Monday, March 23rd - it's Monday so we must be snowed in - again

Conditions at 6:25 am: high winds and -14' feeling more like -26'
Expected later: cloudy and -4' but feeling like -12'

What another crazy weekend. It started out great.
Friday was a pretty nice day. Lots of sun and our road

was finally cleared at least to one lane, so we were able to get in and out. Lloyd had to work a double shift so wasn't home when I got here. It was nice to be able to sleep in my own bed again Friday night after two nights at a B&B downtown.

Saturday dawned nice and sunny and I met Lloyd for coffee before work.  We invited the 'bachelors' in the area for supper Saturday night - Raymond and Bernie who were both on their own. I went with a bit of a Asian theme, starting with chinese dumplings which are usually a hit. Then we had an asian flavoured pork tenderloin, some flavoured rice and bok choy. Dessert was not so Asian - pumpkin pie and ice cream as that was in the freezer. We had a great evening and fortunately it hadn't started snowing before they left around 10:00.

Sunday morning was as expected - lots of blowing snow. It kept up pretty much all day and is still going fairly strong this morning. Brenda was due in from Halifax yesterday afternoon, on her return from Calgary but instead was storm stayed over there. Fortunately school was already cancelled for today and the airline put them up in a hotel and gave them vouchers for food. A mini vacation after the longer one. Hopefully she'll get home sometime today. The bridge was closed for a time but I think it's open again this morning, but who knows for how long. Things were so poor yesterday that at one point even the Hillsborough Bridge was closed. Not a great day.  No word yet on my work but I know I won't be there any time soon this morning as plows were off the road last night and are only just getting to the main roads. Needless to say we're fairly low on the list of priorities and ours was barely passable on Friday.  But it's okay, it's spring now, right? Sometime soon it might actually make it to our area.

( I've just returned from walking down the lane to assess the situation and it's not pretty. The one lane that was opened up on Friday is once again all filled in, making it impassable once more.)

Meghan(2) had a unique experience last week. She had dinner at O'Noir in Toronto. I've invited her to send me a little write up about it so when it's received I'll post it for you to read.



And speaking of food, we had a really great meal on Sunday evening. There was a recipe for Creamy Hummus with Spiced Lamb on top in the new Chatelaine Magazine. We tried it and it was absolutely delicious,  served with warm pita bread.

Served with an Israili Chopped Salad it was a great combination. We'll definitely be making this one again.

That's it - other than snow, not much else to report.