November 28

The days may be short but that huge fireball, now sitting low in the sky, reflects in dazzling ways.  This is what I saw driving into town yesterday.  Not quite a sundog but it silhouetted the trees against the mountain drawing the eye there again and again.

And it was time for the Seniors' Soiree again.  As part of Festival of Trees, the walls were lined with sponsored Christmas trees, some valued up to $12,000.  I would have bought tree #4, Angelina's Boutique (if I had lots and lots of money).  A near second was the spectacular Snow White Tree which unfortunately I didn't take a picture of.  Anyway, shared a table with my line dancing group and all eyes were on us when we were  strutting out stuff on the dance floor.  It was a great evening of friends, food (a wee bit of wine thanks to Barb) and dancing, all in support of the Whitehorse General Hospital.

Our food store

Not to dwell on this subject, but we have two large grocery stores and 3 small, almost boutique ones (that of course is not counting Riverside Groceries, the tiniest shop that sells almost anything you could possible want - can't find it in any other store, go to Riverside and there it is!!!!).  Now that one of the two large stores is closed, you would think that the only remaining large store would realize this fact and order more food.  Nope.  So they just keep running out of the most popular foods and apparently that is OK.  I had to return the President's Choice Organic Brown Rice that I purchased the other day (it was the only brown rice available that day).  I cooked it up and found that it have lots and lots of husk and some kind of black hard rice that almost breaks your teeth if you bite down on it unsuspectingly.  As I was in the grocery store and as I have been complaining about our choices, I thought I would walk through and take some photos to show that our shelves ARE about 1/3 empty.  So there.

My Beef

We've just recently returned to Standard Time.  Daylight Savings Time is a SUMMER thing, when we already have more daylight that one can almost handle.  I was driving home the other day at around 4:30 PM and the daylight was already waning.  We could have used an hour or so more of daylight ...  and it will only get worse (that is darker and darker) until December 21st (the winter solstice - the shortest day, the longest night) at which point the daylight will start to get longer, but ever so slowly.

Shopping

Went to visit my son on the weekend.  We went out for a stroll with 2 babies and 2 dogs (2 dogs tied up outside the store and busy sniffing and sniffing the poles).  And he had to do grocery shopping so he pushed the stroller around the super market while I pushed the cart to collect the groceries.  People kept stopping him and looking at the "cute" babies...  lots of ooooos and aahhhhhhs.  I, at one point said I wanted to take his picture in the market and he said NO!!, it's too embarrassing.   You can see who won out!  But I had to do it quickly.  No second takes here.

P.S.  I have just been complaining about our supermarkets running out of food.  For example was in The Real Canadian Super Store the other day and they didn't have any cans of pumpkin and about 1/3 of their shelves were bare.  The store we were in was one of 3 small (and more expensive) grocery stores, one of which is located in Porter Creek, a baby stroll away from SR's house.

Hallowe'en, so much fun

Ah, Hallowe'en.  Alanna, the pretty flower and Emerson, the scary lion, all dressed up for this special day.    They were in their costumes all day and went to a kids Hallowe'en party.  I was shown a photo of their party which was held a someone's house.  All the babies (it looked like at least 10 of them, all under the age of one) were sitting on a couch.  They all looked so cute all dressed up, the little angels.  Then I saw the video of all those cute little things sitting on the couch.  With motion and sound the picture was so different - most of them squirming and crying and crying.  I laughed.  

Even the dogs were dressed for this occasion.  Timber the spider and Lily the lion.  Everyone went to the door when the trick or treaters came, lions, flowers, and spiders and of course the artist Brooke was dressed as who I didn't know but she did look good (unibrow, flower in her hair which was braided and tied up around her head and I think south american ... do you know who she was??).

Lily was so brave as people in masks and costumes scares her and then she barks.  Timber is famous for running away when given the chance.  With an open door filled with kids in costumes, the dogs were perfect and the kids loved the fact they were dressed up.

90 or so treaters later, I turned off the lights as all my candies were gone.  And I heard Whitehorse ran out of Hallowe'en candies.  What a town!

Can't wait to see what everyone will dress up as next year!