Monday, December 5 - Community School ends for another year

Our poor weather just kept on keeping on.  We were fortunate to have only lost power for about 5 hours last Sunday while some folks didn't get their power restored until Saturday, a full 7 days later. Poor weather early in the week compounded the issue. In fact we did lose ours again on Wednesday afternoon for about 6 hours, but then it was back, so no major inconvenience. I sat down with my Ipad and a glass of wine and read a book once it got dark. It was all good!

Tuesday was our final night of community school. After a delicious pot luck supper, the guitar class strummed, the fiddle class fiddled, and all handicraft classes displayed their wares. Some of the quilts were absolutely amazing. There are some very talented ladies in that group.  I can learn a lot from them.

This is most of our group. In the background you can see all the quilts. One lady made a beautiful Thomas the Tank Engine quilt for her grandson. I was reminded about how Thomas crazy James was when he was little, before he discovered super heroes.  Tristen missed the Thomas faze  as his big brother was into Batman and such so he missed the kinder, gentler Thomas. He just wanted to be like his big brother.

As you can see, some lovely work by some very talented individuals.

Thursday evening, Brenda and I got together for some snacks, a glass of wine and a movie. A lovely way to wind down the week.  Then Saturday, Lloyd and I went into town to check out the Victorian Christmas craft fare. It was cold and raining so not a pleasant way to spend the day. I'm sure it had an impact on shoppers as well.  We were glad to get back to the car to warm up.

Sunday was cool, around the freezing mark but not raining so it was a good time to do a couple of jobs outside that hadn't got done. Things were put away that were still hanging around outside - lawn mowers, garden tractors, BBQ, etc.  Then we put up the Christmas lights.  You know you're Canadian when you have several weeks of beautiful mild weather in November but you wait till it's below freezing, snowy and windy to put up the lights. But that's what we do!







And finally,  "Where in the world is Patti?

This weekend she was in Paris. She's not been there for a while and she "Went for a lovely walk this evening on the Champs Elysees enjoying  the Christmas lights and went to the outdoor Christmas market. It was very festive".  She does this like the rest of us go to Tim's !

She sent back some lovely photos

Love the colour of the macarons in the background. Inspires me to make some

Her trip to the grocery store - bread, wine and cheese - how very French for her supper!