Wrapping Up This Week

Busy week!  Squished a lot of activity, kilometres and things.

In no particular order.

My hair is coming back to a proper blonde from being that awful shade of urine when two weeks ago I said goodbye to being bright bright blonde.  No way around having that colour, that’s the price of platinum.

Still surprised when I look in the mirror. Still unimpressed with myself for caring about hair colour so much. Ya ya, I am a brand and all that, but come on, no one is shooting at me, you know?

Fact.

If you’re curious about “Operation Rue the Day” ask me IRL.

You’ll love it, I can’t publicly tell you, and concludes in one week.

I’ve harped on you about this before, and now again: please call right now the oldest person you know, and tell them you’re thinking of them.  They need it.

My peonies are coming in beautifully.

I stick my face in flowers for long as I can remember. Why wouldn’t you? It’s soft and smells great. There’s a shot in my Canadian Explorer Intro of me doing that.

Gardening seems like the most boring thing ever, maybe when I’m 80 I’ll give it a go. I’ll only grow flowers. I could maybe see myself getting into seeds too, if only because of this.

The most exciting thing that happened to me this week was my trip with Honda Canada to Niagara Falls.

They put us up at Ontario’s only 5 star country inn, the Pillar and Post.

Here’s the only photo taken during dinner.

Because the best part about dinner was: none of us touched our phones. At ALL. That’s refreshing.

A dream come true.

Here’s the keys to one of only 400 Civic HFP‘s in Canada, Keri! Now get out there and drive hard.

More on that later, obviously it’ll have its own post, also have video of my skills.

Kay gotta run, driving up north for the night, have a good one TTYL

 

The Rarest Books in Canada

Finally made it inside. It’s been on my list every year during ‘Doors Open Toronto’, and 4 years later, tada!

It’s the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, inside the University of Toronto.

6 floors housing 700,000 books and 3,000 metres of manuscripts. It’s the largest collection of rare books and manuscripts in Canada.

Some of their best books:

  • Darwin’s proof copy of ‘On the Origin of Spiecies’
  • Egyptian manuscript fragments
  • An original copy of Shakespeare’s ‘First Folio‘ (one book containing all his plays)

How it works:

You tell them what you’d like to read, and they retrieve it for you (only librarians go into the shelves, the “stacks”).

You’ll meet up in the ‘Reading Room’, and be under constant supervision.

I asked them: do I wear gloves when handling the books?

Nope, and I quote, “We are a library, not a museum”. I like that.

I worked in a library for years. I had the dewey decimal system memorized to 5 places. 

I have a Books category here on KeriBlog.

Here’s the best part: people like us, normal public non-university people, can come and read the books.

Website: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
Twitter: @Fisher_Library
Address: 120 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A5
Hours: Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm

Here’s their catalogue.

 

 

Flea Market Stopover

Pendergrass Atlanta’s largest flea market.

I love flea markets. The randomness, the people watching, the hustle.

Would you like to buy a chicken? How about a monkey?   Great idea till it rips your face off. Happens all the time. Fools.

Oh look: a pregnant teenager with a neck tattoo. They are everywhere down here.

Sometimes it seems I’m the only girl in the south without a kid.

You’ve seen these stick families on rear car windows, I’m sure. They are a terrible idea.

I’ll explain why on my security blog.

Good idea for a fundraiser.

Put the boy in the bubble, watch him flounder.

Collected a few more photos for my post, “Shopping for Weapons”.

Go on a weekend afternoon, guaranteed fun.

TTYL

 

 

A Classic Southern State Flea Market

What will I see, what will I find.

Wait wait…… wait.

Really?  People still think like this?

I thought this only happened in the movies.

Outside was amazing, it can only get better inside.

YA it did.

Oh man this is the best, what could possibly be around the corner…

Ugh, Beanie Babies: what a scam that was.

An electronics hut, now we’re talking.

And that’s where I made a new friend, and I’m excited to blog his creation on one of my new blogs, ThisIsMyHack.com.

Broom handle holds up digital antenna

Flea markets are the best… the stuff, the people, the people watching, and I got some new socks.

TTYL

 

 

Spending Time in Nature

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Spending the weekend in it. It’s a neat dichotomy from my last week in the largest city in my country.

I’ve got a post drafted about that still, Internet has been a challenge since I returned here Tuesday night. And there won’t be much signal in all that nature. I don’t mind much, taking a break from the Internet is always a good idea.

My list of things to see is fun, tell you all about it when I’m back Sunday.

Xo Keri

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