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Trying to decide what to do this weekend

July 11, 2008 by Tricia

At this moment I’m busy trying to decide what to do this weekend. Chris and I have lots of options – some better than others. Help me decide?

My nephew has a photographic display at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition this weekend. I really should go to that to see his work and to check out the other artists. I just love pottery and sculptures and if the artwork is anything like last years I’ll be buying some items this time around.

The only problem is that tomorrow is going to be HOT. Really hot. So … do we go to the art show tomorrow or Sunday when it’s going to be a bit cooler?

We have gardening that still needs to be done as well. We started mulching the backyard garden last week, but about 1/3 of the back garden beds aren’t finished yet because we ran out of mulch! We bought more but haven’t had time to add it yet. Certainly if it’s going to feel like 40 Celsius (104 F) tomorrow I don’t think I want to be working in the hot sunny garden. Of course I could just stay inside where it will be nice and cool, work on the computer or be lazy and curl up and read A New Earth, Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose. Yeah it’s a self help type book. It was a gift from Chris’ aunt. I should read it at some point.

The other thing that Chris and I would both like to do, but don’t have to do, is to perhaps go back to Cherry Beach this weekend with our dog Midnight. We took her there last Sunday and she had a ball playing in the water. We’d taken her to the lake before, but she’d never done more than splashed in the water. This time Chris was throwing toys into the deeper water for her to fetch and we got to see her swim for the first time. She took to it well and other dog owners said she was a great swimmer. They couldn’t believe it was her first time.

We all had fun at the beach so I think that’s a must do.

Of course this is summer in Toronto and there’s always all kinds of festivals, events and things to do on the weekends. I guess I should check what’s going on so that we don’t miss out on something good.

At this point I’m thinking we should go to the beach tomorrow – the hot day. It’s cooler by the water and if we get hot we can always get in the water. Certainly with all the wet dogs running by we will get a bit wet. Then on Sunday we could go to the Art Exhibit and then finish our gardening when we come back. If there’s any other good things going on in Toronto we’ll I guess we can try to go to one of them on Saturday evening.

Looks like we’re going to have another busy weekend. What are your plans for the weekend?





Filed Under: Art, Entertainment, Family, Gardening, Home and Lifestyle, Our Puppy, Recreation, Toronto Tagged With: Art Exhibit, Art Exhibition, artwork, backyard, ball, beach, book, Cherry beach, Chris, computer, display, dog, fun, garden, Gardening, gift, help, hot, lake, life, Midnight, mulch, Nephew, Outdoor, pottery, Saturday, show, Summer, sunday, swimmer, tomorrow, Toronto, water, weekend

I take too many photos

July 11, 2008 by Tricia

I have a problem. I’m a photoholic. Well … when I have a camera in my hand and great subjects to take photos of I am.

I don’t really like taking pictures of people. Perhaps those of you who frequent my blogs have noticed that there aren’t very many people photos in my posts. However, there are lots of photos of gardens, flowers, plants, nature/ landscape, and city scenes. Oh and I guess photos of my puppy are starting to build up as well.

Whenever I’m out with my camera at a photo worthy event -say Woofstock in early June, or our walking tour and hike at The Brickworks last Saturday or perhaps even our trip to Cherry Beach last Sunday with our dog (who swam for the first time ever!) I just start clicking away and the next thing I know I’ve got two or three hundred photos stored on my cameras memory card!

The amount of pictures I take isn’t a problem as far as my camera’s memory card capacity, it’s dealing with those photos once I’ve taken them that’s the problem.

Storage of the photos is becoming a problem. My laptop was slowing down quite a bit a month ago and I realized that for the last year I’d uploaded almost all of my photos (3 to 5 mb each = 30 to 40 gig of photos!) to the laptop and that the hard drive was quickly filling up. I literally spent a few days transferring the photos to my desktop computer and deleting them from the laptop and that seemed to have helped my laptop performance somewhat. However I think I’m going to have to find a better storage solution.

If you take a lot of photos I’d love to hear what you do for storage. If you use an online storage system or a portable drive or if you transfer the photos to CD’s or if you have some other solution.

My other problem is lack of time. I have several blogs and I also have health issues so I work on my blogs when I’m feeling well enough to write. Working on the blogs takes a lot of my time. Barely leaves me enough time to network with other bloggers let alone transfer photos from the camera to the computer, edit them and perhaps upload them to Flickr. Going over 200 photos takes about two hours or more as I crop them, adjust their size and occasionally adjust the color balance or other levels.

Now if I only took a few photos at a time this wouldn’t be a problem, but since I take like 200 at a time I feel compelled to deal with each and every new photo that I’ve taken before I upload the good ones to Flickr (my main online storage system at this time).

This means that sometimes my photos are a week or more old before they make it into one of my posts.

So are you a Photoholic too? How do you deal with it?

