Yummy Mommy

I love snow!

The snow saga continues! We got about 2 feet over night, and although it had stopped snowing when we woke up at about 7:15 this morning, a few hours later it started up again, and it has been going strong ever since. This would be a bummer, except for the fact that, on a whim, I checked the school district website, and HALLELUJAH, they have very wisely decided to close the schools tomorrow! Brodie is at a friends house, but he will be thrilled when he hears.

This is what I get...

So, what do you get for complaining about two inches of snow? Two feet of snow, apparently. That is about what has fallen since we got up this morning to a blizzard that has not let up all day. And it's Saturday, for Pete's sake, and no doubt the roads will be all plowed and ready for driving by Monday morning. Why the heck couldn't this have started Sunday night ~ we would have had a snow day for sure. Sigh. The weather gods hate me.

This was taken at about 2 pm.

And this one around 6 pm.

And it's still falling!

This one's for Laurie

Despite being a total Scrooge about snow, (and yes, the drive in this morning was awful, but I spent $470.00 on new winter tires today, so I am feeling optimistic that tomorrow's commute will be better) I do have to grudgingly admit that it is beautiful. This morning when I let the dog out to do his business, the scene was actually quite spectacular, so I had to take a few pictures. Laurie at Foolery was mentioning how hot their darn summer was, so I thought she could use these photos to do some creative visualization when she needs to cool off!

Thanks for the "donkey award", Laurie.

Ugh

It's here. Winter. In the form of about 2 inches of wet, slippery, yucky snow. I know it doesn't sound like much, but the snow around here is so wet that even a little bit can make driving hell. And of course, since our lovely provincial government decided to privatize road maintenance, ostensibly to save the taxpayer money (which I doubt) but more likely so that their rich road-maintenance company owning friends can get richer, the roads have not been well-maintained. My mom, who lives next door, arrived home at about 6 pm, and said that the one road that connects our little rural community to the town had not been plowed yet. This is approximately 7 hours after the snow started. You'd think they'd have had time to bust out the plows. Especially since snow was in the forecast. One would assume that people who are in the business of maintaining roads (or are supposed to be anyway) would listen to the odd weather forecast, and prepare accordingly.

Anyhoo, I didn't start this post with the intention of ranting. Just wanted to say "Snow ...yucky... here's some pictures." I think I've got the "yucky snow" part covered, so here's some pictures:

It also wreaks havoc on the plants. Here it is crushing my bamboo:

The cat must think she's a snow leopard or something, 'cause she wanted to go out in it:

First Day of Spring???

Two days ago was the first day of spring. Yesterday, we headed of to our cabin for a spring break trip. Yesterday, it snowed like heck! We got about an hour into the 5 hour drive, the highway was slick and the snow was coming down like crazy, so we turned around and went home! The snow turned to a more spring-like rain last night and the roads apparently are bare, so we are trying again today. Wish us luck!

Snowing AGAIN!

Yup, it's snowing again. I'll tell you why this really bothers me. It's not the driving or the shoveling or the cold (although those suck too). The biggest issue is that we can't phone our friends and relatives back east and bug them about the flowers and the birds and the sunshine while they are buried under tons of snow and dealing with sub-zero temperatures (that's below freezing for you Americans!)This ability to trumpet the superiority of our weather is an important facet of our identity out here on the West Coast; without it I am feeling depressed and lost!

Rainy January day!

It was a grey, cloudy day yesterday, and we were sick, but we just HAD to get out of the house to get some fresh air! Here's what our world looked like!

Chloe just had to walk through the water in the ditch!

The lucky kids got pulled in the wagon by mom!

Brodie gt a haircut and now he looks all growed up!

 

Sammy!

Crazy Weather

We had another storm yesterday, and another one seems to be moving in tonight. Thankfully these ones havn't included snow (so far... knock on wood!) Our power did do out again last night for a few hours. Here are some pictures I took of the ambiance.

Even though it is a pain to not have power, it sure is purty!