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Parking problems on our street

by The Diva

There’s a lot of cars parking on our street lately. I think it’s because so many people are renting either their homes or rooms in their homes. Naturally each renter seems to have a car so each house has multiple cars and the street has become overcrowded with parked cars.

Our street, or actually the street across from us is also one of the only ones in the area that people can park in without having to have a permit so people that don’t live on the block park here regularly too. One of the people that doesn’t belong on the street, who tends to park and right in front of my house is a van that has a logo for hayward pool heater parts on it. I’ve only been seeing it in the last month or so, but it’s been here regularly. Last fall it was a deck company.

Does your street get a lot of parking on it too? Does it bother you? I don’t mind as long a I can find parking. Every second month we have our shared driveway and then on the odd months we park on the street, but usually we’re ok parking wise.

Filed Under: Home and family, Items to Try, neighbors Tagged With: block, driveway, find parking, house, overcrowded, parking, permit, pool parts, rent, renters, street parking, truck, van

Getting a new Desktop Computer

by The Diva

Some time in the near future I want to get a new computer. I have a great laptop computer … well if it keeps working for me, I’ve had some problems with the laptop that have caused me to have to wipe it a couple of times.

My desktop computer is getting old and while it still works well I’d like to replace it sometime in the near future. I like having a desktop computer as a backup computer. Perhaps a h8-1010 hewlett packard canada computer. I was looking at one of those the other day.

I’ve found that it’s getting harder to find desktop computers in stores. Not so hard online, but in stores it’s harder. Why I don’t know .. I know laptops are convenient but desktops are still more powerful or at least that’s what I’ve found unless you drop a ton of money on a laptop. What do you think?

Filed Under: Appliances, Electronics, Home and family, Home Improvement, Items to Try Tagged With: backup, buy, desktop computer, laptop, new computer, online, powerful, replace, soon, stores

Spring is definitely here

by The Diva

It looks like the weather is starting to get warm again. I couldn’t believe it in March when for over a week we had almost early summer like weather. It was amazing! Of course, it cooled off again to almost winter like temperatures, doesn’t that figure.

Spring is definitely here and it’s way ahead of itself this year. My garden is weeks ahead of itself. If I didn’t know it was the beginning of April I’d think it was early May when I look at how big the plants are in my backyard and how many leaves are already on the roses and so on.

One of my friends is so ready for summer to get here that he’s already getting his cottage prepared. He’s been up there getting it set up already and he normally doesn’t open up his cottage until the end of April! Oh and he’s already looking for a pwc battery for his Jet Ski. The water in the lake is still too cold to use a Jet Ski but if the weather keeps up the way it has I’m sure people will be in the water by May.

How’s the weather in your area? Has spring sort of jumped into early summer or at least into late spring due to a warmer than normal winter in your area too?

Filed Under: Gardening, Home and family, House and Home, Items to Try, The yard Tagged With: april, battery, cottage, garden, growing, jet ski, lake, leafs, May, open up, plants, roses, spring, summer, warm, water, weather, winter

More delays in renovating and cleaning

by The Diva

My husband was supposed to have several days off this week but it hasn’t turned out that way. He ended up working ten hours today and now someone has called in sick at work for tomorrow so he’s going to be working tomorrow. I guess we won’t be getting some of our renovations and basement cleaning done as we’d planned.

We were going to continue to finish cleaning the basement tomorrow. Chris has a lot of his music equipment in the basement. Not his guitars, but other things like his K&M Stands, his music books, his favorite stools to sit on when playing guitar on the road and so on. All of that stuff needs to be organized.

It’s amazing how much music related stuff has accumulated in our home in the time we’ve been together! Oh well, maybe we’ll sort out all this stuff on the weekend or next week.

Filed Under: A clean home, Entertainment, Home and family, Home Improvement, Items to Try, Music Tagged With: cleaning, days off, guitars, Music, music book, music related, music stand, plans, Renovating, sorting, stool

Crazy weather – feels like summer

by The Diva

It was like summer here in Toronto this week. Everyone in my neighborhood was out walking around in shorts and light tops, riding bikes, skate boarding, roller skating, jogging … you’d never know that it was Winter/ Spring!

The news was even crazier. The whole country was warmer than usual this past week, but I think overall Toronto was the warmest so the news kept showing people basking in the sun on the beach dressed in bathing suits and so on. I remember seeing them interview one girl who looked like she’d just been playing volleyball on the beach but she had all these steel bracelets on her wrists so her interview was distracting.

March isn’t over so I suppose we could still get a snow storm, but somehow I doubt it will happen. It feels like summer has already arrived even though Spring is really the season that only just arrived two days ago.

Filed Under: Home and family, Items to Try, neighbors, Recreation Tagged With: beach, bike, clothes, jogging, march, neighborhood, news, people, roller skating, shorts, skateboarding, spring, summer, warm, warm days, week, winter

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