Downtown, Yarn and Graffity Alley - 230913

Started the morning with returning the car to the renters, then I had the first Pumpkin Spice Latte of the season and it was actually a Tim Horton's one, so many Starbucks locations have closed down in Toronto, suppose due to covid. We walked by the local firestation, but that was Ines's thing(and I haven't stolen any photos from her...) Cabbagetown have been nicely decorated with chairs and street art.

Early afternoon we headed out, walked by AGO museum, George Brown House(filminglocation from Due South) and then my goal was Romni Wools, actually found some cool chennile yarn in a thinner size than I normally see. Ines and Regina patiently waited in the nextdoor Café; Sweet Pie. When we were done we went towards Graffity Alley, I took lots of photos of course, but when I took the card out of the computer for a restart something happened. I could find all files again but all "free" programs I tried costed money for the actual recover so the photos showing up here are courtesy of Regina, Thank You Kindly!

We ended the day at Stout, celebrating the fact we are duesers and Mariellen's birthday. We did have something left of gifts we had brought to others in Stratford and then Ines did a "five minute work"(20 in real life) of Fraser and Ray as Calvin and Hobbs for birthdaycard. Thank You Kindly to Sonja, Mariellen, Erica, Ines, Regina, Joanne and Paulina for making it such a lovely and memorable evening!

Final day #3 at the convention - Sunday July 28th

However much I walk around in Toronto I still see new things and I'm amazed and happy that there is such a nice mix of old and new buildings.

  

This is the backside of Maple Leaf Gardens, today there's some kind of school and Loblaws(groceryshop) in it. It was also a little bit of a shortcut to the convention hotel.

  

For the silient auction Erin had drawn this! It's simply beautiful, someone wanted it more than me though and it brought CAD 50 to our charity. I had as usual crocheted things and the same Erin bought them, I don't know how much though. My winnings was a bag and some other things sayind Due South but nothing authentical to the show.

Again a lovely panel and now when I'm soon on my way home I can't remember the name of our male guests but they were people working behind the scene and that's always nice to hear about. Christina Cox was new to our panel and we had another apperance by Catherine.

The Californian lady with the grey bag(both me and Shirly had a grey bag) won this on the liveauction. When we went to ship it home(costed her a fortune) there were a man who knew about the show and was a personal friend of Ramona who couldn't be with us this time and she(Shirly)  told me he sent her a text about this framed poster.

I have closeups on this wall too, it was a fun idea(althogh somehow I never got around to do that), on three lampposts three to the convention important people were honoured, Fliss Pugh who past away just before the latest convention, Kevin Klee who past away in between and the stuntman Kevin Rushton who were to have come visit us but just past away too. 

John(second chair) got to bring these beautiful Due South related watercolours back to Australia! I still think that if we had had a little more time they would have brought more money in being sold one by one, but enjoy John, they are a true treasure.

Our lovely and hardworking committee

Katie, John, Stephan, Megan and Sara and also a big Thank You Kindly to Tom McCann who does the tours with us(I did skip one of them this year)

The thing with conventions are that they really never end, this eveing a few of us went to Stout for a lovely dinner, now I chose not to put the photo on here, but I had a nice steak dinner with the most lovely mushroomsauce. PS. the beer's not mine.

 

  

The gang of four(who at least ended up on the same streetcar going home, but mingled with others on the convention) Mariellen(mom), Shirly(the Californian lady with the grey bag), me and Kathleen-Sonja(sister as I call Mariellen mom sometimes, always nice to have an extra, but it will be great coming back to see my own family)