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Recovering from a busy weekend

May 26, 2009 by Tricia

I think I’m still recovering from the weekend! Man did we do a lot of stuff!

On Saturday we decided to visit some of the buildings in the Toronto Open Doors event. We started with the Don Jail – an empty unused jail that dates back to the 1800’s which will soon, oddly enough, become part of a hospital. It was the last chance for the public to see the inside of the building for free.

Unfortunately the lineups were over three to four hours long so we decided to purchase tickets for one of their upcoming Ghost tours of the Don Jail. So sometime in the next month or so Chris and I will be going on an evening tour of the jail which is said to have many ghosts.

After not getting into the jail we decided to visit this old bowling alley that had just reopened. They had the old Brunswick five pin bowling pins that worked on a string system. We got to see how that worked and were offered free bowling. We didn’t bowl because we decided to go to Tod Morden Mills which was also participating in Open Doors Toronto.

At Tod Morden Mills we went into the art gallery and East Side Players theater – we got to see the theater control room as well, and then we visited some of the old houses on the property. We also took a walk on the wild flower trail there and I took some photos.

When we got home I finished planting some of the annuals that I’d purchased oh, about two weeks ago, and then Chris and I had chicken, sausages and grilled potatoes on the BBQ.

Sunday was spent doing more work in the garden. Chris cut the lawn and I planted some seeds and also reseeded the lawn.

Then yesterday even though it wasn’t really the weekend it always feels like it since Chris has Mondays off we did a little more yard work and took our Lab Midnight to the vet for her annual shots. She’d woken up early yesterday morning and threw up. She does that sometimes … I think it’s because she likes to try to eat weeds when we take her out for walks. No matter how hard we try to get her to stop doing that she always finds grass or some weed to bite at.

Anyway … her vet check up was good. She’s healthy. No worms, no heart worm and the vet was pleased with her shiny black coat.

I liked having such a busy weekend, but my body didn’t! I think I’m paying for it today. I feel like I took a handful of weight loss pills or something. My stomach is growling, I’m hungry … but everything I eat is going through me at high speed! Not good. Oh well … I’ll probably feel better tomorrow if I take it easy today.

So how was your weekend? I know that my American readers celebrated Memorial day – I’ll bet that many of you had family and friend get together’s, BBQ’s and went to see fireworks.





Filed Under: Culture, Gardening, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Life with Chris, Our Puppy, Recreation, Toronto Tagged With: annuals, BBQ, bowling alley, busy weekend, dog, Don Jail, Food, Gardening, ghost tour, Lab, long line up, Midnight, Open Doors, planting, seeds, tired, Tod Morden Mills, Toronto, vet

Comments

  1. Purina Dog Food Coupons says

    May 27, 2009 at 11:17 am

    I had no idea that the Don Jail does ghost tours? Is it only at the jail or are there other sites included around Toronto?

    My weekend was crazy busy as usual, but this week is going to be worse. With soccer starting today and ballet and karate later in the week…… I’m not going to make it. 🙂

    Steve

  2. Stancja says

    May 29, 2009 at 9:21 am

    Don Jail looks amazing inside. I’m really glad that me and my friends arrived there early enough to avoid all the lines. It was awesome!

  3. Jean-Luc Picard says

    May 29, 2009 at 3:13 pm

    I’m recovering from a busy week!

  4. Julian says

    June 3, 2009 at 11:33 am

    Sorry …. hard to replay at this post. I`m working in weekend …. i have just one weekend free per month and in that weekend i`m to tired to go somewhere.

  5. Bountiful UT says

    June 18, 2009 at 3:02 pm

    lol, Jean-luc Picard has his own blog.

    Take a nap! That’s what I always do when I’m stressed, just sit in my garden with the mountains of Utah for a backdrop, put on some music, and maybe read a book if I can’t fall asleep.

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