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It’s Freezing!

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Chris called from his parents house a little after midnight. I’m surprised he was back at their home. Usually our friends parties go on and on well into the early morning hours.

He was standing outside using the cellphone when he called because he didn’t want to wake his parents while he talked. He was freezing. I happened to look at the weather widget on my computer and it was only 8 Celsius (46.4 F)! Now, as I write this at 1:30 am it’s dropped almost three degrees and it’s 5 Celsius (41 F)! That’s darn cold! If it keeps getting this cold at night I’m going to have to bring in my tropical plants!

I think Chris was shivering while he talked to me, either that or he was slurring from the drinks that he’d had … but I think it was shivers. Well … hopefully it was more shivers than slur.

Wow, if it’s getting cold this fast this year maybe we should plan a trip to a warm area this winter? Maybe get an Orlando rental home for a week? Oh yeah I could get into that!





Dramatic entrance

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As Chris arrived home from work gigantic flashes of lightening occurred behind him and thunder began rumbling through the skies. It was like a scene out of a bad horror movie! Since the thunder and lightening we so close together all I could think of was him being struck by lightening so I told him to hurry up and get inside and let go of that metal screen door!

I had the windows open in the house and as soon as Chris was safely indoors the rain started coming down hard along with a very strong wind. Small loose papers that we had on the telephone table by the door and on our living room table suddenly began swirling around the room. I started to expect to see Mailboxes, posts and garbage cans flying around outside!

Talk about dramatic!

Chris ended up having to go outside again. This time to the backyard to take down the umbrella on our patio table. Strong winds have caused the whole table and umbrella to tip over before and we don’t feel like paying to replace the glass in our patio table.

Strange how the storm just suddenly picked up like that. We were expecting rain, but I don’t think we were expecting such a storm! How’s the weather in your area?

My beautiful city

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Here’s another photo that I took while on our boat cruise last Saturday. This is a view of Queen’s Quay, the harbor on Lake Ontario where we boarded our dinner boat.

I love how the setting sun is shinning on the left side of the buildings. They appear to just glow in the mid-evening light.

I’m originally from Ottawa, Canada’s capital city, but I’m very happy living here in Toronto. It’s such a beautiful city with so many things to do it’s amazing. Sure there’s pro’s and con’s to living in a city such as this, it’s not all good, but so far my experiences here have been good.

I’m missing out

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I’m not feeling well again today. Are you as sick of hearing that as I am?

It’s a real drag. I had plans for the day. Exciting plans.

I wanted to go downtown and perhaps see one of the films being shown at the Toronto Film Festival. If I couldn’t get into one of the films I’d planned to walk around the area where the majority of films and parties were being held to see if I could spot some stars.

Naturally I would have had my camera with me to take photographs of the stars.

The other thing that I had on the agenda was to plant some plants that I purchased last week. I bought some beautiful carnations, some very cool looking daisies, two different colors of Heather, and some kale and ornamental cabbage plants. I love the last two in the fall as they get quite colorful when the weather gets cool and look very attractive in the garden.

Oh and we also wanted to get some fire glass for our gas fireplace. Man is that stuff cool. We’ve got to get some by the time autumn comes around and we start using the fireplace more often.

Well there’s still tomorrow. Actually the film festivals on all week so there’s lots of time for me to get downtown to do some film and star sightings. I suspect some of the best sightings might be this weekend though.

Dancing racing … peppers?

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This weeks theme is Music

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Usually it’s hot peppers making people dance, or well maybe dash off to the washroom, but in this case it was the peppers that we dashing, dancing and racing!

I think it was the 7th inning of the baseball game when, during a short break, three Ranchero peppers came out to entertain the crowd. I’ve seen them do this before so this must be a regular feature for “Ranchero dip” .

The music that was played during the “big race” was la Cucoracha (I think). It was amusing to say the least. There were three peppers racing in all, but the yellow pepper got tripped early in the race. As you can see in this blurry photo the green pepper was in the lead and he? won the race.

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