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My Deck is Now a Pool
Luna is getting some serious cat business done and I’m sitting down to write this post. It’s not exactly how I had planned to spend my day off, but all my plans for today are fuzzed due to the torrential rains outside! Weather in Canada is always a good topic of conversation, but this is…
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Gardening Help?
In an effort to eat a little fresher and healthier, I planted a small potted herb garden in my bathroom window. Everything seems to be doing pretty well there, except for my basil plant. It’s either got some kind of illness or bugs, I’m not sure which. Here are some photos of the leaves. They…
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Product Rant of the Day: Lysol No-Touch™ Hand Soap System
I talk a lot about the products I like on this blog, but here is one that I don’t like! LYSOL® Healthy Touch® No-Touch™ Hand Soap System So what’s my beef with something that is supposed to help you maintain clean and healthy hands? It’s simple: Redundancy. You just don’t NEED this product. The Lysol…
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Storm Season
Oooh, there’s an awesome storm happening outside as I type this. This whole weekend it’s been crazy in terms of weather. My body isn’t too happy… I’m a human barometer and the weather changes and storms have been causing me serious pain. I was laid up most of yesterday and into the night with an…
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The Garbage Strike Blues
For those of you that don’t know, Toronto is in the midst of a city workers union strike in which garbage pickup, city maintenance, summer camps, etc. have all been stopped by the striking union. More information. This garbage strike is really getting me down lately. We’re into day 25 of it here with no…
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The Bottled Water Debate
I wanted to share this article I read in the Star with my readers today, as I think it highlights an important issue facing all Canadians. It’s also part o my series of thoughts on the environment and going green. The Case Against Bottled WaterThe article talks about people’s perceptions of tap water versus bottled…
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The Vespa Investigation
A while back I blogged about possibly getting myself a scooter to get around the GTA in the pleasant months. I was hoping to get one pretty soon, especially since the TTC strike put a real kink in my plans. However, after a little investigation into costs and logistics, I’ve decided to put off my…
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Investing in a Vespa?
Anyone who lives in the Greater Toronto Area is probably now aware that the TTC did a sneak attack and went on strike at 12am this morning, leaving people at bars and clubs in the city stranded. It has caused our city to come to a grinding halt and inconvenienced thousands upon thousands of riders…
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Earth Hour 2008
I’m participating in Earth Hour 2008. Are you? ————— This post written by Ginger at Ginger Won’t Snap. Like what you read? subscribe here!
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Hi Ginger, and thanks
Hey guys, I found a nice little email in my inbox this morning! Chris Winter, the big cheese over at We Conserve sent me a thank-you note for posting about the site here recently. Apparently a good number of you checked the site out, I think that’s great because we need to support causes like…