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A clump of crocosmia

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I just realized that whenever I talk about this lush red flowering plant, crocosmia Lucifer, I always show close up of the flowers. I thought I’d show you what a clump of crocosmia looks like when it’s in full bloom.

This isn’t the best photograph. The red is just so vibrant that it sometimes takes on an orangish tint in photographs. My new camera is much better with photographing reds than my old Pentax is. Obviously I took this photo with the Pentax, not the Sony.

This plant is very easy to grow. It blooms at least once a year, often twice. The clumps of crocosmia are 3.5 to 4 feet tall.

One clump that I have growing has spread so much in the last three years that I think I’ll divide the clump sometime this spring.

I often grow white flowers like fragrant Nicotina or Datura in front of the clump of crocosmia. The combination looks very nice together.

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The Dinner

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Two weeks ago my brother came to Toronto for a convention. For once, he was going to be in town for more than a day or two. He was actually here for five full days! His wife decided to come along for the trip too. She works for my brothers company, but I guess being the bosses wife must have some benefits. She was relaxing while my brother worked the convention.

On the Saturday night almost all of my siblings and a good portion of their kids got together for a nice dinner in a downtown Toronto restaurant. There were eleven us at the table.

The photo above is of me and my family holding our drinks high and giving a cheer. I didn’t take the photo, one of my nephews did. I’m sitting near the end of the left side of the table. You see way at the end of the table? Two sets of hands holding wine glasses up? The first hand is mine, and the second is my sister-in-laws.

I know, you don’t see much of me on this site, but I do give you little bits and pieces here and there don’t I?

Did you notice the glass of Guinness in my nieces boyfriends hand? Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

This last photo is one of my brother, from Vancouver, in the forefront, and my husband behind him.

Say Cheese!

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Trying Nabilone again

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So I’m trying my new medication again. The one that I told you about on Wednesday. Yeah, that stuff, the Nabilone.

I took the capsule about two hours ago and so far it doesn’t seem to be hitting me quite as hard as it did the first time I tried the medication.

I didn’t take another earlier in the week because the one I took on Monday seemed to have hung around making me feel dragged out until at least Wednesday or Thursday. Maybe it was just a coincidence that I felt so tired out? I mean maybe I was fighting something and that’s why I was so wiped?

Either way, so far so good with this try of the new medication. Now, if I end up feeling hung over and dragged out all weekend I’ll know it was the medication again.

I do hope it helps my pain and my sleep though. It’s supposed to do both.

Wish me luck?

Halloween Express for all your costume and themed party needs

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I’ve been asked to write about Halloweenexpress.com. Now obviously, with a site titled Halloween Express you would expect to find Halloween Costumes, wouldn’t you?

You will, but you’ll also find costumes that relate well to just about any other major holiday, and costumes that could be used when attending costume parties and other themed events.

disco.gif Halloween Express carries everything from Adult, kid, pet and Halloween costumes, to accessories and make up, hats, wigs and masks plus decorations for your costume party. They offer the largest selection of Halloween costumes and merchandise. Just browse through their pages to see what I mean.

The costumes and merchandise sold at Halloween Express are a combination of the latest popular trends in costumes, as well as the tried and true best sellers.

There are so many different types of costumes to choose. Clicking on the adult costume section revealed an assortment of different styles of adult costumes. I see listings for everything from classic men and womens costumes, to horror, career, couples, Disney, fairytale, holiday, humorous, medieval, military, pirate, religious, sexy, super hero, and TV and movie related men and womens costumes.

babybug2.gif Now that’s just one section. Don’t forget they have costumes for children too. Isn’t the baby bug costume adorable?

Oh and don’t forget to browse through the pet costumes. I just love them.

If I had a dog or cat I might be tempted to dress them up at least once a year after seeing photos of costumed animals. How do you like the masked Power ranger dog costume?

petpowerranger2.gif There are just so many costumes that you really must see the Halloween Express site for yourself.

Halloween express also offers a large assortment of accessories, make up, hats, wigs and masks that you can add to your costume to complete the look, or use to personalize your costumed character.

alien2.gif Halloween Express started out in 1990, and has built itself up to become one of the most aggressive and dynamic Halloween chains in the US. That’s 17+ years of experience, and over 140 retail locations.

There are several company owned as well as franchise locations across the United States. If there isn’t a location in your area, have no fear. Just visit their online site HalloweenExpress.com. They ship merchandise across the continental US, however they do not ship internationally at this time.

So remember Halloween Express the next time you get invited to a costume party or a themed event. I’m certain you’ll be happy with the selection.

Report Splog sites!

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Hey, I found a site that might help in the fight against the spam and scraper blogs that steal posts from our sites.

The site is called SplogSpot. It’s a service that keeps track of spam blogs or splogs. Their database can be queried by anyone using the splogspot API. In this way it can help blog related services such as directories and search engines keep their sites clean.

SplogSpot works with a blacklist that Pingoat.com (a blog pinging service) generates. Pingoat apparently has automatic software that can detect spam blogs.

You can manually submit splogs to SplogSpot whenever you come across one.

If Google and the other big search engines are smart they are already checking this sites database and using the information to remove the splog sites from their index. This might help keep our sites, which have been the victims in this mess from being penalized by Google for duplicate content.

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