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Our skylight is leaking!

July 19, 2007 by Tricia

It’s been raining and raining here all day. At around 6 am it was coming down so hard I could barely see out the window. It’s rained hard on and off all day, but I believe it rained the hardest early in the morning.

At least twice today we’ve seen the skylight in our enclosed porch leak. We installed it a couple of years and it’s been very solid without any problems except one leak after a very hard rain last year.

When we had a similar rain last year that fell directly down on the skylight ( a direction the rain doesn’t normally fall in) it leaked. Chris got up on the enclosed porch roof and did a bit of work sealing up the area we though the leak came from last year and we hadn’t had another problem until today.

This makes me wonder if we’ll ever put in another skylight. Chris would really like one upstairs in the ceiling over the staircase. I agree with him that it would help let more light into the north end of the house, but if it’s going to leak every once in a while like this one is then no … I don’t want it.

Does anyone have any repair ideas? We installed the skylight ourselves even adding extra sealant and rubber? around it to prevent leaks. I’m really disappointed that it’s leaking now.





Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Home Decor, Home Renovation Tagged With: ceiling, Chris, enclose porch, fix leaking skylight, heavy rain, help, house, ideas, install, leaking, occasional leak, prevent, problems, raining, skylight, straight down rain, well sealed, window

The flu or something

July 19, 2007 by Tricia

Chris came home sick from work yesterday. He’d worked all day feeling awful and was still feeling terrible by the time he got home that evening. It seems that it’s a flu bug or something – you know fever, sweats, sore muscles and joints plus the ever embarrassing crampy tummy and runs.

He had a really high fever a few times through the night and didn’t end up going to work today. Good idea actually since he works in the OR recovery room. Those people don’t need to be exposed to virus’.

He actually thought he was getting better by this afternoon, but his neck really started to ache a little while ago and I felt his forehead and sure enough his fever had returned. I’m not sure he’ll be going to work tomorrow if this keeps up.

As much as I feel bad for Chris I’m also in “Stay Away” mode. Considering that I have Crohn’s and it’s an autoimmune disease I’ll likely end up getting what he’s got. Usually when I get sick it’s a much worse version than those who’ve had it before me so I’m looking at him with dread.

I do think I might be getting the bug too because I’m headache and achy. I certainly hope I can fight this before it hits!

Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris Tagged With: aching muscles, autoimmune, autoimmune disease, Chris, crohn, crohns, disease, dread, fever, flu, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, high fever, home, home from work, IBD, ill, Inflammatory bowel disease, missed work, night, pain, runs, sick, sick with flu, Sore, sore neck, sweat, work

Deals and free samples at MySavings.com

July 19, 2007 by Tricia

I’ve never personally used this site, but when I’ve discussed other sites that offered savings and coupons MySavings has been recommended to me by my regular visitors as another great site for deals and coupon savings.

I think when viewing this site the easiest way to find whatever type of deal you might be looking for is to use the tabs across the top of the page. The various tabs lead to areas where you can find Free Product Samples, free services and software, Coupons, deals and if you’d like you can also get to the MySavings.com blog or forums using the tabs as well.

I can actually see why others have recommended MySavings.com to me in the past. I love the free product sample area. When you click on the tab there are pages and pages of products for which you might request a free sample. Many of these free samples are only for those living in the USA but it’s easy to tell at a glance if an offer is available in your country because there are little flag icons right in the listing. You can quickly scan through the pages of free samples to find offers available to you.

I might in fact spend a little bit of time finding free samples for Canadians later on this evening. Why not? I like trying new products out before I buy them.

When I clicked on the coupon area I was shown an area where I could register for a free account which would enable me to Get Free Samples and Printable Coupons such as online coupon codes, restaurant coupons, grocery coupons and a whole lot more.

Within any of the sites sections you’ll find hundreds of links to offers for real brand name free samples or coupons for brand name products. You’ll find samples for health and beauty items, cosmetics, baby products, diet pills, food, make up, electronics and just about any thing you could think of I believe. Offerings are updated weekly so you know the listings are current.

I think this is a great site if you are interested in saving money and trying products samples before purchasing a full size product. Visit MySavings.com yourself and see what you can save money on today.

