Santa Claus parade, quilting squares, Hairy Potter

Mon Nov 21, 2005

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Today's Blatherings consists of pics I took over the weekend and today. Click on any photo to see a bigger version and comments.

Thanks to Margaret Middleton, who made me this wonderful quilt square to hang from my office tree:

Quilt square from Margaret

After being hung on the tree:

My office tree

The package also contained the quilt square kit I ordered. My plan is to turn this into a square I can contribute to the GAFilk quilt. I have zero experience in quilting, so this should be interesting:

Quilt kit

Thanks to my friend Walter for this cute Hairy Potter t-shirt:

Hairy Potter

Walter also gave us a fire extinguisher as a housewarming present (THANK YOU, Walter!). He told us he hopes we never have to use it. :-)

And a few pics from the Santa Claus parade yesterday (you can see a full set here)...

Clowns have always creeped me out a bit:

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Especially upside-down clowns. And what's with the bunny on the turtle?!?:

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Sometimes the corporate sponsor signs/floats seemed a bit odd:

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...or inappropriate, like this one for Lipton (to non-North Americans: Lipton is a company that makes chicken soup products). These chickens seem awfully cheery considering that they're ALL DOOMED:

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Not sure what these wolves were doing in the parade, though my friend Andy helpfully suggested that they were the wolves that ate Rudolph:

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Christmas skunks?!? I really don't get it. Can ANY animal be part of the Santa Claus parade, even if they have nothing to do with the holiday season?

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After the parade and some hot chocolate, we browsed the Christmas display windows in the Bay/Simpson building (a tradition for many Torontonians since childhood). This year, there were about half a dozen Narnia themed window displays. Apologies for the poor quality of the photo below; I couldn't figure out a way to get rid of the reflections in the glass, and also couldn't get close enough to the window because of the crowd of children :-) :

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