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Waiting for summer

January 28, 2007 by Tricia

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I’d rather remember the beauty of these “The Fairy” roses right now:

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Instead of looking outside and watching the snow fall!

January Snowstorm Toronto

It’s been snowing here since Friday, and while I’m kind of glad that it is snowing and covering my plants – which protects them a little bit from the harsh cold, I’d much rather that it was spring or even summer right now.

Just look at those pretty roses! I can’t wait until spring when all my plants start to poke their heads up out of the earth or begin to grow new stems and leaves. It always seems like such a miracle after the cold of winter.

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





Filed Under: Green Thumb Sunday Tagged With: cold, flowers, garden, Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, photo, photos, plants, roses, snow, the fairy, winter

Free podcast hosting service with unlimited bandwidth

January 28, 2007 by Tricia

One of the biggest new trends in the world of blogs is Podcasting. Many of the bloggers that I know have experimented with doing their own podcasts. Some are commentaries on what’s happening in the world, others are about specific topics, and still some are very much like the persons blog – a commentary on their family life or what’s happening in their own world.

If you’ve been thinking about trying out podcasting on your site, or if you have been doing your own podcasts but you’re frustrated because the files are taking up your limited storage space, fret no more. Mypodcast is a new site where you can create a Free Podcast that will be hosted on the site.

Offering free podcast hosting, and unlimited bandwidth, podcast templates and help files and articles related to podcasting you couldn’t ask for more. Oh yes membership is completely free.

Why not visit the site to learn more about podcasting and their hosting services.

Please let me know if you try out their podcasting service- I’d love to hear what you have to say- perhaps even in your very own podcast.

Filed Under: Entertainment, Recreation, Web and Technology Tagged With: blog, blogger, free membership, free podcast, podcast, podcast hosting, unlimited bandwidth

The Cloud Gate

January 27, 2007 by Tricia

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This weeks theme is Silver

You want silver? I’ll give you silver! This is the Cloud Gate sculpture in downtown Chicago. I was there in August and was just amazed by the beauty of this huge silver “Bean” as Chicagoans call it.

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Here’s a closer view – see how everyone is just amazed as they stand and look at it?

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You could easily spend hours there looking at it from all angles and seeing what you could see reflected in it’s shiny dome. You could also walk below it where the sculpture becomes concave. The reflections when you are underneath it are like looking in one of those crazy funhouse mirrors.

If you ever visit Chicago I recommend that you go to see this sculpture. You’ll love it.

Filed Under: Photo Hunters Tagged With: chicago, Cloud Gate, photo, photo hunter, Photo Hunters, photos, sculpture, silver, The bean

I got me some swag!

January 27, 2007 by Tricia

Finally!

P Swag

P has been giving away some of the P branded items to registered members. I think it’s there way of saying thanks to all of their posties for doing a good job promoting the company. I believe that the majority of P members will eventually get some free swag.

I’m not actually sure when it arrived.

You see, we found it on our enclosed front porch on Friday evening near the door, but tucked behind a chair. The green box was post marked January 9th, and the package was coming from Florida by Global Priority mail. I have no idea if that was express delivery or regular ground delivery, but I would assume that it would normally take a week or a bit more to get to me here in Toronto. So …. I have a feeling that it might have been sitting on my front porch for most of the week.

Remember it was hidden behind a chair, and whoever delivered it (probably Canada Post?) didn’t leave any notice of a package.

I had been keeping an eye on the porch just in case it arrived. I live in a pretty good neighborhood and unless something is marked with a specific value the postman often leaves packages in our enclosed porch. Usually they aren’t hidden quite as well. As I said I had looked out there every now and then glancing at the table and the surfaces of the two chairs but I didn’t see anything. Now I know why!

Anyway, as you can see the box contained one large foam finger. Maybe I can use that in one of the photo or video at some point. There was also a T-shirt that says “spreadin’ like peanut butter” , a gigantic 13 inch pen! I tried to write with it and because it’s so big it’s kind of heavy so it wasn’t that easy to write with. My husband didn’t have any trouble though. Maybe since I’m a lefty it’s harder to use? There was also a Pingo calling card worth $2.50. We can use that to make a long distance call or two. There was also a gift card for FamilyRecRoom.com but the site isn’t loading for me right now so I’m not sure what they sell. The final object was Mighty Minty Mints which I’m sure I’ll enjoy.

Take a look at the photo above. You see the rectangular box like object that’s under the round mint container? That’s the T-Shirt. I just unwrapped it so I could see what size they sent me since it doesn’t say on the outside of the package. Well the the shirt is somehow compressed into a crinkled rectangle. LOL I decided not to open it up fully because I want to show it to my husband when he gets up this morning. I hope the shirt is a small or a medium, but it feels kind of heavy like it might be a large or even bigger. Oh well, if it’s too big it will become T-shirt pj’s.

My husband also does work for Pay/perp0st on his website too. I wonder if he’ll get some swag as well? That’d be cool.

I had added up how much money that I’ve made with Pay/perp0st since I started with them in early October, and I also added how much my husband has made since he started and do you know how much we’ve made together in just a few months? Over $3,800! That would put us at number 4 on the top earners list if we weren’t two separate people! LOL

If you’ve been reading my site you know I’m not working due to my illness and that I’ve also got an $1100 medical test to pay for that I just had this week. So we can use that money.

Filed Under: Cool stuff, Recreation, The Blogisphere Tagged With: 13 inch pen, Cool stuff, familyrecroom gift card, foam finger, free gifts, gift card, mints, pingo card, Recreation, swag, T Shirt, The Blogisphere

Links of Love

January 26, 2007 by Tricia

Flavor Flav has his Flavor of Love show and I’ve got my links of love posts. I’m back with another issue of sites you don’t want to miss.

I’ll start with The Churning, this site is written by JJ and it’s a mix of eclectic posts from information about his band The Codes, to posts about whether, uh hum … There’s some interesting comments in that post. I’d say that for the most part this site is not for reading at work unless you know how to minimize quickly.

Momofthree has at least two great new blogs on her hands. The first site is called Coffee time (hey that’s the name of a popular coffee shop here in Canada, eh!) and it has a little bit of everything on it. Her other site is called Commonsense Critique and I’ve found that on that site Momofthree talks about a number of different products that really would be useful to have around in our day to day lives. Check out her sites.

The next site I want to tell you about is called Ambitiously Inquisitive. There’s a little bit of everything on this site. If you can’t find something that you like on the first page then you’re hard to please! There’s amusing stories and videos, tips on how to make money blogging, and personal tales. It’s worth a look.

I think that’s it for now! If I missed you and I had said I’d write about you please let me know.

Filed Under: Linky Love Tagged With: blogs, links, Linky Love, sites to read, visit

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