We have purchased tickets for a 10:30 entrance.
During a non-covid year people arrive anywhere between 10 am and 5 pm. Now we are asked to purchase tickets online for different times of the day which are set by the farm manager. Our time was booked for 10:30.

WELCOME TO THE CHRISTMAS MARKET

These ladies make masks but I was naturally more interested in what they were wearing.
The lady in the lightening bolt jammies suggested to come back in the summer to see what they have to offer--then summer it is.

I took a brief look around in here when we first arrived. I also came back for another peek-a-boo later in the afternoon when I have planned to do my shopping before heading back to Calgary.

One of us could not pass up this HUMUNGOUS/GOOEY cinnamon bun.

We later took a stroll down to the frozen Sheep River.

PRO PELLE CUTEM

Along our path towards the river we pass a collection of old buildings and this is a sign in one of them.

"Pro pelle cutem (a Latin phrase meaning “a pelt for a skin”) is the traditional motto of the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC). It was adopted soon after the company received its charter in 1670 and has remained on the HBC coat of arms, apart from a brief period of rebranding between 2002 and 2013.
Both the origin and the interpretation of the motto have been much debated. It may be an adaptation of pellem pro pelle from the Biblical verse Job 2:4 (usually translated as “skin for skin”) or of pro cute pellem by the Roman poet Juvenal in his Satire 10, line 192 (“hide in place of skin”). The motto is often taken to mean “[animal] skins obtained at the cost of [human] skin."

Photo taken this past September of the old buildings along the path.

This sign was hanging out amongst the leaves and not visible when we passed it going down. Coming back up I rescued the sign and used it as a prop for this photo.

Because of Covid, no one was hanging out in line waiting to sit on Santa's knee.
Besides there won't be any Santa's knee to sit on this Christmas Season.

But I understand the Grinch is walking about
the market so maybe he could be a Santa sit-in.

Dreaming of a South Pacific holiday.

Some more social time while practicing Social Distancing as best we can.

SANTA THE GRINCH