Saturday, June 24, 2006

Balcony Living

Yesterday was a dead day at work. The place was a ghost town, and I blame it on today being St. Jean Baptiste day in Quebec. After the tortorus day ended, I came home, did some stuff, ate some supper, read some books and watched some TV. Later in the evening, Purdy came over and we enjoyed the end of a gorgeous day by chilling out on my balcony for a couple hours. There was a terrifying moment when about 200+ seagulls were circling around Tunney's Pasture. We thought they might all take a hairpin turn and fly right into us, smother us and my balcony in a whirlwind of beaks and talons, but eventually they just all flew away. Purdy hates these things as much as he hates black squirrels, but I still give the nod to pigeons as the 'flying rat' of the bird world after my years long battle at my old apartment. Purdy snapped a shot of them, but since it was sunset it didn't turn out that well. Popular theory is that they were eating bugs.

Here is a photo I snapped of Purdy. If he ever goes missing I will make sure they use this as his 'last known photograph' on the front page of the Ottawa Citizen since he looks like such a deadbeat.This morning I finally took some photos of my expanding family, aka my garden. From right to left, I have 'Sweetums', my sweet millions tomato plant, then hiding in the back is 'Lil Greenie' my little green pepper plant. Following him is 'Fantastico', my big fantastic tomato plant, 'The Red Machine', my little fantastic tomato plant and finally 'The Big Green Monster', my big sweet bell pepper plant.


These are my first tomatoes of the season, coming off of 'Sweetums' and the first flower on 'The Big Green Monster' (although 'Lil Greenie' has a bud of his own). At this rate, I should be eating nothing but salad in a week!!



*UPDATE* As the last part of my balcony trifecta of tales, I would like to scoop the Ottawa news and report a fire in Gatineau at approximately 9:45am this morning. I noticed some smoke across the river when I was writing this blog. I ran out to my balcony and snapped a photo of it. It looks bad, but I am happy to report that the hard working heroes of the Gatineau Fire Department got it under control, and now less than 20 minutes later there is no smoke. Good work boys!!!


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