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We finally got some more snow

January 23, 2008 by Tricia

Well we got some more snow yesterday. One of my regular readers had comments on one of my weekend posts that it looked like we had no snow. We didn’t! It was freezing cold here for the last week and there wasn’t a flake of snow on the ground.

Those of you who don’t garden or don’t experience severe cold weather may not realize this, but when it’s really cold outside the snow helps to insulate and protect the plants in our yards. When there’s no snow the plants are exposed to all of the elements and it’s not a surprise when you end up losing a few plants in the spring as a result. So I’m happy that it snowed!

Our puppy is happy that it snowed too. She just loves to jump around in the snow and even roll in it. I have a feeling she’d be happy if there was snow outside all year round! I’ll take that as a sign that she’ll probably also enjoy the beach and frolicking in the water come summer.

You know what’s really weird? Over the weekend we went to Walmart to get a few things and on probably the coldest day of the year so far we saw a man walking around with a set of Cleveland golf clubs. I can’t remember where I saw the man – perhaps it was outside one of the malls we went to … but it sure was strange seeing someone walking around with a big golf club bag when it was so very cold outside.





Filed Under: Canada, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Toronto Tagged With: beach, cold, cold out, cold weather, comment, freezing, freezing cold, garden, golf, golf clubs, happy, plants, post, puppy, readers, regular readers, Shopping, snow, snow cover, snow storm, spring, strange, Summer, Walking, Walmart, weather, weekend, yard

Brave or Crazy

January 22, 2008 by Tricia

They're bananas!

I don’t know if these guys are brave or crazy for thinking they can walk around gorillas dressed as they are, but one things true about this photo – they’re definitely bananas!

Hopefully that brightened your Tuesday morning.

My morning could sure use some brightening. I’ve been feeling worse since Sunday. Lots of fevers and abdominal pain. Again. I wish my crohns would just settle down for a while.

Filed Under: Entertainment, Humor Tagged With: abdominal pain, banana, banana costume, Brave, crazy, crohns, dressed, funny, funny picture, gorila, gorilas, Humor, photo, silly, wild

If you’re looking for a bathroom vanity your search is over

January 20, 2008 by Tricia

What a coincidence. I made a post earlier this evening saying that Chris and I had sat down earlier today to talk about how we were going to finish our current renovation project and to talk about renovations that we’d like to do in the future and then I come across a website with a great selection of bathroom vanities. Perhaps we will have a beautiful bathroom in our basement one day.

The website is called Premiere Vanities and they carry a wide selection of single bathroom vanities and double bathroom vanities, as well as linen cabinets.

As I said earlier, our basement is unfinished except for having a roughed in basic bathroom and laundry area. The only other bathroom we have in our house is upstairs and it’s a very tiny bathroom. It would be a major undertaking to make our upstairs bathroom larger, but we might do that at some point. So if we want to have a really nice bathroom – a good sized one – it will have to be the basement bathroom.

We also don’t think we’ll be in this house forever and with that in mind finishing our current renovation projects and having two very nice bathrooms in the house will make our home more attractive to potential buyers.

Since our upstairs bathroom is tiny we need to have a small sink area.

Actually the vanity has to be small simply because the plumbing is located just inside the door, and then the toilet is right behind the sink at the back wall of the bathroom. The bathtub/shower runs alongside the opposite wall from the vanity and toilet with only about a foot and a half of space in between. So we have just enough room to swing the door open and then a narrow space to walk between the vanity and the tub to get to the toilet. The entire bathroom is perhaps 9 feet long by 5 or 6 feet wide. It’s small!

g-208_mahagony_300_300.jpg A wall mounted basin vanity would be perfect. The vanity to the right is made of mahogany and it’s has a sleek modern design. Not only that – it’s quite small. It’s only 18 7/8″w x 14 5/8″d in size and that would be perfect for our tiny upstairs bathroom.

vanity.jpg Another single vanity that would be great for a small bathroom is this Birch Wall Mount Vanity with Cherry Finish. It’s dimensions are larger at 35.5″w x 19.75″d x 15″h but since it’s wall mounted it would give the illusion of not taking up much space and would help make a small bathroom look larger.

We can make our basement bathroom quite large if we want to and since it could very well turn into our main bathroom it’s possible that we’d want to put in a double vanity.

