Thursday, 12 January 2012

A Safety Message - don't leave candles unattended!

Happy New Year to you all!  I'm sure you are busy making many plans to celebrate your upcoming holiday with both your family and friends.

As you know, our New Year celebration here only lasts 1 day... January 1st.  This year, 15 minutes into the New Year, Stephen and I had a stroke of bad luck.  We had a fire in the sun room of our house.

During New Year's Eve we had a party at our house.  I had set up a beautiful candle display for our sunroom.  Basically the candles burned to a point where the melted wax spilled onto the table and onto the floor.  Long story short, the carpet and furniture caught on fire and smoke billowed everywhere.

However no one was hurt..... we were able to put out the fire ourselves... and after 3 days of cleaning up after the smoke damage, life is pretty well back to normal.

However my lesson will last a lifetime... my love for candles will no longer entice me to light them!

On another note, we have been having quite a mild winter so far.... just a few flakes of snow occasionally and the temperature has rarely gone below zero.  However it rained last night and the temperature got cold at the same time.  The following pictures are what we woke up to this morning in our front yard!  Click on the pictures to see Canadian icicles....



Take care and hope your upcoming celebrations are safe and wonderful!

Jo-Anne

1 comment:

Gang Wang said...

Wa Wa Wa!!!Please take care your home and another things is worth to note. And notice the temperature changing for your family. Now I am in luxembourg get the training and here is a beautiful place where fresh air.