I Swear......

With all the attention Kawhi Leonard's free agency decision is getting up here in Canada....

You can't turn on the TV.....

Or listen to the radio.....

Even the Americans - at least one - seem to be caught up in it.....

 ,,,,but also terrible are all the awful "Kawhi" jokes;

• Kawhi won't he make up his mind...
• Kawhat's the matter with him...
• we're in the Kawhilight Zone...

I swear, if I hear one more bad joke....

....I'm going to hang my head and Kawhi......



[Translation: "I'm going to hang my head and cry..."]

Letterman Watches The Jays....?

What are you talking about, Willis?

There, behind home plate.

The bearded, straggly guy.

There.  Is that better?

Unless they now let the homeless sit in the $2,000 premium seats, that's gotta be him.

Wow, never let me out in public like that!

Who Ya Gonna Call!

"Raccoon Busters!"

Found a furry little friend sleeping on one of my balcony chairs the other morning.

So got the Terminix folks in to lay a trap.

The technician was saying I have the perfect set up for them; sheltered and secluded.

So you add in the fact that this was the first day I put the seat cushions out  (he was lying on the seat cushion with his head on the back rest pillow) and it probably seemed like a freakin' five star resort to him!

Anyway, we got him this morning.  Couldn't resist the all-you-can-eat buffet.  Or as the technician called it, a can of tuna.

And even he seems to be wary about reaching down to grab the cage.

And there he is.  Trapped like a.....raccoon.

Now I know where the expression beady little eyes comes from.  Yikes!

Pretty sure he's thinking, "So help me if I get out of here, you're a dead man!"  Yikes again!

Oh! Okay......

Good thing they had the translation underneath......

Wow!

Those gals from the earlier post did a great job.

But they left the weeds inside the sign.  Just the way I like it.

At the risk of offending a large portion of the population, these must be union jobs.

"Buddy, we're planters, not weeders."

For those not in the know, see No Wonder and Hey! for for 411.

"Did You Say You Were A Great Repair Shop?"

We're okay......

No Truer Words

The bottom line of this sign should be on every City Of Toronto notification; Expect Delays.

And I don't even mean traffic.

It more appropriately refers every aspect of every project.  Especially how far behind schedule every dang project is.

Toronto's Union Station upgrade is the most recent example.  Started in 2010, it was supposed to be completed in 2015. Five years.

They built in the entire Rideau freakin' Canal in less time than that. And that was 180 years ago!

So now it is scheduled to be completed in 2019.  Just like the project managers have said every year this time; "Er....end of this year.  Honest."

As anyone who has tried to walk through there recently will attest, a snowball has a better chance of survival in you-know-where than this project does of being completed by year end.

And don't even get me started about the cost overruns! 

I Don't Know About A Mani or A Pedi.....

....but who couldn't use a good shellacing once in a while?

Hey! The TTC Reads My Blog!

In a recent Arnotti post, I called out the TTC for their landscaping of a subway station.  Click No Wonder! for a refresher.

Or just look here....

And one alert reader said she loved the weeds sprouting inside the "artwork".

Well, I guess that got under the TTC's skin, because yesterday...the weeding began!

The power of the....er....electron?

Where Thoughts - Arnotti or not - can turn into actions!

Sports Photo Of The Year?

The situation:  Game 7, Toronto Raptors vs the Philadelphia 76'ers.  Game tied at 90.  4.2 seconds left.

The Raptor's Kawhi Leonard took a desperation shot at the buzzer over Philadelphia's 7 foot giant Joel Embiid.

It hit the rim and bounced.  4 times.

This photo is the instant before anybody knew whether the shot - to win the series - was good.

Leonard is the guy in white squatting, lower left.  Embiid is peering over the basket support, upper left.  The rest are the Raptor's bench.

This is an example where one picture is way more powerful than a video.  And certainly supports the old axiom, a picture is worth a thousand words.......



P.S. The shot was good.

Doris Day Gone

What a great picture.  Of Doris Day and Rock Hudson, relaxing in what seems like another age.

Classy and sexy.

Always projecting that girl-next-door, wholesome persona.  One of her former husbands quipped, "I knew her before she was a virgin."

She passed away today at 97.

What A Great Idea......

