A Fun Game

Here's a good one I saved from Plowing Through Life. Lol.

Here is a fun game from Google called Dr Who's 50th Anniversary, in honour of it. The premise of the game is 'those dastardly Daleks have stolen the Google letters and we need Doctor Who to retrieve them'. If you have kids who like video games, they might enjoy it! I had trouble retrieving even the first letter G.

Paint Party Friday - The View

Welcome to Paint Party Friday!

I found this old art journal (approximately 5" x 7") in my stash and decided to start using it for sketches.

Here is a sketch of the view from my window, from a photo taken last month. It's done in watercolour pencils.

Vegetable Tray

Happy Thanksgiving to our US neighbours!

mini sweet peppers, snap peas

This was my lunch the other day, using leftovers from my husband M's Grey Cup Football party. I got this delicious vegetable tray from Costco containing some different ingredients. There were some miniature sweet peppers and some sugar snap peas in addition to carrots, tomatoes and broccoli. I had also bought a large tourtiere meat pie. I didn't even know you could eat snap peas raw like that and they were crunchy and delicious. So were the sweet peppers. I thought at first they were hot peppers.  It came with a garden ranch dip.

Snow Tires

I took my car in to the service centre to have the snow tires put on.  I asked the serviceman if he was new there.  He told me he started in May.  Prior to that he worked at a similar place.  But he had moved as he wanted a job close to home.  He has been in the business since he was 19 and he is now 36.  He seemed happy in his job.

This place has a complimentary shuttle service.  They use retired men to run the service and they are always full of interesting conversation.  On my way home, we spoke of the upcoming Pan American Games next summer, all the bad mayors, all the road construction, you name it.  For the return trip to get my car, he made good points.  For example, people shouldn't complain about the snow because the people who work in the ski resorts are happy, it's good for their business.  I learned that the service centre is slow in January and September.  January because everyone's broke after the holidays.  September because everyone's broke after dealing with their  kids' school expenses!  It's the same for all the stores and they have to run sales to keep their cash flow going.  Then we decided the restaurant and grocery business (and indeed even my hairdresser) is happy at Christmastime because  all the parties and festivities bring in a lot of business for them.  The summertime is also a good time for the restaurants.  Indeed his daughter has a restaurant and hires a lot of students in the summer.  It all works out when they have to return to school in the fall as business slows down.

So these are the interesting tidbits for today, I think I learned something.

Advent

Here's a good one I got from an email!

And here is a neat ping pong game you can play, but you have to be really good to beat the computer!

I went to church on the weekend.  The deacon gave his sermon using a Samsung tablet!  He faltered a couple of times losing his place as he moved his fingers over the 'pages', but his message was clear by the end!  Good for him!   Plans for the Christmas pageant are underway.  Advent starts next weekend, right after the US Thanksgiving.

Healthy Snacks

My husband M was on a business trip to the U.S. last week. He brought back some healthy snacks. One of those says it's a wheat free gluten free snickerdoodle cookie, it was so delicious!!  It's from WOW baking company. There is even a blueberrycrisp energy bar there along with some fruity snacks.  It's nice that there is a switch to healthy snacks everywhere now.

 M had a Grey Cup (Canadian) football party yesterday at our house with a bunch of friends.  Wish I was a sports fan.  Apparently the game was not exciting, too bad.  But everyone had a good time.

I bought several Christmas gifts on the weekend, they are playing lots of Christmas music on the radio and the malls scream gift shopping with their tempting displays. And the weather became freezing cold along with snow!

Sunday Sketches - Festive Dress

I've done a Festive art greeting card on gold card stock for Sunday Sketches (6"h x 4"w). I saw a photo of a model wearing this pretty dress and loved how it swirled about her legs. Are you getting into the holiday spirit?