a youtube sunday

I sing in our church choir and after this morning's service we taped the choir and congregation singing Silent Night to upload to YouTube. This is an initiative of the Anglican church of Canada who have challenged other Anglican churches to do the same. Those who do are also encouraged to donate a twoonie for each singer which will be given to the Anglican Padres in the armed forces for use with our troops in Afghanistan. I will post the link once our effort is uploaded. Left directly after church to drive to the Stoney Creek home of my sister who was holding an open house. She designs and makes artificial flower arrangements and Christmas decorations and holds this open house once a year. She and my Father (who carves) have all the artistic talent in the family, I certainly don't. After supper I headed back home to watch the Grey Cup. Good game except the team I wanted to win Saskatchewan blew it with an interception in the last 2 minutes to loose to Montreal. The weather has warmed up here again and no traces of the snow from yesterday.
Doug.

Christmas crowds

Well temps went down last night to -6 degrees C. and the wind was a howling. Started to (caution four letter word) snow mid morning...........but not too bad so decided to head up to Cambridge to go to Costco. Got about 15 km north of here and it started coming down big time had about 4 cm on the ground already. It got so bad I decided to turn around and head home. About 2 km north of town it cleared up and the snow was melting as it hit the ground so just wisps of white in the low areas, funny how the weather can be so different between two close communities. Went into Brantford to see if inspiration would hit for a few gifts I need to get. Well the Christmas crowds were out in full force. hurry, hurry, jostle here, jostle there, everyone in a rush. Didn't get inspired much on the gift side but met the DW in town and we finally did it.......... yes after many many years of wedded bliss we finally............... bought an artificial Christmas tree. Yikes another thing that needs to be put together. I hope I don't end up with spare pieces when I'm finished like I usually do. That little foray up to Cambridge got we wondering why I'm not heading down south about now. Maybe after the holidays. :-(
Doug.

Been a mild fall so far

This fall has been really mild here in Southern Ontario so far, and I haven't seen a flake of snow yet. Well Sue and I went to a retirement seminar for her (I am already retired) last week and she has finally decided when she will be retiring. Not ready to make it public yet but will be within the next two years. Hooray Boy sure am getting envious of all the people who I follow in blog land who are already down south or are heading there. I have spent the last two winters down in the Rio Grand Valley and have had a ball..........this year however, not sure if I will make it down south. After the great trip we had this summer out to Alberta and B.C. I might just sit tight and try to replenish my bank account (and try to pay down the loan for the new truck I got). As you may know Glendale (who made the Titanium 5th wheel I own) went bankrupt last January. Well I just found out that Heartland RV bought the rights to the patented design of the cab over Titanium and are producing a new Bighorn Titanium edition. They have just built the first prototype and it should be at the winter and spring RV shows. May have to start saving my pennies for one of these babies in the future.