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The strangest thing happened last night

June 11, 2008 by Tricia

We had a knock at the door at about 2:30 this morning …

I had fallen asleep on the couch at about 11 pm, and Chris had gone to bed sometime after that. At about 2 a.m. I woke up – too hot because we didn’t have the air conditioning on and Chris had shut all the windows.

As it turned out Chris was awake too and he came downstairs to get some water and watch TV for a few minutes before trying to sleep again.

That’s when we heard a faint knock on the door. Or at least we thought it was a knock, but I also wondered if It was our new neighbors making noise in the house next door even though they haven’t moved in yet.

Chris got up and looked out the peephole and saw a skinny little man standing outside the door. He was saying something, but no matter how many times Chris said “what?” or asked him to repeat what he’d said we still couldn’t tell what he was saying.

Finally Chris decided to open the door. Apparently this guy is the brother of one of our neighbors. His sister was apparently on Vacation and he’d been downtown delivering wine to a bar in the Docks area when his van ran out of gas. He didn’t have any money and needed some to fill the tank.

Somehow he was on a bike. Where he got it I don’t know.

Chris pulled out his wallet and gave him 20 bucks. We had more money in my wallet but he didn’t have to know that.

I still wasn’t sure if his story rang true as I’d never seen him before nor heard our neighbor taking about a brother or anything.

He left saying he’d return in the morning with some wine for us (and hopefully the 20 dollars we’d lent him, although he didn’t promise that).

As of this moment – almost 5 pm, he still hasn’t returned and I have seen our neighbor that’s supposedly his sister … so I don’t think she was on vacation.

It was just so weird. Especially since I just wrote about how we don’t let strangers into our house. Well I guess we didn’t let the guy in, but we gave him money …

I’ll send Chris over to the neighbors later this evening when he gets home from work to check out the story.





Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, The Neighborhood, Toronto Tagged With: 20 bucks, air conditioning, bed, brother, couch, Docks, downstairs, early morning, house, knock at door, knock at the door, knock on, knocked on door, Lent, little man, lying, Money, neighbor, neighbors, noise, on bike, peephole, ran out of gas, scary, sister, sleep, story, strange, stranger, stranger at door, strangest, wallet, watch tv, weird, wine

New to keeping pets? Visit Tame that Wild Thing

June 9, 2008 by Tricia

Everyone that knows me knows that I’m quite the pet lover. I’ve been interested in all kinds of animals for as long as I can remember and I’ve kept several different kinds of pets too, ranging from lizards to my dog.

As a result of my interest in animals I keep my eye open for pet and animal related sites. Sometimes I can learn something new from these sites or I can refer someone else to the website so that they can get the information they need.

I was introduced to a site recently called Tame That Wild Thing. It’s just the kind of site that I’d recommend to people who are trying to decide what type of pet would suit their lifestyle best, or perhaps to those who are just starting out with a new pet and need to learn the basics quickly.

You can find information about birds, dogs, cats, hamsters, tropical fish on topics ranging from setting up an aquarium to raising a puppy and more.

The site is constantly being updated with new articles so it’s worth checking occasionally. I’m sure that many pet lovers will find this site helpful. I certainly could have used some of the puppy information 6 months ago!

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Our Puppy, Pets and animals Tagged With: all kinds of animals, animal, articles, birds, cat, different kinds of pets, dog, dogs cats, hamsters, information about birds, kind, lifestyle, new pet, new pet owner, pet lover, pet lovers, raising a puppy, setting up an aquarium, Tame, tropical fish, website, wild thing

Colorful tulips!

June 9, 2008 by Tricia

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We’re currently having a heatwave and thunder storms here in Toronto. My flowers are blooming, but once the weather gets done with them I’m not sure that they’ll have any petals left!

Here’s a look at some tulips that were blooming up until the last week or so:

orange tulips

As well as this fiery red fringed tulip –

fringed red tulip

I’m afraid the heat and rain ruined their blooms, but like I said the roses are blooming. There’s always something to enjoy in my garden.

BTW yes this post is a day late. I had yet another eye allergy on Saturday that left me with both eyes painful, blurry and sensitive to light for two days. I wasn’t able to post or do much of anything. Hence the late post. Sorry!

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information. GTS participants remember to check in at As the Garden Grows each week so that we’ll know you made a new post!

Filed Under: Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Photography, Toronto, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: blooms, colorful, eye allergy, fiery, flowers, garden, Green Thumb Sunday, GTS, heat, heatwave, petals, rain, roses, sunday, thunder, thunder storms, Toronto, tulip, tulips, weather

Promote your sites and articles on Quassi

June 7, 2008 by Tricia

I just joined a new site called Quassi.

It’s a new kind of site where you can promote not only your own sites but topics that you are knowledgeable about as well.

In addition to having yet another place to promote your sites you can also participate in revenue sharing at Quassi.

Here’s some information directly from the site:

At Qassia, you can add your websites for free, and without having to add reciprocal backlinks. You’ll get unlimited quality backlinks (as opposed to useless “no-follow” backlinks). You can also add intel. Short for “intelligence”, intel is a tidbit of information. Qassia rewards users who add intel in three ways.

1. Backlinks You get one backlink for every piece of intel you add. Every intel will carry a direct backlink to one of your sites. So the more intel you add, the more backlinks you get.

2. Credit When you add intel, you also get credit, in the form of Qassia dollars. Your net worth in Qassia dollars determines how well your websites rank in our directory.

3. Revenue When your intel is displayed, you get 100% of the advertising revenue generated by that page. That is not a typo, by the way: we give you ALL of the gross ad revenue.

This means that website owners have triple incentive to contribute intel. The contributed intel will allow Qassia to become a vast repository of intelligence, with unrivaled original content. And a vast amount of original content draws traffic like honey draws ants.

Right now Quassi is in closed beta so the only way to join is by getting an invite by someone who’s already a Quassi member. If you’re interested in joining just click on one of the Quassi links that I’ve added to this post and it should take you to my profile page where you should see a Sign Up button in the top left hand sidebar.

I just signed up so I can’t tell you how well Quassi does at promoting your site and bringing in traffic yet, but I’ll write an update post about a month from now and let you know how well Quassi has worked for me. In the meantime, sign up and list your sites and perhaps add some articles about topics you care about and start earning those quassi credits and sharing in the site revenue.

Filed Under: Affiliates, Blogging, Cool stuff, Internet, Make Money, Web and Technology Tagged With: add articles, advertising revenue, backlink, backlinks, beta, content, incentive, intelligence, Make Money, member, net worth, profile, promote sites, Quassi, quassi credits, revenue share, rewards, three ways, tidbit, traffic, website, websites rank

It’s a beautiful day

June 6, 2008 by Tricia

I’d been dreading Friday. All week the news stations said we were going to bake!

Well the hottest day of the year so far has arrived and you know what? It’s a nice day.

It’s 34 Celsius outside. That’s 93.2 F. Normally that would be killer hot here in Toronto because when it gets hot here it’s usually also quite humid. The humidity makes whatever the temperature really is feel like it’s about 10 degrees hotter.

I’ve been outside several times with the dog and I’m amazed at how comfortable this hot day has been. There’s no humidity at all.

There’s a nice breeze so just when you do start to feel warm the breeze comes up and cools you off again.

It’s so nice! If you are in the Toronto area get outside. You won’t regret it.

Filed Under: Toronto Tagged With: beautiful day, breeze, celsius, hot day, hottest day of the year, humidity, lovely weather, news stations, nice day, several times, toronto area

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