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I can’t believe that Halloween is just around the corner

September 11, 2007 by Tricia

Can you believe it’s already almost mid-September? The kids are back to school, summers almost over and it’s getting cooler. Well, it’s getting a bit cooler here! The leaves on the trees will soon turn red, orange and yellow, lovely in their glorious flaming colors, then they will fall to the ground right around Halloween.

Yes, Halloween. It’ll soon be here, and if you enjoy celebrating the holiday it’s time to begin thinking about what kind of halloween costumes you and your friends or family might want to dress up in.

The last couple of years I haven’t done much for Halloween. Oh, we decorate our house. Some years we decorate more than others, but there’s always some decorations. We buy candy and treats to give out to the kids and occasionally we’ll dress up for Halloween.

I get a kick out of some of the kids Halloween costumes. They are so cute when they come to our door, often in groups of two to twelve! Yes, they do roam the streets in little packs, often with a parent or two in tow. Some kids are really shy and others quite bold. All seem to be quite pleased with themselves if you compliment them on their costumes.

I’ve noticed that some of the parents coming around with their children occasionally have infants with them. A few collect candy for their infants – which I don’t really understand since their babies are too young for most of the treats that are given out. Often when a parent has an infant with them on Halloween, usually while walking with an older child of course, their babies are dressed in infant Halloween costumes. I think those are the most adorable costumes of all. I’m certain that I’ve seen some babies dressed up as lady bugs and sunflowers. I love those costumes.

So what are you planning to dress up as this Halloween? Have you purchased costumes for your kids yet? Are you getting excited?





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Dramatic entrance

September 11, 2007 by Tricia

As Chris arrived home from work gigantic flashes of lightening occurred behind him and thunder began rumbling through the skies. It was like a scene out of a bad horror movie! Since the thunder and lightening we so close together all I could think of was him being struck by lightening so I told him to hurry up and get inside and let go of that metal screen door!

I had the windows open in the house and as soon as Chris was safely indoors the rain started coming down hard along with a very strong wind. Small loose papers that we had on the telephone table by the door and on our living room table suddenly began swirling around the room. I started to expect to see Mailboxes, posts and garbage cans flying around outside!

Talk about dramatic!

Chris ended up having to go outside again. This time to the backyard to take down the umbrella on our patio table. Strong winds have caused the whole table and umbrella to tip over before and we don’t feel like paying to replace the glass in our patio table.

Strange how the storm just suddenly picked up like that. We were expecting rain, but I don’t think we were expecting such a storm! How’s the weather in your area?

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, The Neighborhood, Toronto Tagged With: backyard, Chris, door, drama, dramatic, heavy rain, house, light, lightening, living room, patio, rain, storm, strong winds, sudden storm, thunder, thunder and lightening, weather, window, windows open

My beautiful city

September 9, 2007 by Tricia

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Here’s another photo that I took while on our boat cruise last Saturday. This is a view of Queen’s Quay, the harbor on Lake Ontario where we boarded our dinner boat.

I love how the setting sun is shinning on the left side of the buildings. They appear to just glow in the mid-evening light.

I’m originally from Ottawa, Canada’s capital city, but I’m very happy living here in Toronto. It’s such a beautiful city with so many things to do it’s amazing. Sure there’s pro’s and con’s to living in a city such as this, it’s not all good, but so far my experiences here have been good.

Filed Under: Canada, Culture, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation, Toronto Tagged With: amazing, beautiful, boat cruise, buildings, Canada, city, dinner, dinner boat, experiences, happy, harbor, Lake Ontario, Ottawa, photo, Queens Quay, Saturday, the city, Toronto

Movie Night

September 9, 2007 by Tricia

Have you seen the movie “The Queen”? We recorded it off the movie channel last night and we’re just about to begin watching it.

I’d love to get your take on the movie. Didn’t it win an Oscar last year as well as several other awards?

I love settling in to watch a good movie every once in a while. I hope I enjoy The Queen.

Oh yes, I’ll be watching the movie and doing work on the computer. I’m so behind it seems I can never just have a few hours with the computer off unless I’m actually out of the house buying cabinet hardware, gardening supplies or some other thing!

Filed Under: Culture, Entertainment, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Movies Tagged With: award, computer, movie, movie night, relax, The Queen, watch, watching, working

I’m missing out

September 8, 2007 by Tricia

I’m not feeling well again today. Are you as sick of hearing that as I am?

It’s a real drag. I had plans for the day. Exciting plans.

I wanted to go downtown and perhaps see one of the films being shown at the Toronto Film Festival. If I couldn’t get into one of the films I’d planned to walk around the area where the majority of films and parties were being held to see if I could spot some stars.

Naturally I would have had my camera with me to take photographs of the stars.

The other thing that I had on the agenda was to plant some plants that I purchased last week. I bought some beautiful carnations, some very cool looking daisies, two different colors of Heather, and some kale and ornamental cabbage plants. I love the last two in the fall as they get quite colorful when the weather gets cool and look very attractive in the garden.

Oh and we also wanted to get some fire glass for our gas fireplace. Man is that stuff cool. We’ve got to get some by the time autumn comes around and we start using the fireplace more often.

Well there’s still tomorrow. Actually the film festivals on all week so there’s lots of time for me to get downtown to do some film and star sightings. I suspect some of the best sightings might be this weekend though.

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Culture, Entertainment, Gardening, Great Sites, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, Movies, Photography, Recreation, Toronto Tagged With: beautiful, camera, celebrities, color, Downtown, fall, film festival, garden, photograph, plant, plants, show, star sighting, Toronto, Toronto Film festival, weekend

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