Laura Brown 🍁

Mom and I watched a video on CBC about twin girls, Tatiana and Krista Hogan, and their family. Tomorrow will be their birthday. I hope the young ladies are well and enjoy the day. Happy Birthday!

Allowance Rip Up - I'd tell them to put the money back together well enough for the bank to accept it as legal tender again. Until they accomplished that, there would be no handouts until they get a job of their own. I would not think this was cute or funny.

Did you know Ontario, Canada had the first nuclear disaster in history? youtu.be/zl4syrvRG1g?... www.history-channel.org/chalk-river-... Chalk River, Ontario. I was surprised. #CanadaHistory #OntarioHistory

Words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. - Lord Byron

Apparently life is only for the dead.

Absolutely amazing 👇

I think people in North America have become too panicked about everything needing to be sterile/ sterilized. This would not work. Plastic is only used more often here, no matter what they ban/ say.

I NEVER use the self checkout. Having a discount would not change my mind about avoiding it. Also, 10% is a lot for the supermarkets to lose. Maybe this will end up being a reason to close down the self checkouts, or have less of them. That would be a good thing.

Good evening from Ukraine🇺🇦 We’re still fighting. Still hoping. Please, don’t look away. #ukraine #world #ukrainians #ukrainiangirl #war

Is this a fire, or is that just part of the diesel production?

Obviously not counting the wars he has started himself, including the ongoing trade war with Canada.

Not sure which side I’m on here, but after my time in Philly, I expect “criminal mischief involving a robot” to become a regular headline. www.phillyvoice.com/philly-woman...

Back in Paris this weekend and it’s pure Maidan vibes. The overwhelming smell of burnt cars and scooters (turns out they make great barricades). Looted supermarkets, jewellery shops & pharmacies. Real mayhem on the edges of a mostly peaceful protest against the collapse of France’s education system.

I was surprised to hear that the Degrassi series star, Neil Hope, had died years ago. CBC has a report about it. www.cbc.ca/player/play/... He was actually deceased before this report, years before. No one knew he had died, alone and unwell. #CanadianHistory #OntarioHistory

The Witch of Plum Hollow #OntarioHistory www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I never got into the cell phone craze. It seems like a small screen for short ideas and a nagging presence I can do without. I do have one, somewhere on my desk. Its dead, forgotten, abandoned. I don't understand how/why people find use for them. Other than being forced to for "verification".

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. - Alexander Graham Bell

A Thanksgiving story found in old emails sent by friends. #HappyCanadianThanksgiving

I pledge to read the printed word. readtheprintedword.org I found this years ago. The link still works and I'm still reading books in print!

Sex trolls need better manners! I am REALLY tired of being asked to follow sex workers on bluesky. I do not post about looking for sex. I do not follow any sex workers.

No way are there 32 necessary cookies which I can not shut down for looking at ONE page of a website!!! There is no way to contact the Bath Spa Univ. The popup takes over most of the screen space. This is NOT GPC compliant #Cookiebot Can I block Cookiebot? #GPC

To the epidemic of lonely men... get a cat and avoid people who burn you.

Men, be safe. Assume the answer is NO! thatgrrl.com/blog/?action...

How does AI see you? thatgrrl.com/blog/?action...

Be careful what accounts you follow on social media. A LOT of them are just AI pollution. Generated content, random and often incorrect, to make money for someone sitting behind the scenes doing not much at all. A lot of Canadian history accounts are actually US based.

Need a boost today? Look up your name in the Urban Dictionary. www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t...

In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. 1984 George Orwell. Orwell was all about that. Have you read 1984?

"In every corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god." - Fernando Pessoa

1930 Bathing Pavilion Sunnyside Toronto Canada - This is long gone now. I forget what it was demolished for. My Mother and her family visited Sunnyside, before the 1960's. #CanadianCulture #OntarioHistory #CanadianHistory

1906 Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Dorchester Street in Winter. #CanadianHistory

From Insider Toronto, a snail mail club www.insidertoronto.ca/products/mail #OntarioHistory

From Nova Scotia Past and Present on Facebook. www.facebook.com/groups/11867...

Windfalls for Cider...The Poems of Raymond Knister - 1925.

Is this the ancestor for the current domestic cat? I read it was a desert cat from Egypt. I read this post today about a Jungle Cat. www.worldatlas.com/animals/jung... What do you think?

I would think lawyers would pay attention to details and proofread any documents for errors. Seems they slipped up. #ProofreaderNeeded

Beware the Canadian House Hippo... #CanadianCulture

Find a way to step out of your own shadow today, at least for today. "Most of the shadows in life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson - ASCII art by ldb asciiartist.com

Abandoned Military Installations of Ontario - Paul Ozorak. I found this on ebay. Self-published 1991. People looking for places to explore would like to find this book, but the price is very high. How about a reprint? www.ebay.com/itm/38967015... #OntarioHistory #MilitaryHistory #AbandonedOntario

Extremely rare muskox sighting in Labrador - www.cbc.ca/player/play/... Atlantic Canada. I'm glad to know there are places for muskox to live, unseen, still.

I think I bought this book years ago, but the cover was different. Or, maybe the same name was used with different authors. I will try to find it, I love the old houses. www.etsy.com/ca/listing/4... #OntarioHistory

Please take a look at our freshly updated guide to Saving Barns from Ontario Barn Preservation - drive.google.com/file/d/1x5lp... - Review, critique, or best of all - use the guide as a resource for your own old Ontario barn.

Squashed lizard coaster - Good for a laugh or two. www.etsy.com/ca/listing/4...

Found online - Grandeur, ghosts & gargoyles : the entertaining history of Ontario's Parliament building - 1970 - Gordon Donaldson, Canadian government publication. dn760109.eu.archive.org/0/items/3176... another edition - dn720003.ca.archive.org/0/items/3176... #CanadianHistory #OntarioHistory

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Early Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario. "Early Painting Postcard Toronto ON Foot of Yonge Street Old York 1834 Circa 1909" www.ebay.ca/itm/26753368... #OntarioHistory

The RVH is still around but very different looking now. I don't think those houses exist at all now. I can't think of where they would have been even. I've lived in Barrie for years. This was nice to find. www.ebay.ca/itm/15791339... Barrie, Ontario, Canada.