Random Thoughts about life in general, living in the big city of Toronto
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I took this photo last weekend at the art show. I’m not sure if that’s mine or my husbands shadow on the metal lady, but a shadow it is!
This was another spectacular piece of metal artwork at the outdoor art exhibition. This piece was made from an old oil tank! I give it bonus points for recycling!
Sorry I’m behind on this post. We had guests drop in on us yesterday and they turned into weekend house guests!
I don’t talk about my love of pets and animals all that often of this site, but I absolutely adore animals.
Having a dog as a pet has always been a dream of mine. I couldn’t have one as a child because of my and my brothers allergies, but now that I’m an adult I still long to have a pet dog.
I’m not sure that it will ever happen, but if I were to get a dog I think I might choose a Boston Terrier.
Why? Well for one, Chris is scared of big dogs. He probably won’t admit to that if you asked him, but trust me, he is. I know for a fact that he likes Boston Terriers though. A few of our friends have them, and one of the pet stores that we go to in order to get supplies for our turtles has an in house pet Boston Terrier. Chris always plays with these dogs. They are so cute too with their big eyes.
I want a pet dog bad enough that I’ve even gone so far as to look up the Boston Terrier breed in the Dog Guide. The guide has quite a bit of information about Boston terriers including health issues, skills, personality and their need for attention. Apparently these dogs have a strong need for companionship, are extremely intelligent and playful.
Well I definitely knew about the playful part. The Boston Terriers that a few of our friends have love nothing more than playing a game with their ball or chew toys.
My blogger friend Cynthia has a blog about her dogs and she occasionally writes articles about other dog breeds. She has an excellent Boston Terriers Dog Guide Article. I actually found The Dog Guide through her website when I was surfing the web.
If we ever do get a pet dog, a Boston Terrier perhaps, we’ll probably get a rescue. All of our other pets have been rescues.
Do any of you have a Boston Terrier? I’d love to hear about your experiences with them.
It’s Chris’ birthday today.
He’s not here though!
Last night he drove to his hometown of Brantford Ontario because his brother and nephew were coming in from Chicago.
I heard from him at around 3 pm today when they were in Guelph. Chris’ nephew is here to go to hockey camp but there’s been a mess up with the schedule. He’ll be having his lessons and playing in the evenings and that kind of messes up Chris’ sisters schedule. She was going to have our nephew stay at her home and get him to camp every day, but the schedule change threw a bit of wrench into the family plans for the week.
I don’t know what solution they’ve come up with, but I do know that Chris ended up in Kitchener- where his sister and her husband lives and that they had a barbecue.
Chris called me at a little after 8 pm. He’s on his way home but he was calling to ask me what the weather was supposed to be like because all of a sudden the sky’s looked “really weird”. Turns out he’s driving through an area that was due to possibly have a tornado go through it at around 8:30.
He was already on the road and driving away from the Tornado area when I started to suggest that he drive back to his sisters and make sure that he and everyone else was safe. He’s continuing on his way.
I haven’t heard from him since he called a little more than half an hour ago, but I’ve got the weather channel on and they aren’t reporting that a tornado touched down yet so hopefully he’s safe.
I wish that he’d come home earlier like he was supposed to!
We’re expecting severe thunderstorms and hail at any time here in Toronto so he could be driving into another area of severe weather.
I ran outside after he called and took our umbrella off our patio table (hurt my back doing it too!) and made sure the plants that I haven’t put in the ground yet are safe and secure.
We can have some pretty severe storms here in Southern Ontario – particularly after we’ve had a very hot day, and today was a hot one. It was supposed to get up to 34 Celsius or so but with the humidity would feel well into the 40’s – that’s 106 + for those that don’t know the metric system.
Keep your fingers crossed would you that Chris gets home safe?
Oh BTW I know I’m behind in getting my Photo Hunters and Green Thumb Sunday posts up – but they’re coming. Well, unless a storm knocks the power out!
I can’t remember how long it’s been since we’ve received so many calls from family members in one day. The day isn’t even over yet! Two of my brothers have called, Chris’ cousin’s husband, his aunt and my cousin have all called.
Luckily no one’s sick or anything. They were all just calling either to say hello or update us with some news.
My brother that was visiting from Vancouver a few weeks ago, and has been traveling all over the world since that time called to say hi and to let us know that they booked an Orlando vacation rental for October. He wanted to know if we’d like to join them while they are there. So nice. Maybe we will.
My other brother that lives just outside of Toronto called to let me know that my nephew who just graduated from the Ontario College of Art is having an art show this weekend. He’s an excellent photographer and I’m definitely going to see his work because he normally doesn’t show his work to anyone! Not even his parents! Apparently he’s so good that he won two or three awards upon graduation, and his photos are being published in book with a very select few top well known photographers. He’s gotta be good!
My cousin and Chris’ cousin both just want to get together with us since it’s been a while and Chris’ aunt was calling because it’s Chris’ birthday on Sunday.
I’ll bet that we hear from Chris’ parents or his brother from Chicago this evening too since his brother is supposed to be coming North today or sometime this weekend. I’ve forgotten the dates since they’ve changed two or three times already.
I might have to leave the phone unplugged to get any work done around here!
Time has been thrown off for me! Does that ever happen to you? You think it’s Monday but it’s either Sunday or Tuesday?
Earlier in my post about my new camera I said that I’d get my new photos on my computer and maybe post some for Wordless Wednesday tomorrow. Uh as far as I know it’s still Wednesday today, although there isn’t much left! LOL
I’ve been so busy working on my sites since early Friday morning to cure that stupid CPU resource overuse problem that I’m still having with my web host that I’ve totally lost track of time!
It doesn’t help that our Canadian holiday was on Sunday (Canada Day) so Chris had Monday off work. He also took Tuesday off work because his brother from Chicago had told us the wrong dates that he’d be coming to Toronto so Chris thought he’d take an extra day off so he’d have more time with his brother but it turns out his brother isn’t coming until this weekend.
No wonder I’m all off kilter!
Oh well. If I do manage to get to the photos that I took on my new camera I will be posting one or two of them so you can see how nice my new camera works.