Monday, January 13th - What a difference a week had made!

It's a windy 1' this morning and that's where we will stay for the day today. These mild temperatures will be here for a few more days at least.

This time last week we were shivering under extremely cold temperatures with lots and lots of snow. This weekend we were sitting in mud with some sun and some rain. What an extreme week it's been.
It rained pretty much most of Saturday and with even milder temperatures on Sunday, the vast majority of our snow has disappeared. When Patti and Greg and the kids were here we were up to our waist in some places in snow. This photo of our back door certainly shows a different picture from when they left a week ago.

It's unbelievable the amount of snow that has gone.

No doubt this thaw has ruined the ski trails. How unfortunate for the ski resort operators.  It looked so promising when they were able to open ahead of schedule this year. Let's hope the snow returns, but being as it's only the second week of January, I'm pretty sure we're not done yet.  There should still be some dandy skiing in our future.

We had dinner at the VanGaals on Saturday night. What a great evening. Fish and chips, coleslaw and veggies topped off with homemade coconut cream pie. YUMMMM! Good food and great company.

Sunday was a quiet day around here. Lloyd went up to visit our friends in Wheatley River after having spent some time with them on Saturday at the farmer's market. Charles was working on a project that Lloyd wanted to have a look at. As I had slipped on the ice on Saturday afternoon and slightly wrenched my back, I decided to just stay home and take life easy. And that's exactly what I did. I spent pretty much the entire day out in the craft room catching up on some long overdue scrapbooking. It was a lovely day, just working away with the tunes playing. I love my new space!

With the milder weather, Lloyd's been getting a few more eggs from his chickens. We're averaging around 2 to 3 per day. Not a lot but enough for us. Any more and we'd have more than we can handle. The eggs we have been getting would be classified  as jumbo, judging by the weight of them. Most are in the 68 to 75 gram size. Pretty substantial. Although we did get one the other day that is so very tiny it looks really funny with the rest. No idea why it's so small.

But he's pretty happy with what they hens are normally producing.

Lloyd had picked up some fresh ground lamb at the farmers market so we had lamb burgers and salad for supper on Sunday evening. A nice quiet end to a nice quiet day.