Walking Sisters: February 2017

Sunday, February 26, 2017

February 25 Liberty Village Little Libraries

Map of the Little Libraries we found

Found 11
Walked 12km
Had good coffee at an Ethopian Coffee Shop
Picked up a couple of books, left a couple of books,
left a Walking Sisters booklet in each Little Library

First Little Free Library of the day

164 Dovercourt

229 Lisgar
Funky Little Library and matching hydro pole.
In the style of Keith Haring

Whimsical art on Afton Avenue

12 Mackenzie
Nice red and white LFL at a heritage house

12 Mackenzie Heritage House built in 1890

Borrowed Cool Water

Tiny house we saw on Foxley Street

Eye catching mural on the house at 8 Humbert Street

The Lending Library in The Theatre Centre at 1115 Queen.
It's in an old Carnegie Library.
The books were in a hallway next to the cafe.

25 Liberty

Timely book to read -
The Life of Manny - Discovering Why People Follow a Leader

One sister took Manny,
the other left Cooking School Provence

Took a coffee break at Bu'na the Soul of Coffee
an Ethopian Cafe
1163 Queen W

Bu'na's interior

Our dogs waited patiently as we enjoyed some really great coffee.

After coffee we walked back to the $5-all day parking lot at Queen and Fenning,
then drove over to the Roncesville area for a few more Little Libraries.

43 Galley

Took Unprejudiced Palate. Left Madame Benoit

60 Galley

Unicorn on Roncesville

- a different kind of bicycle accessory

151 Marion at a jewelry shop (Jewel Envy).
They painted their box with diamonds.

Eye-catching title

211 Sunnyside
Stumbled upon this Little Library

Took a book that looks self-published,
The Whisky-Haired Man by Patty Archer

37 Alhambra

47 Indian Trail
At a home publishing business, Inclusion Press

The total for the Little Library hunting adventure

The other sister did 5000+ steps
in the morning before the LL adventure

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

February 20 2017 - Family Day Little Library Hunting in Wychwood

Family Day outting
Fantastic weather - sunny and warm
11 Fabulous Little Libraries
French bakery break

Boon

The Boon box used Little Free Libraries stickers
to mark each of the books.

Good idea.

Signed the guest notepad.

Left a Walking Sisters booklet.

Appleton

An interesting book cover in the Appleton little library.

Mt Royal

Stopped in at the Alcoa Portuguese Bakery on Davenport.

Picked up some Portuguese scones - Bolos Levedos.

Rushton.

Nice barn shaped Little Library.

Tyrrel.

Stumbled upon this one on the way to another

Little Library about 5 houses down the street.

The other Little Free Library within view.

Tyrell.
Full Nelson #31 zine inside.

Our map said there was another one on Tyrrel

so we backtracked to it. Glad we did.

Braemore Gardens

Fried Green Tomatoes.

One of us never watched the movie,

which was a surprise to the other sister.

Zombie book cover

Helena

Stumbled on this one. It was not on our map.

The house across the street from the Helena Library.

So colourful - blue, red, yellow.

Ellsworth

Oh look, a book about coffee! Not.

From Ellsworth we made our way over to Bathurst and

found a favourite ice cream store - Dutch Dreams. It had

closed down but it's back in business. Except not today. :(

Another reason to return to the area.

We liked the name of this laneway.

Tragic story though.

What’s in a lane: 10 Wychwood alleys named for local stories

For a break, we stopped off at a French bakery: Pain Perdu, 736 St Clair Ave W,
for coffee and florentine cookies (lightly sweet sliced almonds).
Great service. The french food menu looked very good but we didn't stop for lunch.
(Surprisingly, I forgot to take a picture).