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I need more of these perfume delights

March 2, 2008 by Tricia

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I was just saying the other day how much I love flowers. Of course that’s common knowledge to anyone who has visited at least three of my blogs where I frequently discuss my garden and the plants I grow in it.

This rose, Compte de Chambord, is one of my all time favorite roses. It’s an antique rose and it has a beautiful heavy rose perfume scent that wafts in the air in the early morning, after a rain or after I’ve watered the garden.

I don’t think I’ll lose any roses this winter since there’s been such a nice snow cover protecting them – although we’re about to have a heavy ice storm later this evening and through the night – but if I do manage to lose any roses I think I’ll look for more Compte de Chambord roses.

Two or three more would be perfect. Unfortunately I don’t have any room for more at this time since I’ve already got more than 60 roses and God only knows how many hundreds of bulbs and perennials. No, I’m not hoping to lose any plants in order to make room, but eventually some will die out or be damaged from our harsh winters and now I know just what I’ll replace those plants with when they go!

Anyone else grow Antique roses?

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Filed Under: Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: Antique Rose, beautiful, blogs, bulbs, buy, Compte de Chambord, damage, flower, flowers, garden, green thumb, Green Thumb Sunday, GTS, ice storm, Love, lovely rose, manage, moring dew, morning air, perfume, photo, plant, plants, rain, rose perfume, roses, scent, snow, snow cover, storm, waft, wafting, water, watered, winter, winter damaged

A real hairy contest

March 1, 2008 by Tricia

Unbelievably there’s a World Beard and Mustache contest! Not only that, the US apparently has their own Beard Team.

Apparently … there are all kinds of beard and mustache categories but the most interesting is the free style.

You simply have to take a look at this video to see some of the crazy beard and mustaches! Some of the men grew their facial hair for six years in order to perfect their look. Here … have a peek if you dare.

I’ve got to keep my husband from seeing this video … I don’t want him to get any crazy ideas!

Filed Under: Entertainment, Humor, Video Tagged With: beard, beard and mustache contest, facial hair, funny, funny video, hair, hairy, hairy story, Humor, mustache, odd, odd news, Video

I love Dogs and I’ve found a great site for dog lovers

March 1, 2008 by Tricia

I adore my puppy. She’s become my new muse. I’ve spent an awful lot of time over the last three month researching everything dog.

Whenever I become interested in something I tend to do a lot of research on the subject. I go to the library and borrow books, I search the internet for more information on the topic and I also tend to talk to others that are also interested in the same topic. Often I read so much that I end up creating a website to not only discuss my latest intense interest, but also to create a place for others so that they can quickly learn all the things that I’ve learned on one site. I certainly did this when I became interested in reptiles! I’ve got two huge reptile related websites as some of you probably already know.

I haven’t gotten to the “make a website” stage yet and I may not this time round, but you never know. What I have been doing is visiting a number of dog and Labrador Retriever related websites, joining dog forums and reading up on dogs in general.

You might remember that my puppy was quite sick when we got her. I had to learn as much as I could in order to try to make her better. She’s doing a lot better these days. She’s still got some problems, but over all she’s doing quite well. I thank the many great sites that I discovered for helping me help her recover from her many ailments.

One of the sites that I came across along the way is the I-Love-Dogs.com website. If you’re thinking of getting your first dog or getting another doggy companion you can spend some time on the site reading the pros and cons of various dog breeds and of course looking at the many dog pictures that proud owners are more than happy to post.

I-Love-Dogs.com is a major dog portal where you can talk to other dog owners, discuss dogs in general on the forums, talk about your dogs health or behavioral problems or share some tips that have worked for you and your dog companion.

Along with the extensive dog forums you’ll find sections with dog games, lists of great dog names, free stuff for your dog, recipes for home made dog food, articles about dogs and dog training and many other great dog related categories. Heck you can even shop for supplies for your dog too.

