EDMONTON --
While the pandemic has kept a St. Albert woman at home, Joyce Paul has been just fine. She has everything she needs: groceries, police and firefighters nearby, a ski hill in her living room, and, finally, after 22 years, a bank, too.
"The only thing I'm really missing right now is a hospital and a vet store and a pet store," she told CTV News Edmonton.
It's OK; she has time to wait. In fact, the six-storey ceramic Christmas village has been 22 years in the making.
When Paul bought herself the first kit, her granddaughter was nine.
"She says, 'Baba, when you die can I have your village?' I said, 'Well, don't plan on me dying right now, though,'" Paul recalled.