clever again

cardboard boxes

The things you can do with a cardboard box

in the bathroom

 been there - done that

for the music lover

hide and seek

Audrey Hepburn was smart and beautiful

bitten

I was bitten the other day by a nasty mosquito.

Wanted to bite her back (apparently the biters are female)

but I didn't want to get a wing between my teeth.

Die, mosquito, die.

oh, shoot

I interrupted the shoot conversation for a robin conversation.
I then interrupted the robin conversation for a horse conversation.
Then I finished the robin conversation 
and now back to the shoot.

Clever, no?

one more robin

I interrupted the shoot conversation for a robin conversation.
I then interrupted the robin conversation for a horse conversation.
Back to the robin.

 So happy that there has been left many video representations of the genius that Robin Williams was.

Loving many of the stories and tributes that come out after he died.

My favourite was from his daughter.

"My family has always been private about our time spent together. It was our way of keeping one thing that was ours, with a man we shared with an entire world. But now that’s gone, and I feel stripped bare. My last day with him was his birthday, and I will be forever grateful that my brothers and I got to spend that time alone with him, sharing gifts and laughter. He was always warm, even in his darkest moments. While I’ll never, ever understand how he could be loved so deeply and not find it in his heart to stay, there’s minor comfort in knowing our grief and loss, in some small way, is shared with millions. It doesn’t help the pain, but at least it’s a burden countless others now know we carry, and so many have offered to help lighten the load. Thank you for that.

To those he touched who are sending kind words, know that one of his favorite things in the world was to make you all laugh. As for those who are sending negativity, know that some small, giggling part of him is sending a flock of pigeons to your house to poop on your car. Right after you’ve had it washed. After all, he loved to laugh too…

Dad was, is and always will be one of the kindest, most generous, gentlest souls I’ve ever known, and while there are few things I know for certain right now, one of them is that not just my world, but the entire world is forever a little darker, less colorful and less full of laughter in his absence. We’ll just have to work twice as hard to fill it back up again.”

Horseback riding with Katie

Today Katie and I went horseback riding.

It was trail riding for about an hour.

Katie made it

I made it

The horses made it.

I am rather proud of myself.

Even if I was relegated to the horse directly behind the guide.

Remedial Horsemanship 101.

Katie and her aunties ear

 Selfie on a horse

Her horse was called Wrangler

My horse was called Daisy

I hope that Katie enjoyed herself.

I did.

more of robin

 

 Mrs Doubtfire was a favourite.

words from the Dead Poets

RIP Robin Williams

It was many years ago that I discovered the genius of Robin Williams

first on Mork and Mindy

Good Morning Vietnam

 Patch Adams

Good Will Hunting

My favourite Robin Williams film was Dead Poets Society 

Robin died this week.

I will remember him for....

His work on Comic Relief.

His friendship with Christopher Reeves.

His comedy

His accents

His energy

His frankness about his sobriety

His heart troubles

His conversation with Charlie Rose about gratefulness

His interviews were a treat of frenetic madness.

His humour could be harsh

but then again, so can life.

I think that people will learn more 

about suicide and depression 

by looking at his life 

than many other places.

If someone who was dearly loved by many 

could take his life 

then mental illness is a thing

that we should be paying attention to.

RIP

the power of a shoot

this little shoot 

grew right through one of the maple keys 

that the squirrels didn't get

amazing

window

Would never dare do it to my window
But I want to.....

A July Blue Jays game with Mom

 With Carter Long, Barb Parkin and Mom on our way to a Blue Jays game.

My 10 dollar hotdog - granted it was 12 inches of splendidness (as far as hotdogs go)

We were in the nosebleed section

a momentary distraction from the game

those crazy 'hanging from a cable off of the CN Tower' people

She really is a good cheerleader

Stroman leads way as Blue Jays blank Red Sox 8-0

TORONTO (AP) John Gibbons wasn't exactly happy to see rookie Marcus Stroman lose his no-hitter. Still, it saved the Blue Jays manager from making a tough decision 

about how long to stick with his young star.  

Stroman and two relievers combined on a one-hitter, Juan Francisco drove in four runs and came within a double of the cycle and Toronto beat the Boston Red Sox 8-0 on Thursday.

Stroman's no-hit bid ended when Shane Victorino blooped a single to center to lead off the seventh. One out later, Victorino was erased on Mike Napoli's double-play grounder.

Stroman (6-2) only allowed two other baserunners on walks and 

matched a season-high by striking out seven in seven innings. 

The rookie right-hander is 5-1 with an 1.54 ERA in seven home starts.

Stroman hasn't thrown a complete game since his call up in May, 

so Gibbons was wary of overworking his pitcher as long as the no-hitter remained intact.

Todd Redmond worked the eighth and Rob Rasmussen finished.

When it looked like Rasmussen might give up a run Carol wanted the coach to pull him.

Anita said he should get a chance - they were ahead by eight runs.

Carol said NO

Red Sox slugger David Ortiz felt back spasms on a swing in the ninth and 

was replaced by Jonny Gomes, who flied out to end the game.

Francisco tripled and scored in the second, hit a two-run homer in the third and added a two-run single in the fifth as the Blue Jays won for the fifth time in six games.

Blue Jays outfielder Melky Cabrera went 3 for 4 with a walk and two RBIs. 

Cabrera scored a run and doubled three times.

Red Sox right-hander Rubby De La Rosa allowed seven runs, six earned, in a season-low four-plus innings, raising his ERA from 2.64 to 3.54. De La Rosa (3-3), 

who lost for the first time since June 11 at Baltimore, walked two and struck out one.

Cabrera opened the scoring on a bases-loaded passed ball in the first. 

Toronto made it 3-0 in the second when Francisco tripled off the glove of Jackie Bradley Jr. 

and scored on Ryan Goins' double, with Goins coming home on Cabrera's first double.

Francisco made it 5-0 with his two-out homer in the third, 

then added a bases-loaded single off Burke Badenhop in the sixth.

Toronto loaded the bases with one out in the seventh, 

but Badenhop got Dan Johnson to ground into a double play.

Cabrera made it 8-0 when he doubled home Jose Reyes against Edward Mujica in the eighth.

We accidentally sat in the Quiet Zone

but were not quiet enough 

for the woman who pointed out to us

that we were indeed in the Quiet Zone

but she didn't happen to mention it to the talkative chap 

who was sitting under the sign

On our way home I noticed the bike racks at one of the train stops 

looks slightly less crowded than the bike racks in the Netherlands.