Christmas By the Sea

This weekend is Christmas By the Sea in Lockeport - a small, local celebration to kick off the season.

Last evening there was a town tree-lighting in SeaCaps Park. It began with a light exchange - if you brought in 2 strings of old incandescent Christmas lights, you were given a new 35 light LED string by Nova Scotia Power for free. We had several old strings that came with our house so we got 2 new strings - an excellent energy saving idea.

The actual programme consisted of carolling by the pre-school children (3 and 4 years old). They had 6 or 7 songs to sing - all verses, very well done. Then the elementary school students sang for us - very lustily. A few short words from the NSP representative, then the mayor had us all yell "Git er done" a few times until we were loud enough that the elf in charge of the tree lights turned them on.

The evening was capped with hot chocolate and Timbits for all. I was drafted to serve hot chocolate - a nice warm job. It was about 9 degrees when the programme started but the wind picked up and the temp dropped quite a bit. Still a lot warmer than Ottawa.

There are sales this weekend at the local stores and post-office, food offerings, prize draws and tomorrow a craft fair at the Beach Centre with a luncheon available. Lots of fun, and the weather is glorious.