Filed Under: Coupons and deals, Family, Home and Lifestyle, Services, Shopping Tagged With: baby, baby products, blog, brand names, canadian, cosmetics, coupon, coupon codes, coupons, crohns, deals, diet pills, electronics, Food, forum, free, free samples, health and beauty, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, make up, MySavings.com, offer, online, Online coupons, pain, Printable coupons, product samples, restaurant, restaurant coupons, save money, savings, Software, updated listings, visit, weekly offerings

Explosion in New York?

July 18, 2007 by Tricia

I just heard that there’s been an explosion in New York City. Our local news said that there were reports 5 minutes ago of explosions in Manhattan and people running in the street. We just turned to CNN but they aren’t reporting anything yet.

This might not be anything. I hope it isn’t!

I’ll update this post if I get anymore news.

Update 7:30 PM EST –

Apparently a huge steam pipe burst (20″ pipe) and that some how caused a transformer to explode. Buildings shook and there might be a crater in the street. It’s located at 41st and Lexington in Midtown Manhattan.

It’s known at this time that three people were injured, but there are other reports of 12 people injured.

Police are clearing the area because of fears of possible contaminants.

This happened right around 6 pm.

They don’t believe that this was an act of terrorism but I suppose they’ll know more soon.

If you look at the flickr photos that someone was kind enough to send a link to in the comments below you’ll see that there’s lots of what appears to be smoke in the air. It’s a scary looking scene.

Filed Under: Culture, Home and Lifestyle Tagged With: explosion, Manhattan, New York, New York city, steam pipe burst, transformer explosion

I got my canvas and I love it!

July 17, 2007 by Tricia

On July 5th I wrote stating that I was going to send one of my photos to Canvas on Demand to have it made into a 16 x 20″ canvas. I decided to send this photo in:

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It’s a photo of a butterfly that I literally chased around my yard for a week trying to get a photo. It only allowed me about five minutes of that whole week to take photos and I snapped quite a few. I believe this was the best of the bunch.

I went to the Canvas on Demand website and following the very simple instruction I choose the size and style of canvas that I wanted, the frame type and uploaded my photo.

The company sent an email shortly after I completed my order and we corresponded by email as to when the canvas would be complete. They must have started working on it pretty much right away because my lovely canvas arrived on July 13th, only 8 days after I’d ordered it!

Talk about fast! They say it takes four days to create a canvas, then they had to ship it from North Carolina to Toronto, Canada. Honestly the earliest I thought I might get my fabulous canvas was July 20th or later given how slow some delivery companies can be.

Would you like to see my beautiful new canvas? Here you go:

 

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That photo really doesn’t do it justice. I’ll try to get an even better one, perhaps once I’ve decided where to hang it. It’s lovely though isn’t it? The butterfly looks so real. It makes you want to reach out and touch it. When our relatives visited this past weekend they just loved the canvas and might even get one of their own.

The canvas is so beautiful that I’m actually thinking of getting some of my other photos made into canvas’. They’d make great gifts at Christmas time or even for a birthday.

I just had a bright idea. If you’ve been reading this site for a year you might remember that last August Chris and I were part of a Hindu wedding ceremony when Chris’ cousin got married. Their anniversary is coming up in a month and one of the photos that I took at their wedding might make a beautiful anniversary gift. After seeing my own canvas I’m certain they’d love it.

I love Canvas on Demand.

They were in touch with me throughout the whole process so I can honestly say that they have excellent customer service. As for their product – well you can see the results for yourself. Their canvas’ are beautiful.

I’m just so pleased!

If you’ve ever thought of doing something like this please think of visiting Canvas on Demand. You won’t regret it.

Filed Under: Art, Decor, Gifts, Home and Garden, Home and Lifestyle, Home Decor, Photography, Recreation, Shopping Tagged With: anniversary gift, Art, beautiful, Birthday, Canada, canvas on demand, Chris, christmas, company, custom, customer service, easy to order, fantastic customer service, fast delivery, gift, Gift Idea, Gifts, photo, photos, photos on canvas, quality, style, Toronto, website, Wedding

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