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These bad days have to stop

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I had another funky day yesterday where I got up, but quickly realized that I should have stayed in bed.

I think I only made one post yesterday! I just didn’t feel up to writing. Instead I did a little background work on the sites and basically just puttered around.

I don’t think it’s fair to you, my readers, for me to try to write when I just don’t have it in me. If I did I’d probably end up writing basically the same post on all my sites – “I don’t feel well today I’m not up to doing anything bleh … “. What’s the point in that other than letting you know I’m feeling terrible.

I’m sure those of you who read more than one of my sites know that when I’m in a writing mood the posts come fast! I can write six or seven posts on a few sites, each, in a matter of hours if the mood strikes me.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that if my sites go quite for a day or two every now and then it’s probably not because I’m busy. It’s more than likely because I’m feeling terrible. I may be sitting at my computer reading emails, visiting sites or doing some behind the scenes stuff with our websites, but I’m just not up to writing.





Bedding can change the look and feel of a room

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As far as I’m concerned you can never have enough nice bedding. There was a time, when I was first living in my apartment and decorating it, that you might say I was a “bedding junkie”. I purchased way too many sheets, duvets and comforters than I needed for my one double bed!

Now that we live in a house we have three different sizes of beds – twin, double and queen. The only bed that I could probably get more bedding for would be the queen sized bed which just happens to be the one that we use every night.

I just love dressing up a bed with new sheets, duvets or comforters. It can change the whole look and feel of a room.

Today I’ve spent some time looking at the lovely selection of bedding at Terry’s Fabrics. They have some very nice printed duvet covers, embroidered duvet covers, and quilted bedspreads. I found a few different styles that would look great in our bedroom if I were to buy them. The prices are reasonable as well.

If you’re looking for new bedding for your home take a look at the selection at Terry’s Fabrics. I think you’ll like what you see.

Tiny blossoms

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Milkweed flowers

I have a few types of Milkweed growing in my garden. One is a hybrid ornamental Milkweed called Butterfly Weed, and then there’s this one. I think this might be one that’s native to Canada but it’s growing where I had a tropical milkweed growing a few years ago.

Certainly the tropical Milkweed shouldn’t have survived. Perhaps it reverted to a hardier version. Either way, it’s quite pretty and it’s very large! This milkweed grows to at least five feet tall if not taller.

It’s just beginning to flower as you can see from the photograph above which is a mix of buds and tiny flowers.

The butterflies are certainly loving the milkweed that I grow as well as the petunias, the hosta flowers and the honey suckle vines. I’m sure there are other plants in my garden that they like but I see them most often around the three that I just mentioned.

Perhaps later today I’ll get some new photos of butterflies on flowers.

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Low Water Pressure

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We had a strange thing happen the other day. I think it was Tuesday evening. I went upstairs to use the washroom and I noticed that the toilet barely had any water in it. Hmmm that was odd. Then I turned on the bathroom faucets and they worked, water poured out of them.

I thought oh no! We’ve got some kind of problem with our toilet. The last thing I wanted to have to do was call a plumber.

So I took the lid off the toilet tank to have a look inside and there was no water inside. I tried flushing the toilet to see if that would trigger the tank to fill up and it didn’t. At that point I was calling Chris to come upstairs and have a look.

Meanwhile I was also looking for the little knob near the floor behind the toilet where we could turn the water on and off. I don’t think every house is like that. The old home owner put on off knobs under the sinks, in a closet for the bathtub water supply and as I just said behind the toilet. Maybe he had lot of plumbing problems in the past? Or maybe he was just a very smart man making it easier to fix things and still have water in the rest of the house?

Well it wasn’t the little knob – that hadn’t been touched and it was in the on position. Chris thought maybe it was the pump thing in the toilet and he thought he might be able to get a replacement part the next day.

At that point I remembered that we were watering our garden using a sprinkler. I asked Chris to shut off the water outside so we could see what happened. He refused at first saying no way – the water is still coming out of the taps and the tub, it can’t be low water pressure.

Well … it turns out I was right. I eventually convinced him to go outside, turn off the sprinkler and see what happened and as soon as the outside water was off the toilet started filling.

That had never happened before. Maybe some neighbors were watering as well the last time one of us flushed that toilet and it just didn’t have enough water pressure to fill the water tank?

We do have low water pressure in this area. I hate it!

Metal Moooooose

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How Canadian is that? A Moose! A Metal moose at that!

If you’ve been visiting my husband and I’s sites today you’ll notice that the photos are all from the same place. We went to an art show two weeks ago and we both loved the metal artwork the best.

Oh there was pottery, paintings, photographs (my nephew had a photo exhibit there!), sculptures, woodwork and many other types of art work but it was the metal artwork that fascinated us.

I think it was the moose that I saw first. Probably since it was the largest piece that the artist had at the show. It’s made out of a recovered oil tank.

I have a tiny front yard and this moose would take up the whole lawn area!

BTW sorry I’m late with my Photo Hunt photo!

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