Friday, December 27, 2013

976 - last warm day ending with ice storm

Day 976 seems I have an internal alarm clock waking at 8:30 again. Shaina was up bustling around the kitchen eating breakfast at 9 and off to work soon after. Grama and Papa joined us for coffee and banana bread breakfast before they packed up to leave just before 11. Britt was dropped off just after 11 from her sleep over toboggan night.

She ran to town at noon to do some tidying at the Paetz house as they have a showing tomorrow at 1 and are staying in Oyen till the 30th. Sheldon followed her in taking the Buick in to the shop to have the blower motor replaced. It seems this in an inherent issue that happened in others that had a water leak in the past. It was fixed in no time and he was back to chip ice and put out another bale.

I had put on turkey bones for soup and started the cleaning up after the festive week. They are forecasting a brutal freezing rain storm to roll in tonight with wind chills of -30 but hard to imagine when all night and day it sits at plus 4 hitting high of plus 6.
 a cute card the girls made me
trying a few shots with my new camera and 40 mm lens, above a beautiful jar from Kaylin and below poinsettia from Lamberts
 and one of my favorite ornaments
As Sheldon was coming in from outside he noticed water leaks in the garage roof!! WTH so after quite an ordeal trying to get a ladder set up in the house and then in the garage he climbed up to find a vent not quite working right.
 yikes! there are 2 of these bad boys
Sheldon, Britt and I enjoyed the delicious soup and just after I ladled it into containers Shaina arrived home just before 7 to enjoy a bowl too. She arrived just as the wind picked up and the temperatures dropped and soon a full fledged wind storm ensued. It raged through the night dropping to -16 by 8 I think. What a crazy freezing rain storm to say the least.

Luckily we all hunkered down and finished Despicable Me followed up by Despicable Me 2. It was then time to shower and get ready for bed while Sheldon packed up to head north for a few days.

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