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The center of the storm

June 20, 2007 by Tricia

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Uhmmm … remember that storm I was talking about? You know the one that hit Toronto at about 4 pm yesterday? Caused a massive temperature drop … although who could tell with the humidity!

Well … as gusts of rain were whipping past my dining room window like heavy snowfall bringing with it the lids from my garbage cans that had been secured and moving my barbecue down the lane way trees were crashing down on houses only two blocks away!

My area of the city was the worst hit by the storm.

You’ve got to read this CTV news story, and take a look at the photos to see what kind of damage the massive storm caused. There’s a video on the same page that you can watch, but I can’t get it to play on my computer. You might have better luck.

I knew it was a bad storm. I just didn’t realize how bad it truly was nor that I was in the middle of it.

Geez Toronto is like 60 miles across and I had to have all that action in my neighborhood? I’m just thankful it missed us. Our neighbor has a huge maple tree. If it had come down it would have crushed our roof too!

I’ll be taking a look at that tree in the morning to make sure it looks healthy!

I hate storms. Stuff like this just seems to re-enforce my dislike of storms.

Well, at least my gardens got a good watering!





Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, The Neighborhood, Toronto, Wildlife and Nature Tagged With: bad storm, barbecue, Canada, crushed house, East York, fall, fallen trees, garden, home, house, neighbor, photos, plants, rain, storm, thunder storm, Toronto, trees crushed roof, trees down, Video, watch, water, wind storm

What a storm!

June 19, 2007 by Tricia

There’s a furious thunder and lightening storm going on right now.

It started about half an hour ago when I was trying to complete a post on another one of my sites. I kept saving the post in case the power went out – again! The power always seems to go out here when there’s a bad storm.

The wind picked up so fierily when the storm first started that it blew the lids off of two of our garbage containers in the driveway and other items flew to the end of the drive as well.

I actually thought that it might turn into a hail storm.

I took some photos of the rain coming down, but I think I’ll post them later when I’m sure the power won’t fail as I’m transferring. I don’t want to mess up my memory stick!

It was something like 31 Celsius when the storm hit, and with humidity it was about 37 Celsius … in case you don’t know your metric temps that’s very very hot! It’s now cooled down to 20 Celsius! (about 70 F). That’s quite a drop in a short period of time isn’t it?

It’s actually going to be on the cool side tonight and tomorrow will be a reasonable summer day temperature wise.

The rain has slowed now, but I can still see lightening and there’s the occasional crash of thunder in the distance. It could come back.

I hate storms in case you can’t tell. Especially when they happen as I’m trying to get some work done.

Go away storm!

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, The Neighborhood, Toronto, Wildlife and Nature Tagged With: blowing, computer work, cool, hate, lightening, photos, pouring, power, power failure, rain, rain storm, saving post, storm, Summer, thunder, thunder storm, windy, Writing

Silly email from my other websites

May 22, 2007 by Tricia

I have to laugh at some of the email questions I get for my websites. You may or may not know that I run two websites related to reptile care. Yes, I’m a lizard freak! Not only do I run two big websites, but I also run four mailing lists related to reptiles and their care that are associated with the websites.

I try to get people to join the mailing lists for several reason. 1. So that they can get other opinions other than my own, and 2. So that I don’t have to answer literally 1000 emails each day! Still, I get several emails each day regarding the care of various reptiles, or people write in from Florida telling me that they have wild iguanas eating their plants, or that they found a frog or small lizard in a plant they bought at a nursery.

One of the dumbest questions I received this week was from someone in Australia who wants to buy an Australian Water Dragon (lizard). They wanted to know where to buy one and if they can legally own one. Well, I know Australia has some pretty tough laws about their natural fauna, and they don’t import many exotic animals to be sold as pets either. However, I do not know all of the laws of a country on the other side of the world! LOL Pick up the phone and call your wild life service or whatever it’s called in Australia. Now, as dumb questions go, that one wasn’t all that dumb, but I make it clear on my site that I live in Canada so how the heck would I know the answer to her question.

In other reptile world news one of my close herp care friends is moving! He’s very well known in the reptile care field and he used to be just a short drive away from me so we could actually get together every now and then, but for some reason he’s moving to the Outer Banks in Carolina. I have no idea how long that drive would be from Ontario but I’m assuming it’s a pretty long drive. Oh well, guess we’ll have a nice place to visit if we go up there to see him sometime.

That’s the great thing about knowing people from all over the world. If you’re lucky you might have a place to stay when you travel, but at the very least you can get together with those people and they can perhaps show you around their city or their part of the world. That’s kind of cool.

Filed Under: Entertainment, Internet, Pets and animals, Services, Web and Technology, Wildlife and Nature Tagged With: answering email, dumb questions, email, friends moving, laws in other Countries, mailing lists, reptile, reptile care, reptile website

Florblanca Resort Costa Rica

March 25, 2007 by Tricia

My husband and I haven’t done much traveling together as a couple. That doesn’t mean that we don’t want to! It’s just that between our jobs, my being sick, and the two of us having gone back to school in the past we just haven’t been able to find the time when we could take a really nice vacation together.

One of the places that is near the top of our list to visit is Costa Rica.

You might need a little bit of background on Chris and I to understand why Costa Rica is near the top of our most desired vacation spots. To keep the story short I’ll just say that Chris and I really love wildlife, in particular we enjoy seeing and keeping reptiles and amphibians as pets. A holiday in a land known for it’s diverse flora and fauna just as Costar Rica would be ideal for us.

I was visiting the Florblanca.com site just now as they specialize in costa rica travel. The site is just gorgeous. It’s full of photos of Costa Rica and has information on just about anything you could possibly want to know about this absolutely gorgeous country.

There are so many things one could do in Costa Rica and Forblanca.com lists it all. There is information about the Florblanca resorts accommodations, excursions – such as “fly out” adventures, Costa Rica’s wildlife, flora and fauna, activities, special events and even information about how to get to the Florblanca resort.

Even if you’ve never thought of taking a vacation in Costa Rica. I urge you to visit the site just to look at the lovely photography. It’s a beautiful place, and I wouldn’t be surprised if after browsing the site and looking at all the photos if Costa Rica ended up being put on your short list of places to visit.

Filed Under: Recreation, Services, Shopping, Vacation and Travel, Wildlife and Nature Tagged With: adventures, amphibian, costa rica, costa rica travel, costa rica vacation, flora and fauna, florblanca, holiday, reptile, travel, vacation, Wildlife and Nature

Birds of a feather?

March 7, 2007 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

Birds of a feather?

At first this looks like a cute photo of a bunch of small birds gathered on a tree branch doesn’t it? Well it is a cute photo.

Take a closer look though … two of the birds are an odd color. They are very blue. I have no idea if the birds are all the same species and if the colorful ones are just males of the species, or if there are two different types of birds on the branch.

What do you think? Does anyone know what type of birds these might be?

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Filed Under: Entertainment, Photography, Recreation, Wildlife and Nature, Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: bird, birds in tree, Blue, blue bird, camera, digital camera, Entertainment, nature, photo, Photography, photos, Recreation, tree, Wildlife and Nature, Wordless Wednesday

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