Pre-Christmas Dec 2009

Saturday we enjoyed a nice day in preparation for Christmas. It started with Doug volunteering to take us in his truck to cut down a tree. We found a beautiful hemlock that is one notch above a Charlie Brown tree! After that score, we stopped at the Community Hall to drop in the Winter/Christmas Market and browsed around, had a quick chair massage, some tasty lunch and lots of socializing. After lunch we dragged Doug back to our house to help us install Christmas lights. We were well on our way with this year's installation on the house, the fence and in the apple trees, and along came our friend Robert for a visit. So, after a tour of the estate (and some garden planning tips) we went inside to warm up and have a cup of tea. Doug scampered off to pickup Rachelle from a day of wowing people at the Market and hang some lights at their neighbour's house. Soon after that Frank and Mary Jane dropped by.

Well! With that many people on hand, we realized we had a full crew to prepare, mount and decorate the tree. There was only 1 minor glitch in the tree prep, as a slightly misplaced hammer swing put a hole in the plastic bowl that holds the tree's drinking water. Being the resourceful crew that they were, a glue gun was found and applied, along with a proper seal of duct tape, and presto, it was good to go! So up went the tree and we got busy preparing the much anticipated meat loaf for dinner. The wine was poured, hot apple cider was served and the oven was turned on. After about an hour of tree decorating, we realized the oven wasn't working properly, we decided to turn on the BBQ to cook the meatloaf. And voila! It's beginning to look a like Christmas. :)
The meatloaf was delicious, and everybody went to bed tired and happy. Sunday morning we woke up to a beautiful tree, Christmas songs playing on the stereo and, you guessed it ... Rain. A long winter's rain. So our outing on Saturday was well timed. Then to the kitchen I fled and what did I find? Charred loaf tins. Ya gotta love the meatloaf :)