Being that we live in Saskatchewan, Friday’s forecast of snow over the weekend didn’t surprise anyone.
So last night, when The Boy asked if we could drive him to Lumsden to meet a friend (who lives on a farm about 15km on the other side of Lumsden), we said “sure”. The 11km drive to Lumsden was uneventful. The highway was snowpacked, but we drove slow, and got home safely.
The wind started howling somewhere around 9pm, which is about the same time as the snow started travelling in a predominantly horizontal position. It blew like the Big Bad Wolf all night, and we woke up this morning to a white out. It’s now 5pm, and the wind and snow show no signs of letting up. This is problematic for several reasons:
1. Our driveway has a 6 foot drift directly behind the garage doors. Although we’ve discussed buying a snow blower in the past, we just never got around to it. And that 6 foot drift? Is just the concrete pad of our driveway. I’m not even going into the condition of the other ONE HUNDRED METERS of driveway that would get us to the arterial road.
2. New neighbors of ours, a sweet, young, newly married couple, who moved a 100 year old house out of a disappearing Saskatchewan town (thus saving it from being abandoned) to our street, tried to climb the hill we live on in their HUGE TRUCK and got stuck in a 4 foot drift. Our Volkswagen’s don’t stand a chance. The SYNMC came over this afternoon, and we lent them pants while theirs flopped around in our dryer for an hour. They might be sleeping over tonight. Yay! A real life sleepover!
3. Our other neighbor, a very generous and all around good guy to have around, has a Bobcat, and offered to help them dig out. (in addition to having a Bobcat, this neighbor also has a glass eye. Which I once held in the palm of my hand. But that’s a story for another time). The snow is so deep and heavy that the bobcat got stuck and Mr. Glass Eye walked home. So just to review, we now have one HUGE TRUCK and one BOBCAT stuck in snow drifts on the one and only road that links us to civilization.
4. Our Closest Neighbors and Best Friends, are stuck in their house with their nineteen month old grand daughter whom they agreed to babysit last night, and are shockingly low in the diaper supply area. Potty training may begin earlier than planned…
5. The Boy, who we’ve now agreed will spend the night at his friend’s house on a school night, is VERY CONCERNED about not being able to get to school tomorrow. Because tomorrow, he is scheduled to write his first ever final exam.
6. J. has strep throat, and has not improved since Friday. I wish we had gone to a walk in clinic yesterday, but J. refuses to see anyone other than Dr. K., whom J. admires for his gruff truthiness.
7. It’s Cadbury Easter Cream Egg season and if there’s one time of year I love, it’s when there’s CECE’s at the gas station. I ran out of CECEs yesterday. Pooh.
8. My work needs me. And I need it. I called my bosses this afternoon at home, (oddly, it didn't feel that weird calling my bosses at home...) and lucky me, that they're so cool with life circumstances. Looks as though I will be working from home tomorrow, as will J.
Spring cannot come soon enough.
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