12-21-25 Shots Fired
At 5:38 am I felt a little poke in my side and it was time to get up. After breakfast, Gwen couldn’t wait to do the days puzzle. She was pretty good at it for just turned 4. I had them get dressed and I did Emmy’s hair.
I had Emmy help me break down all my Lego boxes and we fit them in one big Lego bag. Gwen thought the parts bags were the best and finally helped us put them into bags for recycling
Danika called that there were police roadblocks outside the trailer park and they couldn’t get in to pick up the girls for church. apparently something ‘spicy’ was going on and they had the tracker dog out. I wandered outside but there was only silence. That was when I remembered that I thought I’d heard a gun shot. I am so used to hearing random fireworks going off around here that didn’t even click. I texted Tracey and she said yes she had heard something as well. Ran offered us to get out and go to her place for safety, but I felt that unless they came around to tell us to shelter in place it must have been targeted and we were not in danger.
Malcolm dropped Danika and Thea at church and then around 11 was finally able to get in and pick up the girls. I proceeded to get myself ready to get on with the day as I was going to be meeting them at 1:30 for Santa Photos.
I was on the phone with Randy who wanted to make plans to meet for coffee when there was a knock on the door. It was an RCMP member and I laughed and said oh I would’ve expected you a few hours ago. He asked if I had seen anything and did I have a security camera which of course reminded me that I do and I started playing clips from around 9 o’clock when he said the incident had occurred and my camera caught at 9:06 3 different gunshots. He was very happy to learn this and did a quick recorded interview with me and then sent me a link to upload the recordings. I asked him what had happened and he said that someone was very angry at another person and was shooting, but I don’t believe anyone was hurt. I’m going to guess it was a domestic.
I did meet Randy at Starbucks and we had a nice visit as much as he is an enamoured of me and seems like a nice man. I think we’re a little bit too different. He’s a morning person not much into technology has a very simple life, but would love to go on a road trip with me. I have to think about that. It seems a little bit hasty to make a decision, but I did agree to go out for dinner with him while he is in town.
From there, I met at the mall for Santa pictures although Thea wouldn’t join Emmy and Gwen with me I did manage to get a little picture with her in the end. I can’t wait for Danika to send me some of the pictures when she gets the USB set up at home.
I headed off to superstore and used the gift card that I was given by a client to buy the rest of the groceries that I needed for Christmas breakfast and some Lego sets for myself as well as some 50% off Christmas lights and an inflatable Christmas tree. It was all covered by the gift card and was a lovely treat. I dropped the groceries off at home and then met the rest of the family at Santa, who had a good chuckle that I was there for the second time that day. Following the pictures, I was invited to join them all for the Crozier/Guedes Christmas dinner. I went back to superstore and I had exactly enough left on the card to cover buying a big Caesar salad to bring. Dinner was wonderful and I had stopped at home to pick up the Baja Rosa and black Sambuca to create volcano shots to share and they were a big hit.
I’m heading to bed early for me as I have been up for a very long time and had a great deal of excitement today
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