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Waiting for decent sunny weather to arrive

May 28, 2011 by Tricia

The weather here in Toronto has been so crazy this spring. It’s been rainy and damp and then it will start to get sunny and warm up and then just as you start to think that maybe the weather is beginning to finally get nice a huge wind storm will come up and then the rain and cool weather will return for a week or so.

Sigh … I give up!

I tired of this weather and I can’t wait for it to warm up and for the sun to stick around. My plants on the other hand seems to love this weather. They’re getting enough water with all the rain and I guess the cooler temps is just right for my Spring plants. It’s like my garden was reading anabolic halo reviews or something because every time I look out my window at my roses they get bigger and bigger!

The biggest rose plants are along the fence that is going to be replaced next week by our neighbors. See the last post for the back story on that … yeah I still don’t even know how high the new fence is going to be … but I do know it’s going to be very similar to the fence one of our neighbors put up across the street, according to a conversation my husband had with our next door neighbors a few days ago so I guess I can put up with how it will look … but if they’re going to do it they’d better do it soon because my BIGGEST rose is on that fence – literally ON that fence, it’s called William Baffin and it’s a thorny monster and every single day it gets bigger and more brutish .. it’s going to be terrible to put up a fence around it next week!

Later today I’m going to go and knock on our neighbors door and ask some questions about the fence that they are so generously paying to put in or replace. On one hand I’m appreciative that they are paying for the new fence because we cannot afford to pay for a new fence between our houses at this time … and the current fence is truly falling apart – we’ve been repairing from our side for three years now. But on the other hand I’m simmering with pent up anger that they haven’t had the decency to come and do a face to face meeting between my husband and I to tell us exactly what kind of fence they’d like to put in and to get our input. It is after all on our shared property line so we do have a say in it’s height and design.

I don’t think they mean to be inconsiderate, they probably think they’re being helpful and that they’re doing us a favor and they’re partly right in that the old fence will likely fall down by next year if it’s not replaced … but I’d like some say in a fence that I’m going to have to look at daily. OF the four of us (my husband and the other couple) I’m probably the one who will look at the fence the most since I spend the most time in the backyard working in the garden or just plain looking out the window at my garden and thus the fence … so it’s very important to me. Whereas for the neighbors I think it’s just a fence.

Anyway .. back to the weather. Are you starting to get good weather in your area or are you longing for solid sunny weather in your area too?





Filed Under: Canada, Gardening, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Life with Chris, The Neighborhood, Toronto, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: anger, big rose, cold, cool, design, falling down, fence, fence height, garden, neighbors, pay, rain, rainy, repair, roses, sick and tired, spring, sun, sunny, talks, tired, waiting, weather

It seems we’re getting a new fence – free

May 21, 2011 by Tricia

Well … it seems sometime in the next week or so we’re going to be getting a new fence. Well, to be more clear – we’re going to be getting part of a new fence.

What’s really happening is that our neighbors, the ones in the house that’s attached to ours (semi-detached house) are getting a new fence and they are replacing the part of the fence that we share between our houses. They’re paying for it and uhm …. we don’t know exactly what kind of fence they are putting in. Can you tell I’m a little uncomfortable with that????

Uh huh … I think we need to have a talk with our neighbors. My husband did talk to them about our noise problems last weekend and their daughter has been a lot quieter this past week. Thankfully! Unfortunately … when he was talking to them about the noise – last Sunday after I fell down the stairs due to exhaustion thanks to a week of no sleep (yes I’m severely bruised!) he never did get around to asking them about the fence design. I guess if worse comes to worse we can always just say no as the fence people are trying to put the fence in. That wouldn’t be that nice though.

I’m not super concerned about the design. I think that my neighbors really like the fence that another neighbor had put in last year and if I’m right I think they’ll get something similar and if so that will be perfectly fine with us as well.

The only thing that bothered me about the whole thing is the fact that they aren’t telling us much and well we have our roses along that fence and when I mentioned my concerns about them getting damaged the woman actually had the gall to say “Which ones can you live without?” Uhm … you just don’t ask a gardener that kind of question … especially when the roses in question are pretty much irreplaceable! Wow! I’ll be pretty upset if they kill my roses. The good news is that because of the trees in both yards they can’t dig new holes for the fences so they have to use the existing holes so that means my rose roots likely won’t get damaged.

