Happymerry Jollyberry Part II
Jan. 3rd, 2006 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ltmurnauNew Years was OK, Lianne and I spent it at my Dad's fortified compound on Pender Island. We saw a procession and show down by Magic Lake put on by local people that featured giant puppets, stilt walkers, fire spinners, and a giant glowing dragon floating around on the lake steered by darkened kayaks. It was pretty impressive! I'm sure there were a couple of Burners in the crowd.
[EDIT: It's called the Magic Lake Lantern Festival, and these are the people who put the event on each year:
http://pendercreatives.com/threeonthetree/index.html}
I liked the giant owl best: he looked just like Craig Oliver the CBC correspondent.
The next day there was a windstorm and the power went out for almost nine hours. It went off halfway through cooking a turkey in the oven, so we cooked it the rest of the way in the barbecue outside, and cooked up vegetables and gravy on a Coleman propane stove inside. It was all really good, then we sat around drinking by candlelight and talking over each other really loudly until midnight, when the power suddenly came back on. So we went to bed.
My New Year's resolutions, such as they are:
- cut out sugar
- eat the same food, but less of it
- try to be more productive in all things, even "meaningless" arty ones
- have some worthwhile fun, dammit!
[EDIT: It's called the Magic Lake Lantern Festival, and these are the people who put the event on each year:
http://pendercreatives.com/threeonthetree/index.html}
I liked the giant owl best: he looked just like Craig Oliver the CBC correspondent.
The next day there was a windstorm and the power went out for almost nine hours. It went off halfway through cooking a turkey in the oven, so we cooked it the rest of the way in the barbecue outside, and cooked up vegetables and gravy on a Coleman propane stove inside. It was all really good, then we sat around drinking by candlelight and talking over each other really loudly until midnight, when the power suddenly came back on. So we went to bed.
My New Year's resolutions, such as they are:
- cut out sugar
- eat the same food, but less of it
- try to be more productive in all things, even "meaningless" arty ones
- have some worthwhile fun, dammit!
