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Melting old snow sure is messy!

December 30, 2007 by Tricia

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This weeks theme is Messy

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Remember that storm that I said we had two weeks ago? Well I took this photo two weeks ago Sunday in the evening once most of the snow had finished falling. Pretty messy huh?

That’s our car in the foreground on the right in the driveway, and our neighbors car on the street surrounded by a mountain of snow.

We’ve had temperatures around freezing or just above freezing mostly since that time so the snow’s been melting slowly. We’ve even had some rain and a thunder storm or two as well. Imagine, thunder in December! Weird. Very weird.

Since we haven’t had much new snow, only a dusting, the melting piles of snow are kind of dirty from car exhaust and look quite yucky. Midnight, our puppy tends to do some of her business on our front lawn so our snow is starting to have a bit of a yellow tinge to it as well. Do you know how hard it is to keep a puppy from eating dirty snow that’s on the lawn or in the snow banks we pass on our walks!





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I’d rather look at roses than endure this cold wind!

December 24, 2007 by Tricia

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Beautiful Graham Thomas English Rose.

Winter hit Toronto early this year and we’ve had snow cover for most of the last month! Thinking back to last winter, I think we’d only had one snow by this date and it melted shortly after it fell. I guess it’s about time we had a real winter around here.

Yesterday it did warm up a bit, but it rained and rained and rained some more. Then in the late afternoon strong winds arrived bringing with it very chilly weather. Right now it’s only a little below freezing, but thanks to the wind it feels extremely cold outside.

I’d much rather remember how lovely this rose looked in October when I took this photo when I have to take the puppy outside in the cold!

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Filed Under: Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Photography, Recreation, Toronto, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: beautiful, cold, cold weather, early winter, English Rose, flowers, freezing, garden, Graham Thomas Rose, Green Thumb Sunday, October, photo, plant, puppy, rain, rose, snow, sunday, Toronto, weather, wind, winter, winters here

Lovely geranium

December 19, 2007 by Tricia

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This is a Johnson’s Blue Geranium. It’s a perennial plant that’s hardy to zone 5, possibly as low as zone 4, but don’t quote me on that!

This cute little plant blooms at least three times each season. It’s flowers are a bluish purple and appear iridescent when the sunlight hits them. They are small flowers of only about an inch in diameter. The first bloom of each season usually occurs in June and the plant is often covered in blooms. Other blooming sessions later in the season do not produce quite as many flowers, but still there’s enough to enjoy!

Filed Under: Gardening, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Tricia's Garden, Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: bloom, blooming, blooms, Blue, flower, flowers, hardy, iridescent, Johnson s Blue Geranium, June, perennial, photo, plant, small, small flowers, sunlight, Wordless Wednesday, WW

Lovely Moulinex Rose

December 16, 2007 by Tricia

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Oh man it’s nice to take a look at this glimpse of better times today!

We’ve had a major winter storm with what they say was about 40 cm (16 inches) of snow, but walking the pup and looking at the driveways that haven’t been shoveled next to sidewalks that have I’d say that Saturday and today’s snow storms brought us 2 feet of snow!

I took this photo of one of my Moulinex roses on the first of October. My roses continued to bloom until at least Mid November when it really started to cool down here in Toronto.

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Filed Under: Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Photography, Recreation, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: 2 feet of snow, bloom, cool, garden, green thumb, Green Thumb Sunday, Moulinex rose, photo, plant, rose, roses, Saturday, snow, snow fall, snow storm, sunday, Toronto, walk, Walking, winter, winter storm

Roly Poly

December 12, 2007 by Tricia

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This little puppy needs to grow into it’s skin! Look at those cute little rolls! Isn’t this puppy absolutely adorable?

My little puppy seems to be doing better today. 2 movements and both were formed. That’s the first time in more than a week that that’s happened. She’s still on antibiotics and still getting her dry food mixed with rice.

I gave her, her 2nd does of worming meds yesterday afternoon. It’s called Drontal Plus and it’s not supposed to have any side effects, but just like last Tuesday when she had her first dose and her 2nd set of vaccinations, she got super hyperactive. The vet called to check on her and to let me know that we’re still waiting on cultures, but the test had at least come back negative for Giardia. I asked the vet if the worming meds might make her hyper and he said no, but she’s been hyper twice after having the medication.

Last night she was just pacing back and forth. The only time she was happy and fairly normal was when we were playing fetch with a rubber ball in the house, walking outside or playing in some other way. Otherwise she would get up on the couch with us and we’d try to settle her down but she then she’d jump off after 2 to 5 minutes, pace, drink water and come back begging to get up on the couch again. She was also whining constantly. This went on through the night whining in her crate. I don’t know if she was in pain or just felt strange but I’m certain that the worming meds were the cause.

Along with her almost normal movements today she’s acting a lot better. We’ve had a couple play sessions and walks today and right now she’s having a nap on the couch at my feet.

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