...unless you're blind.

No Wonder TTC Fare Are So High

Beautiful artwork like this doesn't come cheap.

Look at the attention to detail.

Those stones may have been hand laid.


Of course, they stole the idea by looking at the side of the Gardiner.  Where all great artwork is found.

Sometimes You're Just Lucky

Hiking in one of Toronto's ravines today and a huge tree had fallen across the trail.

Luckily, it snapped right at the trail.  And cleanly, too!

Gotta Love The Boys

With all the flooding in Eastern Canada going on, the government has brought in the military to assist with damage control.

Here, some of the boys in green are escorting a Zodiac through a flooded town. Through waist deep water.

I don't know, I might have said, Hey fella's, let's hop in the Zodiac.  Get there faster.

But that's just me.  I'm not in the military.

What I've Been Looking For All My Life

Alright!

Oh.  Photography.

Lightning Fans Will Soon Know......

...what it's like to be a Leafs fan - for over 50 years.



Said from someone who knows.......

....only too well.

[I shouldn't be smiling in that picture....]

Likely The First "Senior's" Moment

Who Knew...?

I used to think Dwayne Wade, point guard for the NBA's Miami Heat, was a regular sized - if not kind of smaller - NBA player.

Here is a pic of the Heat from their glory days, with Wade the short guy on the right.

Michael Strahan, however, was a feared linebacker for the New York Giants.

An absolute beast of a man who terrorized quarterbacks.

Here he is sacking Tom Brady.


Well, Michael Strahan is now a host of  Good Morning America and Dwayne Wade retired last night.

So they had Wade on the program this morning.

(The TV was on in the gym - honest! I never even heard of Good Morning America before.)

At the end of the show, they exchanged jerseys.

And as you can see, Strahan towers over......what?

What?  Wade is taller and bigger than Michael Strahan?   How can that be?

I guess that just goes to show you how massively huge these NBA ballers are.  And they look so tiny on the TV.

So either I need to go to a game (or another game, as both my loyal readers will remember the last game we went to) or trade in my 19" Philco for something larger.

I'm thinking probably both.

For Your Viewing Pleasure

In response to some comments from yesterday....

 That's gotta hurt.

 Now he's got 'im!

Ouff.....

The gator's seem to be getting the worst of these.

 That guy means business,

Hope that thing is dead.  Although it doesn't look like it....

Maybe just the guy thinks it is.

That's Good Eating

So further to my last past where I said the Florida Everglades should be called River of Gators...I stand corrected.

Of course, the hungriest and nastiest are the pythons.

And they just captured the granddaddy of them all.

Sorry, grandma of them all.

This beauty is the largest ever caught - a 17 foot, 140 pound bunch of loving & hugging.  With 73 developed eggs.

They tagged several males in hopes of finding breeding grounds - and they did.

Who says men are worthless.

This reminds me of another post a while back.

Click What A Great Place To Live for a refresher when they actually go hunting for these things.

And if you do click that link - and look at the last picture - you may be surprised to see that a python's head is the same size as an alligator's.   Holy s.....

Their Motto? If You Can't Hook 'em, Shoot 'em"

Everglades City.  Just about as far south in Florida as you can get before you fall inta the swamp.

Everglades city is, you guessed it, right in the middle of the Florida Everglades.

The River of Grass as they call it.

I would call it the River of Gators, as we saw many, many sunning themselves - just to the side of the main highway.

Now by highway I mean two lane road.  But it is a highway.  Highway US-41.

The Tamiami Trail, from Tampa to Miami.  more on that later......

Hmmm...What's That Off In The Distance?

And what's he pointing at me....?

Sigh.....

Great Inspiration?

The Banyan trees from my last post certainly seemed to be from this family.....

Not Just My Favourite

I had posted previously about two beautiful, very old - and very large - Banyan trees in Naples.

See I Knew Things Were Old for a refresher.

I also posted that Hurricane Irma finally did what no other storm - for I suspect well over 100 years - did. Took them down.

See Another One Bites The Dust for a refresher on that one.

And I guess I'm not the only one that misses these old beauties. Here a woman stands forlornly in front of the felled behemoths.

And here is today.  Those majestic Banyans now only a memory to many.