Now We Return to Our Regularly Scheduled Winter...

It's been a very odd winter here so far - practically no snow in December or January, then torrential rains that caused flooding (a little bit of it in our basement - all good now. Thank you ServiceMaster!!) and generally spring like conditions.

Except for last Friday and Saturday when it fell to -37C with the windchill A real shock to the system. Power went out for four hours and it was so cold that our propane-powered backup generator didn't come on. Have you ever noticed that the power always goes out at night? For us it was about four hours in the dark (literally) and in that time the temperature in the house dropped to about 14.5C.  Given what was going on outside, that was quite impressive. 

Thank you to the power crews for getting the power back on.  House warmed up nicely and the outdoor temperatures are back to a range of 3C to -5 C here. And just to continue with our fun weather, tomorrow is 11C and raining.  Plants in the yard are having a hard time figuring out what to do. Keep this up and we'll have a bumper crop of kale (the horror!!the horror!!). Or maybe it's time to plant those orange trees...

But there is no climate change. Hmmm...