Considering a downtown park, in a mega city like Toronto, I assumed the following things are impossible, can’t exist or just won’t work. Oh boy, was I wrong:
1. Did you know white squirrels exist? No? Me neither, until I saw one at the park!
2. Checking out the neighbourhood of an apartment we where going to see, I discovered this huge park where Google Maps revealed 8 tennis courts in there. Looking forward getting some use out of my racket, I considered worth shipping over from Vienna, I started searching for the Tennis Club operating it, trying to find out membership fees, etc. I did not find anything! Okay, maybe they just don’t have a website. After moving there I walked up the the tennis courts and just asked someone about where to get a membership and how much it is.
ANSWER: “What are you talking about? This is a public tennis court, just come and play.”
I could not believe that would work at all – wouldn’t there be vandalism every night, things broken, etc? So far, nothing that I know of and it is busy, on nice days all courts are played on, from dawn to dask.
Free, public tennis courts, nice one, thanks Toronto!
3. There is this little greenhouse at the park that got me curious. This time I found it online – A Community Greenhouse! What an awesome thing! Soon I nursed a few tomato, cucumber and pumpkin seedlings there to take home and grow on our patio. It was my first try to grow vegetables in pots on our patio – big fail, 1 tomato was the only outcome.
However, this year I will try again and already started with some basil and sweet / hot peppers that a nice lady at the greenhouse traded seeds with me.
That’s is blog entry number 7 of my new “daily blogging” rehabit. Next I will write about the impact it had so far!
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