A lot has happened in the last week since I wrote.  We have had well over 2 feet of snow dumped on us!  We live in British Columbia where we seldom get snow, let alone TWO FEET of the nasty white stuff!!!    I thought I moved out here from Ontario to get AWAY from it!  Anyways, I have been out every single day to take my father for his "Tim Horton's" run as he doesn't drive in this stuff.  Now, aren't I a good daughter??  Yea, right!  I've seen it worse, but the roads were pretty bad.  People just don't know how to drive in this stuff here.  I'm so grateful that I had 7 years of experience driving back in Ontario winters.  It is invaluable to have had that.  Today is probably the best I've seen the roads since Sunday.  Thankfully, we only lost our power for about 2 hours on the Sunday afternoon.  We also have gas radiant stoves for heat, so even when the power goes out, at least we have heat.

The kids have sure enjoyed the snow.  That is one thing that is nice about snow - the kids enjoy it because it's such a novelty here.  There are years we have had NO snow, so they take advantage when we do get some to go sledding and building snowmen.  It's always a big treat for them to come in and have Mom make some hot chocolate after a couple of hours out in the snow!!  I just love to see those rosey red cheeks!!!

The snow is on its way out as the temperatures are rising and are now above freezing.  Now the melting begins.  There is an awful lot of snow to melt, and some people are already experiencing water issues.  Sheesh, first we had a HUGE wind storm one week, then the very next week get dumped on with snow!  Mother nature in all her fury. 

I, for one, will be very glad when the white returns to green.  After all, we don't get called the "wet coast" for nothing!   

The Canucks sure have NOT been playing very well.  If they don't start to perform soon, they won't even make the playoffs.  Of course, if they'd kept Alex Auld, I'm sure they wouldn't be in the pickle they are now.  They really should have asked me about it before they traded some of our key players!      Of course, I believe that their trouble started back a couple of years ago when they let Brian Burke go.  And then they let Crawford go in the spring.  Tsk, tsk, tsk.