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Midnight’s been acting strange today

April 20, 2008 by Tricia

Poor Midnight.

She had a great day yesterday. Chris and I took her to the park and she ran around and played fetch with us. She also played with other dogs too. Then when I was outside doing a bit of gardening Chris brought her out to watch me work so she was outside a good portion of the day yesterday.

She was even introduced to the hose for the first time when I watered the garden beds after planting some new plants. She kept trying to drink the water as I sprayed the garden.

Today though, I’m not feeling so hot and since I haven’t slept I’m not really even that steady on my feet. So other than Chris taking her out a few times she hasn’t had that exciting a day.

Actually, she had us worried earlier. Chris took her to the park and he met a man with a one year old Chocolate lab and for some reason Chris felt comfortable enough to let Midnight off the leash in the park. That’s something we’d decided we weren’t going to do yet because she’s too young, too excitable and doesn’t always listen when she’s excited.

Apparently she did listen to Chris as she played with the other dog and came back to him when called, but when Chris came home with her she was panting really bad. We’d never heard her pant so hard or for so long. She just kept flopping down on the ground.

We gave her water and a couple of ice cubes in case she was both hot and thirsty, but still she kept panting. She finally seemed a lot better after about 15 minutes but she was really tired out and slept for a while.

Since that time she seems ok, but she keeps looking outside and whining. She can see the park from our front door. She can probably see dogs down there and kids playing on swing sets and I hope that’s the reason she’s whining.

She’s just acting odd.

Poor Midnight.





Filed Under: Great Sites, Life with Chris, Our Puppy, Pets and animals, The Neighborhood, Toronto, Walking Tagged With: acting, Chris, comfort, dog, dogs, door, Food, garden, Gardening, home, hot, kids, looking outside, Midnight, odd, off leash, pacing, panting, plants, played in park, puppy, tired, tired out, water, whining

Totally out of sorts

April 20, 2008 by Tricia

I’m a mess today. I think my allergic reaction on Wednesday must have thrown my body out of whack- yet again and my Crohn’s is really acting up bad today. I didn’t even sleep last night or at all today so I’ve been up for 34 hours or so.

Between the Crohns and lack of sleep there’s one positive – it’s a quick weight loss method! LOL … but seriously … I really am a mess today. I can’t think straight. I do keep having periods of feeling wide awake and clear headed but I think I’ll pass out sometime in the near future.

At least I hope I will!

Filed Under: Great Sites, Health Fitness and Beauty Tagged With: acting, acting up, allergic, allergic reaction, clear head, crohns, diet, energy, fading fast, fever, GI, mess, night, no sleep, Nutrition, positive, react, sleep, weight, weight loss

The crocus flowers are almost finished

April 20, 2008 by Tricia

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A last look at the crocus … at least the ones that are growing in my backyard. They’re almost finished blooming. Oh, but didn’t they look lovely when they were in their prime? I love that warm yellow and purple combination.

Lucky for me the crocus’ in my front yard are still blooming. Some are still in bud and haven’t even flowered yet, so as long as my puppy doesn’t trample them when she goes out to do her business we’ll still get to enjoy crocus flowers for a little while longer.

Some other flowers are starting to bloom such as the Chinodoxa or Glory of the snow. Plus the hyacinth and tulips are beginning to develop flower buds so it won’t be long before I can enjoy some of those lovely flowers.

I just love this time of year. My garden is changing daily. The plants are growing, leaves are beginning to come out on some of the roses … I think my garden is going to look beautiful this year.

How is your garden this week?

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: backyard, beautiful, bloom, blooming, changing garden, crocus, crocus flowers, flower, flowers, garden, Green, green thumb, Green Thumb Sunday, GTS, hyacinth buds, new leaves, photo, plant, plants, puppy, purple crocus, rose, roses, spring garden, tulip, tulip buds, warm, yellow crocus

Updating the Do Follow Blogroll

April 19, 2008 by Tricia

Over the past week I’ve been slowly, and I mean very slowly thanks to my big allergic reaction earlier in the week, going over the Do Follow Blogroll that I maintain.

As anyone that’s part of the list or who’s spent time visiting the sites on the blogroll knows not all of the blogs listed on it are dofollow. Some have reverted back to nofollow.

While I know some have reverted back by choice and just neglected to inform me so that I could take their sites off the list, others might have changed blog themes or upgraded their blogging platform installation and forgot to turn their dofollow plugin back on.

Even I had a dofollow problem a while back. When I updated my Bad Behavior plugin it interfered with the do follow plugin. As it turns out the older version of the Google Sitemaps plugin I was using was interfering as well.

A month of so ago I updated my plugins to the latest Google Sitemaps and Bad Behavior plugins, and updated my permalinks (as some articles suggest you do that when you make changes to your site) and Ta Da … Lucia’s Linky Love dofollow plugin was working again.

So … if you happen to be using a dofollow plugin and it doesn’t appear to be working, try turning off all of your plugins and then turning them back on one by one. This might help pinpoint which ones are interfering with others. Also take a few minutes to upgrade your plugins as well and then update your permalinks.

This might just solve your problem.

Now back to what I was saying …

I’m going over the list and contacting any bloggers who’s sites don’t appear to be following anymore. If I don’t get a reply back within a reasonable amount of time or find evidence on the site, such as post stating they are no longer a dofollow blog, I’ll be removing those sites from the list.

The list is huge so it will take me some time to go over all of the sites.

If anyone does discover a site that seems to no longer be a dofollow blog I’d appreciate it if you’d let me know so that I could check the site for myself and contact the blogs owner.

BTW I’ve also been delayed in adding new sites so I’ll be going over requests shortly as well. If you request that your site be added to the list please be sure that your site really is dofollow and that it’s a few months old. I generally don’t add brand new sites to the list unless they are owned by a blogger who has other blogs that they update frequently.

Filed Under: Blogging, Linky Love, The Blogisphere, Web and Technology, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins Tagged With: acting up, articles, bad behavior, blog, blogger, bloggers, Blogging, Blogroll, blogs, comment, Do follow, do follow blogroll, dofollow, dofollow plugin, google sitemaps, install, interfering, links, Linky Love, lucias linky love, post, problem, sites, test, update, visiting, Wordpress, work

I really should tidy up the spare room

April 19, 2008 by Tricia

Considering how nice the weather has become I’m almost tempted to move the tropical plants that I keep in one of our sunny spare bedrooms (actually the only sunny spare bedroom) over the winter to the enclosed back porch or front porch.

Trouble is that as soon as I do that the temperature will fall! The back porch is a bit of a problem area as well. It gets a lot of sunlight and often gets too hot, even during the day time in late winter, so if I move any plants to that room I need to keep the window open during the day to help control the room temperature.

I want to move the plants for a few reasons. We’ll likely soon start to have guests drop in that want to stay overnight and a room crowded with exercise equipment and several plants doesn’t make a great place to stay. Also, if I move the plants I can finally start using the elliptical machine again. Yeah!

I’ve been out taking the dog on longer walks now that the weather is so nice, but using the elliptical a few times a week would probably help get me back into shape a whole lot faster.

Do you have a room in your home that gets cluttered over the winter with items or plants that are normally outdoors during the summer season?

Filed Under: Great Sites, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Moving or Organizing, Toronto Tagged With: back porch, bedroom, dog, equipment, exercise, front porch, guests, home, items, move plants, outdoor plants, overnight guests, plants, problem, sleep over, spare bedroom, Summer, sunlight, sunny, tropical plants, walks, weather, window, winter

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