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When will the new neighbors move in?

by The Diva

I think our new neighbors might move in sometime soon. They’ve had possession of the house next door for about two weeks now and they’ve been coming by to clean and paint the house.

I’m not sure what they’re doing as far as renovating or repair the house goes. I’ve heard a lot of hammering and banging, but it doesn’t seem like they are doing a lot of new work. unlike us when we got our house – we were at our house every day for three weeks tearing down walls, refinishing floors, plastering and painting before we finally moved in … whereas our new neighbors have only visited their new home about four times since they got the key.

Anyway, since it doesn’t seem like they’re doing a lot of work to the house I expect that they must be almost done cleaning and painting so maybe they’ll move in this weekend. If not perhaps the following weekend. It can’t be much longer.

One thing that I liked about moving to our house when we got it was that it was a chance to get new furniture. LOL I loved preparing the rooms and then picking out new contemporary furniture that would look great in each room. As it turned out we didn’t have to buy a lot of new furniture as we had quite a bit in our apartment, but I did get to get all new master bedroom furniture and a year later we got new living room furniture.

We haven’t talked to the new neighbors very much, but they seem nice enough. That’s all I’m hoping for anyway … I mean, we have to share a tiny driveway and our houses are very close to each other so it’s important that we’re at least on friendly terms with our neighbors. Hey … they’ve got to be better than the awful renter neighbors that we’ve had to deal with for the last year.

Filed Under: A clean home, Home and family, Home Improvement, House and Home, Items to Try Tagged With: bedroom, cleaning, decorate, friendly, Furniture, living room, moving, new neighbors, nice, painting, Renovating

Our TV is connected to the internet now

by The Diva

Earlier this week we hooked our new Plasma HDTV up to our router using a LAN connector. My laptop computer that was on at the time automatically picked up on the new device.

Cool … now I can do things like watch YouTube videos on the TV instead of my laptop or when I take new pictures and upload them to my computer I can set them up so that I can see them in a slide show on my TV.

I’m loving this!

I still have to explore all of the things I can do now that our TV has an internet connection but it’s kind of neat. It would probably be even cooler if I had Windows 7 on my computer, but it seems to work well enough with Windows XP.

Do you have your HDTV connected to the internet either wirelessly or via a LAN cable like we do? If you do … do you use it to view things on the internet?

Filed Under: Entertainment, Home and family, Items to Try, Recreation, Television, Video Tagged With: internet, internet tv, lan, laptop, pictures, router, slideshow, tv, videos, windows, wireless

Pulling out my hair!

by The Diva

Ah! I think I’m about to start pulling my hair out!

I was talking about one of my friends on my other blog. She’s dieting and she’s been doing pretty well but she keeps asking me questions wanting all kinds of quick weight loss tips. I’ve helped her out, but it’s getting to be too much.

I’m a nurse so I guess she considers me a good source for health information. I think I am … certainly if I don’t know something I’ll looking it up or ask others for info and then pass it on.

I guess I’m just a little frustrated because I’ve helped as much as I can. She’s frustrated because he weight loss has slowed and she wants to lose at least another 10 lb. I keep giving her advise (that she keeps asking for) but she does the opposite. Grrr.

Sigh ..

Filed Under: Health and Fitness, Home and family, Items to Try Tagged With: advice, friend, frustrated, hair, Health, info, nurse, pulling out, tips, Weight loss

Birds on a wire

by The Diva

I saw something the other day that I don’t think I’ve ever seen before …

I was standing in my kitchen after having just fed our dog. I was waiting for her to finish eating and then I was going to take her outside to do her business. As I waited for her I stood looking out my kitchen window into the backyard.

As I gazed out I noticed two birds on the electrical wires leading to our house. One bird was on the top wire and the other was below it on the second wire. The second bird flew up and looked like it was trying to land on the first birds back. He only did it for a few seconds and then he’d fly down to the second wire for a few more seconds before repeating his move.

It only took me a few seconds of seeing this odd repetitive behavior to realize that the birds were mating. LOL

It certainly didn’t look like a very safe place to mate! I kept thinking that both birds were going to fall off the wire each time the male landed on the females back for a few seconds. Hmm I wonder if they have life insurance quotes for birds? It looked dangerous … but, hey, maybe these birds were thrill seekers.

I guess the male visited the female about 10 times before he flew off into another yard. The female waited around on the electrical wire for a few minutes before she flew off in the opposite direction.

No cuddles for them!

I felt a little bit like a voyeur watching their intimate moments, but hey … they were right out in the open. Have you ever seen birds on a “wire”?

Filed Under: Entertainment, Humor, Items to Try, The yard Tagged With: back, backyard, birds, electrical wire, kitchen window, mating, seconds, watching

It’s gonna be a hot one!

by The Diva

I think we’re going to have a really hot summer here in Toronto. We had such a mild winter and warm spring I just know it’s going to be a hot hot hot summer.

I wish our yard was bigger. It’s so tiny. I’d loved to have one of those huge above ground pools or even better an in ground pool but we can’t. Our yard is just too tiny.

Our yard is about 30 feet long by 17 feet wide. Not terrible if it was completely bare, but of course we have quite the garden with 3 to 4 feet deep raised garden beds that border the edges of the yard so the free space is very small.

I guess if this summer is as hot as I think it’s going to be we might get a kiddie pool. LOL Hey .. we’ve thought of getting one anyway for our dog – she’d love it … but maybe we’d sit in it too.

What do you think?

Filed Under: Home and family, Home Improvement, Items to Try, The yard Tagged With: hot, hot summer, kiddie pool, pool, small yard, weather

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