Tuesday, December 12 - it's beginning to look like --- winter!

The snow started falling yesterday afternoon and accumulated quickly. It's looking quite festive out there but unfortunately it may not last but there's more to come. Hopefully it will wait till I've returned from Halifax on Friday.




 We enjoyed the community school pot luck supper on Tuesday. We were treated to a wide variety of delicious dishes and entertained by some of the students. As usual, a very entertaining evening. The rest of the week was spent getting ready for Friday nights party for the flying club.


 It went okay but once again we learned a lot. Several things to change and do differently next time but a big shout out to Brenda for all her help at several times through out the day and to our other friend Jens for helping out as well.We really could not have done any of it without you folks. Lloyd and I were in town early in the morning to start setting up the tables and Brenda joined us part way through. We were done before lunch so it was a good start to the day. All in all it seemed to go over well but we did learn a lot.


There was a guest speaker at the party, who was one of the pilots who flew the Vimy planes across Canada. As he was telling his story and showing slides of their adventures, who should pop up in one of the photos, but James. They had spent some time in Guelph and the Cadets were part of the event. What an amazing coincidence.

The first part of Saturday was spent doing dishes - lots and lots of dishes. The hall had few facilities or equipment to speak of so everything had to be brought in, and taken back home again to be washed. In the end it was quite a huge task.

The rest of the weekend was pretty quiet. I did some tidying up and pulled out a few of the Christmas decorations. The rest will wait till this coming weekend. We plan to go out and cut down a real tree, with Petra's help, of course. With any luck, we'll have snow for Christmas - the first time she's had that in her life!