Happymerry Jollyberry Part II
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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!
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Date: 2006-01-03 07:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-01-04 02:49 am (UTC)What an absolutely wonderful holiday! It was so BMan. I'm jealous. We had power throughout the entire holiday and I think it would have been better otherwise. Maybe a Coleman stove and candle light are the answer to some of this crazy holiday commercialism.
ps. Would you be terribly peeved with me if I nominated you for the BRB Council?
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Date: 2006-01-06 06:57 pm (UTC)- eat the same food, but less of it
Those were my New Year's resolutions for the past 5 years.
But I always gave up after a week.
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From:no such thing as meaningless arty things
Date: 2006-01-11 04:37 am (UTC)Apologies. Your nomination was cancelled as requested. However, before I could say "uh", Alianne was nominated and seconded and gosh, voted upon. If the post (as I suspect it will be) is offered to her... she will have to decline it. Sorry for that! Ugh. American enthusiastic puppy-dog-ism. Wag.
Also, because it seemed fun to do... I added flash to your non-web-page. Check out Mao now! Wow! (That sounds good, doesn't it?)
Also also, Tivity found this great beverage for us to try out next time...
Something called "Bruichladdich". Pass that on to Alianne, will you? Good man!
Big, Dusty, Squeezy (no pinches!), Hugs.
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