Marilyn's Photos - July 12 2025 - Burger Time

Mairlyn's Photos - July 11 2025 - Birkin Bag

 

I must have forgotten who Jane Birkin was.  British and French.  Actress, singer and designer.  Somehow she was mighty famous to have her original Hermes bag sell for over $10 million.  She died in 2023.   There are lots of pictures of her - very photogenic- something important in the 1960s.  She was in the cast of "Death on the Nile" - what a cast that was - Bette Davis, David Niven, Jane Birkin, Lois Chiles, Mia Farrow, Olivia Hussey, George Kennedy, Angela Lansbury, Maggie Smith, Peter Ustinov, Jon Finch, I.S. Johar, Simon MacCorkindale, and Jack Warden in Death on the Nile (1978). Veranda.com has a year by year picture gallery of her from the 1960s to 1977 HERE.  It is all black and white images.  We could go to Vogue.co.uk to see the 25 looks that made her the ultimate summer style muse HERE.  Again, these are mostly black and white images.   And the Birkin bag?  You can see lots of pictures of her with her Birkin Bag througjh the years.  She must have liked that bag a lot. And our picture for today takes us towards the garden. I am very pleased to find this floral design from the Annual Lily Show - it is a handbag made of leaves with a lily decoration.

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Marilyn's Photos - JNuly 10 2025 - Pool Boy vs Golf Course Brawl

 

One year we went to Florida for Gerry to teach a lighting course.  We were at the famous PGA Golf Association resort.  There was an old guy there at the pool who told me he was the oldest pool boy in Florida - he was over 70 years old, he said.  But there is no news of the oldest pool boy - it isn't interesting.  Instead, there's lots of news about golf course brawling in West Kelowna.  An ex-NHL enforcer brawls slowpoke golf player.  I guess with that background, the news will get repeated over and over.   The "assailant" was thrown into a golf pond, and then "tossed him high through the air and onto some grass." Someone videoed all of this.  Was that a friend of foe? It is hard to guess, isn't it?   Brawling at golf courses doesn't make the headlines. OK, there's one:  "Insane six-man golf brawl breaks out during Father's Day round" June 2024.  That was at the Raccoon Hill Golf Culb in Kent, Ohio.   Mostly golf news is about top golfers "in search of first win of season" and "in a fight against himself" and  "counting memories before defense of Scottish Open" and so on.  And what about this one:  "The golf bug infects everyone eventually, and LeBron James is the newest star athlete to receive a bite."  In the repair shop at Strasburg Railroad.

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Marilyn's Photos - July 9 2025 - Fear of Missing Out

 

The New York Times has an article on AI int he classroom and reference the tech companies' sales strategy as being based on the "fear of missing out" - that students will be set up for failure if they don't use AI.   My generation is genuinely marvelling at what can be done by chatbots.  For people with low skills for composing, they are amazed at what is written on their behalf.  I listened to a conversation amongst people who I thought were educated. They had math and science skills and felt they didn't have good composing skills for emails and correspondence.  AI gets them up to and beyond the threshold of good writing.   That makes me think this is about the fear of missing out - of not being "good enough" or  being able to "keep up."  So would we expect it to improve their general writing skills?  I expect it will replace their correspondence and they will be dependent on it.  Is that what we want of school learning?  And I sure hope AI gets better at writing.  To me, a lot of what it writes is ingratiating, unctuous, flattering, insincere, obsequious, and fawning. There needs to be some AI to develop authenticity. Me, I seem to be going backwards. I've turned off spell-check. Gerry showed me where I could do this in my MAC so there's almost no word replacement, except for some programs online. I would rather have to read my work carefully than just blast along with a trail of weird words dangling behind.  Some of them were fun, though, and I will miss those surprise moments.  There's a colourful array of Muskoka Chairs.

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Marilyn's Photos - July 8 2025 - Hospital Opening

 

Our new hospital  just a block away from us - is opening in October.  Here's a picture of it from the back.  The old hospital is  the tiny y-shaped building int he distance.  We live a street beyond the left side houses.  They face Lynwood and we are a crescent which curves into Lynnwood.   I wonder how the old hospital will be demolished.  So the new hospital is opening in October 2025 and the old hospital is scheduled for demolition to complete in October 2026.  Demolition will "involve crushing the brick and concrete on-site to minimize the number of trucks needed to haul debris to the landfill. The resulting chipped aggregate may be used for the property, such as for roads or foundations."  That means that there is another year of construction - this time deconstruction.   In addition to the hopsital, there is a new crane located just beyond the lower left buildings.  It is constructing the new McNally House Hospice.  It says that the facility will be completed in April 2026.  I   I found a construction picture so you could see what's happening there.  This  picture shows the McNally Hospice House foundation three days ago. Yesterday a big new crane was added.   The street going out of the top of the picture is Sunnylea Crescent.  Drive around the crescent, and there's my house.   Our McNally House is named after Grimsby residents.  It you search on the internet you might find Andrew McNally House - of Rand McNally - in California.  It was a heritage house built in 1887 by architect Frederick L. Roehrig,  it is octagonally shaped.  There are lots of pictures of it, as it was on the real estate market in 2020.  Sadly, it was destroyed in the Eaton Fire in January 2025.  So back to little Grimsby with our big cranes and construction for the next year and a bit.  I wonder if I will miss those little beep-beep-beeps and whether Millie will be wistful of having the guys way up on the roof that she hears so clearly that she thinks she can visit them.   Tomorrow is the Fun Run Porsche Day, and they will be stopping on Sunnylea for a garden tour.  This is Gerry's car from two years ago.  That was when the Topaz Lab filter was functioning and I could add the "speed blur" as he came around the corner.

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