We meet again. I didn't expect to see you quite so soon. Or so suddenly.

Could you not have waited at least until after Hallowe'en before dropping 10cm in the last day? I didn't appreciate having to shovel that much wet snow when I got home from work, which took me almost a freaking hour and involved me getting stuck on a slippery spot on a ( Read more... )

Champ has Scratches. All four legs.

Fuck this weather. Fuck it in the ear.

The TransCanada highway is washed out near Maple Creek, near the Saskatchewan-Alberta boarder. Heads up Teresa! You think there's a chance they'll have that fixed by next weekend? Unlikely, says I! You might be detouring through Drumheller!

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Yep, another snow report ( Read more... )

Moohaha! Deb takes the lead over Sarah by one degree!

Wait, why am I happy about this, again?

ETA: By Tuesday it's supposed to be 2c. I'm so confused. There be no chinook effect here. When Alberta gets one by the time it gets to Saskatchewan it's become a brutal storm affectionately known as an Alberta clipper. So where the hell is this ( Read more... )

Remember how I said the roads were literally sheer ice?

I was not even close to kidding. When I pulled into the street we live on today, the kids up the street were playing road hockey and had to move out of my was as I drove by. They were wearing skates. They were honest-to-god skating up and down the street ( Read more... )

This date last year: Wrote the car off

This date today: Wrote the car off.

Yep. Driving home from work we got hit. It's snowing, the roads are literally sheer ice. Like thick, zero-traction-you-can-barely-get-moving-at-the-lights slick ( Read more... )

One more reason to be glad I don't live in Edmonton - they hit a record low last night of -46c - NO windchill. Yikes. We had an uncomfortable -47c after windchill last night, but the air temperature never got below -33c ( Read more... )

...For now... >.>

Everyone in Canada jokes that Regina is the asshole of the country. All other factors aside, this is why I agree with them:


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Winter, she is here. There is a mere few inches of snow on the ground right now, but unlike my dear home in Alberta, these few inches will stay until at least March, and before then they will be joined by many more.

A little photo journey into Yuletide last year, and the joys of snow yet to come:


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