Edmonton - Nov 2025

 

This year I would be in Edmonton for the Port Dover Santa Claus Parade but I spent 2 afternoons, working with Brian and Janis, and converted a race tetrahedron into a Christmas tree surrounded by gifts of sailing lessons (not so subtly advertising the sailing school). Last year we converted 2 tetrahedrons into Mr and Mrs Santa. Janis will pull the tree along the parade route.

A very convenient Porter flight from Hamilton and then Edmonton greeted me with snow!

The kids were off school for their fall break so there was lots of time for walks in the snow and trying to make snow men even though there really wasn't enough snow for that.

Iggy (brown and white) and Benny (fluffball) compete for attention. Iggy has the personality of an elderly cat and Benny is a rambunctious puppy with a tendency to chew anything on the floor and eat anything left on the table.

It reminds me of when I used to take care of Heather and Sarah and school mornings started with hair braiding. But, with Maya, it happens the night before and she takes the braids out to go to school because she likes the kinky look (she calls it "the naturally curly look")

I had taken supplies to teach Maya to knit as she is crocheting up a storm, but she struggled a bit with it so we will leave that for now. I did however knit a hat for each of them while I was there. 

One night we had a great display of Northern Lights. Reds and greens streaking up into the sky, 

visible clearly from their back deck, in a residential neighbourhood.

This was taken with Aimee's phone and is brighter than they were in reality but the ones above (taken with my phone) are fainter than reality. They were somewhere between the two.

 

It was nice to be able to visit with Aimee and Mike, spend time with Avery, Maya and River, walk the dogs, shop for and wrap their Christmas presents, eat an ethnic variety of food not available in Port Dover and know that Rick was looking after Rasta and my house (including replacing a thermostat that suddenly stopped turning the furnace off!)

Now its back to my fall routine of fitness classes and rug hooking.