damaged growth.

I love this rose.

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You can save money at Deal Locker in as little as 6 seconds!

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Want to know how you can save money in as little as six seconds? Visit Deal Locker. Just visit the site and type an item that you want to purchase into the search box and in seconds you’ll more than likely find a few free online coupons that you can use towards your purchase.

I’m fairly careful with our money. I’m not stingy, but I’ll spend time doing research on any pricey items that we’re thinking of buying and naturally I’m always on the lookout for the best price too.

The Deal Locker is different from other coupon sites that I’ve visited. You can actually sign up, it’s completely free, and add great coupon codes that you’ve found elsewhere in order to share with others.

All coupons listed on the Deal Locker have been rated by site members and they never list coupons that have already expired either so if you find a coupon for a store or a product that you’d like to purchase you’re pretty much guaranteed that the coupon will work for you.

I think that you can find coupons for just about anything that you might be looking for since the Deal Locker lists tens of thousands of coupons for thousands of stores.

As I said at the beginning you can use the search box on the main page to type in the name of a store or an item that you might want to search for coupons for, or you can click on the tabs at the top of the page to search for deals at specific stores or by category.

I’m going to be looking for a macro lens and a telescopic lens for my new SLR camera soon so I decided to take a look at what kind of coupons I might find at the Deal Locker.

I discovered that they have a Camera Coupons section with 24 different coupons listed right now. The coupons are for specific items such as camera batteries and other accessories and there are listing for Best Buy Coupons, Broadway Photo, Camera World and other stores that carry cameras and camera equipment.

I didn’t see any coupons specifically for camera lenses, but I’ll keep an eye on this site now that I know about it just in case some good deals come up. The camera lenses that I want to get are fairly expensive so if I can save some money I’ll be happy!

Visit the Deal Locker and see if they have any coupons that you can use.

Colorful leaves

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Heuchera Purple palace leaves

This weeks photo hunter theme is Rows. I don’t really tend to take photos of things in rows so this was a hard one for me to try to complete.

I chose this Heuchera leaf since the veins in the leaves are so well defined. They are in rows, angled rows, but rows none the less.

The Heuchera plant has very pretty leaves. It flowers, and while they are nice when they are around it’s the leaves that are the main attraction. If you have a shady area of your garden that you want to brighten up with some color try a heuchera with it’s colourful leaves.

Time for Taste of the Danforth

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Toronto is a wonderful city to live in. Beginning in May and clear through to fall there’s something to do almost every weekend. There’s the Toronto Street Festival, The Gay Pride Parade, Food Festivals, Caribana, the Just for Laughs festival and my favorite event of all – The Taste of the Danforth.

We moved into this part of Toronto, Greek Town, The Danforth, in June of 2001 and almost every year since we moved here we’ve been going to The Taste of the Danforth.

Unfortunately we’ve missed the last two years because Chris’ brother always picks this time of year to come for a visit from Chicago. This year he’s visiting again, but I’m determined that he’s not going to stop us from going to the Taste of the Danforth this year.

It’s a shame not to go. We only live about 10 minutes away from the festivities. It’s so easy to walk back and forth to the festival that it’s almost a crime not to go.

The Taste of the Danforth is of course on Danforth Avenue in Toronto. Several blocks of the Danforth are closed off and all of the restaurants and stores set up tables and serving areas outdoors. It’s a time to experience the culture of the area and taste the many foods of the various ethnic groups that live in this part of the Beaches and The Danforth village.

The area is mainly Greek so there’s naturally going to be a lot of Greek foods, but there will also be foods from India, Spain, China, Thailand, Muslim foods, Irish and even vegetarian foods.

The Taste of the Danforth is always held on the second weekend of August and it runs from that Friday evening at 6 pm until Sunday at 6 pm. In that time period there should be well over a million people wander the Danforth, tasting foods, stopping in beer and wine tents, putting their kids on children’s rides, and listening to live bands. This year along with a number of musicians and bands there will be performances by Second City and some of the performers from “We Will Rock You” the Queen and Freddy Mecury related theater production that’s running in the Canon Theater in downtown Toronto.

As I said I’m not going to let my brother in law stop me from going this year. He can sit in our garden if he doesn’t want to go. I’m going. The only thing that will stop me is my own health and I’m determined to go no matter what so I’ll have to be awfully sick if I don’t attend this year.

If you live in the Toronto area come on down! It’s worth the trip.

Sofie and the tale of her clocks

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Our elderly neighbor is becoming a little troublesome. You know she’s the one I call my stalker right? ’cause she watches everything I do – even peeking at me through the window when I’m sitting in the dining room on the computer. Uh huh.

Well, I guess with this heat wave it’s been hard on the cities electricity supply. So almost every day over this past week the power goes out for a minute or two once or twice a day. It’s a pain in the butt, especially if you have to reset any clocks.

We’ve been asking Sofie’s family to get her new clocks with batteries in them so that when the power goes out it doesn’t disturb the clock. Finally after two months of requesting this they fixed one clock. The oldest clock who’s minute button doesn’t even work half the time wasn’t replaced or fixed though.

Now the whole problem with this is that whenever the power goes out Sofie comes and bangs on our windows – not our doors, our windows usually scaring me half to death, and asks us to fix her “watch”. uh huh – you mean your clock. You should know that word by now Sofie.

The only thing is – she doesn’t ask us to fix the clock when the power goes out at nine in the morning. She waits until it’s 10 at night before she wanders over to our house in the dark! Grrrr. I wish her family would just listen to us and fix this for us and her.

On our last trip to her house we noticed that one of her light fixtures is starting to come out of the ceiling. So now she need to replace a light fixture. We are not doing that! Her family is going to finally have to do something for her.

Sofie almost might as well live with us since she’s here so often. Her family says they’ve offered to have her live with them, but she refuses. Maybe she knows she’ll be just as neglected in their home as she is by them in her own home.

Do you have a neighbor that frustrates you to no end?

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