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It’s so warm it feels like summer!

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It’s so nice here this week! Last week it was so cold, you’d swear it was still early Spring! Now it feels like July here in Toronto! Right now it’s 28 C and with humidity if feels like 30 C (86 F) and it’s supposed to be fairly warm over the next week or so too.

We’ve been spending a lot of time outside now that the weather’s nice. The weekend was cool – close to freezing! However I still planted most of the annuals that I’d purchased. Now that it’s warm out I’m sure my new plants are loving it.

Midnight, our Lab, is loving the weather too. She keeps ringing the bell we have attached to the door so that she can go outside and play with her toys. We don’t mind, we want to be outside when it’s this nice too. I mean, who knows – it might get cold again! This is Canada after all!

Are you having warmer than normal weather in your area too?

We’re having a barbecue tonight – chicken grilled over mesquite. Yum.





If it would just stop raining …

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Well I got my piercings done at the hospital on Thursday … needles in my neck that is! Three in total. So now all I have to do is wait for the results of my Thyroid biopsy. I see the surgeon in a week and a half so I guess unless the results are really bad I won’t find out until then.

My neck feels better now too. It was kind of tender on Thursday evening and Friday, but today it seems to be back to normal. I’m surprised it wasn’t more painful. The radiologist took his time wiggling those fine needles in my neck! At least he was nice looking so I had something to keep my mind off the needles as he was doing the procedure. LOL

I was able to start taking my Crohn’s medication, Pentasa on Thursday evening as well, and my abdomen is feeling slightly better than it did all week. Hopefully I’ll really be feeling better by the time the weekend is over. If not maybe I’ll take those people up on their offers of free Orlando vacations that keep calling me five times a day. NOT.

Obviously I didn’t go camping this weekend with my sister-in-law. It’s just as well as it rained on and off all day today. It would have been a miserable camping experience! Instead Chris and I went to a local garden center and bought some plants and annual flowers to plant in the planters around the house. We’ll get to work doing that tomorrow when it’s not raining. At least I hope it won’t rain!

What have you been doing this weekend? Gardening? Yardwork? Spring cleaning or just visiting with friends and family?

Might go camping on the long weekend

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This weekend is a long weekend here in Canada. It’s known as Victoria Day or in true Canuck form “The May 2 4” weekend.

it’s early this year, Victoria Day usually falls around the 24th of the month, hence the nickname for our long weekend, but for some reason it’s a week earlier. It’s often the same weekend that our American friends celebrate Memorial Day weekend.

I’ve always thought of this long weekend as a camping weekend. My family had a cottage and we always went to the cottage for the May 2 4, but once I moved away from home it became a weekend to go camping with the girls or the guys.

My husbands sister had been trying to put something together for this weekend. Kind of last minute, but she’s been calling rv parks to see if they have any spaces left. I still haven’t heard back from her as to whether she’s found a camp site or not.

At this point I don’t know if I’ll be up for going camping this weekend anyway. I’m having that Thyroid biopsy tomorrow and I’ll probably be fine afterwords, but then again I could have a sore neck too. I’ll just have to wait and see. Plus I’m having a Crohn’s flare up, so unless my meds start working right away once I’m able to take them again after the biopsy I won’t be going anywhere this weekend.

If we stick around Toronto we’ll have to at least go to the Fireworks!

Do you have plans for either Victoria Day weekend or Memorial day? If so, what are you going to do?

What a beautiful Spring we’re having

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I was just saying on my gardening blog what a beautiful Spring it’s been here in Toronto and how well my garden is doing!

It looks like I didn’t lose any plants during the winter, which is a good thing since our winters can be quite harsh and it’s not uncommon for me to lose at least one rose if not more.

Right now the tulips are the stars of the garden. I have at least 7 types in bloom right now, with more to come by the end of May. The Daffodils are also blooming well, whereas the hyacinths and Glories of the snow are just about finished for the season.

One Spring flower that I always enjoy seeing each year are the Muscari or Grape Hyacinth. They’re tiny plants, only about 8 inches tall, but their flowers are so lovely and colorful.

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The flowers are purple, but they almost have a deep blue tone to them in this photograph, don’t they?

The majority of my tulips are white, but I also have several vibrant purple, orange and yellow tulips scattered throughout my garden. What I don’t have are very many red tulips. Here’s a picture of one of my lovely red tulips:

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Perhaps next fall I’ll buy more tulips bulbs and try to get more red ones. They certainly look beautiful in front of spring green plants.

How is your garden or yard doing this Spring?

I guess my new meds were working after all

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I wasn’t sure, but I guess my Crohn’s medication that I started about a month ago, Pentasa, after that whole Sulfasalazine fiasco, must have been working.

How do I know …. Well, yesterday i got a phone call from one of my doctors offices telling me that my Thyroid biopsy at the hospital is scheduled for next Thursday and I had to go off the Pentasa right away since it contains ASA.

I’ve been off the Pentasa for more than 30 hours and my stomach/ abdomen is getting more painful as each hour goes by. So unless I’m starting to fight another bug or my Crohn’s is getting worse that must mean the medicine was working and my body is feeling it now that I’m not taking it.

I hope the pain doesn’t get much worse as I have to wait probably until next Friday before I can start taking it again. It’s going to be a LONG week.

Maybe I’ll spend sometime this week just sitting in my garden and looking at all the flowers that are beginning to bloom. That is if I can just sit and enjoy … it seems that every time I go in my backyard I never just sit, I have to pull weeds or prune a dead branch off a rose … I just can’t help myself.

Hmm maybe I’ll try to start now …. I’ll go outside and enjoy the daffodils while they’re still here …

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Enjoy the weekend and try to get outside!

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