Horrors - the arrival of Old Man Winter - before I cleaned up and prepared for winter due to an interminable flu of some sort

The packages of chopsticks at one of our local Japanese restaurants now bear the maple leaf instead of the former flowers. #CanadaStrong

So it turns out that if you aren’t a member at Costco it’s impossible to get off of their mailing list

I never expected a bench-clearing brawl #wantitall @bluejays.com #bluejays #worldseries

Jack-o’lantern #worldseries #wantitall

Keeping the home fires burning for the Blue Jays at the Watch Party at SkyDome stadium in Toronto @torontobluejays.bsky.social

It’s time we all asked ourselves what emptiness this game is filling in our lives that we are still up at 1:30 in the morning

Blue Jays fever #bluejays

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Ugh but yay

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When the ICE agent is Canadian youtu.be/S1yYGb1U31o

Maman, Louise Bourgeois #ottawa #art

The view from Hull #ottawa

I finished this challenging doily yesterday-a whirligig #doily #crochet

Patriotic pumpkin pie by @jmollins.bsky.social

My pumpkin pies are ready for Thanksgiving dinner #thanksgiving #pumpkinpie

Raccoon doily. This is one of my urban critters series doilies #doily #doilies #crochet #urbancritters #raccoon #raccoonTO

I find it almost impossible to dine out anymore due to all the restrictions placed on customers by restaurant owners. Why would anyone agree to the fast-food environment they impose: 1.5 hours for 2, and half an hour added for each customer! Why don’t they just rent chairs? #DineTO

“Human health, animal health and environmental health are all one. It’s all interconnected,” Jane Goodall said at the global landscapes forum in 2020. Here’s the story I wrote at the time: forestsnews.cifor.org/65742/jane-g... I will miss her #JaneGoodall

Toronto from the Island airport ferry #toronto #billybishop

Imperial Pub closing due to developers www.blogto.com/eat_drink/20...

My big sister @traceyehm.bsky.social made the infamous @nytimes.com plum torte by the late Maria Burro #plum #torte #nytimes

Hospitals & police chiefs agree: speed cameras save lives. So why is Ford banning them? Ford is putting kids & pedestrians at risk just to let reckless drivers off the hook. Tell Ford to keep speed cameras & enforce speed limits. Sign here: www.progresstoronto.ca/petition-pro... #speedcameras

Great to have Jimmy Kimmel back. A brilliant return nhttps://youtu.be/c1tjh_ZO_tY #jimmykimmel

Yay #jimmykimmel

Autumnal light in the garden that effectively shook off the vagaries of weather this year. #garden

We are all Jimmy Kimmel, says Stephen Colbert #jimmykimmel #stephencolbert youtu.be/ZdGLJly6P7c

@jmollins.bsky.social FYI. As expected of course but crazy things are happening all around us.

Gutted about Jimmy Kimmell

@jmollins.bsky.social FYI

Today I engaged with someone in a pickup truck who ran a red light, cut off another driver, almost hit me while I was cycling on Dupont, speeding and recklessly endangering lives all so he could park in the Loblaws lot at Dupont and Christie. #bikeTO

Who clapped in the House of Commons for Charlie Kirk?

So great that @JimmyKimmel.com returned this week. So funny. jimmykimmel.com 💙

I celebrated Labour Day by working - feeling fortunate #labourday

Train station in Stratford (still) under renovation and customers are stuck outside with no benches to sit on. The benches are behind the scaffold. I found a small wall to sit on and fortunately had my umbrella so could create my own shade. #stratford @viarailcanada.bsky.social #train #viarail

So fabulous yet poignant that @stratfest.bsky.social commemorates this wonderful production of “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” with Martha Henry, Peter Donaldson, William Hutt and Tom McCamus (the only one still with us) in the Tom Patterson Theatre. #stratfest #stratfordfestival #theatre #ONeill

Lurve the Stratford bike lockups #bikestratford Check this out #bikeTO @oliviachow.bsky.social

Listening to the CBC newscasts about the @aircanada.bsky.social strike and thinking it just sounds like business-as-usual. The last time I flew they couldn’t re book me onto a flight after a cancellation for a week and refused to compensate me. I took trains from Washington to Toronto. #aircanada

Act 1, Scene 1, Annie @stratfest.bsky.social Great show and performances with amazing costumes— A rather bland script magically transformed by director choreographer Donna Feore, orchestra, cast and crew. #stratford #stratfest #annie

Can’t fathom why Robert Lepage tried to rewrite Macbeth. I was always a Lepage fan but it didn’t work. He kept upstaging the actors-or sabotaging them-with overwrought stage business. It diminished the evil incarnate. Can’t outsmart the Bard. m.youtube.com/watch?v=rVXk... #stratfordfestival #macbeth

Wow youtu.be/LTlLp598J4I

Everybody!!!! I can’t go because I’m going to see my friend’s kid in a play but this is a time to celebrate. Have fun dear riders. See you soon. Thanks Cycle Ontario. You are the best.

Celebrating ruling by Ontario Superior Court Justice Paul Schabas, who has found that the province's plan to remove bike lanes along Bloor Street, Yonge Street and University Avenue violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. #bikeTO #champagne #bicycles #cycling #toronto

Old Toronto Star building #torstar