You are in My World Now

Saturday was such a beautiful day here in Toronto that I brought my laptop outside in the late afternoon so that I could enjoy the day, the garden and get some work done while I was at it. Needless to say I didn’t get much work done!

We’d been expecting a friend to come over for the weekend. He was going to arrive on Friday night and spend the whole weekend, but his parents got word that they could move into their retirement home so he pushed back his visit by a day so he could help them move. Unfortunately the moving went into overtime and he wasn’t able to make it to our house for the visit.

Since Chris is on holidays this week he really wanted to do something on Saturday so he ended up inviting his cousin and our 15 year old God son over for dinner.

That of course is why I didn’t get any work done! My god son loves movies and he talked my ear off for oh … 6 hours about all his favorite movies, actors, scenes from movies and even brought over part of his movie collection so that he could show us movie trailers!

It was all a little too much movie talk for me, but I did come up with an idea for him. I suggested that he start a blog and write movie reviews. He basically memories all the lines and scenes in movies (oh did I mention he’s legally blind?) so he’d be a great reviewer … or at least I think so after hearing how he describes movies all these years.

In the rare non-movie discussion that I got to participate in I learned of a new health drink by Orovo that I might try. It might help with my Crohns, certainly it probably won’t hurt to try it.

We ended up having dinner outdoors. Chris, his cousin and I had steak and our God son had hamburgers. We all had fresh corn on the cob as well (not great for my Crohn’s but I love it). It was a great dinner.

Oh … I also had a couple of beers that night. I don’t drink much in part because of all the medications I’m on and also because it just hits me too hard. So by the time our guests left around Midnight I was feeling tipsy and tired! Guess I’m a cheap date!

Hows the weather in your area? We have a cool and rainy summer, but the end of last week and most of the weekend was fairly nice (we’re back to too cool again) so that’s why I had to take advantage of Saturday being such a nice day. Who knows when it might be nice enough to sit outside into the night entertaining guests.

Geez … just how many fevers can a person have in one day or in a week or a year? I’m sick and tired of having fevers!

That’s just one symptom of Crohn’s disease .. well not the constant fevers, but it can be part of the disease.

I have had so many fevers, on a daily basis for the last three years, that when I purchased the domain for my main blog (and it’s sub-blogs) two years ago I called it Feverishthoughts! Hey it works!

One of the big things about having fevers on and off is that I’m never comfortable. (this doesn’t include my abdominal pain that’s also on and off throughout the day) I’m either too hot or too cold. My skin is also slightly damp at times and I think this has lead to an increase pimples in area of my body that get hot like my lower back and so on. I’ve taken to using pimple cream on those areas occasionally. Weird since I should be over that stage of my life by now and also because it’s hard to get at some of those areas too!

I guess it’s kind of strange to be complaining about having fevers, but if you had them every single day you’d probably be tired of them too!

I’m curious as to whether other Crohn’s sufferers have a lot of fevers as well?

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It looks like most of my roses are starting to bloom again or are in the process of getting ready to bloom, so my garden is looking quite nice these days.

This rose is called White Dawn and it produces lovely large white roses:

Another very pretty rose in my garden is the Hybrid Tea called Tiffany. This rose is having it’s best year ever in my garden. It’s produced a number of blooms and I believe it’s giving off more scent than it usually does this summer.

Isn’t Tiffany a lovely rose?

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Well it looks like summer is here … again. For a little while anyway.

Most of the last two months have been exceedingly rainy and damp here in Toronto. Worse still the last three weeks or so have been cooler than normal. It’s felt more like early fall instead of mid-summer. I was beginning to think that I’d have to pull out my UGG boots and winter coat soon!

Today was the first decently warm day we’ve had in a long while. Not that the last three weeks were freezing or anything although it did get kind of cool at night. The temperatures were pleasant, but definitely cooler than average by several degrees.

When I took Midnight outside during the day she was actually seeking shade. She even crawled under our small teak table in the backyard to get some shade. It doesn’t take long for a black dog to get hot!

I guess I can’t complain. We haven’t had to use the air conditioners as much this summer - not for the last three weeks anyway, so we’ve saved some money. Today was the first day that I turned them on again and they’ll be on tomorrow as it’s supposed to be very hot.

Have you had weird weather in your area this summer too?

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This rose, Prince Napoleon, is an antique rose. It’s a climber that reaches about 10 to 12 feet tall in my garden each year.

I love this roses delicate pink flowers. It also has a true rose scent that perfumes my garden nicely each morning or after I’ve watered.

That’s one trick that I’ve learned over the years … If you are going to be sitting out in the garden and you want to enjoy the smell of your scented plants water the garden about an hour before you want to sit outside. This seems to work best in the early morning or evening. I’ve done this a few times when we’ve been expecting guests or having an outdoor dinner party and everyone always seems to appreciate the beautiful scent of the flowers.

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