I’m sure that you have heard the metaphors that use the example of two cows to explain various political and economic theories. Here is an example from Wikipedia. Socialism: You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor. Communism: You have two cows. You give them to the Government, and […]
When I need a lift, I often turn to poetry or photography. We went out last Sunday to buy electrical adaptors so we could plug our phones and computers into French outlets, while on vacation – The French Connections, maybe. Fortunately the owner of The Travel Store on Cumberland knew which one(s) we needed from
Last night at dinner, we were discussing an article which appeared a few days ago in The Toronto Star. Apparently the city is going to build a few cat townhouses here and there throughout the city to protect feral cats from bitterly cold winters, such as the one we have just had!! Feral cats are
….or maybe it’s Saturday morning going up…. I took my daughter downtown to an early morning soccer practice last Saturday. As I drove home along King St., I took pictures, while stopped at various traffic lights along the way. Here they are. As you can see there are a lot of boom cranes around. Toronto
I live in the city, where parking is the equivalent of big game hunting!!! First, finding a parking space can be very dangerous. You drive down (or up) a busy main street simultaneously looking for parking spots on both sides of the street. This means that your head swings regularly from side to side and
OK it’s 7:00am Sunday morning and the bars are open. This is not Mexico or some other exotic place where the bars never close. No, this is Toronto, where getting a license to stay open an extra hour or two on a Friday or Saturday night, if you are a pub owner, is right up
It’s snowing again today – blizzard conditions. My husband walked to work – safer than taking the car, maybe. I was wondering, if you own your own business, who has the authority to “call” a snow day? Yes, I guess it’s me and since I don’t feel like walking to work and I definitely don’t
I have said before, many times in fact, that I live in a country where it warms up to snow!!! Well, the weather has been hovering around -20ºC for almost a month, now and although it’s been often quite sunny, it’s been far too cold to take a walk longer than from the house to
Today it was -20ºC 8:00am. It’s now 9:21am and it’s still -20ºC. It’s going to be a cold one!! My daughter reminded me that the weather somewhere, like Thunder Bay, for example, where she has been in school, on and off for the last 18 months, is -40ºC. OK, there is a reason why I
…Well, yes, this is what one would expect, however, I don’t think that anyone expected this. We were out for a walk, finally!! I was beginning to feel pretty “Cabin Fevered” because of the weather. The ice storm had made walking very treacherous and the extra three or four inches of fresh snow on top
