That is the baby barn hiding behind that huge drift.

I laughed so hard when someone said that it was awful that we couldn't get into it.

What's in there?

Gardening equipment!

No need of that for a while!

That, my friends, is melting snow and ice.

Today we had a lot of melting.

We even got the van unstuck.  It had been hopelessly stuck in the ice since the ice storm over the weekend.  We used the faithful truck.  Today a cab driver at the gas station asked if we ever lose it in the woods - because of the camouflage.  And a friend wondered if we had gone to the farm until she saw us (and probably heard us) driving down Main Street (the main street downtown).  We sound like Rednecks now, as well as look like them.  We need a new muffler.  What a racket we make!  Paul thinks it is great fun.

I have been a busy bee with another indoor project.  I will show photos when it is complete.

I am afraid the kitchen make-over prompted more projects.

It made everything else look bad.  After almost 12 years, it is time for some sprucing up.

Weather Report

Last Wednesday:  A weather bomb, meaning it was a horrible blizzard, 0 visibility, howling winds, drifting snow, the worst storm of the season.

Last Thursday:  Digging out day after 41 cm of snow and drifting snow! - no school Wednesday and Thursday

Sunday:  Freezing rain started in the afternoon and continued, along with blowing snow, throughout yesterday.  No school, of course. 

Today:  ANOTHER BLIZZARD, would you believe??!!  Lots of power outages in New Brunswick.  No school again

I think of this as "the winter which will not end."  I do not call it "The Long Winter" as in the Laura Ingalls Wilder book.  They were cold and starving.  We are warm and well fed.  We have not lost our power.  We have had some down time.  God is good! 

Today our van is stuck fast in the ice.  Yesterday it was too nasty to go to the farm even in the 4 wheel drive truck.  That's nasty!