Friday, April 25th - narrowly missed a return to winter!

We were told to expect perhaps 2 to 4 cms of snow last night but fortunately it's just a light dusting this morning, although it is -1' , so not quite as spring like as earlier in the week.  We should reach a blistering high of 2' later and the sun might peek through from time to time but that's about it.
It's been a busy few days at work, but the week is finally winding down.
This weekend will be a tasty one with the 2nd annual pancake breakfast at the Rec Centre on Sunday morning - pancakes, sausages, eggs and beans for 150 people - who will all be arriving at the same time, after church. Can we do it? You bet we can. We proved that last year. It was the first ever and Brenda was eager to give it a try. By all accounts, it was a great success, so hopefully this year will be just as good. Of course it takes a lot of help to pull it all together and I'm sure those folks will be there again this time. It was a bit of work but a lot of fun.

Lloyd isn't worried about a few flurries. He's busy getting his seedlings started for the garden. They're coming along quite nicely. He's been doing lots of research (it's what he does best!) and will start the seeds at various times depending on how long they will take to grow. It's still a while until they will be able to go into the ground (the snow still needs to melt off the garden) so these early ones should be quite a good size by then. We were a little late getting things in the ground last year but this year should be much better.



The chickens have really been enjoying the nice weather earlier this week. They are outside early in the morning and enjoy digging around in the dirt. They were enjoying it so much that I had a hard time to get them to go inside. Lloyd was working 4:00 to midnight this week so it fell to me to lock up the birds for the night. They were having nothing to do with going inside as long as it was daylight out so I had to wait till after dark. Of course, three brave hens decided they would rather stay out to play and put up quite a battle. Chasing chickens isn't something I'm really good at but eventually I did get them inside. Good thing there's not too many of them. Last night it was raining quite heavily when I got home from work and I was pleased to see that the door was closed and they were safely locked inside. Sliding around in the mud chasing chickens was not how I would have enjoyed ending my day.