TWEET: July 2013

Monday, July 29, 2013

Mesmerizing - STICKMAN in a MAZE

SOLELITES - for the next power outage

MUST HAVE

We got a new car in June, its black inside and gets hot. I got a silver sun visor for the windshield but this one would be fun:

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Thought I would post some update pics of our garden etal. Jim made a delicious chicken, sausage stew. Chevy got his Mohawk and our going on 18 Shia Tzu Poo got rid of his mustache. I have not been able to rest and swing on the swing in the picnic area due to the heat but SOOOOOON - Got one fuschia 2.5 ft. BEE BALM but still have not planted in the south garden as I am on a quest to get 2 BLUE bee balm and then plant. In behind the bee balm is a PERENNIAL sunflower from Europe which a neighbour gave me. They bloom in middle August. It is now 5.3 ft. tall. The morning glories on the shed have been slow. In about 2 weeks they will cover the shed. In beside the shed under the blue tarp are 5 snowboys and 1 Santa awaiting winter. My friend just got me another SNOW BOY. He did not make it under the blue tarp but he is safe from the sun and happily looks out at the garden. The zinnias beside the shed are just starting to show off. The freakin heat did a number on my tomatoes. YET, today, even though this one suffered, I took a tomatoe and made a sandwich and it was the best tomatoe I have had in quite a while. Their are still some that survived and thank you MIRACLE GROW. After having planted corn and sunflowers 3 times (due to the fact that the freaking birds ate them) on the third try I covered them with chicken wire and today I have a whole row of sunflowers and 5 rows of corn. The south garden zinnias are very showy right now and if you can see them - their are 5 flamingoes which apparently are called A PAT OF FLAMINGOES. Finally we can rest in the Secret Place. I have a new name for the SEASON which we call SUMMER. Summer in TDOT is now like so many other DIVA'S which I have now named THE DRAMA QUEEN - extreme heat, hail, floods etc. etc. AUTUMN you are so humble. Click on pics to see larger and scroll thru.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

MY LAMENT OR HOW LAST WEEKS HEAT WAVE ALMOST KILLED ME AND SOME OF OUR GARDEN

Last weeks heat was OPPRESSIVE. It started on Monday and ended on Sunday - They called it A HEAT WAVE! I was NOT prepared and went out every morning to garden and water. At the beginning of the week, I was poised in BUSINESS AS USUAL but by the end of the week, my mind was in an UGH mode. AND I MEAN UGH, oppression, depression, suppression - all the sion's were manifesting. As were my impatiens which I threw out BUT, Abundant Life Fellowship had a ton of flowers for cheap in their back parking lot. One lone saint was sitting under a canopy and stated to just pick what I wanted and put the money into a slot up the side stairs without even adding everything up - he was too in an UGH mode. I replaced all the Impatiens (which I WILL NEVER BUY AGAIN) with amazing Begonias and Wave Petunias and got a very different planter wave (deep purple and yellow) for the picnic area. Mah poor widdle tomatoes (as were my neighbours) yelped to be out of the intense heat and sun. I consoled them with more Miracle Grow and refused to take some out who seemed to have succumbed to the oppression. The zinnias smiled at me and said "NO PROBS, we can do this, as did the geraniums and the marigolds. July 8th Tdot Flood had the soil all looking like a day at the beach (cause we are all sand here) and in August will start to get some more soil and peat to sprinkle down. Today, the weather is again up to 29 C - I got up early and weeded and manicured half of the garden and will do the other half tomorrow. AND, with the cooler temp (not 46 C) the widdle tomatoes are reviving. MIRACLE GROW, MIRACLE GROW, MIRACLE GROW! Soooooooooo, what have I learned from this horrid heat wave. Well, since every year it seems that it keeps getting longer and longer, I will be more vigilant to observe its coming and build a protective cover for the tomatoes, start out the corn and sunflowers with chicken wire (I forgot to tell you that I planted corn and sunflowers 3 times as the crows and robyns annilated it) and then lift the wire when they are growing well, NEVER buy Impatiens (diminutive name IMPS - should have known), have soil and peat already down before I plant and plan NOT TO GARDEN but just Miracle Grow and H20 early and then get the heck inside into the cool air conditioned home and REST, READ and have CROCK POTS going (it was even to hot to want to barbeque). As for the grids overloading and having rolling blackouts in the heat, I will have a box ready with battery operated lights ready and tea lights/lanterns, battery operated radio , full tank of gas, and the freezer filled to the max. Since we are up on a hill and sandy, I do not consider a flood BUT just in case over the winter I am going to lift up things off the ground in the recroom, laundry room and sewing room and keep purging because WHO KNOWS, THE DOWNPOURS ARE BRUTAL NOW AND HEAT WAVES ARE NOT BUSINESS AS USUAL.

Thursday, July 18, 2013

SCARY BANANA

Seriously, CATS are the best!

Sweet

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

TORONTO HEAVY RAIN

OMG - you should have seen it come down. I said to Jimmy this is like a freaking hurricane except without the wind. Went to the washroom and thought to myself - the power will go out - walked out of the washroom and BAM loud noise - POWER OUT! Got the battery baby hurricane out for later and brought in some lanterns from the Secret Place. Adams friend came over and they played 3 games of chess then went to pick up another friend and they played Monopoly while Jim and I lied in bed listening to stuff on the transistor radio. Incredible stories as it was happening. Flooded homes, cars under water, people stuck on Go trains, subways in water. The Go just south of us had water up to waist and the Lakeshore was flooded. We have never had anything like this happen that I can remember. Apparently their was more rain than Hurricane Hazel. Just went up 27 to Eglinton to get Mom her meds and when got off the highway backed up so took a detour and the traffic lights all around their are still not working. The power was out from 5 till 2 a.m. Absolutely incredible. And it did have to happen at RUSH HOUR!

Here is a pic of 27 and Burnhamthorpe under water because they built rock solid concrete barriers and there is nowhere for the water to go -