Alison presented her speech fossil fuels today at the Legion in Picton. It was a pretty dry topic, but she did a great job of the presentation (Claire informed her that she did much better today than she'd done at school assembly ... high praise from a sibling :-) ..). She placed third in her division! High enough to earn a money prize, but low enough to be guaranteed that she will not have to move up to regional competition (to her relief; she really doesn't have the time). Brilliantly, her parents forgot to bring a camera ... *** sigh *** ... however a very kind woman who was visiting took my e-mail address and promised to send a digital photo of the winning students holding their certificates. I'll add that later.
Our "awesome-farmer-neighbour-whom-we-love" Elmer delivered a pick-up full of wood today, so after we got back in from town the kids and I worked as a team, loading the toboggan and pulling it back to the door. Over and over and over again. I did actually reach our original wood supply guy, and he said he would be bringing wood for us early next week ... but since this wood was promised (and paid for) in September I'm not holding me breath. We picked up a gift certificate for a local, excellent restaurant called "Currah's" for Elmer since he was the farmer-angel who plowed us out twice in the last week or so.
It has been SO chilly in the basement these last few weeks; I'm nursing a little fire along and have to go babysit it until it REALLY catches. Hoping for a roaring fire to go along with a relaxing evening ...
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