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Open up! It’s cold out here!

February 13, 2008 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

Aw … the deer want in!

If it keeps snowing here the way it has we’ll probably start to see deer wandering around! Honestly. We’re in the process of getting about 30 more centimeters of snow here in Toronto and those of us with small lawns literally have no place left to put the snow. We might also have an ice storm too. Oh goody.

I posted this photo of the snow almost as high as our car last week on one of my other blogs after last weeks snow storm and now the snow is piled higher than our car. I really can’t lift the snow much higher and when I do try it just starts to slide off. This is getting crazy! Apparently we’ve already reached or passed the February record for snow at our airport and we aren’t even half way through the month! This is certainly a snow year around here!

I wonder if any market research studies have been done about how this much snow affects people and their shopping habits! I’m sure a lot of shovels and snow blowers were purchased here in Toronto this month.

I’ll have to try to take a photo of our puppy trying to climb up the mound of snow on our lawn. She sinks into it right up to her neck. Still … she insists on climbing it so that she can do her business. It’s pretty funny.If you’ve been wondering where I’ve been the last couple of days I’ve either been hiding indoors since it’s been getting to -30 Celsius (-22 F) with the windchill – and when you’ve got a constant fever that’s really not much fun, or else I’ve been outside shoveling!

The scent of Hyacinth

February 10, 2008 by Tricia

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Sick of winter? Me too. I’m so looking forward to spring!

Lately whenever we go to the grocery store, a home and garden store of even some department stores I’m greeted by the scent of Hyacinth. Many stores are selling bulbs that have been chilled and forced to bloom. Perhaps you’ve purchased some of these prepared bulbs and have hyacinths blooming in your home right now?

If you do have some of these forced Hyacinth bulbs in your home, and if you live in a climate that gets cool in the winter be sure to plant the bulbs in your garden this spring. They won’t bloom again this year, but they will more than likely bloom right in your garden next spring. If you’ve purchased any other forced spring bulbs – like tulips or daffodils – you can plant those in your garden when they die down too.

The photo above is of one of my purple hyacinths. It looks blue though doesn’t it?

Only in the first winter that we had our house did I get the urge to buy some of those forced hyacinths … the rest of the time I’ve suffered through winter without the scent of hyacinth blooms indoors … forced to wait until all my bulbs come up in my garden each spring. Oh but when they do bloom in the spring the garden is just intoxicating to stroll in! Also, if we happen to have a nice warm spring day and it’s nice enough to open the windows the scent of hyacinth wafts into the house too. It’s beautiful!

Do you grow hyacinth? Indoors or outdoors?

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Feverish

February 6, 2008 by Tricia

I can’t believe I haven’t posted anything here for a few days!

Well I have a good excuse. I’ve been sick again. What else is new eh? I’ve had a constant fever from sometime Saturday evening up until sometime earlier today.

It’s not unusual for me to have several fevers in a day or even several fevers each day for days on end. It just goes with my Crohn’s disease. In fact it’s so common that’s why I came up with the name Feverish Thoughts for this sites domain.

It’s been a while though since I’ve pretty much had a constant fever for days on end!

I don’t know how you feel when you have a fever … I’ll bet you probably have other symptoms going on when you get one … but for me, a fever just zaps all my energy. I’m shivering with the chills or too hot as my fever comes down and I’m just too tired to think or do much of anything.

Surprisingly my crohn’s pain is usually a little better or rather less painful when I have a fever and it gets worse again when the fever finally goes away. So right now my fever seems to be gone but I’ve got bad abdominal pain. Go figure. I can’t win for losing!

Obviously I haven’t been up to too much in the last few days what with my fevers zapping all my energy. Other than our current ice, snow and thunder storm that’s going on the only other interesting thing that’s happened in the last few days is that an old friend came over to see me on Monday.

My friend was in the area and she decided to pop in for a quick visit. I hadn’t seen her for maybe two years! She moved from the area when she got married two years ago, changed jobs and we just kind of lost touch with each other.

She’s going to have a few more changes in her life soon too. When I gave her a hug I couldn’t help but feel a baby bump! After she took her coat off I could see that she definitely is expecting. She’s only about four and a half months along but she’s so excited she’s already wearing maternity jeans! She’s so cute.

My long lost friend stayed for two hours or so and we had a chance to catch up on what’s been happening in our lives.

I don’t really like having people over when I’m not feeling well, but it’s different when it’s a really good friend. She didn’t mind that I lay on the couch for part of our visit.

Anything interesting happening in your life? Hopefully you guys are healthier than I am lately!

The English Rose – Abraham Darby

February 3, 2008 by Tricia

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The beauties above are a popular English Rose called Abraham Darby. Aren’t they just beautiful?

Abraham Darby also has a lovely, intoxicating scent.

I grew this rose for two years, but sadly, last winter was mild and my roses didn’t have enough winter protection, and when it did get very cold during the winter some of my roses must have been damaged as I lost at least five rose bushes last year. Abraham Darby was one that I lost and I miss it dearly.

Whenever I was in a garden center, nursery or even a home hardware type store that sold roses (Home Depot anyone?) last spring and summer I searched for Abraham Darby. I couldn’t find a replacement. It’s probably just as well that I didn’t find it as I should be able to get a good quality one from one of my favorite rose mail order nurseries.

I guess this post will serve as a reminder to me to take a look for this rose online and place an order for spring delivery!

Of course that’s a risky endeavor as I’ll probably end up ordering a bunch of fancy hybrid spring flower bulbs too! It could get expensive!

Have you ever placed a mail order or online order at a nursery for plants, bushes or spring bulbs? If you have – what’s your favorite mail order or online nursery?

Yonge Street

February 2, 2008 by Tricia

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This weeks theme is Narrow

I took this photo last year just as a street festival was winding down in downtown Toronto. That’s why there’s people standing around and walking on this normally very busy street.

I love how you can see the rows of stores and office buildings far off in the distance and how the street gradually narrows.

Did you know that Yonge Street is the longest street in the world? It begins near the Lake Ontario in downtown Toronto, Ontario and goes right through the city and then through Ontario to the border of Manitoba as highway 11. It’s over 1,896 kilometres (1 178.12 miles) long!

Open up! It’s cold out here!

The scent of Hyacinth

Feverish

The English Rose – Abraham Darby

Yonge Street

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