:: A Winter Welcome ::

WOW is the only way I can describe the weather outside today . . . I am sitting at home bundled up in my snowboard pants and a sweat shirt as I look out my studio window and watch the snow blow outside. The first snowfall of the winter for us here in Lethbridge was a pleasent experience, it dusted the ground lightly and was gone within a few days when the chinook winds blew in from the west. But today is a new day . . . my car is drifted in, I can see patches of my walkway in front of my house whereas other patches are close to 3' high . . . gotta love snowy and windy Lethbridge. If you have ever been to Lethbridge you understand what I mean (especially right at the moment). When wind and snow mix together it becomes a bloody nightmare! If the snow just fell and piles up that would be fine, I could shovel the sidewalk periodically and the walls of snow would build but at least I could get where I am going outside . . . the snow and I could coincide with each other peacefully.

This is not the case, I as dream of being in another place and time this is what I am challenged with:





I can honestly say the images clearly do not do the weather outside my window justice, but you get the idea. It's a blizzard with 45 km winds it is pretty much completely pointless at this point in time to try and shovel my walkway when the snow just blows right back over where it was shoveled 5 mins prior. However I am thankful that the snow here is light and dry and venturing outside does not leave me soaked from head to toe like my native Vancouver Island snowfalls.

To add the bliss I know as Alberta winters (sense the sarcasm) Brad's 4x4 which is our only mode of transportation during times like this is now in the shop with the motor being taken apart (with 36 hours of repair time ahead for Brad, did I say THANK GOD HE'S A MECHANIC!). Needless to say when it rains it pours . . . I know the blessings will come, until then I will pray the nothing else bad comes my way . . .

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!