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Where would you live?

August 17, 2007 by Tricia

Are you in the home that you plan on living in for the majority of your life or do you think you’ll move a few times before you settle into a home for a long period of time?

When we first got this house I thought we’d be here for a long time, but with all that we’ve gone through with our neighbors I know that I want to move at some point and when we buy a new house it will not be semi detached. I’m sorry, but I’m not interested in hearing what my neighbors are up to.

Actually just the other day I was thinking about how I’ve been making a fairly good living via the internet. If I keep this up and continue to make enough to pay the bills well … I could live just about anywhere. I could buy a home in Europe or move to Australia, or I could get a home in the mountains in British Columbia or I could check out Wilmington NC real estate and live by the sea, or I could move to a Caribbean island.

You see what I mean? I could live just about anywhere as long as I had internet access.

Where would you live if you could live anywhere?





Filed Under: Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Moving or Organizing, Recreation Tagged With: Australia, bills, Europe, home, house, interest, Internet, live anywhere, mean, neighbor, neighbors, Real Estate, time

Someone’s been in my garden

August 16, 2007 by Tricia

Do you remember I wrote about a friend from work coming over a week or so ago? I say friend, but I use that term loosely. He knocked on the door while Chris was at work and then told me that he’d pretty much been hanging around outside our house for a few hours?

It creeped me out. This guy is kind of creepy to begin with, but to hang out around our house and to have gone into our backyard a couple of times when he thought no one was home that day was just plain strange.

Well … I think he might have come back on Tuesday. The reason I think that is because some things were moved around in our backyard and now that Chris is back from visiting his family I know Chris didn’t do it.

On Tuesday, after Chris left to go to Brantford I happened to look out into the garden and I saw that my brother in law had hung towels that they’d used at the beach on the clothes line. I also notices that one of our patio chairs was no longer on the patio, but was under the clothes line. I figured that my brother in law didn’t use the clothes line properly and perhaps had stood on the chair to place the towels on the line. Strange, but whatever.

Well I went out later in the day to retrieve the towels, but I didn’t move the chair. It was still mostly on the lawn, partially on the patio.

On Wednesday I noticed that the chair was on the patio again.

Hmmm … I know I didn’t move it and I’m certain that it was on the lawn after Chris had left to go to Brantford … who the heck moved it? A couple of the other chairs appear to have moved as well.

I know it couldn’t have been my elderly neighbor. The chairs are heavy and I’m certain she wouldn’t have moved one, let alone two or three of them.

All I can figure is that Joey might have come back on Tuesday afternoon or sometime on Wednesday and maybe knocked on our door and when he didn’t get an answer hung out in our garden … again.

I haven’t been feeling well this week and I’ve spent a good portion of my time on the couch or sleeping so it’s more than possible that I missed a knock or two on the door. Actually even if I’d heard a knock it’s unlikely I would have answered the door this week since I’ve been feeling so ill.

Come to think of it our car was missing since Chris was out of town so it’s possible that a visitor might not even have knocked and just assumed no one was home.

We actually know a few people that would take the liberty of sitting in our backyard while we were away from home – mainly because they might have just dropped by from work on their lunch break since our workplace is so close, but two of them are on holiday right now so I’m pretty sure it was Joey again.

I don’t want to call this guy and ask him though. He’d take it as an invite to come over if we called him and I’d like to cut our association with him down as he’s really creepy and once you let him into your house he won’t leave! Even if you tell him to leave! Yeah … he’s a strange one. So I guess this will remain a mystery for now.

Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Socializing, The Neighborhood, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: backyard, beach, brother, Chris, clothes line, couch, creep, elderly, Family, friend, garden, holiday, home, house, hung to dry, knock, lawn, moved chair, neighbor, patio, patio chair, plants, sitting in garden, sitting in yard, sleep, sleeping, strange, towels, visit, visiting

The kindness of Strangers

August 16, 2007 by Tricia

A couple of days ago I wrote a post on my blog “My World“. The post was about my husband wanting to go to the Rick Wakeman concert (ie the band YES) at the Danforth Music Hall. The concert is this Sunday, and tickets were expensive so he delayed purchasing a ticket and for all we know the tickets are now sold out.

This is the second time that I’ve written about a concert my husband wanted to go to, and it’s the second time that someone has come along and offered tickets to the event. Unbelievable.

There are a lot of bad things about the internet, but then there are good things like what happened after I wrote my post. A man who happened to have a spare ticket wrote to me and offered the ticket to my husband – for free. He read on my blog that we’d both been sick on and off and this was his way of paying it forward.

Chris talked with the man on the phone earlier today and the two hit it off. They’ll meet before the concert for a drink and then go to the concert together.

Now I’d better find a way to keep paying it forward so good thing will keep happening to us. 😉 Maybe I’ll donate to a good cause or a school like this one here, or randomly find someone posting about something that I’ll be able to help with like our kind stranger just did for my husband.

Filed Under: Culture, Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Music, Recreation, Socializing, Toronto Tagged With: band YES, Chris, concert, concert ticket, crohns, danforth, Danforth Music Hall, free ticket, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, Internet, kindness, kindness of strangers, man, Music, offer, offered, pain, post, random acts of kindness, Rick Wakeman, Rick Wakeman Concert, sick, sunday, ticket, tickets, YES

It’s just a rose

August 15, 2007 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

Just Joey Rose

Yes, it’s just a rose, one called Just Joey. Isn’t it just lovely?

This rose doesn’t bloom far enough for my tastes. I’d be happy if it bloomed from late spring right into late autumn, but it only seems to bloom at most three times a season and only has five to ten flowers at a time.

The flowers are quite large at approximately four inches in diameter. Just Joey is also a scented rose. It’s not strong smelling, just a light pleasant smell when you are close to it.

Filed Under: Gardening, Hobbies, Recreation, Tricia's Garden, Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: bloom, flower, flowers, Just Joey Rose, Love, photo, photos, rose, scent, Scented, smell, Wordless Wednesday

All alone

August 15, 2007 by Tricia

Yesterday I was supposed to go to Brantford with my husband to see his family and spend some time with his brother before he goes back to Chicago, but I had yet another bad night and Chris went on his own.

So I’ve been home alone all day yesterday and all night.

That’s ok. I don’t think I make very good company when I’m not feeling well. I spent a good portion of the day lying on the couch mindlessly watching TV. I only do that when I’m really not feeling up to much else and I just hate it.

I’m hoping that I’ll start to feel a bit better this week. Chris took this whole week off work so I’m hoping we can do something fun on our own and maybe get a bit more work done in our garden.

One side effect of my brother in laws visit was that he brought a big bag of Cheetos with him. Now I haven’t had Cheetos for a long time! I love them – they don’t love me, but I love them. So … I’ve been snacking on them here and there.

Hey it’s hard to resist a snack that you like when you haven’t had it for years! LOL

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Entertainment, Family, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, Recreation, Television, Vacation and Travel Tagged With: brother, chicago, Chris, company, couch, Family, garden, holiday, home, husband, off work, on vacation, plants, vacation, visit, watching, watching TV, week off

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