2020 Here We Come

The big news for the first three weeks of January 2020 is the weather.  Is there anything Canadians like to talk about more?  Well we have good reason this year so far.

Let's talk about our delightful (not) period of -30 temperatures, the lowest recorded at our house was -39.9 on January 14.  It was a mighty cold week and our geothermal heating could not quite keep up.  So it was time for a space heater in the garage suite where our company was staying (yes, we had Kyla and Chris visiting all during this period) and we kept the masonry heater fireplace stoked all day.  We cocooned in the house, only going out for more cider.

Now we have another issue, it warmed up so quickly that great masses of wet, heavy snow is coming off the roofs.  Len has to work hard to move the snow so that the vehicles can come out of the garage.  He's working off the pineapple upside down cake he had for breakfast.

Len has to use the scrapper to break up the heavy snow before it can be snow-blown

Out with a bang

2019 left us with a bang - on the 31st of December the Highlander, our beloved vehicle, bit the dust.  Actually the tree.  It got sucked into a foot of slush on the side of the road and went down an embankment, stopping abruptly when contacting said tree.  No one was hurt, but the damages to the Highlander were fatal, given its age and the cost of repairs these days.

The tree won

Luckily, BCAA provides wonderful insurance and service and we were actually happy with what they gave us.  However, it will never replace our wonderful Highlander.

Christmas was supposed to be with family, but illness (on their part) interfered, so we were quieter than planned.  Luckily we were able to have a late celebration when they came out in early January.

It was a very Christmassy December, with lots of snow.  A winter wonderland.