If you are a dog owner you should take a moment to visit the I-Love-Dogs.com website. I’m sure you’ll find something there of interest and you’ll probably learn something new too.

Filed Under: Cool stuff, Health Fitness and Beauty, Hobbies, Home and Lifestyle, Internet, Our Puppy, Recreation, Services, Web and Technology Tagged With: article, articles, books, buy a dog, categories, cons, discuss, dog, dog articles, dog behaviour, dog breeds, dog companion, dog food, dog food recipes, dog forums, dog games, dog health, dog information, dog names, dog owner, dog owners, dog pictures, dog research, dog supplies, dog training, eating, Food, forum, free, free stuff, happy, Health Fitness and Beauty, help, home, information, interest, interesting, Internet, Join, lab puppy, labrador retriever, Love, Midnight, picture, pictures, problems, pros, puppy, read, reading, reptile, research, searching, shop, sick, sick puppy, talk with dog owners, tips, training, visiting, website, websites

What a bad week

March 1, 2008 by Tricia

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I’ve had such a bad week it’s not funny.

I felt the need to put up a cute semi funny picture … better that than think about something that happened to me on Tuesday that still scares me!

I’ll probably write about what happened sometime over the weekend, but not right now. I’ll just say that something happened while I was walking my puppy and I thought that we were both going to get beat up! It kind of made me lose my faith in the thought that more people are good than bad.

I hope that you’ve all had a better week than I have!

Filed Under: Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Humor, The Neighborhood, Toronto, Walking Tagged With: bad week, beat up, care, cute, fright, frightened, funny, funny picture, mad, people, photo, piggies, pigs, puppy, Scared, scary, threatened, three little pigs, walk, Walking, weekend

Can’t wait for the flowers to grow? Buy a bouquet!

March 1, 2008 by Tricia

I think just about anyone that’s visited this blog a few times knows that I absolutely adore flowers. Hardly a week goes by when I don’t post at least one photo of the flowers I grow in my garden. I’m so thankful for the photos that I have considering that I live in such a cold climate! I mean, I can’t enjoy my love of flowers any other way during our long winter … or can I?

I could of course purchase fresh Flowers from a site such as e-florists-inc to get me through the next month or two until my own flowers are blooming. You could too if you wanted to brighten your home with a lovely bouquet. After all there’s nothing quite like a beautiful floral arrangement as the center piece on the dinner table when you’re having a romantic dinner with someone you love.

You can find some beautiful flower selections at e-florists-inc. You can shop by the type of flower or plant, or by the occasion as they have arrangements that are perfect for birthdays, the birth of a baby, for Mom or to say congratulations to a friend or co-worker just to name a few of the selections from which you can choose.

roses.jpg If you purchase one of their best selling arrangements you can get it for up to 50% off as they’ve already reduced the prices on their most popular bouquets and gift baskets. I really like the white rose and white lily arrangement that I’ve include to the right. Isn’t it lovely?

If you’ve been thinking of buying some flowers for your home or as a special occasion gift for someone do take a look at their selection. They have some lovely arrangements. Easter’s coming up soon, perhaps you’ll want some flowers for your home at that time?

I spent quite a bit of time browsing through the site since I’m just fascinated with flowers. If you’re as interested in flowers as I am or if you’d like to learn more about how a Blossom develops and how flowers have become masters at attracting certain types of insects in order to pollinate you should take a look at the Wikipedia article that I found. It will answering any possible questions that you have about blossoms!

Filed Under: Gardening, Gifts, Home and Garden, Home and Lifestyle, Home Decor, Recreation, Shopping Tagged With: arrangement, article, baby, beautiful, Birthday, bloom, blooming, bouquet, brighten home, buy, buying, dinner table, florist, flower, flowers, flowers for special occasion, friend, garden, gift, gift basket, home, Lilies, photo, plant, plant basket, plants, prices, purchase, rose, roses, shop, special, special occasion, winter

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