Showing posts with label buffalo garden walk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label buffalo garden walk. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

July 31st Last Day of Summer - really?

It seems true, doesn't it, that July 31st is the last day of summer.  We know that August will bring "Back to School" ad campaigns.  We are eternally going back to school regardless of our ages.

So August has become an in-between month.  In the gardening realm, there aren't any garden tours.  Most garden societies don't have an August meeting.  Most of the garden centres have reduced stock and hours.

The general state of things can be seen in the August celebrations: 
  • sandwich month
  • foot health month
  • national catfish month
  • romance awareness month
  • national water quality month
I found a 'get ready for kindergarten month'.

What was notable in August each year was the arrival of the Eaton's Catalogue.  Janet and I would look at every page and decide on our favourite items amongst the products available.  Well, we didn't exactly look at every page.  We looked at all the ones related to house, home and apparel.

This had no relationship to purchasing. Things were not often purchased from the catalogue, only rarely.  And definitely not by us.  But it became a consumer's bible, training us from an early age to discern between product design, features and price.  That now seems like a lot of training in making simple choices and decisions.

I took this picture while visiting with the Buffalo Walk front porch gardener in yesterday's picture.  She was as surprised as I was to see this.






 
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Friday, February 15, 2019

Need a Coupon?

Is it ever national coupon day?  Coupons take up a whole month - September.

When did coupons start? In 1887, it was Coca-Cola who first got customers hooked on coupons.

In 2011 311 billion coupons were distributed and 3.5 billion were redeemed. Food accounts for 65.7% of the coupons.  One site told me that every American could get more than 1,000 coupons a year.  That's more than the Roman Catholic Saints.  We'd be purchasing like mad - using almost 3 a day. Social media has brought couponing to new levels - with 40% of young adults trading and swapping coupons on social media. 

Here's a pictorial history of coupons:



 
Let's enjoy some summer whether on Summer Street in Buffalo - here are two of the houses in the Buffalo Garden Walk.  I call the pink house - The Bubble House.  This cottage district named Little Summer was developed by Lydia Cox in the 1870's.  The street is closed to traffic and the tens of thousands of garden visitors take over.
 


Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Which Five Things?

I went looking for 'five things', and there are hundreds of 'five things' sites  Something about the expression 'five things'.  The first one on food was about five things never to say to your child.  Then the list got longer to seven things on another site, then ten things, and then even more.  There are a lot of things to not tell your children about food.

So here are the first five:

1. After you’ve put away your toys you can have an ice cream

2. Don’t worry about falling over, let’s get you your favourite chocolate

3. Eat that up and then you can have dessert: no veg, no dessert

4. Eat it for Granny

5. Don’t eat too much, you’ll get chubby


If you want the 10 things - here's the site.

How many funky things  in the garden were on display on the Buffalo Garden Walk - here's one of them.