The Weather Outside...

Oh the weather outside is frightful... This week we had the first snowstorm of the season. In less than 24 hours, more than 18 inches of snow fell. It was also pretty darn cold out for Deroche at a chilly -13° C. More than -2o° C with the windchill. I stayed at home for 48 hours straight (unheard of in normal circumstances). 48 long, boring, can't-even-get-to-the-store-to-buy-milk hours. Don't get me wrong. I like snow. Snow is one of the few things I miss about Northern Ontario (where I lived for 5 LONG years). Of course, when it snowed there it had the annoying habit of sticking around for months... Still, every time it snows here it creates absolute havoc. People panic, drive off the road and flip their cars. In our defense, the snow in the Lower Mainland is nothing like the dry, powdery stuff that falls in the rest of the country. Oh no. We get wet, slippery snow, frequently followed by freezing rain (as if the weather gods suddenly remember that it's not supposed to be cold enough to snow in lotus-land). To make things worse, cities and municipalities have tiny budgets for snow removal, and if we get a really big dump of snow there aren't enough plows to keep the roads clear. I have, however, come up with a fool-proof method of ensuring it doesn't snow again this season: I am buying a pair of winter boots. The second I spend good money on something, it's guaranteed that I will not need whatever it is I have bought. You can all thank me at the end of the snow-free-rest-of-the-winter.
I have included a picture of my back deck. I suppose I really could have put the patio furniture away sooner. In fact, the reason it probably snowed in the first place is that I left the furniture out. If I had made the effort to put it in the barn, there would have been no need to do so, because it never would have snowed...