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Concerned about a sweet neighbor

by The Diva

My neighbor across the street is a widow. She’s an older lady who lives alone and she’s been having a hard time lately. Luckily for her she has two great sons that look in on her frequently and come over to do yard work and get her groceries etc.

For a lady of her age she normally pretty spry. I mean, I see her out walking around every day and even driving her car once or twice a day. I think for a lady in her mid to late 80’s that’s pretty darn good! And no – she doesn’t appear to be a scary driver.

The reason I said she’s been having a hard time was because she just had surgery on one of her eyes and it didn’t go all that well to begin with so for a week or so she had blurry vision and couldn’t drive or even walk around very easily outside. I felt bad for her. I was offering to do extra things for her if she wanted. She did call me a few times to help her out.

One of the times I went over to help her with something we end up sitting down and talking over a cup of coffee and I noticed her mothers ring. She has a stone in it for each of her kids and each of her grandchildren. When I was a jeweler I used to make rings like that quite often. We called them Family Rings though.

My neighbor seems to be doing well now. She got the stitches out of her eye a few days ago and that made a huge improvement. That sounds funny to say “stitches out of her eye” doesn’t it?

Filed Under: Health and Fitness, Home and family, Items to Try, Womens World Tagged With: blurry, coffee, driving, elderly, eye surgery, eyes, garden, groceries, help, helping, mothers ring, nice, older, sons, stitches, sweet neighbor, talking, walking

You can tell it’s spring around here

by The Diva

It’s that time of year again when people start working on their houses. Whether inside or outside, it seems spring is the time to either renovate or repair the house or yard or add something new.

I’ve noticed a lot of changes in my neighborhood as I walk around with my dog. Some houses are getting painted or having a new fence put in. Others are having some landscaping done. Still others must be having either some home repairs done or some renovations because I can hear hammering or sawing as I walk by or I see those big bins in their driveway for reno materials.

One house that I walk by regularly just got a new metal garage put up and it’s kind of cool looking. It has a sign on it that says – metal residential buildings and I guess they’re the makers of the building. No idea how much that would cost but it’s going to last for a long time I think.

Anyway you can definitely tell it’s Spring around here, there’s lots of work getting done! I’ve been working on my garden and getting some work done in the house – with more to come … How about you?

Filed Under: Home and family, Items to Try, neighbors Tagged With: change, garage, garden, indoors, inside, metal, neighborhood, neighbors, outside, reno, renovate, spring, walk, work

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

Keeping my home or not?

by The Diva

I’m not sure that I’ll be able to call myself the Home and Garden Diva for all that much longer. I have a lot of things happening in my life lately and because of these things it seems that in a few months I might not have a garden or a home any longer. It will certainly be hard to go with the name if I don’t have those two things anymore now won’t it?

Oh don’t worry I won’t be homeless … I’m thinking the house will end up sold. Maybe I’ll buy a motor home and just travel? Of course then I’ll need motorhome insurance and I’ll have to buy gas … but that still might be cheaper than keeping a house? Maybe .. I’ll be the Nomadic Diva?

Anyway I’m hoping things don’t change because I love my home, garden and life the way it was but who knows …

Filed Under: Home and family, House and Home, Items to Try, Married Life, Womens World Tagged With: ;changes, big changes, garden, hard, home, life, losing garden, losing home, not homeless, sell home, spring, stress

I wish I could relax this weekend

by The Diva

All I want to do this weekend is relax, but I don’t think there’s any hope of that – not at all. If the weather holds up I have to work in the garden, in particular near the fence that’s about to be replaced on Monday. You see, we have trellises and plants attached to the fence so we have to take things down so that when the old fence comes down on Monday we’ll be ready.

I also have to prepare for a birthday party for my husbands uncle. His family put me in charge of getting the personalized birthday banners so I have to look into that this weekend too.

On top of all that my Cable/Internet/Wireless company – Rogers – is really stressing me out. It’s a long story but they sent me a new phone at the beginning of May and I didn’t like it so I sent it back. They then charged me a cancellation fee of $400 twice, and gave my cellphone number away to someone else (I got it back!) .. but to keep it short, all these things have conspired to make it almost impossible for me for me to get another new phone because they kept telling me that 1. the other phone hasn’t been put back into stock so I can’t get another phone, and 2. now that the other phone has been put back into stock finally (as of May 30th two full weeks after it was returned!) some problem with them giving my cell phone number away two weeks ago is now causing a glitch in my account and not allowing hardware upgrades. DUH!!!!!!!!!! ROGERS SUCKS!

I’m so very stressed tonight and well .. for the last couple of weeks because basically I’ve been on the phone to Rogers for hours and hours in the month of May trying to fix these problems and get the phone that I want … I kind of felt earlier today that I might have a heart attack. Yes that’s how stress out they are making me.

So you can see why I really want to just relax this weekend? I’m going to try my best …

Filed Under: Entertainment, Health and Fitness, Home and family, House and Home, Items to Try, Television Tagged With: angry, birthday, cable, cellphone, fence, garden, gave away cell phone number, hate rogers, internet, mad, new fence, old fence, plants, return cellphone, return phone, Rogers, rogers sucks, screw up, stressed, trellis, uncle, vines, weekend, wireless

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