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Christmas with the in-laws!

December 24, 2007 by Tricia

How is everyone on this lovely Christmas Eve?

We’re having a quite Christmas here this year. I don’t think we’ve celebrated Christmas on Christmas day with Chris’ family in years! It’s always a day or two before Christmas or the following weekend. It seems that no one can manage to get together on Christmas day for some reason.

When my parents were around we had this problem too of course, but we tried to alternate Christmases between the families.

Anyway … Yesterday we went to Brantford to have Christmas with Chris’ parents and his two sisters, their spouses and their kids.

It didn’t quite work out that way though.

Chris’ younger sister had been to Sarnia the night before seeing friends and as they returned home they discovered that their young daughter was very sick so they ended up in a walk in clinic. My niece has strep throat so bad she won’t even drink any liquids! I don’t envy my sister in law at all today!

Chris’ older sister and her husband didn’t make it either! It turned out that she had a cold or the flu and since they are going to Hawaii on Christmas day she wanted to rest and get better before their flight.

So as it turned out it was just Chris and I, Chris’ parents and one of his aunts.

Chris nephew was in the basement with a friend while we were visiting, but for some reason he didn’t want to eat dinner … so that dinner for 12 or 13 people ended up being for only 5!

So that was Christmas with the in-laws.

Oh and I’ve said before that my mother in law can’t really cook … I think she said she cooked the turkey for 10 hours. It was good but it was very dry.

We brought Midnight along for the day so she could meet the family. She was afraid to go in the house when we first go there! I coaxed her in and then we kept her on her leash for a while as we led her around the main floor showing her the house and introducing her to the in-laws. She did pretty good while she was there. No accidents (actually she hasn’t had an accident for close to a week so she might be housetrained!) and she didn’t jump on people too much. Over all I’d say it was a good experience for the puppy. (and us)





Filed Under: Canada, Dining and Restaurants, Entertainment, Finance, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Recreation, Socializing Tagged With: accident, basement, Brantford, Chris, christmas, Christmas dinner, cold, dinner, dry turkey, Family, father in law, flight, flu, friend, friends, get together, Hawaii, home, house, husband, in law, kid, kids, manage, monther in law, mother, mother in law, Nephew, Niece, night, parents, puppy, sick, sister, sister in law, strep throat, travel, trip, visiting, weekend

Wholesale furniture for your restaurant, hotel or resort at Tres Amigos

December 24, 2007 by Tricia

Over the past few months I’ve been visiting a website called Tres Amigos. I really like rustic furniture and that’s what Tres Amigo’s specializes in. Rustic and Spanish Colonial furniture.

I had thought that the company mainly sold their furniture to the public but I’ve just learned that they are now selling their furniture wholesale. They have quite an aggressive wholesale program where qualified applicants in the retail, hotel, and resort industries can purchase
Mexican Wholesale Furniture at a fantastic discount.

If you have a store and need a few pieces to fill up your store or want dozens of pieces for an interior design client or to furnish a hotel or resort room you can now get everything you need at Tres Amigos.

It appears that they have two programs. The first is Less than container. With this program you can mix and match furniture and accessories from dozens of manufacturers from around the world. The minimum wholesale order is $1000 after discounts and apparently discounts increase with volume purchases.

Tres Amigos keeps a large inventory on hand so your online order will be filled quickly or if you are able to visit their location you can visit their store and load up your trailer or truck.

The second wholesale program is the Container program. You can save a lot of money with this program. Tres Amigos will source products from India, Indonesia, Mexico and elsewhere to fill your order. They’ll handle everything for your business from start to finish including design samples, freight forwarders, brokers, clearing customs and more. You’ll receive large discounts for purchasing in volume and save on freight charges as well.

Tres Amigos will also design Rustic Wholesale Furniture, Tuscan, Southwest and Spanish Colonial Wholesale Furniture for your businesses specific needs. They’ll design something unique just for your hotel, restaurant or resort to set you apart from other businesses in your field.

You can call Tres Amigos to discuss large wholesale orders or custom designs at 1-877-932-6446.

Filed Under: Decor, Dining and Restaurants, Home and Garden, Home and Lifestyle, Sales and Marketing, Shopping Tagged With: accessories, business, company, custom, custom design, design, discount, discounts, freight discounts, furniture, hotel, India, interior design, mexico, mix and match, online, Products, program, purchase, resort, restaurant, rustic furniture, Southwest, Spanish Colonial, special, Tuscan, Unique, wholesale, wholesale prices, wholesale program

I’d rather look at roses than endure this cold wind!

December 24, 2007 by Tricia

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Beautiful Graham Thomas English Rose.

Winter hit Toronto early this year and we’ve had snow cover for most of the last month! Thinking back to last winter, I think we’d only had one snow by this date and it melted shortly after it fell. I guess it’s about time we had a real winter around here.

Yesterday it did warm up a bit, but it rained and rained and rained some more. Then in the late afternoon strong winds arrived bringing with it very chilly weather. Right now it’s only a little below freezing, but thanks to the wind it feels extremely cold outside.

