Monday, December 23, 2013

Saturday, December 14, 2013

BITSTRIPS ON FACEBOOK

You can create comics of yourself and others on Facebook. Here are some of mine.





Lauren = CLR

COFFEE SHOP

Today with mah peep ROSA and mah gnomeee LARRY - Upsidedown Glasses


SNOW DAY IN TDOT



Friday, November 29, 2013

I HAVE TO WONDER HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE THE SAME KEY AS ME


THIS SHOULD HELP - YOUR WELCOME!


I DON'T RECOGNIZE ME

A new friend on Facebook who also went to the same High School as me asked for a pic of me in High School.  I got this one out of the Scarlett Grade 12 yearbook.

STUPID COPY CAT TDOT

All I wanted to do this morning was go down to the ART Gallery gift store to peruse their Christmas cards.  I got on the HWY by our place and had to get off at the next escape.  Packed all the way to downtown.  I then drove up to the Queensway to go that way - PACKED - I then went further north to Bloor - PACKED - I then went further north to Dundas - PACKED east of Prince Edward Drive.  At that point, I turned WEST and went to Goodwill and got 4 bowls to match our kitchen dishes for only $3.00 and out further west to Talize second hand store where I got a real nice long piece of fabric to make a half curtain for our living room for only $5.00.  The reason why it was so cheap at the 2nd hand stores was........ BLACK FRIDAY and thus why I could not head downtown.  Tomorrow is the school Christmas sale just down the street - Very nice sale.  Weston Legion tomorrow also includes some flea market items : > )  ----- and I just may try to head back down to the ART Gallery.

Sunday, November 17, 2013

FULL BEAVER MOON TODAY

I never knew the November full moon was called a BEAVER moon (also heard it was called a Frosty Moon)

Friday, November 8, 2013

WHAT A GREAT IDEA

Now I know another thing that I can do with the Gingerbread Cookie cutter that CLR sent one year for Christmas.

I AM IMPRESSED

I FIND IT INTERESTING.........

......... how things CONNECT.  The other day J.T. painted a bedroom cupboard and also decided to paint the floor.  I liked the look of the white wood floor.  Then a couple of hours later someone posts that a homeowner was left speechless when he took up his old carpet to discover a giant Monopoly board painted on the floorboards underneath.  Now I am thinking about some type of art project for our cupboard floor.


AND THEN THERE WAS THIS ONE:

Brother in law moved in with us a awhile - its painful (for me) - and weird, yes, its weird - J.T. would say you just have to do what you have to do.  A.T. and I wanted to get him a t-shirt with that on it and then I am on this site and what shows up:


PUTTING ON A CRINOLINE SKIRT SUPPORT 1855


Thursday, November 7, 2013

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

THE HIPPIE IN HIGH PARK

I have been looking for interesting trips to take my mom on.  Today, we went to High Park to see the HIPPIE sculpture which was part of the 1967 Sculpture Symposium.  I got a better pic from the artists website (Bill Koochin) and see that at one time there were sunglasses and a nose which today are missing and makes his face look weird and angry.  He looks so much cooler in the 60's but then didn't we all. (He also has a LOVE pin on his lapel.)

The Hippie is located just west of the HIGH PARK FOREST SCHOOL - The Forest School of High Park was established by the Toronto Board of Education and the Public Health Department around 1913, as a summer school for underprivileged children, initially those with tuberculosis. The school provided nutritious food, lots of exercise, instruction in health and hygiene, and even afternoon naps. The classes were later used to boost the health of children who were “below par physically” because of “faulty nutrition, emotional upsets, or social aberrations,” according to one report from Public Health. The Forest School came to be associated with “poor kids”. It closed in 1963.

I lived in High Park and never remember seeing the Hippie or the school.  





Forest School High Park (current image)



Tuesday, October 22, 2013

DOWNTON ABBEY

I just finished watching Series 1, 2, 3, and 4 (partial) and was researching some spoilers when I realized that North America will not get to see Series 4 until January.  Why wait until then North America and keep up with the Brits when Project Free TV has it all.  By Monday, it will have posted Series 4 Episode 6.  SPOILER - I excitely await to see how John Bates gets even for his wife Anna considering that this will stir up one of THE LADY's old flames abode!!!  Looking forward to Monday ONLINE!

Monday, October 21, 2013

CHELTENHAM BADLANDS

Last week took a trip to the Cheltenham Badlands for the first time with my mom.  I am sooooooo surprised that CLR and I never went here in all our trips to diverse southern Ontario places.

MADE OUR CAT A CROWN TODAY

Ok, so I borrowed the picture but thought it was funny and true about cats.


EARLY 1900'S PHOTO

My Great Great Grandfather came over from England in 1870 with his wife and baby boy to Toronto.  The web has alot of info about early Toronto (i.e. census etc.) so I am making a small pamphlet up entitled 'TRACKING REUBEN' while he was living in Toronto until he went back to England and while looking at early Toronto photos, this one particularly interested me.  A girl with a doll muff.

Saturday, October 19, 2013

DOWNTON ABBEY

I never watched the Downton Abbey series on TV and this October I have been watching it on the computer.  Ticked off that I started watching it with the SPECIAL that was listed above SERIES ONE.  I thought that was a pre-SERIES ONE starter but it turned out that it was the one where Matthew dies in the car crash and that kind of blew the series knowing this.  Whatever, I am in SERIES 3 where Shirley Maclaine shows up as Coras mother from the U.S.A. – Horrible choice, very disappointed that they chose this actress.  I think that Glenn Close (who wonderfully played CRUELLA de Vil) would have made a most wonderful Martha Levinson from the U.S.A.  

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

MY HEART BELONGS TO CALGARY.....

......SO YOU SUCK IT EDMONTON!!!  LOL - Apparently, there are 4 of these in diverse places around town.
PRIDE GOES BEFORE A FALL!

Thursday, September 26, 2013

THIS NEEDS TO BE SAID!!!

TO YUKON KEN, apparently there is a new girl in town - RCMP Barbie who ALWAYS GETS HER MAN!!! - You had better not  get too cozy with her as I will be coming up their shortly - FROM - JUST VISITING TORONTO BARBIE (grrrrrrrrrrrrrr)

Friday, September 13, 2013

Tuesday, September 10, 2013