Day 14 A party, some dates, and a plane crash.

Today was a good day.  And not only because I have chocolate.  And brie.  Nope today brought all sorts of good things. First a neighbour stopped in to bring me bread.  The same neighbour that visited me last night and was good enough to drink the evening away with me.  She's a sweetheart.  And then this evening I was invited to a potluck dinner at the home of the nearest neighbour that is here for freeze-up.  I almost didn't go...I was doing schoolwork and, as usual, I was feeling anti-social.  But, last minute I cooked up some potatoes and sausage (having not been to the grocery store for two weeks, my choices to feed many people were quite limited), grabbed a big bottle of rum, tied up the dogs, hopped on the atv and went.  And I'm glad I did.  The host's house is quite large which was good because pretty much all of West Dawson was there...let me think...12 adults and 5 children (including one baby) plus a few people from out in Sunnydale...4 adults and 2 children.  The food was great.  The kids were well behaved (bush kids usually are, it seems) but had a great time running around while the adults drank and yacked.  We were celebrating the success of some of the guests in having been granted the necessary liquor license to have their own distillery, the first one of its kind in the Yukon. The party was great.  Exceptional company, I have to say.  I'm so glad I went.  You know you live in a cool place when everybody has to put on their parkas or anoraks and you go outside and instead of cars and trucks the driveway is full of quads and snowmobiles.  And I walked away with some dates.  I have 3 handsome young men coming for a play date at my house on Saturday afternoon (the eldest is in grade 2) where we plan to read books and play drums.  It will be fun.  And tomorrow a new friend is coming out from Sunnydale to hang out with me while her husband goes out to cut wood with some neighbours.  And then one day next week, the same girl I hung out with last night and I are going to take our quad out to Sunnydale to see the crashed airplane.

yes, you heard me right.  I didn't hear about it until today (there are not a lot of phones over here) I guess on Halloween, while I had company, my friend Laura watched a bush plane crash into some trees right over their property and about 50 meters from the house belonging to the folks that were at my house at the time of the accident.  The way Laura tells it she saw the plane doing what she thought were "manuevers" and it was buzzing along when suddenly it came down and bumped the road and then went back up.  Suddenly the buzz cut out and the plane hit the tops of the trees and the tree it hit just kind of bent over and set the plane down...upsidedown and crunched all up...on the ground.  Well Laura and her husband ran to the plane and she saw the door open and the pilot get out (remember, he was upside down) and start throwing bags of dog food out of the plane.  I guess the dog food was covering the passenger, who lives right near where they crashed.  The passenger had a fair bit of blood on him and was airlifted to town.  I understand he is fine though.  CRAZY, huh?  That makes this a very exciting freeze-up. 

12:28 - Friday, November 9, 2007 - post comment