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Alices Restaurant
This song is not about an actual restaurant, but there is an Alice in the song,but it is very near to where Alice lives. This song is one of the many memorable anthems of the 60′ & 70’s, that most people of that ear remember if they st...
Yesterday
There's people picking through my garbage each week
The title of this post probably makes me sound paranoid, but there really are people picking through my garbage every Monday night. Honest.
I can’t stand it! It’s worse on recycling days which is every two weeks. I’ll be outside with...
03 September 2008
Chicago Peace - such a showy rose
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My Chicago Peace rose is blooming and it’s absolutely gorgeous. It’s putting on a fine show with it’s large blooms and multiple petals.
It’s a very full flower at approximately five inches in diameter and a...
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Meet Midnight, my best (furry) friend. She just turned a year old on August 25th, but she’s still very much a puppy - a silly and quirky one at that!
Do you have any silly pictures of your pet?
I'd rather stay in a vacation rental than a hotel
When I was a kid my parents would always take two or more weeks off in the summer and we’d go on road trip vacations. I got to see a lot of Canada and much of the Us in this manner. Of course as a kid I didn’t really like being stuck in t...
Horses in the city
On Saturday Chris and I had a leisurely day. No plans, just enjoying a nice warm summer day.
Late in the afternoon Chris decided that we should go to a place called “Sunnybrook Farm”. It’s part of a park and there’s a horse stab...
How many hours do you spend on the computer each day?
OMG I just realized that I’ve been sitting working on that new store and a couple of other projects for hours and hours! Holy Smokes … if I did that every day I’d have to start taking some of those special fat burners to burn away th...
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01 September 2008
Surf Music
Surf music/rock is fun to listen to, and that’s putting it very lightly, but I haven’t been really exposed to it properly until now!
Our new neighbour’s husband is in the band called the von Drats. They are a surf/garage band that, a...
31 August 2008
Beautiful Chicago Peace rose
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Last year my Love and Peace Hybrid Tea rose died and I replaced it with one of it’s relatives - Chicago Peace. I think Chicago Peace put out a few blooms last year and it’s been fairly sporadic this year, but when it does flower the...
Colorful cheery Asters
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All of the asters that I planted in my garden beds in June are blooming their little heads off now. I believe the Asters are pom pom asters … whether they are or not, they sure do look like Pom poms don’t they?
These bright and c...
30 August 2008
Using Gmail to filter out the spam
I’m declaring war on Spam, right now, right here.
Every single day I start up my email program and I’m bombarded with spam email after spam email … worse still, the spammers are hitting all of my blogs really hard too!
Other than us...
I won a prize!
Guess what? I won a fantastic prize!
Big Jason from the Big Marketing Online Blog started what he called “The largest blog contest ever” sometime in mid-July. I entered the contest at the end of the month by doing several of the requested...
29 August 2008
Backyard Composting Tips
There are many benefits to composting your household wastes like kitchen scraps, leaves, grass clippings and so on. One of the main benefits is that you can use the compost that you’ve created on your own garden or perhaps your lawn if you don&#...
Aren't dumb criminals entertaining?
I just wrote a post on Truly Odd Planet about Dumb Criminals and I included several videos. I was actually able to find enough dumb criminal videos that I thought I’d share a few over here too.
It’s one thing to be a dumb criminal, but i...
27 August 2008
Guitarist Dominic Frasca
While on holidays at home this year, I’ve had a fair amount of time on my hands.
I read some fascinating books, did some odd jobs around the house, huge out with my loverly wife and puppy Midnight (she was 1 year old on the 25th) and looked for ...
Want to know who'll be on Dancing with the Stars?
I’m not a big fan of Dancing with the Stars or really any reality shows, but I know that many of you are so I thought I’d take a moment and give you the scoop on which celebrities will be appearing when the ABC show returns on Monday, Septe...
26 August 2008
Three 80's pop stars turn 50 this summer
Did you know that not only Madonna has turned 50 this summer, but Prince and Michael Jackson are also 50? Prince turned 50 in June, and Michael is set to turn 50 on August 29th!
I was reading an article in People Magazine this morning and it showed pic...
Tortoise addicted to nicotine
Last March the China’s Xinhua news agency reported that a farmer in Jilin province had been found with a tortoise that is addicted to nicotine. How they know it’s addicted I don’t know …
The farmer is a smoker and he said that ...
What is with all these fevers?
Geez … just how many fevers can a person have in one day or in a week or a year? I’m sick and tired of having fevers!
That’s just one symptom of Crohn’s disease .. well not the constant fevers, but it can be part of the disease...
Prison Break is back!
Did you know that the two hour season premiere of Prison Break is on tv right now?
I’m sure some of my American friends are watching the Democratic Convention, even some of my Canadian friends too since it’s broadcast here as well … b...
You need an all-in-one multimedia package like Blaze Media pro if you edit your own video and audio
Being a musician I’ve spent a lot of time working with programs that convert audio formats and other ones that burn CDs and DVDs and so on, but I’ve never really had a program that could do pretty much everything I wanted to do with digital...
24 August 2008
My dog has wrinkles!
This weeks photohunt theme is Wrinkled and I love nothing more than the wrinkles that appear when my Lab Puppy lifts her ears.
See how the skin at the top of her head is wrinkled in this photo? I took this while we spent some time in the garden ea...
Marriage ruined because husband saw wife's face
Dd you know that a marriage in Saudi Arabia could end just because a husband wanted to see his wife’s face?
That’s what happened in the village of Khamis Mushayt when a man who’d been married to his 50 year old wife for 30 years decid...
23 August 2008
A real life My Little Pony
I think these people are taking the “my little pony” stuff too far … this certainly looks a lot like one of those toys that came out in the 80’s doesn’t it?
I’ll bet someone hired the pony for a kids birthday.
21 August 2008
Can you believe how dumb some people are?
More stories for the dumb people file!
In May, Jorge Espinal, 44, was taken to a Fort Worth, Texas, hospital after an early morning accident. He’d been drinking and when he suddenly became itchy in a hard to reach spot on his back he quite smart...
