Anticipation was making me wait......

They say that close only counts in horseshoes, but close was good enough for me last week. Our local news station, Global BC news, has a weekly contest called "the weather window." I don't make these names up, Wayne Cox did. It features one photo of BC per night, with a weekly winner announced on Fridays. It is seen all over BC. which is pretty cool, and since they upped the ante and started offering a $200.00 gift card to ABC restaurants the competition has been fierce just to get one of your photos featured. I was a lucky contestant again last Wednesday, with Wayne featuring my White Rock sunrise photo. Trust me, it is exciting just to be featured. My sister Turf Toter, up in Armstrong was watching the news, when she realized that Wayne was mispronouncing my name, and that the photo was mine. And my Mom and Dad even managed to see it this time. Last time there was some confusion over which photo was mine. And by the time they figured it out, it was gone. I was working a late shift on Friday night when the winners were announced also but, my manager let me watch it on the bank of TVs that we sell. I stood in anticipation, while Wayne Cox seemingly meandered around describing various weather conditions, knowing that any minute a customer could walk by and require help, or I could be paged. Would I get to see my photo? Would I win? He finally announced the "Weather window contestants" and all five photos flashed by. There was mine! Oh the excitement! "And the winner is........oh......it wasn't mine. But I was close, and that might only count in horseshoes, but it meant a lot to me. I am enabling word verification temporarily since the spam box is overflowing lately. It will only be for a few days, hopefully they will lose interest in my blog by then. Please bear with me. Jen