Feb 24 2025 - Who What Wear

 

It is easy to feel like an 8th grader.  Read the headlines and guess what these acronyms mean:  SAG Awards.  And then FW85.  The clue is looking at the pictures.  They are all movie celebrities dressed up and posing. Women's outfits have a source, but men's clothes are just there. (Well, you'd have to read the description to find out the designer, if listed at all). Some of the women were wearing "archival" dresses such as Chanel FW85 Read-To-Wear.  That would be the Fall/Winter of 1985.   Pamela Anderson was wearing "Custom Pandora Lab-grown diamond jewellery." These all came from marie claire HERE.  The headlines are "standout looks"  "unforgettable looks"  and so on.  I guess the news media gets to weigh in on who they think were the best dressed, best makeup, best hair, best everything to do with looks.   Scroll down and there is the bait click section with the headline "Actress Spills Hollywood Trick for Slim Body:  "We All Do It" Seems to match the pictures from the event.  Everyone had a very smooth face - even Jane Fonda.  And that's a bit startling as she's 87 years old.

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Feb 17 2024 - More Animal Stories

 

What makes us think there is such a gap between humans and animals?  In the Odd news is a headline of raccoons stealing Florida woman's DoorDash tacos.  Well, they didn't steal them.  They ate them at her front door where she proceeded to video them and got herself a bit of celebrity on TikTok.  The same day has a story from Britain of an animal rescue officer responding to a report of a fox with an injured leg.  He located the fox and set up his phone for video along with the trap of food. A fox came over and ran off with the phone.  It then took a selfie after it set the phone down. The injured fox was later rescued and treated.   There are a number of straight-forward escaped zoo animals.  Don't prisoners try to escape from prison?   There is a story of a loyal dog coming down to a Dominican jail and pleading for  his owner to be freed.  "This is the first time I handed a prisoner over to a dog."  Perhaps this is the story worth showing the picture.  The toad lived in the shoe for the entire summer before going off to hibernate. Jabba returned the following spring to reclaim the home.  I'd give him wide berth - he's a very big toad.

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July 22 2022 - Friday to Festivals

 

Somewhere between Thursday and Saturday.  Do you look forward to Fridays?  If you go to the Better Living Centre in Toronto the beer festival starts today and goes all weekend.  There are 50 top festivals listed in Toronto this summer.  There are twenty-five  listed for this weekend.  Mostly food and music.  There are two puppy festivals for Millie to choose from. Festivals definitely cluster in summer - The Summer Solstice kicks it off and they just continue on.  I assume that it is those of us in the Northern Hemisphere who have made the summer festival so numerous.   We're in for the beg sports event - the Niagara Summer games this year.  That's from August 7 - 21.  The opening ceremony will be at the Meridian Centre in St. Catharines.  There is a 13 for 13 festival - every night a different music group representing a different place in Canada.   Grimsby gets Prince Edward Island on August 20th  from 4:00 - 10:00pm at the Peach King Centre.   Everyone seems to have a summer festival in their back yard.  It's a happy toad in the garden.

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Toad of Toad Hall

There's a little toad who regularly is on the back porch first thing in the morning and seems to survey the patio and yard.  Hop, hop down the stairs, and then across the patio and into the lawn and garden.  I watched the toad jump three times its length in each hop.  The average human's jump isn't anywhere near this. I wondered about the comparison of of the planet's great jumpers.  The top highest jumping animals, according to onekindplanet.org are: Jumping Spider Froghopper Kangaroo Rat Grasshopper Klipspringer Bharal Red Kangaroo. Red Kangaroos are the fastest jumpers among all mammals. They are the longest as well - 43 feet is the record. I did wonder about fleas?  Don't we think of them as leaping masters?  Fleas can launch themselves up to 200 times their body length.  So yes, they are leaping masters. They could be the furthest jumpers. To conclude, here's an excerpt from Toad of Toad Hall: The world has held great heroes, As history books have showed; But never a name went down to fame Compared with that of Toad! The clever men at Oxford Know all there is to be knowed. But none of them know half as much As intelligent Mr. Toad! I took this picture of the garden toad a week ago.

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