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Crazy weather – feels like summer

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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.

Keeping my home or not?

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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 …

Waiting for Spring to warm up

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I can’t believe how much rain we’ve been getting here in Toronto. It seems that every time I try to go outside with the dog it starts pouring! Oh and our dog is a Lab .. a dog that traditionally loves water, but for some reason not rain drops. Uh huh … strange dog.

When we come back inside she goes to her crate where we keep a folded towel and she jumps up to stand at the side of the crate to look at it, indicating to me that she wants me to get the towel to dry her off … even if she’s not really all that wet because really she just wants to play with the towel. My dog is just too smart.

It’s been raining so much or other wise so miserable for the last few days that we really haven’t been out as much as we normally are. I took advantage of a break in the rain this afternoon and took the dog out for a long walk. While I was out I ran into one of my neighbors, a lady who just loves my dog and always stops to pet her and gives her a treat every time she sees her, and I guess she’s working from home these days. She told me she was just taking a break from working on her computer. She was busy trying to install inetsoft performance management software for her company and then it was back to work for her.

It seems more and more of my neighbors are working from home. I’ve worked from home (being sick on medical leave) for five years but when I first started blogging and doing some work from home I was the only one in the neighborhood that I know of working from home … now just about every house seems to have a person staying home doing work.

Anyway … I’m hoping that the rain will stop soon and Spring will start to warm up to normal temps. It’s been cold, wet and just kind of miserable. How has it been in your area?

Sure signs of spring

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Just in the last week or two they’ve started saying on the news that we’re supposed to brace ourselves for a colder and longer spring than usual. Now that’s depressing news since we’re just coming out of a colder winter than we’ve had in years.

The trouble is … I don’t quit believe the weather men.

Two weekends ago as my husband and I were driving in the countryside we noticed flocks of birds flying overhead. They were flocks of geese and ducks. Now that was what … February 22 or so? We even used scopes to verify what type of birds were flying overhead.

Then .. last weekend we noticed that the trees, in particular the willow trees, were starting to look fuller. They were still leafless of course since it’s still quit cold here in Toronto, but I think the trees are starting to develop small leaf buds.

Sure signs of spring. I’m certain of it!

Spring is definitely here!

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Spring is here! Actually I think Spring hit Toronto about two weeks early! It’s cool today, but for most of the last two weeks we were getting quite nice temperatures, like late spring like temps!

Just looking outside in my garden I’ve been seeing signs of spring for weeks. Most of my 60 or so rose plants have branches that are not only starting to green up but that are developing leave buds as are many of the shrubs, bushes and trees in my immediate area. The grass is starting to green as well. I wouldn’t be surprised if we have to cut our lawn in early April rather than the first lawn cutting being sometime in May as it usually is.

Just a few days ago I noticed that the chives were coming up in my garden as well as what I think might be iris and maybe even hyacinth leaves. Some of my Crocuses were blooming early this week too … a full week and a half to two weeks earlier than usual.

One other more human side of spring that I’ve noted is the arrival of communion invitations in the mail! LOL Yep, we have a nephew who’s getting ready for his first communion in May and we’ve already received an invitation. I’m sure they’ll be a few more similar invitations in the next month or so.

Have you been noticing signs of Spring in your area too?

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