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Hi everybody,

today was a beautiful day here in laval,not to hot ,not too humid ,anyway it was great for gardening.

So,keith and i went to the store to buy some flowers,canadian tires(ok!ok! don t tell me but keith wanted to get rid of his canadian tire money and asked me if i wanted to have some more flowers...hey of course i m not a fool) and me i almost fainted..what flowers..

portulaca is very easy care. It's a succulent but it can take watering and it love full sun. The impatient likes shade. And they both love to bloom. You are so very lucky.

thanks Tammy for the info.

what s a succulent please and am i lucky becuz he chose flowers instead of tools..i m suprise that what i am

Tammy,

am i dreaming or what

Many flowers close at night. It is a survival reflex to protect their pollen from dew. Some plants, usually native to warm areas, remain open to be pollenated by night critters also.

So you bought 'em from the funny money place, eh? Hi, fellow Canuck - I'm from Toronto.

I remember a day when Canadian Tire sold something really strange - tires - now you can get a side order of chips (fries), if ya' want - ha ha!

isn't a succulant from the cati family? i had portulaca one year, very easy to grow but go to seed very fast if you don't remove the spent flower.

Linda

What's Canadian Tire money?

jmacd

Hi Carly,

glad to meet a canuck,yah,today thay ask you if you want fries with that .i m from ste-Dorothee,laval.

you ve been here for long time,it s a very good site and the people are friendly.

thanks for leting me know you re here,talk to ya later.

Hello,

canadian tire money:

canadian tire is a bit like a walmart but concentrating on home and auto rather than people,they sell tires,tools,vacum,bbq etc...and when you pay with real currency,they give you back a certein percentage of your change in some canadian tire cents and dollars wich you can use at your next purchase.people here collect it and when they have a certein amount go buy something they want,for example last week-end we bought for 28.00 dollars of flowers(yes they even have a garden department now) and we paid it all with canadian tire money,oh,there is also do mechanic on your car a bit like walmart.

hope that answered your question.

have a good week-end!

Hi rugby,

thanks for the info.

have a good week-end!

Thanks, Francine, for explaining about the Canadian Tire money. That's really a bad deal. What a scam to keep you coming back there to shop!

jmacd

Jmacd, It's not at all a bad deal. A small percentage of your purchase is returned as Canadian Tire money that can only be redeemed at the store but if you choose not to shop there again you aren't out anything. Also, some charitable organizations accept Canadian Tire money to offset costs of cleaning supplies and other items that would otherwise increase their overhead. It is no different than any other frequent purchase program.

Oh...I'm sorry, I misunderstood.
Thought they gave you your change in funny money INSTEAD of real money. Well, I take it back then.

Yeah, that would suck!

Hi Francine, impatients like shade and a lot of water.

sorry i should have writen instead of a % of your change that it was a % of what you bought: ex,if you buy a 1 buk item,then they give you only 10 cent ,i think it s 1 or 5%,no more so for a purchase of lets say 100bokx,it ll be 1 or 10 dollars funny money.

That makes more sense. Sort of like the Discover credit card. But I think it's less than 10% of purchase.