Look carefully and you can see the angel

Look carefully and you can see the angel on the window ledge, helping Grandma to do the dishes. 

These ladies too!

 

The ladies came for lunch

 

Here's the finished result

 

Mom is decorating the Christmas tree

 

Here's our little angel

 

Mom's baking

This is the only angle that I could capture all of the baking that Mom did to donate to the Jubilee Manor bake sale - 35 trays of goodies!

mountain ash

This was the scene from our window last weekend, lovely berries and leaves still on the trees. This weekend the leaves are all gone, but I picked a handful of raspberries. They had been frozen and were thawed but they tasted mighty fine for November berries. 

here's the Halloween outfit

couldn't tell if I was outfitted as a flashback or an hallucination!
But I thought that it was pretty good since I haven't worn this outfit for about 30 years, and I was stylin' back 30 years ago. How times have changed!! 

and here's where we hung them

As you can see, they are hung over the table with the pink flower arrangement, on the wall that backs onto the front door closet.

the birds

This is the way that we framed the Aussie birds that I received for a birthday present. 

Kaelum's shower

We had a lovely shower at work to welcome Kaelum. Potluck appies - always my favorite. And Shirley brought a terrific cake. Come to think of it, there were 3 cakes! No wonder we were smiling! 

Pam & I

and the last of the turkey shots! 

a great shot of Mom and Jimmy

I'm sure that is all the red that they were wearing - not the glow from the wine they were drinking! 

The other side of the table

This is Mom and Jimmy and Rick, Lorraine's brother. 

Rod & Pam

Lorraine is house-sitting for an couple who have emigrated from England and their house shows their roots, looking rather British. We had a lovely dinner, as you can tell! 

Our Thanksgiving Dinner

Here's the cook and Mom and Jimmy. Kim was sick. What a feast we had! 

Carol's retirement party

Carol finally packed it in after slaving away for many years. She will slave in a different location because she is such a hard worker that she can't just do nothing! We had a lovely dinner at the Prestige. 

Towards the light

This way is towards where the water will enter the tunnel. We felt very small! 

Inside the tunnel

This is inside the water tunnel at the dam. They will be blasting out a 10 foot wall of rock once the generator is in place but we were able to see what the inside looks like. It was about 300 feet down an adit and it was damp. 

the gang

We toured the Brilliant Dam expansion project. They are adding another generator to increase the power production and have been working since 2003. The project is nearing completion and the production company was delighted to show everyone how things are going. They took us in schoolbuses into the tunnels they have created and had guides present to give information and answer any questions. 

The old train station, now museum

This is the train station that saw many visits by my family. At the time we lived in Flin Flon there was no road out of town, not that we had a car. So when we went to visit, or had visitors come to see us, we always went by train. This station is now in a different location than when we last visited it in January 1957, when we left Flin Flon for Atikokan, Ontario. 

Josiah Flintabattey Flonatin

This is the statue at the tourist park. The statue was designed by Al Capp, creator of the L'il Abner comic strip. From a novel written about 1900 by J.E Preston-Murdock. The prospectors who staked the first claims in the area in 1915 found the novel, The Sunless City, near the trail. "Flin Flon" set out in his homemade submarine to explore a bottomless lake and ended up going all the way to the centre of the Earth, finding all kinds of precious metals along the way. When the prospectors saw that their vein of ore went under a lake they named both the camp and the lake "Flin Flon". In 1929 the CNR telegraphed them, now the Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Company(HBM&S) that if they didn't hear differently, the new station would be called Flin Flon. And that is how the town where I was born ended up being named after a science fiction character! 

The smokestack and the slag heap

Then we approached Flin Flon and saw the smokestack and the head frames for the mine and the town in the distance. All rock. From the smelter? Or from the Canadian Shield? 

very interesting rock formation

Of all of the interesting rock formations, this was the most interesting - looked just like someone had laid a brick wall along the side of the road with this yellow stone.