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Garden season ending- start redecorating

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Now that the active gardening season is ending here in Toronto my attention is turning back towards our house. As I’ve said before we’ve been slowly, very slowly, renovating parts of our home as we go along. Right now it’s the living room dinning room area that is in a state of renovation.

Last Fall and Winter it was our upstairs bedroom. We had some air leaks near the baseboards at the front of the house – in our master bedroom and we ended up pulling off all the baseboards and repairing cracked mortar and doing a very good job of sealing any drafty areas that we found. I ended up using some venetian plaster on the walls of our bedroom and now the walls have a marbled mirror like tone to them in shades of green. It’s lovely.

Naturally, this caused us to end up getting new curtains and to start looking at comforter sets that would look nice with the new room decor. We settled on a subtle floral pattern with the base colour being a very pale yellow toned background that just looks amazing with the wall and sheer curtains we selected. The room has a very romantic, modern feel to it now and it’s warmer in the winter too.

Also, as some of you might know we occasionally take in boarders – students from other Countries that are just here for a very short stay to learn English. Well, the room we put them in has a single bed. The room is very nice but I have my old teen bedding on the bed, the ones my mom actually made to match the style of my bedroom when I myself was a teenage. It’s nice, but I’m thinking of getting a warmer set of bedding for the room since many of our boarders come from warmer countries. Actually the first boarder we had brought a beat up looking electric blanket and I really didn’t like him using that in our house. I’m always afraid of fires and since his electric blanket looked like it was 20 plus years old I figured it was more of a hazard than anything. So maybe getting a warm comforter in a style that goes with the room decor might be in order.

You can see my brain never stops. I leave gardening in November and start focusing on my house- room by room. I hope we’re done renovating and decorating at some point in the next few years.






Buying or selling a used car?

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I just found a very user friendly site for people who are either selling their own car or truck, or who are looking to purchase a used vehicle. The company is called LemonFree and they specialize in Used Cars For Sale. This site is one of the easiest to use that I’ve found.

If you have a car or truck that you’d like to sell it’s simple to create your own listing right from the front page. Just click on the Create Listing button, and from there you can list the make, model and year of your vehicle, add photos, list all of the features your vehicle comes with, and describe any other items you’d wish to tell prospective buyers about in the description section. Easy.

Anyone looking to buy a used car or truck can view the listings easily as well. You can browse listings by make, year, and model and use the photos and descriptions to decide which vehicles you are interested in. Sellers contact information is located right in the listing so it’s easy to get in touch with the seller to discuss the vehicle that grabs your eye. I’m in looking at the Civic for sale area as I think that’s what our next car will be.

The perfect gift for your curious loved one

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Do you have a young botanist, biologist or simply a curious child (of any age) in your family?

If you do I might have a great gift idea for you.

What do you think of the idea of getting that curious child their own microscopes?

My brother had one when I was a kid- of course he was older than me, but I remember using it occasionally to take a closer look at things that I’d found and it was fun! It was educational too. Looking at the vein like system of a leaf microscopically was very interesting.

Optics Planet carries brand name microscopes of all types. They carry simple microscopes suitable for a child, right up to scientific stereo, compound, digital, photo or video camera microscopes. Quite an amazing assortment if you ask me. Anyone from a hobbyist to a high school or University student could use one of these microscopes for their studies. Anyone studying in the health care field – laboratory work, medical student or nurse would find a use for a microscope at some point along the way too.

Optics Planet has such a variety of microscopes that they have started a new site www.microscopes.com that while it’s still in the works is open for business.

If the idea of getting someone you love a microscope as a gift sounds good to you, I can make it sound just a little bit better. Optics Planet is offering their microscopes at a huge discount, some with savings of up to 70% off, plus they offer Free UPS on orders over $29.95, extended warranties, and a no hassle holiday return policy.

Take a look at their huge selection of microscopes and microscope accessories including all types of loupes magnifiers.

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