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Summer in the city

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Toronto is such a great city. There’s so many things to do – especially in the summer. I like trying to go out to some of the food festivals and some of the music festivals. There is also several cultural and arts events going on.

Well there’s so many things going on it’s hard to keep up. You could do something almost every day if you wanted to and most of them for free.

One of the things that I haven’t done in quite a while is use Toronto’s fantastic bike trails. I have a pretty bad hand injury right now so I can’t ride my bike at the moment but when my hand is feeling better I think I’m going to put the bike rack on the car and get my bike and go and visit one of the great bike trails and take a long bike ride. It’s great exercise and the trails are quite lovely.

in the meantime, though, until I can get on a bike, I see what else is happening in Toronto and go and enjoy one of the great events that’s happening in the city.

You have interesting things happening in your city? Do you try to get out and enjoy local events?

Spring is definitely here

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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?

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.

I want a real vacation this summer

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I haven’t been on a holiday in ages. I was just thinking about it and realized that my husband and I really haven’t been anywhere for quite a while. We didn’t go anywhere for vacation last year or the year before …. so this year I think we should try to go somewhere.

I keep hearing about Outer Banks vacation rentals so I might look into that as place for us to go this coming July.

Have you been to the Outer Banks? If you have, do you have any suggestions as to what we can do there? Did you enjoy your time there?

Fair skin and sunny days

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I was just saying on my other blog that I have a real problem with freckles in the summer. My skin is fair and when the sun starts to get stronger in late spring I suddenly find myself covered in freckles.

I never used to freckle … nope I’d just burn to a crisp, even if I was wearing sunscreen … but lately I don’t seem to burn, I just freckle and then freckle some more. LOL

Anyway I was just reading a prevera review and I discovered that not only might this cream help me prevent wrinkles but it might help with my freckle situation too. I’ll have to look into it a little more to find out if it really works but it looks promising.

Are you fair skinned too? How do you protect your skin and keep it looking great?

Maybe I should buy a parasol?

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