Marilyn's Photos - Aug 29 2025 - Pillow Talk

 

Sleeping has become expensive over the last few decades - mattresses, sheets, pillows. There's a lot of interest on the internet specifically about pillow cases.  Something about aging and your pillowcase.  I don't want to encourage the click bait crowd, but even the CBC had an article.  With the increased expense and so many types of pillowcases, what should I be investigating?  What they say is that the traditional cotton pillow cases help facilitate wrinkle formation.  That's because the skin doesn't slide easily.  So I guess those thousand count sheets and pillowcases of Egyptian cotton at Langdon Hall had secret powers.  They felt gloriously like silk and to learn they would keep one youthful. I thought all those years it was about luxury. There are developments that have led to pillowcases being made copper.  Copper-infused pillowcases have been studied and the studies suggest that copper can help increase collagen production and reduce fine lines and wrinkles.  "Suggest" is a slippery word, don't you think?  Those of us who sleep on our sides, squish our faces more on one side and have more wrinkles to prove it. And what about those people who sleep on their backs?  How helpful will that pillowcase be? Not as helpful, but you will have fewer wrinkles.   So it looks like it is too late to choose - I've probably got the wrinkles to prove it. Here's glorious Langdon Hall in Cambridge, ON.

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Marilyn's Photos - Aug 28 2025 - Tomatoes vs Tariffs

 

The tomato fight vs the tariff drop.  Yesterday was the annual "La Tomatina" - it occurs in Spain where participants throw tomatoes at each other.  There are a few rules for the one hour event:  don't bring bottles or hard objects don't tear others' clothes squash tomatoes before throwing them keep a safe distance from trucks stop when you hear the second warning firework It has to be a stinky event as they say the tomatoes aren't consumable and would have been thrown away.  The estimate is between 80,000 to 300,000 pounds of tomatoes. I have to think that's a bit of marketing hype.   The Globe says there were 20,000 revellers who "squished, smashed and hurled" the 120 tons of overripe tomatoes.  So we did our own squishing this week and squashed the tariffs.  I guess they are being known as the elbows down tariffs for now.    We're working hard these days to find stories that can uplift people as compared to the barrage of news from the U.S. and from the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.  Tomato fights in Spain definitely worked for me.

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Marilyn's Photos - Aug 27 2025 - Multi-hyphenated

 

To be "multi-hyphenated" (itself hyphenated), you would need to be in the entertainment industry, and have multiple careers/talents - not just the traditional "triple threat" of singing, acting and dancing.  Writers who direct and produce fall into the category.  Well, it turns out that anyone who successfully pursues two or more professions is considered  multl-hyphenated.   Doesn't it seem a curious expression?  A label for all seasons.  Was Galileo a mutli-hyphenate?  Yes, says AI, telling us something we know.   Looking into the origins of the expression, this is the case of a lagging expression.  The term is supposed to have originated in the 1970s.  I wondered about the term Polymath.   It is  a person of wide knowledge or learning.  Was Galileo a polymath?  Yes he was, being an expert in many fields of study.  So was Leonardo da Vinci. In fact, they are considered examples of multi-hyphenate polymaths. I don't know what the doubling of the expressions does, but it is distinctive. Polymaths came before mutli-hyphenates.  Polymath is an  expression from 1624.  It was used in the 4th century to describe Plato. The Greek "polymathes" means having learned much, knowing much.   Of all the things to wonder about, one can find an indication of the expected IQ of a polymath on the internet.  It says "true" polymaths tend to have an average IQ of 196.  I wonder how they figured that out for Plato, Galilleo and Da Vinci.   Every once in a while, it is a big surprise to find jokes that are actually on topic.  Here's the link to cartoonstock with the rest of the polymath jokes HERE.

This is sunflower season and they appear in all kinds of forms - here are a few images from the past archives.  Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblogspot.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwell.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca

Marilyn's Photos - Aug 26 2025 - More Lost and Found

 

After the wedding ring story yesterday, it got me wondering about famous lost and found stories.  Most of them are about people being lost and found.  Under the heading Heartwarming Reunions:  Raudhatul Jannah: A young girl swept away by the 2004 Indonesian tsunami who was found a decade later after being cared for by a fisherman's family. Jaycee Dugard: Kidnapped at age 11, she was found 18 years later living in a suburban backyard, though she had been hidden in plain sight the entire time. There are many Lost Cat and Dog Stories: Emily the Cat: Found in a shipment of paper bales, this tabby cat had traveled 4,500 miles before being reunited with her family by Continental Airlines.  Howie the Persian Cat: After running away from home, this Persian cat was found a year later, having crossed 1,000 miles of Australian outback.  Georgie Georgie, a black and white dog, went missing in Tlisi, Georgia, in 2015. His owner, Mr. Biani, searched for months with no success. Three years later, employees at a local business saw a dog matching Georgie's description and contacted Biani. The subsequent reunion was filmed and went viral, with tens of millions of views, capturing the emotional moment the dog recognized his owner.  And consider the famous paintings that were lost and then found.  They include Van Gogh's "Sunset at Montmajour", found in an attic after the owner's death, and "The Scream" by Edvard Munch, which was stolen and recovered twice from different locations.  Stolen paintings recovered is a long list with some of the works still "missing."  You wonder whose walls they are showcased on. There are many Stradivarius thefts, and most of them seem poignant and sad.  Take these two examples:   Lost: Violin prodigy Min Kym's 1696 Stradivarius was stolen in 2010 while she was eating at a sandwich shop in London. Found: The violin was recovered in 2013, but was not returned to Kym. The trauma of the loss and recovery is detailed in her memoir, Gone: A Girl, A Violin, A Life Unstrung.  Lost: This 1727 Stradivarius was stolen in 1995 from the apartment of virtuoso violinist Erica Morini, just weeks before her death. It was replaced with an empty case and has never been found.  The best lost and found stories are about connection and caring, and never giving up - and especially poignant when it comes to dogs and cats.

This garden is at one of the seniors' condominiums in Grimsby - it has a covered gazebo with a waterfall and pond.  Quite a lovely spot.

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Marilyn's Photos - Aug 25 2025 - Strange Scavenger Hunt

 

Thanks to the CBC for today's strange scavenger hunt story.  The headline is "Mission couple finds missing wedding rings in landfill" and the subtitle "Movie date ends with search for diamonds in the dump" The story goes that they realized the rings had gone to the organic waste at the MIssion Sanitary Landfill.  This was the result of watching a movie at the IMAX theatre, buying  a big bag of popcorn, spilling it when they got home, cleaning it back up into the bag, eating the rest, throwing out the bag and then realizing the rings were missing a day later, after the organic waste had gone to the dump.  Assumption:  rings in the bag. Next scene takes place at the dump to meet with the excavator to scoop up the piles that have to be looked through.  It went quickly. Popcorn bag found, then rings found.  Startlingly fast.  I guess very lucky given the location. The story's conclusion?  "Steve and Jeannine were relieved." So ends a Canadian True Story.

Gerry's car got a ceramic coating treatment last week, so we went out to take some photos to show off the shine.  The location is Peninsula Ridge Winery.

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