Moose Stew and Cheese Toast with Partridge Berry Jam

                 

Song from the spirit world by BillyGauthier

So, I was watching this serial killer movie called Suspect Zero on Netflix when I got a call from the front desk of my small hotel.

“Ms. Washington?”

“Yes?”

“Herb Brown is here to see you.”

I thought I was supposed to be at some event that slipped my mind.  I went to the lobby to find a gentleman in his late sixties, early seventies standing in the lobby.

“Hi!  I heard you on the radio this morning.  Wondering if you’d like to come and see my art gallery.”

I said, “Sure.”  Went back in the room, changed, went with this total stranger in his truck with no more information than that.

I spent the remainder of the morning and early afternoon in Birches Gallery with Herb Brown, the proprietor, who knows lots about the people both native and immigrant in the Happy Valley Goose Bay area of Labrador, Canada.

Sedna

I learned about Sedna, the maiden who married a shaman without realizing it.  When she tried to hide from her new husband in her father’s boat, a wind came up threatening to capsize the craft and drown both father and son as well as Sedna.  They pitched the girl into the river.  She held on to the side of the boat and they cut off her fingers.  She fell into the water and became a seal.  Her fingers became all of the fish that the people eat to survive.  She is mother of all the food of the rivers that sustain the people.

Inukshuk

I learned what an ‘Inukshuk’ was and will be on the look out for them for the rest of my stay in Canada. 

The art was fascinating.  The company was wonderful. 

He served me moose stew with garden carrots and potatoes, wild rice and stewed Moose.  I told him I’d never had Partridge Berries and he produced some Partridge Berry jam, which I ate with cheese toast.

The art was fascinating.  The company was wonderful. 

He dropped me back at the hotel and informed me he was looking forward to the show. 

Best adventure after throwing caution to the wind and following a stranger whilst in the midst of watching a serial killer move ever!

Oh!  I've decided to write a children's book entitled Moose Stew and Partridge Berry Jam.  What's it about?  I have no idea, but that is the title!

Happy Adventuring!