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Strange way to lose weight

September 24, 2008 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

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One Piece Wonder Sauna Hot Pants?  Seriously???

When did this product come out?   Looks like the ’70’s from the appearance of the advertisement.

I wonder how many people bought these inflatable hot pants in order to create a “wear it yourself sauna” in order to lose weight?  I also wonder if it worked? LOL

I’d love to get a hold of a pair of these and try them out in a swimming pool. I’m pretty sure they’d help you float.  You’d probably need to add some water wings to make sure your upper body floated too, I guess …





Filed Under: Entertainment, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Humor, Recreation, Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: funny, hot_pants, Humor, odd, old_advertisement, old_product, one_piece, sauna, Seriously, silly, strange, weight_loss, weird, wonder_sauna, Wordless_Wednesday, WW

We definitely need more lighting in our backyard

September 22, 2008 by Tricia

At some point in the afternoon I realized that I hadn’t watered the garden in ages! In fact, I think the last time the plants got any water was when it rained last Monday (remnants of Hurricane Ike)! definitely

So at about 5:30 in the afternoon I went outside and pulled out the hose. I started watering the front yard and by the time I reached the back, Chris came out to join me with Midnight, our Lab puppy. Like most Labs, Midnight loves water and she tries to bite the water coming from the hose. I don’t know if she thinks it’s solid when it’s coming from the hose or what, but it’s hilarious to watch.

Needless to say we soon had a soaking wet dog!

So once I was done watering we decided to stay outside and sit on the patio having a drink or two while Midnight hopefully dried off. Of course it got darker and darker the longer we sat outside and Midnight being a black lab … well, after a while, we could barely see her when she was at the far end of the garden.

That got me thinking – we need more lighting in the backyard. We have solar lights, but they don’t really light up the backyard all that much, although they do help. We also have a very bright flood light that lights up the whole backyard, which I mainly use when I’m doing some extreme gardening after dark … but that’s too bright if you’re just trying to relax while having a drink on the patio in the garden.

So I visited Buy.com when I came inside and searched for outdoor lighting. I found a few lights that I liked, but I think the one I liked the most was this Outdoor pendant lantern in Misty pewter. I think that if we added a couple of hanging lanterns near the back of the yard they would look attractive and help us see Midnight in the dark!

The lantern is a decent price already, but since our money’s kind of tight right now I think I’ll keep an eye on Buy.com’s Weekly Deals page to see if it goes on sale in the near future. I do visit this page once or twice a month as they sometimes have great deals on things we need. Now that I’m actually looking for something in particular I hope it goes on sale soon!

Filed Under: Gardening, Home and Garden, Home and Lifestyle, Home Decor, Our Puppy, Recreation, Shopping, Toronto, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: backyard, Buy.com, deals, dog, flood_light, funny, garden, Gardening, hanging_lantern, hose, lighting, Midnight, outdoor_lighting, sale, sales_page, solar_lights, water, watering, Weekly_deals, wet_dog

Flight of the Bumble Bee

September 21, 2008 by Tricia

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This isn’t my best shot, but given that there are so many bees buzzing around my garden these days that showing you one of the creatures in flight is very fitting!

I caught this Bumble Bee taking flight after collecting pollen from one of my flower … the Balloon flowers I do believe, however it could have been any one of my flowers as the bees seem to love just about all of them.

Do you ever try to take pictures of the bees, butterflies or other insects that visit your yard?

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, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation, Toronto, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: bee, bumble_bee, buzzing, close_up, collecting, flight, flower, flowers, garden, Green_Thumb_Sunday, GTS, insects, macro, pollen, yard

Big City Roads

September 20, 2008 by Tricia

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This weeks Photo Hunt theme is Road

Since this weeks Photo Hunt theme is Road, I decided to show you two of my favorite road pictures.

I took this picture in August, 2006, when Chris and I and a couple of friends took a road trip to Chicago to visit Chris’ brother and see a Bruce Cockburn concert. (Bruce Cockburn is one of my husbands favorite musicians).

Driving in Chicago

It was raining lightly that evening as we drove through the city trying to find “The Little School House” theater where the concert was being held. I took the photo while in the car with my Nokia 6682 cellphone.

The second picture that I’ve chosen for this weeks theme is a photo of Yonge Street in downtown Toronto.

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Toronto is the 5th largest city in North America and Yonge street is the longest street in the world … however, since there was a street festival going on (just ending) the road was closed off … so it doesn’t look anywhere near as busy as it normally is. In fact, you’d be hit by a car or two pretty quickly if you stood in the middle of Yonge street taking a picture like this on a normal day!

I wonder, did everyone participating in Photo Hunt interpret “Road’ as literally as I did?

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Photo Hunters, Photography, Recreation, Toronto Tagged With: blurry, cellphone_camera, chicago, photo, photohunt, photohunter, Photo_hunt, picture, rain, road, Toronto, Yonge, Yonge_street

Cool looking ergonomic office chairs

September 20, 2008 by Tricia

I’ve just been visiting a website with really nice chairs. The store is called Designer Seating and they carry a wide range of Hag and Capisco chairs.

These designer chairs would be perfect for the office or home office.

I’d love to get one! The chair that I use in my home office area (the dining room table) is an office chair, but it’s so old that the arm rests are starting to fall apart! LOL … yeah, I do need a new chair.

Both the Capisco and Hag Chairs are modern in design, but in addition to looking cool they are ergonomically designed.

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I guess the best way to tell about these chairs is simply to show you a picture of one. The one that I’ve added an image of, to the right, is a Capisco Chair model 8127.

You can click on the picture to see a large image if you want to read the descriptions beside each major component of the chair.

The chairs have been created to constantly adjust to your body’s center of gravity. So if you shift to one side the chair will adjust to your position.

Isn’t that cool looking?  You can sit in it  the way you normally would sit in a chair or sit so that your chest faces the back rest (that’s the way I understood the description on the website anyway).  It gives you great support no matter which way you sit on the chair.

It looks like the majority of the Capisco chair styles are adjustable, so if there’s a head rest it’s adjustable, arm rests – adjustable and so on.

One thing that I really like about this company is that they are environmentally conscious.

The seat of the HAG Capisco is made from recycled bumpers and plastic packaging from household waste. The plastic components are labelled by type for at-source-sorting. Both the production process and the choice of materials satisfy the most stringent environmental requirements.

I believe that this company is located in the UK. The prices are in pounds.  Unfortunately I can’t find any shipping information on the site so I don’t know if they ship outside the UK.  Either way, if you like the look of these chairs why don’t you visit the site and see all of their designs? I’ll bet you’ll find something that you’ll like!

Filed Under: Cool stuff, Decor, Health Fitness and Beauty, Shopping Tagged With: adjustable, adjusts, armrest, Capisco, Capisco_Chair, circulation, constantly_adjust, design, Designer Seating, environment, ergonomic, ergonomic_chair, Hag, Hag_chairs, headrest, home_office, modern, office, office_chair, range, recycled, selection, Uk, variety

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