Canada Without Bears
Oct. 29th, 2024 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smokingbootBadger's back looking tanned and happy. He didn't get to see bears. Somehow he seems to have been living close to a Mennonite community. I am confused about this as I don't think the family member he visited is part of any such group, so does she live in a suburb nearby or what? I had no real chance to find out as everyone was talking together and a whole bunch of conversations were happening at the same time.
He mentioned Lake Erie as well as a little graveyard he visited full of Scottish surnames, but his fascination was with that almost lost world, electricity-free, horses ploughing the fields and buggies riding by. He mentioned the separation of alcohol shops, how some would sell spirits and others wine or beer (Mennonite thing or Canadian thing?), how sometimes produce would be left outside in crates, and you just rock up and take what you need leaving something appropriate in the honesty box. He mentioned how expensive it was though I don't know if he meant the alcohol or everything. He spoke of a nuclear power station near either the community or Lake Erie. What an interesting combination of worlds! Will he go back? He grinned at the suggestion. It's clear he loved it all.
I am so used to considering Canada as a cold place of beautiful wilderness, Anne of Green Gables, and the CN Tower. Just goes to show that I've got a lot to learn, and you know, one day...
But when it happens, I must remember there's more to Canada than bears.
He mentioned Lake Erie as well as a little graveyard he visited full of Scottish surnames, but his fascination was with that almost lost world, electricity-free, horses ploughing the fields and buggies riding by. He mentioned the separation of alcohol shops, how some would sell spirits and others wine or beer (Mennonite thing or Canadian thing?), how sometimes produce would be left outside in crates, and you just rock up and take what you need leaving something appropriate in the honesty box. He mentioned how expensive it was though I don't know if he meant the alcohol or everything. He spoke of a nuclear power station near either the community or Lake Erie. What an interesting combination of worlds! Will he go back? He grinned at the suggestion. It's clear he loved it all.
I am so used to considering Canada as a cold place of beautiful wilderness, Anne of Green Gables, and the CN Tower. Just goes to show that I've got a lot to learn, and you know, one day...
But when it happens, I must remember there's more to Canada than bears.
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Date: 2024-10-31 03:49 pm (UTC)They probably are a distance from the city proper. It's just that ten or fifteen miles from a place in NAmerican terms means 'round the corner'. You can still be in the same municipality.