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Garden awash in flowers

June 15, 2008 by Tricia

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My garden is alive with flowers this week. Almost all of the rose bushes are heavy with spring blooms and other flowers like my Johnson’s Blue Geranium are going wild.

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Here’s a close up of one of the tiny flowers:

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Needless to say, Chris and I are enjoying the garden this year. The plants are healthy and many are quite a bit taller than they were last year at this time thanks to the heavy winter snow coverage they got a few months ago. I’m sure that protected them and helped keep them healthy.

Even the bumble bees are enjoying the garden. Here’s a little fellow collecting pollen from a tulip.

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How is your garden doing this week? Is it full of blooms too?

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information. GTS participants remember to check in at As the Garden Grows each week so that we’ll know you made a new post!





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A cluster of lovely red tulips

June 11, 2008 by Tricia

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fringed red tulips

These tulips are long gone, but I couldn’t help wanting to show you how lovely a group of brilliant red fringed tulips look when a group of them are growing together in a garden bed.

These beauties made a lovely distraction as they were growing in front of several roses that were just growing their leaves as the tulips were blooming. Now the tulips are gone and the rose bushes are full of leaves and in the last few days the rose bushes have started blooming too.

Filed Under: Gardening, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Toronto, Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: beauties, bed, cluster, Distraction, few days, fringed tulips, growing tulips, leaves, red tulips, rose, rose bushes, roses, Wordless Wednesday

People are just klutzes! Watch this funny video

June 11, 2008 by Tricia

Well it’s that time of year again when people are pulling out their bikes, teaching kids to ride tricycles or bikes with training wheels and so on.

I found a blooper reel that has a lot of funny (and sometimes painful looking) bike related bloopers. It’s got everything from kids on bikes crashing into things to adults doing dumb things with bikes and even exercise bikes.

Now I’m extremely accident prone. You might remember me taking about falling a lot a year or so ago. I had one accident where I was just walking down the street and for some reason I lost my balance and stumbled and ended up falling flat on my face – severely injuring my chin. It wasn’t funny at the time, but I know I staggered a few feet trying to stay upright and I’m sure if someone had caught it on film it would have been funny on a blooper reel.

I think the worst klutzy thing I ever did was falling down the stairs and landing on my in-laws brand new Delsey luggage. The bags were ok but I was banged up!

Anyway, if you like watching people doing stupid things or making klutzy moves here’s a funny video for you:

Filed Under: Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Humor, Pulled a Trish, Recreation, Video Tagged With: accident, adults, bike, bikes, blooper, blooper reel, dumb things, falling down the stairs, film, klutzy, landing, people doing stupid things, training wheels, tricycles, Video, walking down the street

New to keeping pets? Visit Tame that Wild Thing

June 9, 2008 by Tricia

Everyone that knows me knows that I’m quite the pet lover. I’ve been interested in all kinds of animals for as long as I can remember and I’ve kept several different kinds of pets too, ranging from lizards to my dog.

As a result of my interest in animals I keep my eye open for pet and animal related sites. Sometimes I can learn something new from these sites or I can refer someone else to the website so that they can get the information they need.

I was introduced to a site recently called Tame That Wild Thing. It’s just the kind of site that I’d recommend to people who are trying to decide what type of pet would suit their lifestyle best, or perhaps to those who are just starting out with a new pet and need to learn the basics quickly.

You can find information about birds, dogs, cats, hamsters, tropical fish on topics ranging from setting up an aquarium to raising a puppy and more.

The site is constantly being updated with new articles so it’s worth checking occasionally. I’m sure that many pet lovers will find this site helpful. I certainly could have used some of the puppy information 6 months ago!

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Our Puppy, Pets and animals Tagged With: all kinds of animals, animal, articles, birds, cat, different kinds of pets, dog, dogs cats, hamsters, information about birds, kind, lifestyle, new pet, new pet owner, pet lover, pet lovers, raising a puppy, setting up an aquarium, Tame, tropical fish, website, wild thing

Colorful tulips!

June 9, 2008 by Tricia

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We’re currently having a heatwave and thunder storms here in Toronto. My flowers are blooming, but once the weather gets done with them I’m not sure that they’ll have any petals left!

Here’s a look at some tulips that were blooming up until the last week or so:

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As well as this fiery red fringed tulip –

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I’m afraid the heat and rain ruined their blooms, but like I said the roses are blooming. There’s always something to enjoy in my garden.

BTW yes this post is a day late. I had yet another eye allergy on Saturday that left me with both eyes painful, blurry and sensitive to light for two days. I wasn’t able to post or do much of anything. Hence the late post. Sorry!

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information. GTS participants remember to check in at As the Garden Grows each week so that we’ll know you made a new post!

Filed Under: Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Photography, Toronto, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: blooms, colorful, eye allergy, fiery, flowers, garden, Green Thumb Sunday, GTS, heat, heatwave, petals, rain, roses, sunday, thunder, thunder storms, Toronto, tulip, tulips, weather

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