polar blast
got up, opened the curtains, nothing. bit grey, but no winter wonderland. decided to get going and see what happened. minutes later, here we go! snow started swirling around... i opted not to leave the house in order not to risk being stuck in town with the car. so the rest of the day i took my day off as planned and did anything but work. it was lovely, really. knitted most of the body of my bolero (except seaming and sleeves) and made food and watched the weather outside.
it was pretty surreal. throughout the day it changed a lot. one minute the sky was blue and sun was shining, the next it was all white out and you couldn't see the top of the hills. hail changed to rain changed to snow changed to sleet. the wind howled and shook everything. i even heard thunder twice (didn't know snow showers came with thunder!) and that was pretty alarming.
thank God I had stacked the wood under the front porch so I have a huge supply of dry wood (some with a light dusting of snow) for the next few days. thank God the porch faces north and west, not south and west. i hadn't realised before today how well designed the back garden is in having thick vegetation along the south border. you could really tell the snow was coming from the south and the south side of everything was caked in snow. had a random though: snow is like dandruff, it floats and sticks to everything!
today L did not make it home but he is safe in a hotel near the airport. tomorrow they try again. i had prayed hard for him to return tonight but in these conditions hazardous is an understatement. i therefore put everything in God's able hands and i'm not going to worry about it. he'll return safely when God decides it's a good time, so that's good. he and his party are tired but safe, which is good.
the forecast is the same for another 2 days ("bitter southerly gales" - whee!) but i think in daylight it will be better. today the dunedin airport was landing planes albeit a bit delayed, all the way until dark.
my friends were predictably stuck where they were and couldn't get into dunedin, oh well. i couldn't have made it down the hill anyway.
winter, oh winter, are you done yet? (i pity the poor round 2 buds and blossoms!)
it was pretty surreal. throughout the day it changed a lot. one minute the sky was blue and sun was shining, the next it was all white out and you couldn't see the top of the hills. hail changed to rain changed to snow changed to sleet. the wind howled and shook everything. i even heard thunder twice (didn't know snow showers came with thunder!) and that was pretty alarming.
thank God I had stacked the wood under the front porch so I have a huge supply of dry wood (some with a light dusting of snow) for the next few days. thank God the porch faces north and west, not south and west. i hadn't realised before today how well designed the back garden is in having thick vegetation along the south border. you could really tell the snow was coming from the south and the south side of everything was caked in snow. had a random though: snow is like dandruff, it floats and sticks to everything!
today L did not make it home but he is safe in a hotel near the airport. tomorrow they try again. i had prayed hard for him to return tonight but in these conditions hazardous is an understatement. i therefore put everything in God's able hands and i'm not going to worry about it. he'll return safely when God decides it's a good time, so that's good. he and his party are tired but safe, which is good.
the forecast is the same for another 2 days ("bitter southerly gales" - whee!) but i think in daylight it will be better. today the dunedin airport was landing planes albeit a bit delayed, all the way until dark.
my friends were predictably stuck where they were and couldn't get into dunedin, oh well. i couldn't have made it down the hill anyway.
winter, oh winter, are you done yet? (i pity the poor round 2 buds and blossoms!)