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Time to face the heat

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It’s almost 9 pm and I’m gearing up to go outside and begin watering my garden.

It’s been a very hot day. It’s finally dropped down to 30 Celsius (86 F) but with humidity it’s still 36 Celsius (96.8). Wish me luck!

I didn’t water yesterday even though it’d been hot all day. We’d watered really well on Sunday evening. I figured I could let it go a day, even a hot day, but I certainly can’t let it go for two days when it’s this unbearably warm outside!

The one good thing about going out at this time is that my elderly stalker hopefully won’t notice me. If she does she’ll come and stare at me while I water. The staring isn’t so bad it’s when she talks and I can’t hear her so I have to keep stopping what I’m doing just to find out that she asked if today was Tuesday or to say “no rain, no rain” again for the third time that day.

She watched Chris and I all day Sunday when we were out getting work done in the garden. I just get irritated when I’m stared at for hours on end. Of course I then end up taking it out on my husband when he’s not who I’m mad at all.

With any luck none of my neighbors will be out and I can get the watering done and be back inside within an hour and a half at the most!

Anyone else having a heat wave?






Artistic watering cans

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This weeks Theme is Fake

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When I saw this weeks Photo Hunters theme I thought to myself “what can I photograph that represents fake”. I had no idea. Sure, I could have done some obvious things, but I like challenging myself.

Luckily, my husband and I some time on Saturday to go to Toronto’s 40th annual outdoor art exhibition. My nephew just graduated from the Ontario College of Art – specializing in photography and he had a booth at the art show where he was showing his photos.

He never even shows his immediate family, his parents, his photographs, so we figured it might be years before we’d get another chance to see his fabulous photography so we went to the show.

I had no idea it would be so large! There were 500 artists exhibiting everything from photographs to sculptures in wood, glass, clay, and stone, pottery, paintings, prints, metal artwork and many other forms of art.

I brought my new SLR camera with me and as luck would have it I found some “fake” artwork that would be perfect for the Photo hunter theme.

Now, I know I’m behind in posting my photo hunter photos (on three sites) but I think I found great items to post.

The photo above is of watering cans. Clay or pottery sculptures. They are not functional but they are lovely aren’t they?

I took a lot of great photos on Saturday, many of which will be perfect for this site – funny garden related sculptures. You’ll love them. Watch for them in upcoming posts.

What’s out there?

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Do you have security lights on your house?

If you do, when they go on do you happen to get up from what you’re doing to go and check what triggered the light?

I do.

I’ve got a security light at the side of the house in the driveway so if anyone or anything enters the driveway at the start of the house it will trigger the light. The sensor reaches to the end of the driveway too so if anything comes through the backyard to the driveway it clicks on.

The other security light is right at the back door. It’s sensor covers the end portion of the driveway, maybe the first third of the garden, and of course the area in front of the back door.

My husband installed these in our first couple of weeks in the house because he’s always been nervous about thieves. We did move into a fairly safe area though so I’m not quite as worried about that as he is.

I like the lights because if I happen to go into the yard at night I have light! I can see if there’s an animal lurking in the outskirts of the lights, and of course if I happen to be out there doing my late night watering the lights make me feel a little more secure.

When I’m inside the house, if I notice that one of the lights have gone on I’ll usually get up and take a look. Most of the time it’s a cat that’s wandered down the driveway or gotten into the backyard and triggered the light. Other times it’s raccoons.

I’ve yet to discover a human in my yard, but there was a guy who drank too much last year who got into our neighbors yard. I think he camped out in the yard for a while. Then he tried to break in to their shed and broke a bit of the fence as he did it or perhaps the fence broken when he tried to climb into our yard. I’m not sure. Anyway he did get into their shed and he stole their boys small bike.

Our neighbors now have a security light. Except they don’t have it set to automatically come on? Strange.

So, back to my question … do you look outside to see what’s out there when your security lights come on? If you do – what have you discovered?

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