Day: June 19, 2023
Eight Weird Laws In The Province Of Ontario
MOWING : In London, Ont., the city takes lawn mowing very seriously. If you leave your lawn to grow higher than eight inches, a city worker will come and mow your lawn for you. They will also send you the bill.
GARAGE SALES : There are laws in Toronto governing how long a garage sale can last and the number of garage sales a person can have within a year. The Toronto Municipal Code states the law of two and two, which means a home may not hold more than two garage sales within a year, and each one may not last more than two days.
BATHTUB LAW : In Etobicoke, Ont., there is a local bylaw that states that a bathtub should not be filled with more than three-and-a-half inches of water – not a very large amount at all.
INTERNET SPEED : The town of Uxbridge, Ont., has strict limits regarding Internet speed. The local law limits internet speed to 56k, which was the average speed in the mid-1990s when dial-up modems were more common. Obviously, that law isn’t really followed anymore.
WATERING LAWNS : In Markham, Ont., the city limits outdoor water use in the summer between June 1 and Sept. 30. Homeowners are only allowed to water their lawns once a day between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m., and 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. Watering lawns is not permitted during the hottest hours of the day because it’s believed that the sun will speed up the water’s evaporation.
ONLY TWO DOGS PER HOUSEHOLD : In Uxbridge, Ont., each household can only have two dogs. In order to have more than two dogs, homeowners need to either move to a neighbourhood deemed as rural, or invest in a 10-acre lot.
CLEARING SNOW : Sidewalks are the city’s property, but homeowners are responsible for clearing the sidewalks around their property of both snow and ice within 24 hours of a snowfall. If you fail to comply, the city will clear the sidewalk and send over the bill.
CLOTHESLINES : Mississauga restricts the use of outdoor clotheslines. Homeowners can have only one clothesline per home, they must be located in the backyard and no higher than three metres, and placed 1.25 metres from the property line.
My Favorite Childhood Summer-time Past-time Was…
Ok so I had several favourite childhood summer time activities that I loved. Let’s look at them as sub-activities of one major activities. Spending time with my cousins. Even though I had a great set of friends at school, I never really hung out with them during the summer holidays. Usually it was one or 2 who lived near me, that I perhaps saw a couple of times during April & May months but usually summer vacations were meant for family.
And hence the things we did as a group of cousins were the best things and things I looked forward to. Our families would gather in my maternal grandmother’s house in Mattancherry. Sometimes the adults would stay for a while and then go back while we kids stayed back. So we played football and cricket in the little bit of land that was in front of our grandma’s house. That as what we did during the day time straight after breakfast. We would stop for lunch and a bit of rest and played till 5 or 6pm. Evenings were us going to get cool drinks at a nearby shop and then waiting our turns to take well needed showers.
Evenings would be spent drinking tea and some snacks while playing either card games or board games like Monopoly or Hind Trade. Dinner would be at around 8pm or so and then it would be us watching a movie or two that we had selected from one of the nearby video stores and then by midnight we would fall asleep in one of the two big rooms that was assigned for us kids. Magical and fun filled days.
Prompt from JUNE BLOG PROMPTS {12 MONTHS OF WRITING IDEAS} #BLOGPROMPTS at Food Fun Family