A commenter had mentioned our wall of travels so I thought I would include an updated one! Bottom left, second photo is the new Portugal collage. Just above the fan is one from the Arctic Ocean!
It appears quiet for a Sunday morning but it certainly wasn't!! The Blue Jays were playing at 1:30 so lots of people were parking up at City Hall away from the stadium.
Photos as I stood in the very long line while John held a table we nabbed on the way in. Languages from around the world were being spoken around me.
Nguyễn Thị Thanh, the Vietnamese culinary icon known as "The Lunch Lady," died from a cardiac arrest after arriving at Toronto Pearson Airport on May 20, 2025, just before the scheduled June 3 launch of her new restaurant in the city. Renowned for her Saigon street food stall, she gained international fame after being featured on Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations" and had a popular restaurant in Vancouver. Her death was announced by the owners of her Vancouver restaurant, with the Toronto location's opening postponed as a result.
I don't know what got into me, I had even gotten dressed when I got up, and I started doing a deep kitchen tidy up! I restocked the spices (that I had bought the other day) and the flour container. I got the laundry dried (not put away, there was a reason). I even found our new shellfish utensils we had bought in Palm Springs, but couldn't find on Saturday when we needed them!
THEN I got a message from a friend asking if we could see the air show from our place and was there public parking. Well, of course, I said come and park here and we'll watch the show from our roof!! She knew I would say that LOL. She's my younger sister from another mister!!!
They arrived, friend, husband and two gorgeous kids and we went up to the roof. It was a lovely afternoon, not too hot and not windy. But the wasps were very busy and B got stung!!
We really enjoyed the show but didn't take any photos of the planes as we have gazillions from other years.
Some photos of our last visit in 2023. And my favourite
photo from some years ago!! Talen for a one word challenge FLIGHT.
We had big plans but changed them once we were advised that our buses were running behind schedule due to heavy traffic. Traffic as everyone headed back to school, and the office after summer vacations. Also the financial and government businesses are mandating staff to begin returning to the office 4-5 days a week with staggered dates of September, November and January.
Instead we just puttered around.
WEDNESDAY is golfing day. I made John a good breakfast of leftover potatoes, onions, mushrooms and corn, bacon and an egg.
Front St. and the annual "we can always hope" banners are out for the Blue Jays as they continue in first place in the American League East.

Checking out the samples in Union, I would end up only scoring two Cadbury Fingers even though the line was halfway to McD's. Click here to see the schedule of samples!
I decided to go to Yonge and Dundas as I saw this posted. Well, that was a waste of my time as there was nothing happening.
Plus I went after lunch and the area was so crowded with university students getting back into their dorms. I left the $ store as the line was too long. I didn't even dare go into the Eaton Centre.
Instead I went back down to the $ store at One York and Longo's. It was the last day of the weekly BOGO so I only picked up ribs.
Crowds crossing at Yonge and Dundas.
Renaming Yonge-Dundas Square to Sankofa Square was first announced in December 2023. The signs are now being erected. The official unveiling and a grand opening celebration of Sankofa Square took place on International Sankofa Day, August 23, 2025.
The new name, recommended by the Recognition Review Community Advisory Committee, reflects the concept of reflecting on the past to move forward and addresses the need to confront anti-Black racism by renaming the former Yonge-Dundas Square.
The process to rename Yonge-Dundas Square began in 2020 after a petition highlighted the role of Henry Dundas in delaying the abolition of slavery.
"Sankofa" meaning: The name Sankofa comes from the Twi language of Ghana and means "go back and get it." It represents reflecting on the past to build a better future.
THURSDAY And we woke to a rare sight! Rain, thunder and lightening! A really good downpour. We were going to do our Tuesday outing but this worked out well. John had his wine bottling booked.
And today was the last first day of Longo's new BOGO. I forgot it switches on Thursdays! I put on rain gear and shivered as I waited for the 9:35 bus which was 10 minutes late due to the crazy heavy traffic on Lake Shore Blvd., it was 10:30 before we got downtown! So the schedule just kept getting later. I scored my BOGOs, hot dogs, raspberries, cheese, tomatoes, dips. I also picked up some other stuff we needed.