I’d much rather remember how lovely this rose looked in October when I took this photo when I have to take the puppy outside in the cold!

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

Filed Under: Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Photography, Recreation, Toronto, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: beautiful, cold, cold weather, early winter, English Rose, flowers, freezing, garden, Graham Thomas Rose, Green Thumb Sunday, October, photo, plant, puppy, rain, rose, snow, sunday, Toronto, weather, wind, winter, winters here

Puppy Training classes

December 22, 2007 by Tricia

Midnight our Lab puppy

Well Midnight’s gone to two puppy training classes so far. She’s having a ball at the classes.

She’s not so hot on the car ride there, but once we get out of the car she starts pulling on her leash to get into the Petsmart to see her friends. She always barks at the entrance to say hello to any dogs that might be near the checkout. I call Petsmart her doggy Wonderland.

Being her adopted mummy I think she’s kind of cute, smart and adorable … but judging from pretty much everyone she meets response she must be a cute puppy. Everyone seems to love her. Whether we’re walking on the street or walking around in Petsmart people always come up to pet our little furball. She’s very enthusiastic and gets right into greeting people and their dogs if they happen to have one with them.

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The training classes are ok. I’ve done a lot of reading and have been working on training her at home using many of the techniques that they are teaching in Petsmart so I don’t feel like I’m gaining all that much by going through the classes. However, as a way to socialize Midnight to other people, other animals and in particular other dogs I think it’s great.

It’s also nice to talk to other puppy owners to learn of their experiences.

One lady has a yellow Lab puppy that’s about two weeks younger than Midnight. Molly is her name. She’s just a little smaller than Midnight but I’m certain she’s got about ten pounds on our pup. Midnight is of course still sick – more on that in another post.

By the time we get home on Friday evenings we have a very tired puppy on our hands and she goes right to sleep … and that’s nice.

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Our Puppy, Pets and animals, Recreation, Socializing Tagged With: adorable, affectionate puppy, animals, cute, cute puppy, dog, doggy wonderland, Friday, friends, home, labrador retriever, Midnight, pets, Petsmart puppy training, photo, pretty, puppy, puppy training class, sick, sleep, socializing puppies, tired

Avot mV allows you to watch near real time video on your mobile device

December 21, 2007 by Tricia

Mobile phones that are capable of accessing web based video are becoming more common. I’d say one of the most well known mobile phones would be the iPhone and also the iPod Touch.

Unfortunately, just like in the old days when everyone connected to the internet using slow modems web based video delivered to cell phones can be slow to download and when playing while downloading the video could go through delays or be of poor quality.

I don’t have an iPhone but I do have a mobile phone with web capabilities and I’m excited about the Avot mV video delivery platform that’s been introduced by Avot Media.

Avot mV is apparently the first solution to give mobile users unlimited access to any web-based video. The platform, once installed on your mobile device, will enable you to quickly and easily search, personalize and play videos from all over the internet.

To download Avot mV directly to your mobile phone you can just point your mobile browser to the Avot mV – Product Site. If you are using your computer you can simply visit the Corporate Site to learn more about this innovative program. You’ll also be able to download a copy of Avot mV to your desktop. At that point you’ll need to hook up your mobile device to your computer in order to upload the program to your mobile device.

I’m certain that you’ll enjoy using Avot mV. The platform features intelligent search capabilities that will incorporate your personal preferences which will make searching for videos across the internet easier and faster.

I hate typing in urls or even much text on my cell phone. I bet you do too. One feature of Avot mV that I’m sure you’ll appreciate is that you can simply point and click on videos that you’re interested in instead of having to type in urls. This is of course most beneficial to iPhone users since the iPhone is a true “touch” phone.

Once you’ve found a video that you’d like to watch the Avot mV platform transfers the content to your mobile device in as little as a few seconds. This is much faster than earlier mobile solutions. Since the video is transferred to your mobile so quickly you’ll be able to play the video in near real time and as a result you should not experience grainy video quality, delays or jitter.

You can maximize the size and clarity of the video just like you can when viewing a video on your desktop computer screen.

If you’d like to download videos and then organize them into a playlist that you can watch when you are commuting to and from work or when you are taking a break you can do so with the Avot mV platform. In fact you can create an unlimited number of playlists. I know if I was still taking the subway to and from work each day this feature would definitely be of interested to me!

You can see a list of supported web enabled devices on the Corporate site. Mobile devices such as the Apple iPhone/iPod Touch are supported.

If you are interested in the Avot mV platform visit the website to learn more about it and you can also visit the Avot Media Official Blog to keep up with the Avot mV platform news.

Filed Under: Cool stuff, Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Internet, Movies, Recreation, Software, Video, Web and Technology Tagged With: apple iPhone, Avot mV, cell phone, computer, download, free, install, Internet, ipod, media, mobile device, multiple playlists, no delays, organize, personalize, platform, play, playlists, program, quality, quick download, real time video, search, site, Software, support, upload, Video, watch, watch videos, web capable mobile

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