Perhaps one like this beautiful Double Porcelain Sink Vanity:

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There are just so many vanities to choose from! As you can see I’m partial to modern and basin style vanities. However, if you happen to be looking for a bathroom vanity to either spruce up the look of your current bathroom or perhaps you are totally renovating your bathroom and you’d like to take a look at the selection at Premiere Vanities you’ll be pleased to discover that they have vanities to suit just about any decor. They have wood, antique, contemporary and traditional bathroom vanities.

Naturally before I got too excited about a particular vanity I checked to see if Premiere Vanities shipped to Canada and it appears that they do. I think it’s safe to say that they probably have clients throughout the USA and Canada.

I think I’ll be spending some time taking a good look at their selection of vanities and linen cabinets. Feel free to visit PremiereVanities.com yourself if you’re in the market for a new bathroom vanity.

Filed Under: Appliances and Accessories, Decor, Home and Garden, Home and Lifestyle, Home Decor, Home Renovation, Shopping Tagged With: antique vanity, basement, basin, bath, bathroom, bathroom renovation, bathroom vanity, beautiful, Canada, contemporary vanity, Decor, design, double bathroom vanity, home sale, house, linen cabinet, renovate, renovation, sell home, single bathroom vanity, style, styles, traditional vanity, USA, vanity, wood vanity

Garden Peonies

January 20, 2008 by Tricia

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I hate to complain, it being winter and all … but it’s so COLD here in Toronto! This morning it was 16 Celsius or -21 C with the wind chill ( -5.8 F) it’s warmed up a bit since then … it’s -11 Celsius now or oops maybe it hasn’t warmed up as it’s -22 ( -7.6 F) with the wind chill. That’s darn cold!

So, as I was browsing through my photos to find a nice garden picture for Green Thumb Sunday I of course ended up picking out a photo of a nice late spring/ early summer flower.

The above photo is of Garden Peonies. I don’t know the name of this variety as all it said on the tag when I bought it was that it was an Amsterdam Garden Peony. So I guess that means it’s kind of generic right?

I don’t care whether it’s a common garden variety or a rare hybrid … it’s pretty isn’t it?

Unfortunately where I have this peony planted in my front garden bed the soil tends to be a bit dry. I don’t think I watered enough in the early season last spring and I didn’t end up with any peony flowers. What a shame. I think I’d moved the plant the Autumn before as well so maybe that’s why it didn’t bloom. Anyway, I’m certainly hoping that it blooms this year!

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Filed Under: Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: bloom, blooms, care, common, flower, flowers, garden, garden peony, Green Thumb Sunday, hybrid, peonies, photo, picture, plant, pretty, spring, Summer, Toronto, water, winter

Fans of Corvettes will love this site

January 20, 2008 by Tricia

I know that some of my readers are really into their cars. Me, well I know what I like, but otherwise I don’t know all that much about cars. Are you like me or do you want to know about every model ever made of your favorite type of vehicle?

If you fall into the latter range and you appreciate corvettes you might want to visit the Corvette Guys. They have a page on their site that discusses Corvette history. Well, I guess it’s not the complete history, but it discusses all of the models that have been made between 1997 and 2007. So for all of those who love corvettes you’ve got a decade worth of material!

You’ll find information about each years model, VIN numbers, paint colors used each year, production numbers matched to paint color, interior colors, photos, the retail price for the year the car was made, engines and convertible colors.

If you own a corvette that was made in one of the years that they’ve discussed you can submit photos of your car and vehicle information.

This site could be handy if you were doing a research project on Corvettes or perhaps if you were out with your friends and needed to settle an argument about one of the models particular features.

My oldest brother really enjoys his cars. I should actually tell him about this site as he’d probably enjoy the information at Corvette Guys.

Remember that’s my brother that sends about 100 photos of his new car when he buys a new one! Photos of the interior, exterior and all parts in between. It’s kind of funny. I mean if I was as into cars as he is I might find all those photo interesting, but since he’s not purchasing a Porche … well .. a couple photos would suffice.

Filed Under: Entertainment, Great Sites, Hobbies, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Services Tagged With: brother, buy, car, color, corvette, corvette history, description, exterior, information, interest, interesting, interior, make, model, photos, price, VIN

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