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Get 25 percent off a dozen roses

January 23, 2008 by Tricia

If you’ve only read my blog for a couple of weeks you’ll already know that I love roses. I often post photos of the roses I grow in my garden or talk about my garden in some way. Trouble is, I live in a cold climate so I only get to enjoy my roses during the warm months of the year.

I start jonesing for some pretty flowers and color by this time every year. I bet that a lot of women do! Good thing Valentines day will be here soon.

Are you looking forward to Valentines Day? Have you made any special plans to treat the one you love? A dozen roses and a romantic dinner are the two basic ingredients for a lovely Valentine’s day celebration.

Of course romance, roses and romantic dinners need not only be for Valentines. I think we should treat our loved ones to special days all year round.

If you’re planning on giving flowers to your special someone on Valentines you might want to visit 1800flowers.com. I just noticed that they have a special on their bouquets of a dozen roses. They are offering 25% off. With that discount you might want to send a dozen roses to a good friend, your mother or other family members. You can order red, peach, pink, yellow or white roses.

While you are visiting the site you might want to take a look at their flower arrangements, flower and or plant baskets, plants and gift baskets. Their food gift baskets sound fantastic. They have everything from fruit baskets to organic food baskets, gourmet food baskets, cakes, cookies, chocolate and candy, wine and cheese baskets. They sound yummy! Check it out.





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Lego my skull!

January 23, 2008 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

Lego my skull!

Isn’t it amazing all the things that you can do with Lego these days?

I haven’t looked at a set of Lego’s in ages, but I take it that they make them in a lot more shapes and sizes than they did when I was a kid. Some of them must be flexible too.

Have you ever made any interesting creations with Lego?

Filed Under: Art, Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Humor, Recreation, Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: amazing, creation, creative, ego skull, funny picture, Humor, interesting, kid, lego, lego art, lfunny, photo, shapes, sizes, toy, Wordless Wednesday, WW

Garden Peonies

January 20, 2008 by Tricia

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I hate to complain, it being winter and all … but it’s so COLD here in Toronto! This morning it was 16 Celsius or -21 C with the wind chill ( -5.8 F) it’s warmed up a bit since then … it’s -11 Celsius now or oops maybe it hasn’t warmed up as it’s -22 ( -7.6 F) with the wind chill. That’s darn cold!

So, as I was browsing through my photos to find a nice garden picture for Green Thumb Sunday I of course ended up picking out a photo of a nice late spring/ early summer flower.

The above photo is of Garden Peonies. I don’t know the name of this variety as all it said on the tag when I bought it was that it was an Amsterdam Garden Peony. So I guess that means it’s kind of generic right?

I don’t care whether it’s a common garden variety or a rare hybrid … it’s pretty isn’t it?

Unfortunately where I have this peony planted in my front garden bed the soil tends to be a bit dry. I don’t think I watered enough in the early season last spring and I didn’t end up with any peony flowers. What a shame. I think I’d moved the plant the Autumn before as well so maybe that’s why it didn’t bloom. Anyway, I’m certainly hoping that it blooms this year!

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Filed Under: Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: bloom, blooms, care, common, flower, flowers, garden, garden peony, Green Thumb Sunday, hybrid, peonies, photo, picture, plant, pretty, spring, Summer, Toronto, water, winter

Fans of Corvettes will love this site

January 20, 2008 by Tricia

I know that some of my readers are really into their cars. Me, well I know what I like, but otherwise I don’t know all that much about cars. Are you like me or do you want to know about every model ever made of your favorite type of vehicle?

If you fall into the latter range and you appreciate corvettes you might want to visit the Corvette Guys. They have a page on their site that discusses Corvette history. Well, I guess it’s not the complete history, but it discusses all of the models that have been made between 1997 and 2007. So for all of those who love corvettes you’ve got a decade worth of material!

You’ll find information about each years model, VIN numbers, paint colors used each year, production numbers matched to paint color, interior colors, photos, the retail price for the year the car was made, engines and convertible colors.

If you own a corvette that was made in one of the years that they’ve discussed you can submit photos of your car and vehicle information.

This site could be handy if you were doing a research project on Corvettes or perhaps if you were out with your friends and needed to settle an argument about one of the models particular features.

My oldest brother really enjoys his cars. I should actually tell him about this site as he’d probably enjoy the information at Corvette Guys.

Remember that’s my brother that sends about 100 photos of his new car when he buys a new one! Photos of the interior, exterior and all parts in between. It’s kind of funny. I mean if I was as into cars as he is I might find all those photo interesting, but since he’s not purchasing a Porche … well .. a couple photos would suffice.

Filed Under: Entertainment, Great Sites, Hobbies, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Services Tagged With: brother, buy, car, color, corvette, corvette history, description, exterior, information, interest, interesting, interior, make, model, photos, price, VIN

It’s well past time to finish our renovation projects

January 20, 2008 by Tricia

Since it’s so cold out today Chris and I spent some time talking about the renovations we’d like to do to our home.

Since our Living room / Dining room renovation project stalled three years ago we’ve been living with a ceiling that’s ready to have it’s tin ceiling installed, and walls that need floor and ceiling molding and quarter round done. We’ve got all the materials … it’s just as I said since we both went through periods of severe health problems we stalled. Big time.

So number one on our list is to finish the living room dining room renovations. Then we’ll move on to renovate our basement. We’ve got a bathroom and laundry area down there right now, but other wise it’s an unfinished basement.

The bathroom is really just a roughed in bathroom with a tiny shower stall and toilet. The sink is outside the washroom in the laundry area. So yeah, a really nice bathroom downstairs would be very nice. I definitely want to have a bathtub shower, a sink and some probably Grohe faucets to complete the look.

We still haven’t decided if we’ll put in a spare bedroom or just keep the majority of the space open and use it as a den/rec room. I’d like to have the spare bedroom, but as I’ve said many times our house is very small and even in the basement we don’t have a lot of space to fool around with. I guess we’ll have to think on things a bit more before we get started. Luckily we have that other project to finish first!

Filed Under: Appliances and Accessories, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Home Decor, Home Renovation, Recreation Tagged With: basement, bath, bathroom, bedroom, ceiling, Chris, cold out, Decor, dining room, faucet, home, house, install, living room, molding, problems, rec room, recreation room, renovate, renovation, shower, sink, small, spare bedroom, tin ceiling, toilet, tub

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