Back home and the weather started to clear so we decided to go back to Longo's. This time BOGO was hot Italian sausages, more raspberries, carrots, onions, tuna. On Friday I picked up two more tins of tuna so my weekly BOGO savings were $43 plus $15 on Wednesday (ribs) = $58!!!now I have a week to stock up on the specials.


We splurged on strawberry frappuccinos at Starbucks while we people watched, trying to figure out where everyone was going in their cowboy finery!! Lots of skimpy tops, short flouncy skirts and cowboy boots. It turns out there was a 4:30?? concert at the Rogers Centre featuring
Morgan Wallen, click here for the 2-day schedule. Wallen doesn't take the stage until 8 PM.
Thursday, September 4th - Miranda Lambert, Gavin Adcock and Zach John King
Friday, September 5th - Brooks & Dunn, Gavin Adcock and Zach John King
Back home I used one package of the raspberries to make a raspberry orange granita.
FRIDAY
John had mentioned going to Costco, but it can wait. He used the golf simulator. I wanted make fresh salsa and guacamole for dinner so picked up those items.
It was so windy out, although the weather forecast said "feels like 25 C" it certainly did not.
COOKING
My comments on immigrants and food above, made me think of eating as a child.
As Irish immigrants our meals started out as 3 veg and a meat most days. The first time I had spaghetti was at a Spanish school friend's house, that is why I still don't like a lot of sauce on my spaghetti because they didn't use a lot.
My mother was a very adventurous cook so she started including spaghetti on her menu rotations. We started ordering pizza.
We ate corn on the cob with fresh bread and loved it, well, Dad didn't, he said it was what they fed the pigs in Ireland.
Christmas Eve was always at a Chinese restaurant because everywhere else was closed.
We went to Expo 67 and had noodles and beef with peppers for the first time at the Italian pavilion. And my mother added that to her menus.
My mother, my aunt and then I worked in a Jewish bakery so we tried different breads, bagels and pastries.
We tried Indian food.
Lobster became my favourite birthday meal so Mom would cook it for me!
She made chicken a la orange and chicken divan, which I still make to this day!
My mother worked with a German woman who loved to bake so she would bring us cakes.
Later on John and I tried potato skins and chicken wings in Buffalo NY. We took my Irish cousins there and they exclaimed "imagine serving that to our husbands!".
We had Italian neighbours who loved to share their homemade wine.
But I never stopped loving her Sunday roasts, potato pancakes, trifle, stuffing.
WEEKLY MENU
Sunday steak corn chimichurri and soda bread
Monday pork schnitzel foil potatoes.
Wednesday Italian sausage potato salad
Thursday ribs corn on the cob and potato salad. Ribs were BOGO $15. They were really quite good, at $7.50 a package. I don't think $15 for a pack is a good deal, it is only one rack, but I will keep my eye out for specials on them.
Friday steak
fajitas homemade
guacamole and
salsa. I used the oven bake sheet method. I think I'll use a pan next time.
WATCHING
We finished season 3 of The Kill.
We watched Hostage - a British political thriller miniseries. An international summit between the French and British leaders goes awry when the husband of the British Prime Minister is kidnapped and the French president is blackmailed.
Mindhunter In the late 1970s, two FBI agents broaden the realm of criminal science by investigating the psychology behind murder and end up getting too close to real-life monsters. We're on season 2 and still enjoying it.
Ice Road Vengeance Liam Neeson Mike travels to Nepal to scatter his late brother's ashes on Mt. Everest. When Mike and his mountain guide encounter mercenaries on a tour bus, they are forced to fight to save themselves, the passengers, and the local villagers' homeland. Decent movie with great action for a Friday night.
Finished Countdown.
I finished season 20 of The Hotel Inspector.
I'll still slogging along with Call the Midwife, although I must say as the seasons go on it gets better.
READING
I am still reading
Winter of the World (Century Trilogy #2) and I admit reading it is scaring the hell out of me. It is like reading today's news.
Winter of the World picks up right where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English, Welsh—enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs.
I know Follett isn't considered the best writer and some of the love stories are a bit trite. It is the history that intrigues me.
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