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Random Thoughts about life in general, living in the big city of Toronto
by Tricia
by Tricia
In the last three years I’ve expanded my garden to include the boulevard in front of our house. This area is planted with Sunflowers, Day Lilies, Dalhia, Delphinium, Morning Glory vine, Salvia, Marigolds, Alysium, Alaskian Daisies, and Peonies.
We planted this area for both our enjoyment and for our neighbors enjoyment. Also, we are one of the only houses for blocks to have planted the boulevard, so it’s pretty easy for visitors to find our house.
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by Tricia
It seems that men have always had some strange sort of fascination for my bathing suits, and a strong desire to get into them. Well some men anyway.
By in them, I literally mean IN them. Oh yes I do!
I remember back when I was dating this guy named Michael. We had an on again, off again kind of relationship. Actually he traveled around a lot because he was trying to start a music career so we sometimes went months without seeing each other, but he’d always show up again eventually.
I can’t remember what exactly I liked about him, but I do remember what I didn’t like. He was the kind of guy that would suggest going out to dinner or to a movie and never ended up having his wallet with him when it came time to pay the bill. Yeah, that kind.
One of the last times that I saw him he’d just come back into town, from God knows where, and ended up at my door sometime late in the evening. He had no place to stay and wanted to rekindle some of the old sparks I guess. I must have let him stay over and then went to work the next day, or else I went out for some reason and left him alone in my apartment, long enough for him to have started exploring and going through my drawers and closets.
Whatever the reason I was out, I did eventually come home. I found him in my bedroom. I walked in to say hello and to ask him what he was doing and I was greeted with the most unexpected display!
He was standing there dressed in one of my one piece bathing suits!
I was shocked!
He was fascinated, happy, and more than a little bit excited. I, however, wasn’t the least bit excited by the view of him prancing around in my bathing suit that was stretched to the limit on his muscular and hairy body.
Total turn off!
Then to top it off … he pulled out one of my skirts – a pink one, and put that on too while I stood in utter amazement unable to utter a word.
Needless to say the skirt didn’t do anything for me either. Perhaps another colour might have done the trick? … but no, a hot pink mini and a tight black bathing suit and hairy chest was just so not my thing.
As he was reaching for another one of my clothing items – another skirt, a dress, a piece of lingerie? I can’t remember now, I was attempting to get him out of my bedroom and out the door. I was successful in removing him from the premises.
To this day I have no idea if he was taking advantage of a secret indulgence to wear womens clothing while I was away, or if he had been planning to surprise me and hopefully get me turned on by the jaw dropping display of him in my swimwear.
The next time he showed up at my door, perhaps a year later, Chris answered. I believe Michael stayed for less than 5 minutes and has never been back since.
After that last meeting I was fairly certain that I would never encounter another man that wanted to get into my bathing suit again … well, at least in the wrong, the oh so very wrong, kind of way, that is.
That was not to be. I was the one who was wrong.
Saturday night, as I sat by the Hot tub tending my wounded knee and glaring at my husband frolicking around in the water in an alcohol induced euphoria, I decided to pull out my bikini to show the hot tubbers that I really had been prepared to join them this time round. The last time I ended up at a hot tub party was just under a month ago, only I didn’t know they had a hot tub, and coax as they might, nothing would induce me into getting into the tub that night and showing off my in need of a shave legs! See, If I’d known, I would have been ready … but no way was I baring my legs that night.
As I pulled out my purple bikini bottom and waved it in the air, my brother in law, who the hot tubbers had also been relentlessly trying to coax into the tub, declared that he’d be happy to borrow my bikini and get in.
I made that bikini disappear so fast you would have thought I’d waved a magic wand or did an “I dream of Jeanie” nod of my head. They were gone, never, never to be seen again by my brother-in-law!
Now, women in mens clothing? Sometimes that’s cute. However men in womens clothing is NOT cute, at least not if they are trying to turn on their girlfriend. Then again, they’ve come out with Manties now, so maybe I’m wrong about the whole guy wearing feminine clothing being a turn off for women?
What do the women say? Ever walked in and found your boyfriend or spouse trying on your more feminine clothing items? Turn on or turn off?
Men, don’t feel excluded, I’d love to hear your take on this topic too … any secret desires to wear your ladies bikini or lingerie? Speak up.
by Tricia
This weeks theme is Signs
I think that’s a nice sentement, don’t you?
This photo was taken on Wednesday afternoon when my husband and I were finally about to go home after picking up the free item that I mentioned in my previous posts. We needed and wanted Ice cream. Yummmm this place is a small shop that makes it’s own ice cream. Order a cone with one scoop and they give you a gigantic scoop … really it could fill a whole bowl. Good prices too.
That’s the second time I’ve had ice cream this week. I think I’ve used up my summer quota already.
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Now, on to the good stuff. Some of you have been waiting for me to tell you what techy item I got for free this week. Well, that picture was taken with it, and so was the latest photo on Breath of Life.
The Buzz creating company that contacted me gave me a Nokia 6682 cell phone on Wednesday.
