Why don't they fly direct?

OK. So I have to go to Imperial, NE next week instead of Indiana this week. Thanks to booked flights and limited service from small Saskatchewan cities to even smaller U.S. towns, I'm flying to Omaha via Winnipeg and Chicago. My return trip will be via Denver and Calgary. I'll likely stay there since the rest of Jo Dee's family is driving to Didsbury that night for Hildebrand Christmas. Does it seem rediculous to anyone else that I have to fly over 3 provinces and 9 states to get to Omaha and back? The direct route sure looks a lot shorter!

Tim

Christmas Decorating at Mom and Dad's!

As you can see mom and dad are really enjoying the tree;)

Christmas Village

We have started Christmas decorating. Jo Dee is so excited. This is her new Christmas village that she was so happy to get that her hands clasped in delight. The styrofoam base was free (left in the junkpile in our garage when we bought the house). No project can be completed without making a new tool for the job. In this case, a hot wire foam cutter made from a soldering gun and a piece of copper wire. It worked better than the tool I made to melt seams in vapour barrier poly. That one almost burnt the house down.
My favorite part of the diorama is the fact that the cords are hidden (and the word, "diorama"). Jo Dee's is the Church.

Tim

Lights

Although we seem to be the only people on the street with Christmas lights, I thought that today's warmth was a sign to put ours up. There seems to be a big difference in price for Christmas lights in Saskatoon. While LED's seem like the thing to have, we didn't have the money so we went for traditional lights. The colour? With green trim and shingles, there wasn't much choice. Our first lights were purchased at Canadian Tire for $11/strand. We then returned them for $8/strand lights at Peavey Mart. Much to my disgust, I found the same lights for $5/strand at Co-op just after putting ours up. Oh well. It's done, and it wasn't 40 below when I did them and we've got a little more Christmas spirit than we did yesterday.

Ahhh Friends!

I love to blog and I love to blog almost anything. Why not about our little dinner party of 4 the other night! All I can say is that friends are important and a blessing....and so is food, so why not put them together!