It's new year, and time for some new beginnings. I'm kind of excited to start a blog, and keep an online journal of life. I love reading books and blogs, and hearing stories of people's lives, all around the world. It amazes me how our individual circumstances can be so different, and yet our life experiences can be so similar. So here is my story added to the mix.
Shall we start with a weather report? This morning is -6, but it will be dropping through the day to around -17. We have not seen -17 since about mid-November, making this a rather unusual winter. In fact yesterday's school buses were cancelled due to freezing rain, with the temperature hitting +4 in the afternoon. All of December, and January up until today, remained very close to melting temperatures. To compare to other years: last year we had so much snow there were several days I could not get the van down the driveway. The city had huge snow piles all over the place from clearing streets. Two years ago, it dropped down to -40 at Christmas, and stayed there for the entire Christmas break.
The mild temperatures have made for a much more enjoyable/bearable winter, but it does come with risks unusual for this time of year. The warm temperatures have meant a lack of snow cover, and they have also come with high winds. This means very dry conditions and fires in January. And unless we get a lot of snow in the coming weeks, there will be great many fires come spring time.
The kids spent most of Sunday afternoon outside enjoying the beautiful weather. Their plan was to make a snowman, so they took 5 gallons pails all around the yard to gather enough snow together in one place to make their snowman. It wasn't very big, but they got one made!
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