Last market

My last market morning for the season at The Brickworks Farmers Market.

Its quite nice to be next to Southbrook Vineyards. - actually,it's nice to be next to just about all of the other vendors, who are always so friendly,interesting and helpful.

 Photos taken before 9.30 am!

 A satisfied customer dropped by to model the vintage curling jacket he bought last weekend.

 But, to tell the truth it has not been the greatest season for me. I had tons of customers oohing and aahing, looking through every bit of linen

 and examining and measuring every quilt- but, they just were not buying.

Ahh well,there's always next year .

PS....added the skyline !!

yesterday

A nice crisp day for  the Trick or Treaters.

Our street gets ready.

Better sweep the front steps in case anyone has an accident.

Now out kids have grown all we have to do is carve a couple of pumpkins and wait.

Ding-dong,

 We take it in turns to answer the door and/or get dinner ready.

Not specially imaginative this year, but spirits are high.

The bigger kids start coming at about 7.30.

 and by 8.30 its all over for another year.

Grandparents day

We were so excited last week as  our grandsons school was having Grandparents Day.

Like any other downtown Toronto school it was a veritable United Nations. The children said  " Good morning and welcome" in 8 different languages

The place was jammed! But then, most kids have 4 grandparents.

There was a concert - the junior choir sang ' Blue Skies' in a complex and sophisticated arrangement.

We stuffed ourselves at the desert table and the kids showed us their classrooms.

Guess which one is ours.

scarf alert!

Not a bad couple of weeks of thrift shop trolling.

Two traditional Liberty paisley scarves. Somewhat stronger colors than I prefer but I not saying no to a couple of bucks each. More for my collection.

 Two Hermes scarves, classic  ' Casques Plumets' in perfect condition.

and ' Les Artificiers' very gently worn. I can see I will get a lot of wear from this one.

Of course, lots more interesting scarves making their way into foulardfantastique.

plus and equal

Cloudy skies,

plus a grey lake and falling temperatures

=

a blazing fire

and time to close up our summer cabin for another year,

Gu Chi or not Gucci?

that is the question.

Is this a real Gucci scarf or not? Tag reads ' made in Italy'. Quite a light  weight silk, but that is OK. Nice, generous size, approx 65 cm  x  174 cm.
But, there is no imprint and the hem is badly and  cheaply machined, not good at all.

 Now, we all know that these days a classy label has nothing to do with quality,
Take the Michael Kors hand bag I bought at full price at Canada's fanciest department store last May.
My granddaughter asked " is that a real Michael Kors, Nana?"

Falling apart already, what a piece of c...p!

Just not sure about the scarf.

Gooseberry Jam

Gooseberries from our garden are frozen till I have time to make jam, as in last week.

Besides, the are much easier to top and tail-when frozen. 

 Skimming off the nasty scum.

  Finished product!

 So satisfying.