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May sure has been cold!

May 25, 2008 by Tricia

It’s nice to finally have a nice weekend. It’s been such a cold month of May! Can you believe that April had more warm days than May has so far – well at least here in Toronto that’s the case.

I think last year was like this too. A nice April with the days getting increasingly warmer and then a cold May. You’d think that once the snow melts it would steadily get warmer and warmer each month, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

It does look like it’s going to get warmer though. Saturday here was pleasant. Not warm, but better than it has been most of the month and today is supposed to be even warmer. I think it’s going to get up to 22 C (72 F) and if it does I think it will officially be the warmest day of the month so far!

I’ll be busy today. I’ve got to do some gardening – planting veggies and annual flowers; and I’ve also got to go grocery shopping. I’m not sure what else is in store for us, but it will be a day to get some things done around the house.





Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Toronto Tagged With: annual flowers, April, cucumber, groceries, grocery shopping, house, May, month, peppers, plant vegetables, planting flowers, Saturday, tomato, Toronto, warmest, weekend

Disgusting dinner

May 24, 2008 by Tricia

We had dinner a little while ago and ugh, it was disgusting.

You know you can buy frozen chinese food in the grocery store? Frozen chicken balls, frozen veggie spring rolls? Yeah … well don’t. Bleh!

As I said in my last post I’ve been really busy working on my main website over the last two or three days and at the same time I’ve also been really hungry – like acidy stomach hungry. So Chris decided to whip up a quick dinner for us while I finished up the last little things I had to do on the website. He made rice and that was fine, but the chicken balls and spring rolls that he pulled out of our freezer and then cooked up were just plain yucky.

The next time I get a craving for Chinese food … I’ll pull out my passport and go to China. Nah … we’ll go downtown to Toronto’s Chinatown. There’s some very tasty Asian food there. Yum. I definitely won’t be buying frozen Chinese food again! Not that brand anyway.

Have you ever purchased pre-made frozen food or packaged food and thought it was going to be delicious but ended up being seriously disappointed?

Filed Under: Dining and Restaurants, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Toronto Tagged With: acidy, asian food, Bleh, brand, chicken balls, china, Chinatown, chinese, Chinese Food, Chris, craving, dinner, disgusting, Downtown, freezer, grocery, grocery store, Passport, rice, spring, stomach, Toronto, ugh, veggie, yucky

Grape Hyacinths and hosta – Oh My!

May 18, 2008 by Tricia

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Muscari and Hosta 2

Don’t these grape hyacinths (muscari) look just lovely in front of the yellow green leaves of Hosta Sum and Substance? It’s a lovely color combination isn’t it?

This photo was actually taken last summer. I’ve been too busy this week to get the photos of the garden that I did take this past week transfered from my camera to the computer. If anything the muscari looks even nicer this year. I will get to those photos shortly!

I picked this picture for this post because I thought it might look great with the new theme for Tricia’s Musings too.

My garden is doing wonderfully this year. There’s only one rose that’s struggling and all the rest of the roses and other plants seem to be doing well. I think we’ll really enjoy our backyard this year.

Oh speaking of enjoying the backyard and garden, our puppies having fun with it too. Yesterday we watered the garden and of course Midnight was outside with us on her leash. She loves the garden hose. She spent all her time trying to get her head and mouth under the water. I kept telling her that she’s going to love that cool hose water come summer.

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information. GTS participants remember to check in at As the Garden Grows each week so that we’ll know you made a new post!

Filed Under: Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Toronto Tagged With: backyard, camera, color combination, computer, cool water, doing well, drinking water from hose, fun, garden, garden hose, Grape Hyacinth, grape hyacinths, green leaves, Green Thumb Sunday, having fun, head and mouth, hosta, Hosta sum and substance, hyacinth, last summer, leaves, Midnight, Muscari, new theme, photo, picture, plant, plants, puppies, puppy playing with hose, rose, roses, Summer

Super busy long weekend

May 17, 2008 by Tricia

The other day I wrote a post detailing all of the things we were supposed to do on this long weekend here in Canada. It’s what we call the May two four or more formally the Victoria Day long weekend. Our long weekend came early this year. In my mind it really should be next weekend. In fact it caught me by surprise being so early.

As things go our our Saturday night plans fell through. We were supposed to go over to a friends house for a barbecue, party and perhaps even some early fireworks. Unfortunately our friends mother happened to call him on Friday and reminded him about the birthday invitations that they had on Saturday night. I guess it’s his great aunts birthday and the whole family is getting together for a big shindig.

That’s ok. Chris and I were busy enough today! We’re going to have a busy weekend so we got some gardening work done earlier today. I’m sure we won’t have time to do any gardening on Sunday or Monday! Tomorrow we’re going to a brunch at a another friends and then there’s fireworks on Sunday and Monday night.

I believe next weekend is the Memorial Day long weekend in the US. Do you have big plans for that weekend? And how about my Canadian friends – are you as busy as I am seeing family and friends this weekend?

Filed Under: Canada, Entertainment, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Socializing, Toronto Tagged With: aunt, aunts, barbecue, barbecue party, Birthday, brunch, Canada, canadian, canadian friends, Chris, Family, family and friends, fireworks, friend, friends, friends mother, garden, Gardening, house, invitations, long weekend, memorial day, monday, monday night, mother, Party, saturday night, shindig, sunday, surprise, Victoria Day, weekend

Such a nice tidy garden this year

May 11, 2008 by Tricia

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My garden is just lovely this year. I think it’s doing well because it had so much so cover this past winter and because I actually got out there and tidied it up and did quite a bit of garden maintenance work this spring. I know last spring I was feeling really ill and I just couldn’t get myself motivated to get outside and do a lot of garden work all at once.See how it’s paying off?

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This is just a small portion of my garden. These daylilies and astilbe are in what I call the oval which separates the patio area near the house from the back lawn.

This is what my backyard looked like on May 1st.

It isn’t spectacular but it’s neat and tidy and shows lots of promise. The plants have grown in the past week too, plus new ones have come up so the raised garden beds look even fuller now. Click on the photo to see a large image in my flickr account if you want to see more details.

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Happy Mothers Day to all the moms out there.

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information. GTS participants remember to check in at As the Garden Grows each week so that we’ll know you made a new post!

Filed Under: Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation, Toronto, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: daylilies, flowers, garden, garden maintenance, gardeners plant, Green Thumb Sunday, happy mothers day, last spring, maintenance work, nature lovers, participants, patio area, photos, pruning, raised beds, raised garden beds, small backyard, small portion, spring, spring garden, tidy garden

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