Random Thoughts about life in general, living in the big city of Toronto
I love this photo!
To me it seems like the mother and baby elephant are laughing together as the sun sets.
I’m envious of my brothers. One lived in Africa for a few years, and another recently went there for a holiday. The holiday brother has also been to India recently and both of my brothers have likely seen sites like this one – or at least these animals in the wild.
One day I’d like to see a sight like this with my own eyes. How glorious that would be.
Haha! I think it’s going to be a little quieter around here for a while! Our noisy neighbors are going on vacation! An orlando vacation. Yeah!
I think they are leaving sometime next week and they’ll be gone for at least a week. No more karaoke parties for a while! No more tuba or electric guitar vibrating through my walls. Yeahhhhh!
Then, as I said the other day, they might also be moving! They’re going to put their house up for sale sometime in September to test the market. Oh I hope that they get an offer or two! Their house is a corner lot which I’ve heard are harder to sell, but then they have almost twice the yard space of everyone else in the neighborhood so that might help them sell.
Oh I can’t wait for them to go on their holiday and then maybe move away.
My brother, the one that lives in the Toronto area, is a huge baseball fan. So much so that one of the first things he suggested for our family reunion that’s coming up at the end of August was that we all go to a baseball game. So yeah, we’re going to see a Blue Jays versus the Red Sox game on August 31st.
I’m not a huge baseball fan myself but I do prefer to watch it live rather than on TV. So our get together at the baseball game should be fun.
Anyway, back to my brother. He’s decided that he’s going to get world series tickets too. Oh did I mention his wife is also a huge baseball fan? Yes, they even went on a trip to Florida about 10 years ago just to visit Spring training camps. So I’m not surprised that they want to finally go and see the World Series.
Have you been to the World Series? If not – would you be interested in seeing a game if you could?
There’s so little to watch on TV that lately Chris and I, in our down time, have been reduced to watching cartoons on TV! King of the Hill, The Simpsons, Family Guy, and Futurama. I’m starting to feel like I’m back in lower school or high school!
I’m so bored of television! It’s not like I watch much TV, but when I do feel like watching there’s never anything on.
What happened to that Pirate show – Pirate Masters? – that was on Thursday nights? I thought it was only going to have a one week break, but it wasn’t on this week either.
I guess we’ll have to start renting some movies or something.
If my husband had his way we’d always watch war and religion based documentaries. Not that some of those aren’t interesting and or informative from time to time, but when it comes to documentaries I prefer biography, travel, history, and wildlife related documentaries.
What do you like watching on TV these days? Are you are bored as I am?
I keep longing for our home renovation to be finished. Yes we’re still working on our living room. Chris is hoping that we might be able to talk his brother into helping up put the tin ceiling up while he’s visiting. That’s be cool if we could get him to help but when the two of them are together it’s usually just one big party so who knows if it will happen or not.
Once we’re done the living room we have the basement, the upstairs bathroom and the kitchen to refinish. I hope that we can get them all done over the next two years or so. The house will look magnificent once it’s all done.
I have it almost all planned in my head. Each room will have style but will be extremely functional.
I think the kitchen reno is what I’m most looking forward to though. I don’t like our current cupboards or counter top and I want to move where both the fridge and stove are located. My idea kitchen would have granite countertops, hardwood cupboards, a hardwood floor and one of those nice storage cabinets on wheels that I could move to the center of the kitchen when I’m busy preparing a meal and cooking to make it just a little easier.
Our bathroom might be a big reno job. We have the worlds smallest bathroom right now. What I’d like to do is move the bathroom into the tiny spare bedroom that’s currently beside the upstairs bathroom. If we moved the location of the bathroom we’d have a decent sized washroom that we could have a bath and shower in and make very luxurious if we wanted.
What room of your house would you like to renovate and what would it look like when you’re done?