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)

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!

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.

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.  

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!