National War Memorial, Ottawa

The National War Memorial is more or less opposite the Parliament Buildings, you can see part of one of the buildings in the left hand side of the photo.

Each department of the armed forces takes turns standing guard.  They then switch out with another pair, I think on top of the hour.  It's a great honour to be chosen to stand guard.  It is also very moving to stand in front of this memorial and think about what the armed forces have done to protect us all in Canada and all over the world.

The memorial was unveiled May 21, 1939 by King George VI

 

More decluttering lists........

 This is Part 2, and look at "The Heart Stuff, " wise words, don't you think?

You can click on this link to see more.  Also if you don't like using Facebook here is a website for her: Alison's Notebook.

Facebook Marketplace sales in October.........

I had given up with selling on Facebook Marketplace after a frustrating encounter with a directionally challenged lady....LOL  I figured I would put things on hold until the construction at our closest intersection to where we live was finished at the end of September.  So fast forward to the end of September and the opening of the intersection is not happening until November.  Beginning or end who knows????  Everyone is furious.

However at the beginning of October someone messaged me to see if these exercise dvd's were still available.  I put them up in May and had just left them sitting there.  So I ended up selling them for $10.

With that success and adding to my message, "Please note our closest intersection is closed for construction, please use your GPS, for directions," I decided to start to list some more things.

Next thing I sold were these, The Dream Harbor boxed set of books for $40, which was great, as I had paid $45 for the set on a Prime Day sale on Amazon, so super happy with that.  They were in like new condition as I only read books the once.  I also added in a couple of other books, which she was happy about.

Hubby has been cleaning out the garage and found these spanners/wrenches he brought from the UK back in 1989.  He was going to throw them out, but then said see if you can sell them.  Got $10 for the set.  He said they were not worth anymore.  The guy that bought them, was restoring an old British motor bike so these were perfect for him:

Again while hubby was tidying up in the garage he found not one, but 3 brand new extension cords (don't ask!).  Sold all three to different people for $40 each. He thinks he may have one more somewhere that is brand new also. 😶

I then decided to list the Jane Austen book set I was going to read.  It has sat there for months, and I knew I wasn't going to finish them.  Paid $15 for the set, sold them for $10.

This next item I had online for 32 weeks, and it finally sold one Sunday for $20 for a set of 11 woman's sewing patterns.  Super nice lady as well. (only one shown in the photo below)

I have to say I am super pleased with what I sold this month as it was all stuff I had around the house that we didn't use.  It also shows that you can leave stuff on Facebook Marketplace for ages and it can sell.

Some food photos from Ottawa

I finally got around to sorting out some food photos from Ottawa.

Pubwells on Sussex.

We sat out on the patio and it was a lovely atmosphere.  I had the sausage, mash and Yorkshire.  I can only tolerate pretty bland food at the moment, and they seasoned the mashed potatoes with a LOT of black pepper.  So I couldn't eat much of those.  Otherwise it was good.  Hubby said they had a great selection of beer; he had two Largers so it must have been okay.  Hubby got a wrap and fries.

The name of this place was neat; Scone Witch.  We went to the one on Elgin, and honestly it's not the easiest place to find.  The staff were Eastern European and super nice.  The "scone" was good; we got cheese scones with butter.  Now as I am from the UK, I would call this scone more of a biscuit.  As it is so much denser and reminds me of the biscuits you get in the States.  It's all to do with the type of flour we use on this side of the ocean.  The scones in the UK are so much lighter and fluffier inside.  It was all good though.

On one night we were super tired.  Sat down in a pub for a meal and basically they forgot about us. After waiting 30 minutes to be served, so we trudged back towards our hotel. All week we had been passing a restaurant, so we called in there to have a Pizza.  El Taco De Oro is a hole in a wall place.  Super nice, pretty busy and serves great food.  Again, I have to be careful what I eat, so wasn't brave enough to try the Mexican food, so had a pizza.  The pizza's were good and hubby had a Mexican Beer.  Would eat there again.

Now I only took these photos because the display was so colourful.  This was in a bakery in Byward Market and they are decorated sugar cookies.  I think they were around $5 each.  I didn't get one, but was impressed with the decorating skills.

I know I mentioned this in another post, but I could have eaten Bobino's Bagels everyday.  The soup was one of the best I have ever had.

So if you are in Ottawa, these are some places where you can't go wrong food wise, in my opinion.

What National Day is it today?

 On October 30th it's the following:

• National Breadstick Day
• Haunted Refrigerator Night, where you purge all that forgotten food that is in your fridge!!
• National Candy Corn Day .....I hate those candies.....just saying
• National Text Your Ex Day........now that could be interesting for some!
• National Checklist Day........who doesn't love making lists?
• World Lemur Day.......they are cute little creatures
• Create a Great Funeral Day.........honestly it's a "thing!"
• Mine Rescue Day

There are other things celebrated, but these ones stuck out to me.

You can read more about them here.

Driverless Cars..........

 I remember laughing my socks off when I first saw this video:

and thinking this is in LA, oh those crazy Americans.

However this past week or two things have popped up closer to home regarding the idea of "driverless cars."

There was a segment on the local news show about how Waymo is doing route mapping (I think that's the name) in Toronto in preparation on launching its services in the city.

Then there was another segment on the local news show, that mentioned how Tesla has a subscription service of $99 a month for it's "Supervised Driverless Car" option? Which then jogged my memory about how we passed a car the other week and I noticed the driver (I was in the passenger seat of our car) eating with her hands off the wheel, and the more I thought about it, I think that was a Tesla car.

Now me personally; hell would freeze over before I got into a driverless car.  I am apparently the worst back seat driver out there with people actually driving, according to my husband and family.  Never mind being a back seat driver with no actual driver!!!

What are your thoughts about these driverless cars?  Good idea or just a plain bad idea!!! 

Canada Museum of Nature - Part 1

 I will split this into two posts, again not to overwhelm you with photos.

The Canada Museum of Nature is in a purpose built building that was built back in the early 1900's.  With later additions to it.

I am a sucker for stained glass and this building's stained glass was gorgeous.

There is a special exhibition on until January 2027 called Wild Colour  

"Wild Colour is an exhibition that explore the beauty and science of colour in the natural world."

Below is an example with the explanation in the photo below that.

In the basement was an exhibition of "creepy crawlies," my description, not theirs.....LOL  Those were honking big cockroaches, just saying!!  Bottom left of the photo.

These hissing ones did indeed hiss, I heard them!!

There was also a big gallery with dinosaurs.  Could have done with having the boys with me, to explain in great detail what they were all about...LOL

The Earth Gallery was my favourite, but I didn't take any photos as it was odd lighting in there to highlight the rocks and minerals. 

All in all it was a good museum.  I think if you had children with you, a lot was geared to them.  However there were a number of adults like us wandering around.  Glad I went but wouldn't go back again.

Part 2 to follow.