The in-laws and the relatives love their baccarat cigars or just about any kind of cigars and the only time they can smoke it is outside my house.   But they have a really bad habit – after smoking they like to throw their cigar butts at the front of my house near the steps – [...]

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 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 [...]

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.   [...]

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 [...]

Summer is a fun time to do yard sale rounds around the neighborhood and in another town – we make it a trip outta town just in the name of finding some goodies at those yard sale.   Last weekend – we did our usual stuff and went for another yard sale and found these Anne-Geddes [...]

When you have kids between the age of 7 right up to their teens – you can expect them to want to invite their friends over for sleepovers.  So when we had to buy a new bed for one of the kids – we were debating whether we should get them the  adjustable beds or [...]

It’s less than a month before the kids need to go back to school and like any parent/s who has a few kids – it’s never too early to start getting ready.  Last week – we went by Walmart to get all their school supplies – so that was done – and now to order [...]