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Trillium Grandiflora

June 3, 2007 by Tricia

I took this photo a few weeks ago.

This is a trillium flower. The trillium is Ontario’s provincial flower, and Ontario is the Canadian province that I live in. It’s illegal to pick or dig up wild trilliums here. Why? Well, it takes forever for them to grow. They do not reproduce easily.

This of course is a trillium in my garden. It’s not a wild trillium. No, it’s a cultivated or hybrid trillium.

It’s supposed to be white but when it blooms the flowers are a deep maroon, almost brown in fact. Perhaps it was labeled wrong at the nursery and isn’t a true Trillium Grandiflora. I do have photos of it’s bloom but they are still on my camera. I’ll have to upload them to my computer soon!

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

Just checking in

June 3, 2007 by Tricia

I’m sorry that I haven’t posted for a few days. That doesn’t happen very often. I guess, considering how frequently I normally post you could say my little break just balanced things out a bit.

I’ve been so ill. I was very sick for all of last week, but it got worse on Friday and to be honest I think today is the worst that I’ve felt in a long long time. I absolutely hate having Crohn’s disease.

I must have looked as bad as I felt yesterday because Chris actually told me that I looked bad. He never does that. It’s not just because he’s a nice husband. He is, but it’s because I seem to be one of those people that can practically be at deaths door and very few people will be able to tell just by looking at me just how bad I’m feeling.

This has been to my extreme disadvantage when seeing doctors or when I’ve been sick enough that I’ve had to go to the ER. The practice of medicine is both objective and subjective – you have to listen to what the patient is telling you, but you also have to listen to what your own eyes and observations are telling you. When you don’t look as sick as you are, you don’t always get the best care … well, at least up until all the blood work and other test results come in.

Anyway … I just wanted to check in and let you know I’m still here. I’ve got some posting that needs to be done, so you should see a few new articles on this site and some of the others that I run in the next few hours – including my Green Thumb Sunday posting.

Enjoy a luxurious Bathing Experience?

May 31, 2007 by Tricia

Do you enjoy treating yourself to quality bath products? Do you enjoy pampering yourself by having a nice soak in the bath, and perhaps using bath salts for a soothing and relaxing bathing experience?

If you do, you might want to visit the San Francisco Bath Salts Company. They have a wide assortment of bath salts, dead sea salts, bath soaks, and several other bath, body and spa related products for sale at their online store.

Browsing through their bath salts section I’ve found a number of scented and unscented bath salt products. Many are formulated for specific purposes, for example their citrus bath soak has been created to refresh your body, relax your muscles and sooth your skin.

Whereas their sleep bath soak has been created to help give you a good nights sleep. This bath soak has a blend of moisturizing plant oil, lavender essential oil and detoxifying mineral salts. All of which will help soften your skin, ease muscle aches and release tension.

The regular prices for all of the products sold at the San Francisco Bath Salts Company’s online store are reasonable, and they do have some items on sale. If you enjoy pampering yourself, or perhaps need a great gift idea, visit the site and have a look around. I think you’ll be impressed with their line of products.

Chris fell down and went boom

May 31, 2007 by Tricia

I’m usually the one in this household that has weird accidents.

Remember last March when I fell flat on my face and tore open my chin right to the bone and wrenched my jaw, or last July when I tripped on a weird curb and tore a ligament in my knee?

This morning Chris was leaving for work and he was fixing his lunch bag as he got to the end of our walkway. At the same time a female jogger was going by and she was looking at her runners watch to see what her pulse was and how many kilometers she’d run.

Well, as you can imagine, the jogger crashed into Chris as he turned from our walkway onto the sidewalk and he fell to the ground. On the way down his right shin hit the short wrought iron fencing that we have around our garden bed that is beside the walkway. The pointy top of the wrought iron fence, a Fleur de Lis, poked into the middle of his shin.

He apparently had a good dent and tear in his leg as a result! I was still in bed at the time and didn’t see the damage.

The jogger stopped and was quite apologetic for knocking him over. She said to him “You’d better go to the hospital!”, and Chris showed her his employee I.D. that was hanging from his neck and said “Well, I was on my way.”.

Chris came back in the house and cleaned up his wound, and then hobbled off to the hospital which is luckily only a few blocks from our home. Instead of reporting to the O.R. Recovery area where he works he went into the Emergency department and got stitches.

He’s been told to stay off work today and tomorrow. The ER doc that cared for him knows him quite well, and knows Chris is a hard worker who’s always on his feet. So he enforced the two days off rule with a note for the occupational health department.

Since he hit his leg hard and the wound was deep I wouldn’t be surprised if he ends up with a bruised shin bone as well as bruised tissue around the wound. So I’m back to being a nurse today, reminding him to elevate his leg and giving him ice-packs to put on his boo-boo.

I just hope that no one else has fallen into the our wrought iron fence in the past. We aren’t aware of anyone hurting themselves in front of our house. Perhaps we should re-think our choice in garden bed fencing and get something with a smoother top edge.

Great reading at Dan Rua’s Florida Venture Blog

May 31, 2007 by Tricia

I wanted to take a moment today to tell you about Dan Rua’s Florida venture capital blog. Now, I know, I’ve just said venture capital and you’re probably thinking that the blog is all about business and finance. While that certainly is part of what this blog is about, that’s certainly not all.

Dan is a managing partner of Inflexion Partners, and being in the business of venture capital he does talk about some very interesting technology startups from time to time on his blog. If you have an interest in the internet, technology, social media, cool new companies and gadgets then I’m sure that you will enjoy reading about these things on Dans blog.

I really enjoy Dans writing style. I’d been to his blog from time to time over the last 8 months or so, but over the last few days I’ve taken the time to read pretty much all of the posts that he’s written so far this year. His writing style is engaging, and you can tell that he’s quite passionate about Florida, the Florida Gators, Innovative technology that’s developed in Florida and elsewhere, entrepreneurs and enjoys what he gets out of life.

When I read a post like the one he wrote as a recap for the Florida Venture Capital conference I begin to wonder if I’m in the wrong field. He traveled to Boca Raton, stayed in a luxurious resort, got to play golf on a fantastic golf course, had a nice dinner, wine and gambled on a yacht, and of course learned about some new, interesting, and up and coming businesses.

I do hope that you like Dan’s blog as much as I do. If you do I know he’d appreciate it if you’d subscribe to his RSS feed, or his newsletter.

I’ve actually signed up for his newsletter. I signed up because I like his blog and I’d like to be updated about his latest posts or whatever else he might choose to discuss in his newsletter. I’m not sure how often his newsletter comes out, but I suspect it’s once a week or less.

The other reason I signed up for his newsletter is because I have also created an account with the same newsletter program – Z0okoda – that’s he’s using and I haven’t taken the time to set up my newsletter yet. I’d love to see what he does with his newsletter, maybe I’ll steal an idea or two.

As I said, I really enjoy his writing style so I’m sure his newsletter will be both informative and entertaining.

Visit Dan’s blog and play the games. Maybe you’ll get an idea and end up making a game of your own too! While your there spend a bit of time reading the posts. I hope you’ll find that this is a blog worth reading and take the time to subscribe to the newsletter.

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