supplies!
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008Pleasantly surprised that a local store - Scarboro Music, at Vic Park and Kingston has autoharp strings.
It also has a very fine old Dobson banjo for $1500.
Posts Tagged ‘scarborough’
beautiful drone
Monday, May 12th, 2008The chill units in the new Loblaws Superstore in Scarborough make the most harnonious drone. I might just come here to listen.
signs of life in Scarborough
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008A fat brown raccoon without a tail is digging for bugs in our back lawn.
snoozing squirrel
Sunday, April 13th, 2008On our fence just now:
Sunday night at the chalet
Sunday, February 24th, 2008The craving for second-rate chicken came over me. So I’m sat here in the chalet next to two couples who are having a conversation from two decades ago: how they drive out their way for Burger King, how the auto industry’s dying (but still a good place for a pension), bemoaning the lack of the Gardner extension, why recycling doesn’t work … and how John Tory’s a really nice guy who just can’t catch a break.
Just another Sunday night in Scarborough.
nice chips, shame about the hours
Saturday, January 19th, 2008What’s it with good east end chippies? St Andrews (Ellesmere and McCowan) closes at 8pm, and Duckworth’s at 7:30.
not very walkable here
Thursday, December 13th, 2007Walk Score rates our neighbourhood at 32%, which isn’t very good. There are some errors in its analysis — we have a library kittycorner on the main intersection, and not 12km away, as Walk Score claims.
But yeah, there are problems. Our nearest bookstore? Cupid’s Boutique, where I’m sure they sell many illustrated periodicals for the discerning gentleman …
Bluffer’s Park notes
Saturday, April 21st, 2007
Sights: water, bluffs, rock, birds, blue sky.
Sounds: water, redwing blackbirds, grackles, geese, falling limestone.
Smells: the lighting of BBQs.
first
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007Saw my first redwing blackbird of spring just by Scarborough station.
Here be small wind turbines
Wednesday, May 10th, 2006Saw three little turbines just at Huntingwood and McCowan (from the pleasantly slow 169 Huntingwood bus). They’re probably the nearest (working) wind turbines to my house.
I’ve tagged this post with their location, so you can see it on my geo mashup page.
Update: they are at the Ontario Electrical Construction Company building, and they are Fortis turbines.