They have one of those steel garages right up against the end of the fence and it borders on the end of our yard … it’s starting to fall down .. I think it might fall down when the fence comes down … that might be interesting. LOL

Anyway, I’ll take some pictures and let you guys know how things progress with the fence dilemma. I’m sure I’ll have a story to tell!

Filed Under: Gardening, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Life with Chris, The Neighborhood, Toronto, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: damage, design, fence posts, free, gall, garage, grandfathered, neighbors, new fence, noise, noisy neighbors, odd, roots, roses, trees

I think we’re getting a park at the end of the street

May 21, 2011 by Tricia

It looks like they’re getting ready to do construction at the end of my street next week. I think I’d better enjoy this weekend while I can because it’s going to get noisy around here!

If I’m not mistaken I think they might be putting in some kind of commercial playground or at least it looks like it. My husband and I took a peek at some of the supplies they put on the site and it sure looks like they’re going to put putting up a playground for all of the kids. We could certainly use a decent park in the neighborhood, but this one might be a little too close to my home!

I guess I’ll find out what they’re really building once they start next week. I just hope they aren’t super noisy. My neighbors are renovating almost daily and that’s enough noise to deal with!

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Life with Chris, The Neighborhood, Toronto Tagged With: construction, kids, Neighborhood, neighbors, noise, noisy, park, people, playgrounds, renovation

An update on the old bad renter neighbors

May 11, 2011 by Tricia

Do you remember how happy I was the day my old renter neighbors moved out? Yes, I was relieved! That was last March (2010).

Well … I haven’t seen them since they moved out, but I strongly suspected that they were hanging out at a house down the street – a side street that I can see directly from my front door. You see, when these bad renter neighbors lived next door they’d go down to that house several times a day and sometimes in the middle of the night cars and people from that house would park in our shared driveway and visit our neighbors house … or more often go in and out of our neighbors house all night. I strongly suspect that illegal activities were going on in both my neighbors house and the house down the street.

Anyway … The gang of people living in the house down the street apparently just got evicted. There were eviction signs up in the windows a week or two ago and from the looks of things a lot of people moved out. I think the house is going to be renovated by the owner. I’m sure the people living close to that house are relieved as there was so much “car” activity etc going on at all hours and shady people in an otherwise very good neighborhood they’ve got to be happy that that group of people are gone. I also heard that our former bad renter neighbors wife might have gone to a rehabilitation center for drug addicts as well. I always felt sorry for her little girl and baby because she always looked so out of it … hopefully the rumor is true and she is getting some help!

Now .. if only the people that bought the house next door would finally finish there very very slow renovations and move in … it’s been over a year of pounding and thumping next door – but no neighbors … it’s about time they at least moved in.

Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Rehabilitation, The Neighborhood, Toronto Tagged With: bad neighbors, bad renters, bought house, cars, hang out, house, move, neighbors, old neighbors, people, rehab, relief, renovate, renters, scary, street, suspect

Did you watch the Royal Wedding?

May 5, 2011 by Tricia

Did you watch the Royal wedding on TV? Or if not on TV did you catch all or part of it online?

I didn’t stay up late or get up early to watch, but since we have a PVR I taped 6 hours of it and ran through some of the pre-wedding stuff, watch the ceremony and then fast-forwarded pretty much to the balcony kiss. Then, being in Canada, I saw endless recaps on TV all Friday evening and throughout the weekend (well up to late Sunday night then some other big news story took over). So I guess I’m more than a little burned out on Royal wedding news.

Is anyone else surprised at how fast Prince Williams hairline seems to be receding though? It seems like a year or so ago he had a much fuller head of hair. Perhaps all of the stress of his new career and then the lead up to the wedding made his hair come out faster? I wonder if he’s tried using any hair loss products all all?

I suppose since Canada is a Commonwealth Country we’ll continue to hear quite a bit about Prince William and Kate at least until their visit to Canada is over and one with this July .. then the news about them will start to die down. I hope. It’s just been constant since last summer .. I’m more than ready to not hear about them daily.

Filed Under: Canada, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Television, Toronto Tagged With: ceremony, commonwealth, fast forward, Kate, kiss, Prince William, PVR, royal wedding, Summer, taped, the royals, TV, visit to canada, watch, Wedding

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