It’s a multimedia smartphone. It came with several extras too- a 512 mb memory card (it had 64 mg already), a bluetooth wireless headset, and an extra set of headphones for listening to MP3’s. All in all, the phone and the extras are probably worth over $500. I can get organized on it, or view documents with the mini microsoft office software that’s on it (ie view excel, word and powerpoint docs), list things on the calendar or record my thoughts, control the phone with voice commands, play games, connect to the web – it’s has the Opera browser on it, make conference calls, and that’s only the start. I’m still exploring and discovering all the things the phone can do.
Best of all though, is that it has a 1.3 megapixel camera built in. Ok so 1.3 megapixels doesn’t compare to the latest digital cameras but I’ve found that it takes pretty good photos. I can also record up to an hour of video if I want to.
I actually already made some videos. Chris and I accidentally ended up on the Molson Indy race track as it was being created, when we were on our way to pick up the phone. That was kind of neat, so on our way back home with the new cell phone we decided to get on the track and make a video. It’s not bad and it was kind of fun to make. Really, how often does one get to drive on a formula one race track anyway?
Then we went to the beach and took about 60 pictures along the way. I guess it must have taken us about 3 hours to get home that day, but we had a lot of fun. You should see all the volley ball nets on the beach. There must be 200 of them all strung out in long rows of 10 or so. Here, I’ll show you:
The only problem is that the video is in 3GP and to upload it to a place like youtube I need to create a file that is under 100k in AVI or MPEG format. If anyone could give me some suggestions for some conversion software I’d appreciate it.
Chris and I are going to a Party tonight. It’s out of town, in the fun city of Brantford. I’m being slightly sarcastic here. Just a little, uhm yeah. Anyway, the party should be a good one, and it will give me another opportunity to try out the phone and see how it works for party photos. Hmmm I wonder if I can take it in the hot tub with me? The house we are going to has a huge hot tub. It’s going to be fun. Oh, it’s also Chris’ birthday and the party is partly going to be a surprise for Chris and a surprise for his sister and brother-in-law who are celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary. I expect to have a hang over on Sunday.
We’re taking our Home Stay student with us too. She doesn’t want to stay alone in the house. I swear we take her everywhere with us, even the grocery store! Ahh. Next weekend we are going out of town again and she’s coming with us then too. It’s like we have a kid – one that wants to be with her parents. No really, I think it’s because we are always doing interesting things and we are kind of fun to be with- especially my husband Chris. He’s always fun.
I’ll leave you with the CN Tower rising above some Condos near Harbor Front:
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by Tricia
I’ve been mauled!
I haven’t been around for the last few days because I needed to get some work done in my very neglected garden. Naturally I decided to garden during a heat wave! Boy am I smart or what?
So I go out into my backyard to give all my plants some much needed love and attention and what do they do to me? They attacked me! Talk about biting the hand that feeds you! Literally.
The ringer leader was this thug of a rose called Antique 89. Some name on that girl huh? I think I’ll just call her monster from now on. I thought I could take her. Yeah, she’s seven feet tall, only a little more than a foot taller than me, but I’m smarter, or at least I thought I was when the battle began.
I chose to wrestle with the monster first because the wind had started to blow her over and she really needed to be straightened out. Turns out I was the one that got a straightening out. She was heavier than I expected and I ended up half underneath her before I knew what was happened.
That’s when the screaming started. She sank her gigantic thorns into my back, into my arms, hands and legs. The more I moved the more entangled I got. There was no winning this battle, or so I thought.
Some time during the eternity that I was fighting with this mother of a rose our boarder came outside looking for me. She didn’t find me. Hello? Roses don’t scream! That was me under neath that huge green thing in the corner that was making all the noise.
I finally shoved a few stakes in beside her thick stems and got untagged from her thorny branches. She was still leaning heavily on me and I’m sure blood was dripping on the ground below her leafy bows. I think I tired her out. I used my trusty garden tape to tie her to the stakes that I had surrounded her with so that she couldn’t harm anyone else.
Just then my husband came outside and said “Oh, I thought you were going to call me if you needed help?” He obviously didn’t hear my screams and the subsequent sobbing that occurred.
I went on to battle several other roses over the weekend and won those fights easily. Oh yes, they bit me, but after tangling with the monster I barely felt their thorns.
You see, my arms are on fire. My battle with the thorny monster was on Friday and still my arms are burning. I have at least 50 scratches from the tips of my fingers to just above my elbows on each arm. I look like I’ve been attacked by ten cats. I was wearing pants when I was struggling with the rose but she still managed to scratch up my legs pretty good. I’ll have to take a better look at those pants and see if there are holes in them now.
I’m going to have to stay on top of this gardening situation from now on, especially where Antique 89 is concerned. She’s tasted my blood, now there will be no stopping her if she’s given a small chance. Nope! I’m either going to have to cage her up to keep her from taking other victims or I’ll have to battle her wearing armor. Now isn’t that pretty picture? Particularly if it’s 100 F out! Whew!
And how was your weekend?