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Finally started to do a little Autumn gardening

October 20, 2009 by Tricia

I haven’t been feeling all that well for the last week or so, but something drew me to the garden this afternoon.

Chris was home today – he had a day off work – and he decided to do some work on a cabinet that’s built into our backstairs. He wanted to make it as snow and moisture proof as possible so that we could store the lawn mower there over winter.

While he was outside working away I decided to come out with my camera so that I could take photos of the Azure Monkshood and Toad Lily blooms (both only bloom in mid-Autumn so I couldn’t miss those pictures!). Of course, as always happens when I go outside into the garden, I started working – tidying up the garden beds and cutting down some plants that had already succumbed to the cooler fall weather.

I think I tidied the garden for about two hours, and then I finished up by watering both the back and front yards. That probably took another hour and a half to two hours. Hey … the dog was out and she jumps into my watering stream for fun so it takes a lot longer to water when she’s out!

If I were looking to burn fat I sure got a workout. My back is aching (along with my stomach as usual). Four to five hours of bending, twisting, stretching in awkward positions … that’s my way of gardening!

Even though I’m paying for my time in the garden I’m glad I got outside and did some work today. I’ve been stuck inside for the last few days because I was just feeling awful .. hence the reason I haven’t been writing any new posts for the last week!

Do you have a garden? If so, have you started doing any Fall garden maintenance yet?

BTW in the next day or two I’ll be posting some of the garden photos I took on my gardening blog and probably my photo blog. Watch for them!





Filed Under: Back Pain, Gardening, Inflammatory bowel disease, Items to Try, Toronto, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: autumn, back, clean up, extreme gardening, Gardening, hours, husband, photos, pictures, pruning, Toronto

Google Messed up! Double CN Tower in Streetview

October 11, 2009 by Tricia

Ha! Google didn’t edit all the shots it has of the CN Tower (Still the worlds largest standing tower for a few months!) in it’s newly released Streetview Canada.

If you go to Google maps to try out Streetview and type in 52 Manitoba Drive, Toronto, Ontario and spin around to the right a few times you’ll see this:

Double CN Tower - Google Streetview
Double CN Tower - Google Streetview

I just heard about this on this evenings CTV news and I had to go searching for it myself. It’s a pretty cool picture, but I’d imagine that Google will fix this pretty soon!

When I first went to Google maps I just typed in CN Tower, Toronto and it put me at the base of the tower on Bremner Blvd, Toronto, Ontario … Of course I couldn’t find the double tower that way … but after traveling North on Bremner Blvd in street view I found this picture (after tilting upward of course):

Top half of CN Tower is off kilter - Google Streetview
Top half of CN Tower is off kilter - Google Streetview

When I zoomed out it looks like you might be able to get to this address by typing in 200 Bremner Blvd, Toronto, Ontario (at Lower Simcoe St.).

Actually, I gave it a try and I got an even cooler shot! Take a peek!

CN tower top offset in Google Streetview
CN tower top offset in Google Streetview

Are you able to access Google Streetview for your area of the world yet? If so you might want to waste a little bit of time looking around your city or town and see if you can find any odd views like I’ve posted here. My guess is that taller structures will be more likely to be messed up.

Let me know if you find anything interesting!

BTW Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow Canadians!

Filed Under: Canada, Cool stuff, Internet, Toronto, Web and Technology Tagged With: Canada, CN Tower, cool pictures, cool shots, double CN Tower, google, Google Streetview, messed up, off kilter, Ontario, streetview messed up, Toronto

The new neighbors seem ok – So far

October 7, 2009 by Tricia

I’m not sure what to make of our new neighbors yet. They moved in last Wednesday (the moving went on until 2:30 am! not a good first impression!) so they’ve been here for a week.

So far they seem ok. We haven’t really talked to them this week because we haven’t really seen them – they seem to stay indoors most of the time. That’s fine by me … the last renters that were in the house next door (The Rednecks as I called them) were always outside and yelling and banging things around in the driveway. The quiet is a nice change! Especially since I’m still not feeling all that well.

The guy is apparently a car freak – just like the last neighbor! When they were moving in he had boxes of car gear! At least we didn’t see tons of tires like the last guy! I do like his car though – he’s got these really cool halo headlights. I’ve never seen headlights like them. Pretty neat.

Our only problem with the new neighbors so far is that my husband doesn’t want to have anything to do with them. Not that we’ve had a chance to mingle or interact with them so far … but still … my husband is the nicest guy you’ll ever meet. He pretty much likes everyone and is friendly to all he meets … but after our experience with the last renters next door he just doesn’t want to bother to get to know these people.

I think it’s because these new neighbors were recommended by the old ones so they have a connection, AND the night that the new family was moving in we talked to them and he told us about this real druggie guy who lives down the street and what did he see later in the evening … the new neighbor going to the druggie guys house! Chris has said he’s seen him visit the house a few times since they moved in too … so I guess that’s tainted his view of the new neighbors.

My view is that as long as they are quite and there aren’t any unsavory people hanging around their house (or in front of ours!) what they do is their own business. I do kind of hope that Chris is wrong about our neighbors visit down the street though.

Filed Under: Items to Try, The Neighborhood, Toronto Tagged With: cars, druggies, Family, loud, Neighborhood, neighbors, quiet, redneck, renters, street, tires, unsavory, yelling

I can’t seem to get better

October 5, 2009 by Tricia

I’m still feeling awful. A few days ago I thought I was getting a little better – hey at lest that terrible pain in my right side went away but I guess was wrong.

I hate Crohn’s! I hate it. There I said it!

I won’t bore you or shock you with the details and symptoms of Crohn’s, but lets just say that I’ve spent far too much time over the last week lying down in pain or practically living in the bathroom. Hmmm … maybe I should set up my laptop in there? LOL Yeah, it’s that bad!

So … I’m going to try to keep up with my blogs, but if I go a few days without writing it’s probably just because I’m feeling crappy and need to just rest in order to feel a little better.

One good thing is that I saw my specialist today and he upped my Crohn’s meds … so maybe that will give my inflamed bowels a kick and make them a little better.

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Health Fitness and Beauty, Inflammatory bowel disease, Items to Try Tagged With: awful, bathroom, couch, crohns, Crohns meds, pain, Pentassa, sick, specialist, symptoms

I need new body parts!

October 3, 2009 by Tricia

So last week I wrote a post about how crappy I was feeling due to a really bad Crohn’s flare. I swear the pain I was feeling was just like appendicitis. Awful!

As the week progressed I started to feel a bit better but then I got a few cankers in my mouth – another side affect for people who have autoimmune diseases.

Anyway … I’m feeling a bit better, but I could be feeling a whole lot better. Still it’s progress! Hmmm I think I need to get some kind of extended service plan for my body! LOL Somehow I don’t think I’d qualify.

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Health Fitness and Beauty, Inflammatory bowel disease, Items to Try Tagged With: Appendicitis, awful, better, cankers, crohns, new body, pain, sick, sore mouth

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