Archives for June 2008

Finally finished the front yard

June 26, 2008 by Tricia

Chris and I were busy this evening.

It was a hot day and I’d wanted to finished planting some annuals that I bought a couple of weeks ago, but being such a hot day I didn’t garden during the day. Instead, I waited until it had cooled a bit and then went out.

It was still too hot when we went outside, but we pushed on.

We were outside from about 6:30 until 10 pm! Yeah when I garden I work until I’m finished. So now all the annuals are planted among the roses that are blooming their happy little heads off. We put mulch down too – red cedar – so the garden looks nice and tidy.

It was dark by the time I was done watering and as we put the last of the mulch on the beds so I can’t wait until tomorrow to take a look at our work.

Exhausting day

June 24, 2008 by Tricia

Well I finally got around to going the family doctor early today for a physical. I’ve been so sick the last two years that she didn’t really insist on giving me an annual physical until now. I mean, at one point I was seeing my doctor about every two weeks! Considering that I was also seeing a number of other specialists regularly at the time it seemed like I was in a doctors office at least twice a week for a while there.

Now normally when I see my family doc I time the appointment for one of the days when my husband doesn’t work until noon so that he can drive me to the docs. I do drive but I don’t drive often anymore because I’m just on too many meds and I don’t feel safe driving with all those drugs on board. Well this week he’s covering someone else’s shift while they are on holidays so I couldn’t work out a ride. So I ended up taking the Subway for the first time in about two years!

The subway is just as bad or perhaps interesting as ever. It was crowded, smelly and stuffy and it took forever to get to the doctors office! I’m used to getting there in 15 minutes but since I decided to take the subway today it took over an hour to get there. Argh. Plus they were doing construction or renovations in one of the buildings near my doctors, maybe putting in CAT6 cables from the looks of it, and I had to go around the area just to get to my docs.

Since I was out so long today the dog was full of energy so when Chris got home from work we decided to take her for a walk together and man that was a workout. She pulls on the leash so hard. She even tired herself out … she’s snoozing on the floor at my feet now.

I’m wiped out now too … maybe I’ll take a nap as well.

Midnight and her smell fests

June 23, 2008 by Tricia

I hate taking my puppy Midnight outside if it’s windy or if it’s been raining. She just goes on a smell fest and takes forever to do her business. What’s worse is that she’s so strong now that she simply drags me along behind her.

Ive got to find a way to curb her enthusiasm. I know with time she’ll calm down some but until that time comes I think the neighbors are going to get a kick out of seeing me dragged around the block!

At least she’s been showing lately that she might be a bit of a guard dog. She’s a lab so I know she’ll never be a great guard dog but she does perk up when she hears a noise that she doesn’t know. She’ll run around the house barking or doing what I call clucking – just little short barks that sound like “buck, buck”. I tell her to stop clucking when she’s like that – at least if I know the sound she heard is harmless.

She’s never really become defensive when we’ve been outside walking around, but I suspect that if someone came at me with bad intentions she’d take action. Hopefully I wouldn’t need to pull out the self defense products. Well, I certainly hope she wouldn’t do her usual thing which is jumping up on people and licking them!

If you have a Labrador Retriever how old was it when it finally started to calm down?

Holy Smokes Mother Nature’s at it again!

June 23, 2008 by Tricia

All I can say is wow.

At about 2:45 p.m. this afternoon severe thunderstorms hit my area of Toronto. By 3 p.m. the front lawn and part of the back lawn had several inches of water covering it and naturally our sunroof in our enclosed front porch started to leak because the water was coming down hard off the edge of the roof. That’s the only time it leaks.

There was also lots of hail. Not as big as last weeks grape to golf ball sized hail, but plenty of small pea to grape sized balls of hail.

It’s still pouring! Oh and there’s lots of thunder and lightening too. I’m not sure how much rain has come down or how much we’re expecting but there’s a lot of it.

I was reading the Weather Networks severe weather report a few minutes ago and apparently there’s been funnel clouds spotted over Toronto and nearby areas. Great …

I did take pictures of the hail and the down pour but since I’m running the laptop on it’s battery to protect it from any power surges and I don’t want to transfer the photos from the camera right now. I will post the shots later if they turned out decent.

I hope that most of you aren’t getting the kind of weather we’re having here … it’s been a freaky week of storms. Time for it to warm up and be more summer like I think.

Siberian Irises are blooming

June 22, 2008 by Tricia

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The White and blue Siberian Irises that I planted in our front boulevard have been blooming for close to two weeks now. The plant clumps have grown quite large and they are just full of lovely flowers like this little beauty.

They make a gorgeous display and I hope that people walking by on the sidewalk on their way to work each morning enjoy the flowers.

In the backyard the German Irises are just about done blooming but there are still a few of these lovelies to be seen –

There many different types of irises, but I’ve only tried growing three or four different types so far. My favorites are the Siberian iris and a tiny spring iris called Danfordiae. The last is an early spring blooming dwarf iris that’s absolutely lovely.

Do you grow irises or other spring flowers? ARe they finished blooming now?

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Finally finished the front yard

Exhausting day

Midnight and her smell fests

Holy Smokes Mother Nature’s at it again!

Siberian Irises are blooming

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