Yesterday we went to Red Deer and the roads were all clear, driving was just fine. Overnight we got about 4 1/2" of new snow. I went out to shovel off the patio and the approach to the garage. Not much sun, but lots of new snow:
I took these pictures before I shovelled. Not too inviting, is it?
When Joanne and I were little kids we made up a ditty to sing in the car. When we got bored with riding we knelt on our knees on the back seat (this was in the days before seat belts) and looking out the back window, sang, in a minor key, "Line, line go away, Line, line go away, Line, line come back, Line, line come back." We were singing to the white lines on the pavement.Now I think that must have driven our parents nuts, but perhaps they thought it was better than some alternatives. But today I'm thinking I'd like to sing, Snow, snow go away!
We played other games to pass the time travelling. One of them was to mispronounce a word, putting the accent on the wrong syllable. Our Mom completely stumped us once with this mispronunciation: Uhtaw, (not Youtaw/Utah). Written out it's easy to decipher. Try saying it out loud once and see how utterly different the word sounds.
We are all very, very tired of cold and snow. At least it's warmer (relatively) than it has been: the current temperature is -7ºC, and that is just heaps better than -25ºC!
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