Snowblower Heaven

After the amount of snow we've had this year and last, we broke down and bought a snow blower. Here's the proud operator, bunny suit and all.

Oh Tannenbaum

The transformative power of the decorative arts is best expressed in the Christmas tree. Before;

After;

Merry Christmas

Jack the cat had a Christmas hang-over early;

Then we moved on to the main event - with brined turkey and punch. The brined turkey turned out very well, I'd use this Canadian Living low sodium recipe again.

The punch was awesome, a recipe I was inspired to use because we had Aperol and the photos were amazing: Easy Does It Baby.

Sunrise: shortest day

As a non-morning person I do get a thrill out of saying to morning people that I've been up since long before dawn...i don't mention that dawn is at 10 am or later.

The Ladies Who Lunch

We were intrepid hunters, gathers, and lunchers. After acquiring the largest luggage available for all my acquisitions on this trip and a few more objects to put in the luggage, we headed to Joe Fortes for lunch. It was a lovely lunch of multiple courses with wine, oysters and dessert.

Fat Duck Mobile

A family friend/relative has his own mobile food truck; the Fat Duck. After Dim Sum yesterday we all trooped up to see him. The dirty rice was delicious even cold.

 The last time Robyn saw this truck it wasn't all tricked out as a food truck. He thinks it looks nice now...

Vancouver Family Dim Sum

We were happy to be able to see some of Christopher's family for Dim Sum in Vancouver's Chinatown Floata Golden Seafood.

Syd's dad Robyn was running the food mill non-stop and Syd was eating everything in sight.

After dim sum Vern took us to MEC and we stopped for a fortifying coffee afterwards