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My new guard dog

September 15, 2011 by Tricia

My Glowing eyed dog - makes a good guard dog! Funny!

I was taking some pictures the other day in my garden and it was getting towards dusk. My dog was vying for my attention so I tried snapping a few pictures of her and the above photo is what I got! Glowing eyed dog! LOL

Now if only she looked this fierce all the time. She’s actually a very nice, friendly Labrador Retriever, but as you can see in this picture she looks like a dog from Hell.

Perhaps it was the whole tomato that she ate a half hour before I took the “glowing eye” pictures that made her eyes turn into lasers? Nah I know it’s because of the flash …

My dog eating a tomato!

Here she is wiping her face and just enjoying rolling in the grass after eating the tomato:

My Lab rolling around in the grass

I can’t resist showing you one last picture of Midnight and her glowing eyes. She doesn’t look quite as dangerous in this picture as she did in the first. In fact, I think she looks kind of cute despite the glowing eyes.

Midnight the lab with what looks like flares for eyes! whoa!

I’ve been thinking of getting a companion for Midnight lately. I was considering a smaller dog, in part because we have a small house and one dog takes up enough space. However due to some recent occurrences I’m now leaning towards a true guard dog. I know Midnight would protect me with her life, but I’d like a dog that’s got “guard” turned on more often than she does.

The new dog would need to get along well with Midnight. I thinking about a German Shepard, but if anyone has any other suggestions I’d love to hear them. In the mean time … I might call up some of my old dear Russian friends from the jewellery trade and have them come check the security situation out too.





Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Humor, Our Puppy, Pets and animals, Toronto Tagged With: dog eating tomato, dog from hell, FLash, friends, funny, funny eyes, garden, german shepard, glowing eye, glowing eyed dog, guard dog, Humor, labrador retriever, pictures, rolling in grass, Russians, second dog, security, silly dog, small dog, tomato

Figuring out plans for the long weekend

September 2, 2011 by Tricia

In a couple of hours my husbands niece and her new husband will be arriving from Chicago. They’re coming to Toronto for a visit for the long weekend.

While they’re here we’re going to drive them out of the city to my husbands parents (nieces grandparents) for a family get together party. I guess the party is partially a mini family reunion as well as a belated wedding reception for those of us that weren’t able to make it to the couples wedding in Mexico this past June.

The only problem is that all the planning for this visit has taken place between my mother in law and our niece and our niece only got in touch with us by email this past Wednesday to ask us for a ride to “nana’s” house. I wrote back (she only has a cellphone and doesn’t answer international calls I’m told) and haven’t received a reply … so we haven’t been able to make any direct plans with her ourselves. Sigh.

I hate “Third Party” arrangements!

So we’re expected to drive our niece and her husband to the in-laws and presumable back to Toronto – maybe the next day (Monday) … but we have no idea if that’s what they want or if their plans even work with our plans .. and my husbands mother is totally freaking out because she expected her grand-daughter to show up at her house on Saturday instead of Sunday!

As I said if our niece would have either answered the email or if we could call her on a land line (cheaper than cellphone!) we could have probably ironed out some plans that would work for all of us .. but no …

Anyway … I’m sure it will all work out. My husbands niece is very nice. I can’t remember exactly what she does now … It’s something medical … I think she’s either looking for pharmaceutical or Dentist Jobs but I can’t remember which field she went into. I think that’s partly because she started one field of study and then started another. LOL I think her new husband is either an accountant or does some kind of business finance work.

Once this weekend is over it’s time to celebrate my birthday. I’m certain my birthday won’t be celebrated this weekend as no one ever seems to remember it … but that’s ok, I do my own celebrating.

Filed Under: Canada, Family, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Life with Chris, Toronto Tagged With: arrangements, Birthday, Brantford, chicago, drive, fly, freaking out, get together, husband, long weekend, mexico, new husband, Niece, planning, reception, reunion, Saturday, sunday, Toronto, work out

I think there’s a sinkhole developing in front of my house!

September 1, 2011 by Tricia

I think there’s a pothole developing in front of my house. On the street, just off to the left there’s a manhole cover and over the last few months it has been sinking into the asphalt and swirly cracks have been appearing around it.

Actually the whole street in front of my house has developed a lot of cracks over the last year or so and they’re getting bigger and bigger. Every time cars and trucks wheels and tires go over the cracks or that sinking manhole cover my house shakes and rattles. Yeah … all the shakes and rattles I feel aren’t just from my loud neighbors toddler!

We called the city to report our suspicions that a big sinkhole was developing but we don’t know if they’ve come out to take a look or not.

Anyway … don’t be surprise if I have a big post in a couple of months with pictures of a car in a huge sinkhole in front of my house because that’s what I suspect is going to happen!

Filed Under: Canada, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Toronto Tagged With: asphalt, big cracks, cars, city, cracks, house, huge, loud, manhole, pothole, rattles, report, shaking, sinkhole, sinking, street, swirly, trucks

Time to get outside and enjoy the day

August 16, 2011 by Tricia

It’s such a beautiful night out tonight. It’s warm and just a little bit humid – but still comfortable enough to enjoy. Of course I can say that easily, having been tucked away inside my air conditioned house most of the day when it was much warmer outside! Now that it’s beginning to cool down I want to get out and enjoy what’s left of the day.

I think that I might throw on some jogging shorts, a pair of Treksta evolution Mid get the dog and go out for a fast paced walk. I can’t jog because of my knee but it’s feeling ok so I think I can go for a good brisk walk with the dog and I’m sure she’ll love getting out.

It will be getting dark in about half an hour so I think I might head towards the Danforth. Maybe Midnight and I will stop for an icecream on the way home. Now that’s a plan!

Do you ever get out and just enjoy a lovely warm evening?

Filed Under: Canada, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Toronto, Walking Tagged With: air conditioning, burn, danforth, day, dog, energy, house, humid, knee, Lab, Midnight, shoes, Toronto, walk, Walking, warm, warm evening

An anniversary gift for a friend who lives across the country

August 7, 2011 by Tricia

Some friends of ours are about to celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary and I’m trying to figure out what kind of gift to get them.

Unfortunately they don’t live in the same city as we do. They live on the other side of the country in Vancouver! So I’m going to have to ship a gift to them. My friend is a chocoholic like myself and I have a feeling that her husband also likes chocolate so I’m thinking of maybe sending them one of these godiva chocolate gift baskets. I’m fairly sure that they’d enjoy them, although they might be mad at me for sending them all those extra calories!

What would you get as a gift for a good friend who was celebrating a 10th wedding anniversary who lived 2000 miles away?

Filed Under: Canada, Family, Gifts, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Shopping, Toronto Tagged With: anniversary gift, chocoholic, chocolate, country, distance, friend, gift basket, husband, ship, shipping, tasty, Vancouver, yummy

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