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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

25000 emails later …

February 26, 2008 by Tricia

On Sunday I fired up my desktop computer for the first time in a month. I then had the displeasure of going through the 25,000 emails that had come in over the month! Yes, twenty five thousand! Isn’t that absolutely sickening?

These days I mainly use my laptop and most of my email accounts are collected on the laptop, however I have the email accounts set up to leave the mail on the server as I’ve always considered my desktop computer to be the main one. So most of the email that I have collected and stored or dealt with in the past month on the lap top came in again on the desktop computer.

I have my email program, Eudora, set up so that quite a few different types of email go into mailboxes that I’ve set up for them as the mail comes in. Unfortunately my Eudora email program is messing up and it tends to put about three quarters of my email in the junk mailbox folder so I pretty much have to sort my mail by hand anyway. Grrr.

Some might be reading this and wondering why I bothered to sort it out at all. Well I keep track of all the payments I get through the month/year on that computer so that’s one reason to sort all that email out and find all those payments!

I also run several mailing lists and blogrolls. The mailing lists are fine, but I’d stored up a lot of my blogroll requests over the month and while I was sorting through that gigantic pile of email I took care of pretty much all of the requests for the Green Thumb Sunday, I am Canadian, Fabulous Photoblogs and the Do Follow blogrolls.

Lots of new sites were added to the blogrolls so if you happen to be on any of those lists please keep an eye out for the new sites and go and visit them. I’m sure they’ll appreciate your visit to their blog.

If anything, after collecting so much email and having to spend hours going through all of it, I’ve learned my lesson and I’ll be turning that computer on every few days now to keep things in check. Actually I have better work habits when I’m on that computer so I should use it more often anyway.

Do you have more than one computer? Do you end up sorting out the same emails on each computer too?

Filed Under: Computers, Home and Lifestyle, Moving or Organizing, Web and Technology Tagged With: account, blog, blogger, bloggers, Blogroll, blogrolls, blogs, canadian, computer, desktop, desktop computer, do follow blogroll, email, email program, Eudora, fabulous photoblogs blogroll, Green Thumb Sunday blogroll, I am Canadian Blogroll, junk mail, junk mailbox, laptop, mail folders, mailing lists, managing, organizing, payments, reading, sites, sort, sorting, sorting email, Spam, sunday, work

What’s your favorite menswear style for women?

February 24, 2008 by Tricia

Have you ever noticed how great mens clothes look on some women?

Certainly some things, like mens shirts, feel much more comfortable and cozy to wear then a ladies fitted blouse. Come on admit it, I bet there’s few women reading this that haven’t thrown on one of their boyfriends or husbands shirts at least once.

My husbands actually shorter than me so I’m not in the habit of wearing his clothes. He, on the other hand, has been known to wear some of mine! No, no I know what your thinking – it’s not like that at all! … he’ll sometimes be lazy and grab one of my coats to put on or one of my sweaters or even my shoes when he’s got to go outside. He looks awfully silly in my puffy winter ski jacket or and he stretches my shoes with his wide feet when he wears them!

vest.jpg It’s not likely that I’ll ever wear any of his clothes, but I do like some menswear fashions that have made their way into female fashions. Take for example the womens vest. It’s obviously been converted from menswear. Womens vests are often tapered at the waist and contoured to fit our curves and can be very flattering when worn with a blouse and skirt or perhaps even some Denim stovepipes or dress pants. That would be a great outfit either for the office or for a casual night out depending upon which items you chose to wear with the vest.

That’s what I like about vests. They’re so versatile.

belt.jpg You’d of course need to accessorize your outfit. A womens western style belt and perhaps a studded purse would look great if you were wearing the vest with a pair of straight legged jeans.

I really like the belt that I’ve shown you above. It has a feminine pattern to it, but it still has a bit of it’s masculine roots. It’s a good thing that my purse is on the other side of the room as I have a strong urge to pull out my credit card and do a little online shopping!

When you think about it, a lot of womens fashions today originated as menswear. In a way we’ve all been wearing mens clothing and probably didn’t even realize it. Vests, jeans, shirts, womens suits, belts – what other types of clothing can you think of that were originally only for men?

Filed Under: Fashion, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Recreation, Shopping Tagged With: accessories, accessorize, belt, clothes, clothing, coat, comfort, credit card, curves, denim stovepipes, dress, Fashion, fashions, feminine, fitted, husband, items, jeans, men, mens shirts, menswear, online, Online shopping, original, pants, purse, shoes, shop, Shopping, skirt, straight leg jeans, studded bag, style, vest, western belt, women, womens vest

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