ANOTHER SNOW PICTURE

 And here is the lovely Miss Spacey posing in front of a snow wall along her route in Elliot Lake.  This was taken on March 26!  It was -20 this morning here!  Getting a wee bit fed up with snow and -20 temperatures.

On a happier note, the two new born calves have names.  The grandchildren get to name them.  They are Peanut Butter and Jam!  There was another one born too but no word on a name yet.

Next post will have some pictures of the new house.  Still work to do but a lot done already.  It will be fun to live in it.

SPRING BABIES

Spring in the farm means babies!  One of the cows on Susan’s farm just had twin girls.  Momma is very proud of her little ones.  The cows were purchased years ago for all the grandkids to share.  They get to name the calves. The white calf is now called Snowball.  Not sure what the other one’s name is but I will let you know as soon as I hear.
 

SPRING? NOT HERE!

 

This picture was taken at the Post this afternoon on my way back from town.  It was snowing this morning as well.  When will it even end?  Rejean is still blowing snow and it is March 24!!  At this rate the snow won’t be gone for another month. There really is a lot of snow out there.  Help!!!

MADE IT!

 

I don’t think we quite had 36 inches of snow but in some of the drifts it certainly was. Cleaning off my car the snow was mid thigh high on me.  But for sure there was 24 inches plus.  Very windy but we never lost our power which is a miracle.  Every highway was closed up here. Our little 129 was closed as well as the major highways like 17 and 144. You couldn’t get anywhere until today.  In all our years of living up here - 20 years full time, we have never experienced anything like it.  It was hard work cleaning up. But also a little bit of fun!

SNOW!!!

 Smack dab in the middle of one of the most brutal snow storms we have ever seen in all the years up here.  Rejean blew snow just to get a head start for tomorrow.  From the radar it could snow heavily all night long and judging from what is out there right now, I bet we see the 3 feet predicted.  My oh my…

BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES

 Looks like we are in for an interesting couple of days.  I was at the Post today picking up a package and I went in to see if I should stock up on anything in case we were snowed in for a while but saw nothing I needed so I had a little chat with Cathy.  I have enough food and supplies and wood etc  to last a while so it is not an issue.  The tractor is fully gassed up after yesterday’s 8 inches of snow.  The winds could possibly cause a power outage but we have a generator.  So I guess we will be ok.  We will be working in the new house all day.  The workers are waiting on some missing doors and pieces for the railing plus some other stuff.  Instead of waiting around doing nothing they left but will return when they deliver the missing items.  In the meantime time the plumber hooked up the water so we now have toilets that work and sinks and 1 shower that works.  Our electrician and his apprentice were hard at work today..  Rejean was working on the vanities and I was hard at work taking the paint off the floor.  Not a lot but very easy to deal with. There will be a lot of work to be done in the house in the next month or so.  It is coming together fast now.  It is beautiful. I stand there and look at it and I can’t imagine myself living in such a place.  But then I think of everything we have been thru the past 19 months and I think why not?  We deserve it!!

A LITTLE ICY

It’s that time of year again where one day you get a melt and then it freezes into a driveway of ice.  Very tricky to navigate by car and impossible to walk unless you have your icers attached to your boots.  We have found the best way to deal with this is to spread trap rock the length of the driveway. And the easiest way to do it is to work together.  I get the easiest part.  Driving the tractor slowly behind Rejean while he spreads the traprock.  I even got to get another load!  Makes life easier up north.  Always a good day when I get to drive the tractor!!