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Almost finished setting up the garden for summer

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My husband and I have been working so hard in the garden the last couple of weeks. It’s really shaping up. I think it’s going to be the place to be this summer.

I was out in the garden earlier this afternoon after it had been raining most of the day and the roses just smelled heavenly … oh yes, I have lots of roses that have the old rose smell and it’s fantastic .. that’s why I said that the garden is the place to be.

The only thing missing from our garden or backyard – as my husband would say, is one of those dlp lcd projectors. He’s always wanted one of those to use outside for movies. You see our yard faces the back of our neighbors house and he figures we could just project a movie right onto our neighbors wall while sitting in our lovely garden surrounded by flowers and lovely smells. Pretty cool idea eh?

I’ll think about it … maybe we’ll do it this year.

My friend bought a farm

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One of these days I have to take a ride out to the country to visit my friends new farm. She moved out to the country last fall for a quieter lifestyle and so far it sounds like she’s really enjoying her new home.

She literally bought a farm. Yeah I know the term bought the farm usually means a person died, but she didn’t, she really bought a farm. You know, one with horse, cows and even a few noisy chickens running around. I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s had some foxes raiding the hen house.

I want to drive up there one weekend for a visit but before I do I’d better look at some horse riding helmets as I’d love to do a little horse riding while I’m there. I haven’t ridden a horse for years, but I used to enjoy it. Of course I’d also enjoy seeing my friend and her family. She still doing some renovations on the farm so I think if we go for a visit she has plans to put us to work, so that’s another reason why I want to get some horse riding in – fair trade you know.

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?

My husband and I get a kick out of Tosh.O

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Do you ever watch Tosh.O on TV? I do, or rather my husband and I do. I made the mistake of taping an episode one night last year and showing it to my husband the next evening and ever since then he’s been hooked. It’s one of his favorite shows.

Typically the show has outtakes of video from the internet of people doing strange stuff or making fools of themselves. Most episodes he lets someone who has a high rated embarrassing internet video come on the show for a remake or redo. It’s usually pretty funny.

In the latest episode to air there was a girl doing gymnastics and she had an awful landing. They showed the video in slow motion and you could see both of her ankles collapsing as she landing. Ugh I’ll bet she was in double ankle braces for a long time after that! Wow! But … overall the show is funny … it does show some accidents like the one I described above, but mostly it shows funny crazy things.

So … have you ever watched Tosh.O? If you have what do you think of the show? If not .. check it out it’s worth watching at least once.

Neighbors disturbing my sleep?

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I haven’t been sleeping very well for the last few weeks. I’m not really sure why, but I pretty much feel like I’ve barely slept at all.

Anyway … The other day, I think it was Wednesday, I was finally sleeping. Since I’m on medical leave I decided to stay in bed and turned off my alarm so I could catch up on my sleep. Well that didn’t work out. At about 8 am I was awakened by sounds next door that sounded like my neighbors were moving furniture around. As it turned out it wasn’t my immediate next door neighbors (the adjoined house) it was the neighbor on the other side of us, the ones doing all the renovations that were making noise.

I guess the guy hired a professional plumber and the plumber was at the house starting to work and he was drilling concrete in the basement. It made our whole house rattle and shake! So much for my sleep! I stayed in bed and kept trying to sleep, but it didn’t work out.

I was mad. I sooooooo needed to sleep.

Perhaps Karma came to visit that afternoon … why? Well .. later that day the plumbers truck wouldn’t start and it looked like he had to call a tow truck – I didn’t recognize the company but it even said they’d do rv repairs which is unusual around here. So … anyway … I have no idea if the plumber finished his work or not, as he appeared distracted once his truck broke down. Maybe he’ll be back sometime in the next week or so to disturb my sleep.

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