Random Thoughts about life in general, living in the big city of Toronto
This baby gorilla has it made. Play all day and when he or she gets tired it can just hitch a ride of it’s momma’s back. That’s the life.
I love pictures like this of baby animals. Just like human babies it seems they can sleep anywhere and in just about any position! Too cute!
I think I’m still recovering from the weekend! Man did we do a lot of stuff!
On Saturday we decided to visit some of the buildings in the Toronto Open Doors event. We started with the Don Jail – an empty unused jail that dates back to the 1800’s which will soon, oddly enough, become part of a hospital. It was the last chance for the public to see the inside of the building for free.
Unfortunately the lineups were over three to four hours long so we decided to purchase tickets for one of their upcoming Ghost tours of the Don Jail. So sometime in the next month or so Chris and I will be going on an evening tour of the jail which is said to have many ghosts.
After not getting into the jail we decided to visit this old bowling alley that had just reopened. They had the old Brunswick five pin bowling pins that worked on a string system. We got to see how that worked and were offered free bowling. We didn’t bowl because we decided to go to Tod Morden Mills which was also participating in Open Doors Toronto.
At Tod Morden Mills we went into the art gallery and East Side Players theater – we got to see the theater control room as well, and then we visited some of the old houses on the property. We also took a walk on the wild flower trail there and I took some photos.
When we got home I finished planting some of the annuals that I’d purchased oh, about two weeks ago, and then Chris and I had chicken, sausages and grilled potatoes on the BBQ.
Sunday was spent doing more work in the garden. Chris cut the lawn and I planted some seeds and also reseeded the lawn.
Then yesterday even though it wasn’t really the weekend it always feels like it since Chris has Mondays off we did a little more yard work and took our Lab Midnight to the vet for her annual shots. She’d woken up early yesterday morning and threw up. She does that sometimes … I think it’s because she likes to try to eat weeds when we take her out for walks. No matter how hard we try to get her to stop doing that she always finds grass or some weed to bite at.
Anyway … her vet check up was good. She’s healthy. No worms, no heart worm and the vet was pleased with her shiny black coat.
I liked having such a busy weekend, but my body didn’t! I think I’m paying for it today. I feel like I took a handful of weight loss pills or something. My stomach is growling, I’m hungry … but everything I eat is going through me at high speed! Not good. Oh well … I’ll probably feel better tomorrow if I take it easy today.
So how was your weekend? I know that my American readers celebrated Memorial day – I’ll bet that many of you had family and friend get together’s, BBQ’s and went to see fireworks.
It’s so nice here this week! Last week it was so cold, you’d swear it was still early Spring! Now it feels like July here in Toronto! Right now it’s 28 C and with humidity if feels like 30 C (86 F) and it’s supposed to be fairly warm over the next week or so too.
We’ve been spending a lot of time outside now that the weather’s nice. The weekend was cool – close to freezing! However I still planted most of the annuals that I’d purchased. Now that it’s warm out I’m sure my new plants are loving it.
Midnight, our Lab, is loving the weather too. She keeps ringing the bell we have attached to the door so that she can go outside and play with her toys. We don’t mind, we want to be outside when it’s this nice too. I mean, who knows – it might get cold again! This is Canada after all!
Are you having warmer than normal weather in your area too?
We’re having a barbecue tonight – chicken grilled over mesquite. Yum.
Well I got my piercings done at the hospital on Thursday … needles in my neck that is! Three in total. So now all I have to do is wait for the results of my Thyroid biopsy. I see the surgeon in a week and a half so I guess unless the results are really bad I won’t find out until then.
My neck feels better now too. It was kind of tender on Thursday evening and Friday, but today it seems to be back to normal. I’m surprised it wasn’t more painful. The radiologist took his time wiggling those fine needles in my neck! At least he was nice looking so I had something to keep my mind off the needles as he was doing the procedure. LOL
I was able to start taking my Crohn’s medication, Pentasa on Thursday evening as well, and my abdomen is feeling slightly better than it did all week. Hopefully I’ll really be feeling better by the time the weekend is over. If not maybe I’ll take those people up on their offers of free Orlando vacations that keep calling me five times a day. NOT.
Obviously I didn’t go camping this weekend with my sister-in-law. It’s just as well as it rained on and off all day today. It would have been a miserable camping experience! Instead Chris and I went to a local garden center and bought some plants and annual flowers to plant in the planters around the house. We’ll get to work doing that tomorrow when it’s not raining. At least I hope it won’t rain!
What have you been doing this weekend? Gardening? Yardwork? Spring cleaning or just visiting with friends and family?
This weekend is a long weekend here in Canada. It’s known as Victoria Day or in true Canuck form “The May 2 4” weekend.
it’s early this year, Victoria Day usually falls around the 24th of the month, hence the nickname for our long weekend, but for some reason it’s a week earlier. It’s often the same weekend that our American friends celebrate Memorial Day weekend.
I’ve always thought of this long weekend as a camping weekend. My family had a cottage and we always went to the cottage for the May 2 4, but once I moved away from home it became a weekend to go camping with the girls or the guys.
My husbands sister had been trying to put something together for this weekend. Kind of last minute, but she’s been calling rv parks to see if they have any spaces left. I still haven’t heard back from her as to whether she’s found a camp site or not.
At this point I don’t know if I’ll be up for going camping this weekend anyway. I’m having that Thyroid biopsy tomorrow and I’ll probably be fine afterwords, but then again I could have a sore neck too. I’ll just have to wait and see. Plus I’m having a Crohn’s flare up, so unless my meds start working right away once I’m able to take them again after the biopsy I won’t be going anywhere this weekend.
If we stick around Toronto we’ll have to at least go to the Fireworks!
Do you have plans for either Victoria Day weekend or Memorial day? If so, what are you going to do?