Filed Under: Art, Blogging, Computers, Hobbies, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation Tagged With: Blogging, Brickworks, camera, capacity, Cherry beach, color, computer, crop, crop photos, desktop, dog, drive, event, Flickr, Health Fitness and Beauty, hike, landscape, laptop, Memory, memory card, nature, online, performance, photo, photo storage, photoholic, photos, problem, puppy, solution, storage, swam, too many pictures, transfer photos, trip, upload, upload photos, Woofstock

Natural Bath and Beauty products at the Best Bath Store

July 9, 2008 by Tricia

rose soap I love bath and beauty products, but often I have a problem using them as I’m allergic to the chemicals and artificial scents used in these products and other products for the home such as scented candles and air fresheners and even perfumes and colognes. So I’m always on the look out for companies that use natural ingredients in their products.

If you also appreciate using products that are made with natural ingredients then you’ll love the items at the Best Bath Store. As far as I can tell all of their bath and beauty products are made from natural ingredients like essential oils, extracts and dried natural ingredients.

I love their selection of natural soap. The one that I used in the photo above is their Rose Geranium body bar. It’s textured with rose petals and made with natural essential oils. Everyone that reads this blogs knows how much I like my roses so the idea of having a rose scented bath sounds delicious to me. They have several other natural bath soaps ranging from dead sea salts to cacao butter, orange, lavender and many more. There are even special acne facial bars.

lavender_lotion200.jpg Along with their range of natural soaps you’ll find bath accessories, bath bombs, bath salts, dead sea products, lotions, skin and hair care products, products specifically for men as well as gift baskets and other gift ideas.

One other thing that I like about the Best Bath Store is that they offer free product samples. you can visit their sample product page and request free items to try.

I liked the idea of being able to try their products before I made a purchase that I contacted them last week to request free samples. Unfortunately I haven’t heard back from the company yet (perhaps the holiday caused a slow down) so I’m not sure if they’ve sent me my free samples yet or not. Also I’m in Canada so it might take a bit longer than if I were in the US. If I do get my samples I’ll update this post and tell you what I got and what I thought of their bath and beauty products.

The Best Bath Store also has a point system. When you make a purchase you get points, rack up enough points and you can cash them in for a store credit. Now that’s a bonus for regular customers. Oh and they offer free USPS priority shipping on orders over $25!

If you enjoy quality bath products made with organic ingredients – items which are not tested on animals I should also say – then check out the Best Bath Store.

Filed Under: Gifts, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Garden, Home and Lifestyle, Shopping Tagged With: acne, bath, bath accessories, bath and beauty, bath bombs, Bath Salts, beauty, Best Bath Store, body, bonus, cacao, cacao butter, dead sea products, dead sea salts, dried natural ingredients, essential oils, extracts, free product samples, free shipping, gift, gift baskets, Gift ideas, Gifts, hair care products, lavender, lotions, natural, natural ingredients, natural soap, organic, points system, Product, products for men, quality, Rose Geranium, sample, samples, skin, skin products, Soap, store credit, USPS

Cool cat has the right idea!

July 9, 2008 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

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Nothing like a snow cone to help you cool off on a hot summer day. This cats got the right idea. Just look at it’s tongue though! Psychedelic!

Filed Under: Humor, Pets and animals, Recreation, Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: cat, cool, cool off, great idea, hot day, lick, Psychedelic, snow cone, Summer, tongue, Wordless Wednesday, WW

I feel like crap, absolute crap

July 8, 2008 by Tricia

I’m in so much pain tonight. Well … really for the last week or so. Remember last week I gushed about eating fresh corn on the cob and how rare it was for me to eat it because it usually caused my Crohn’s to flare up? Yeah, well … I bought six cobs so that means we ate corn three times last week. That was at least two times too many for me.

I knew the corn would do me in, but sometimes you just gotta do it. I’ve certainly been paying for eating it the last few days.

Today I’ve had a lot of fevers. Not great when it’s super hot outside, but you know I had such a high fever when I took the dog outside for a pee at about 4 pm that the slight breeze that was hitting me made me shiver.

I shouldn’t have been shivering outside today, it was damn hot! When I was shivering outside with a fever it was 29 Celsius (84 F) and with the humidity it supposedly felt like 38 Celsius (100.4 F). Ridiculous eh?

I feel bad since it’s Chris’ birthday today. I’m sitting here like a lump when we should be celebrating.

Well, hopefully I feel better tomorrow. Chris won tickets two weeks ago for subscribing to the Danforth Music Hall’s newsletter. They give away free tickets each month to their newsletter subscribers – well to one lucky subscriber each month, I mean. So tomorrow night we’re going to see Amos Lee. He’s supposed to be a great musician however I’m not certain that I’ve ever heard any of his songs. It’s a good venue though and it will be a great thing to go out and do for Chris’ birthday.

So wish me luck that I feel better tomorrow!

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Dining and Restaurants, Entertainment, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, Life with Chris, Music, Recreation, Toronto Tagged With: Amos Lee, Birthday, breeze, celebrate, celsius, chills, Chris, concert, corn on the cob, crap, crohn, crohns, Danforth Music Hall, dog, fever, fresh corn, high fever, hot day, humidity, Music, musician, newsletter, outside, pain, Ridiculous, shiver, shivering, venue, won tickets

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