{"id":415,"date":"2012-03-20T12:40:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T16:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michael.schwanzer.info\/blog\/?p=415"},"modified":"2012-03-20T12:40:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T16:40:28","slug":"how-a-park-made-a-fool-out-of-me-3-times-true-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michael.schwanzer.info\/blog\/how-a-park-made-a-fool-out-of-me-3-times-true-story\/","title":{"rendered":"How a park made a fool out of me, 3 times. True story."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Considering a downtown park<\/a>, in a mega city like Toronto<\/a>, I assumed the following things are impossible, can’t exist or just won’t work. Oh boy, was I wrong:<\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> Did you know\u00a0white squirrels<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>exist?\u00a0No? Me neither, until I saw one at the park!<\/em><\/p>\n

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2.<\/strong> Checking out the neighbourhood of an apartment we where going to see, I discovered this huge park where Google Maps<\/a> revealed 8 tennis courts<\/a> in there. Looking forward getting some use out of my racket, I considered worth shipping over from Vienna<\/a>, I started searching for the Tennis Club operating it, trying to find out membership fees, etc. I did not find anything!<\/strong>\u00a0Okay, 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.<\/p>\n

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ANSWER: <\/strong>“What are you talking about? This is a public tennis court, just come and play.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I\u00a0could 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.<\/p>\n

Free, public tennis courts, nice one, thanks Toronto!<\/em><\/p>\n


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\"\"<\/a>\"\"3.<\/strong> There is this little greenhouse at the park that got me curious. This time I found it online<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0A Community Greenhouse<\/a>! 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.<\/p>\n

However, this year I will try again and already started with some basil and sweet \/ hot peppers<\/a> that a nice lady at the greenhouse traded seeds with me.<\/p>\n

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That’s is blog entry number 7 of my new “daily blogging” rehabit<\/a>. Next I will write about the impact it had so far!<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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