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Getting some work done in the backyard this weekend

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This weekend we’re going to work outside in our garden to get it ready for summer. By this I mean we’re going to put together our Patio table, get out all of our solar lights and torches and other garden ornaments and put them in place.

The plants have been growing and blooming nicely. Every day something new is growing or blooming. It’s quite a nice sight to see.

This year we might do something different entertainment wise in the garden. We bought an iPod earlier this year and now I want to maybe get wireless outdoor speakers that will work with the iPod so that we can listen to our music when we’re outside working in the garden or sitting at our patio table enjoying ourselves.

Have you fixed up your backyard so that you can enjoy some summer fun in it?

I think i have to give up dairy products

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I don’t think I can eat cheese any more … or maybe even most dairy products. Last week I bought some herb and garlic cream cheese and for a few days I was having a little bit on some pita crackers each day. The next thing I knew I couldn’t go to the washroom!

Now I know that yogurt gives me big time problems but I didn’t realize that cream cheese did too! I suppose regular cheese might cause me to need a big ‘ol colon cleanse too … so I guess I’d better either eat lots of fiber and drink lots of water if I’m going to be eating any dairy or just try my best to avoid those items from my diet as best as I can.

It’s too bad because I really like cheese. I don’t really care that much if I ever have milk or ice cream again, but cheese … well that would be hard to not ever have again if I had to completely give it up.

Are there any foods that you have to avoid that just don’t sit right with you?

Hunting down chocolate sales

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Last weekend my husband and I went shopping and one of the stores we went to was Walmart and I couldn’t believe all the Easter stuff they had on sale. Naturally I ended up buying some of the chocolate items that were on sale. I’m a real sucker for chocolate.

I recently came across this website – Happy Easter store and of course I clicked on it today and they’re having some sales since Easter is over for yet another year. If you’re a chocoholic like I am you might be interested in hunting down some after Easter sales that might still be going on too.

Royal Wedding Mania

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I’m glad that Will and Kate’s wedding day is almost here. Being Canadian, I’ve been hearing about their “prospective wedding” since at least last summer. Yes .. I know .. they didn’t get engaged until November, but you know .. in the Commonweath Countries I’m sure everyone was buzzing and speculating as to when, not if, they were going to get married and it just got worse and worse as time went on.

Once the couple got engaged I started hearing about Will and Kate just about every day. So … you can see, I’m pretty much ready to stop hearing about their wedding … but I’m sure it will still be months before we only hear about them every once in a while again.

I guess you can tell that part of me wants to just hide under a rock with all of this Royal wedding stuff .. but part of me also wants to go out and buy silver coins you know, the commemorative ones with Will and Kates profiles on them.

Are you going to watch the Royal wedding on Friday?

Spring is here and it’s time to pull out the bikes

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I’m looking forward to tomorrow. Well … if the weather holds and it doesn’t end up raining too much that is. You see, it’s spring and things are greening; up and growing and it’s supposed to be warm … the warmest day of the year so far if everything turns out the way the weatherman said it would.

Since it’s supposed to rain we probably won’t end up doing this, but sometime soon I think it would be great to get our bikes out, attach the hitch bike rack to the car and drive to one of the great bike trail areas of the city and go for a big bike ride. Obviously since it’s Spring I haven’t done that for quite a while but it would be nice to do, especially at this time of year when everything is just starting to green up and begin to bloom.

Toronto has some wonderful, long, bike trails. A few of them are close to where we live, and they go quite a distance through the city. As I said, I have to pull out the bike and start using them again. Apparently one of the tails near us can take us all the way to the west end of the city.

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