We were at a friend’s cottage home – a few Sundays ago – you see summer cottages are cheap here and friends from United States spends their summer here.  A place by the ocean is nice and cheap and who wouldn’t want to spend time in the sun and sea all summer right – plus [...]

We had a simple get together – just us adults with some really close family friends and relatives – not very many people but a table of 20.  So I did some simple table setting to end the summer – with a dinner.  We farmed the kids out to a friend’s house with the babysitters [...]

We have a loft just on top of our garage that we had turned into for the kids – to hang out and to play their drums.  For the longest time – we didn’t do much except throw a bit of cushion and a futon around – but the kids wanted to turn them into [...]

The spouse and I looked into investing in some properties that were newly built in the city and we went for a viewing last week.  The open house was during the weekend and it was a nice little place – a little ways from the middle of the city and the price seems reasonable enough [...]

This summer we were expecting full bloom at our home but instead this full bloom were at my neighbor’s house – darn!  How do they do that I don’t know !  afterall, we do have the same piece of land no?  Even their grass seems to do better than ours – we are so envious.   [...]

We haven’t taken our summer vacation as planned – due to various reasons but it never stopped us from checking out various options before the summer ends.  The kids said to us last night that we have to have a vacation in a hoteellll!  hahah!  So like any dutiful parents we are currently looking for [...]

Preparing for our yearly BBQ last week – i ended up decorating my backyard a wee bit to welcome all the guest that i invited.  Friends and family in the neighborhood were all invited for our yearly BBQ. Weather was so awesome last week – we were really glad it all turned out good.

Just a [...]

The spouse insisted on getting this while shopping at Kent  – because our friends and extended families from Ontario who are coming down for a vacation before the summer ends have children.  So to accommodate them when they come by – we bought this set – so that they can have fun in their own [...]

If you know me or my blog by now – you know i love plants and flowers and I love the blooming ones or the unique looking plants – like the ones below this post.  So we hop around town and look at greenhouses during the weekend and I would just admire them and have [...]

Landscaping contractors are hard to hire around here – the ones that I’ve found so far are those who are doing it freelance and that’s not really what i want.  Why?  because there is no guarantee on the work and if anything should happen when they are working around my house – i don’t have [...]