Down time

Home again. A pleasant day, but tiring. I fully understand menopause now. While it may be uncomfortable, thank Goodness, it means that women our age don't have small children. They are a miracle in small doses, but it sure was good to get home and open the wine. We had a short time to play Farming Game and introduced Loren's kids to it. I think they enjoyed it and will probably play it again. Poor Amber was trying to function on about 3 hours sleep, which meant that I ended up doing a lot more than I had expected. Actually it was more organizational stuff, and tidying up, but I was tired last night. I took pictures and, of course, left the camera with Amber. She got a very nice camera as a gift, so we can maybe look forward to even more pictures.

The drive both ways was stressful. Very windy and blowing snow going out, to say nothing of how slippery the roads were. While we were there--it rained--and then continued to snow. The cars were covered in layer of ice, which David slowly chipped off while standing in cold, nasty wind. Driving home, in places, the roads were almost drifted over. No passing, although that didn't stop people from trying. When we got to the yard, the driveway was drifted over, but not so much so that David wasn't able to force his way through--bottoming out all the way. He'll be out with the snowblower this morning. On Thursday, we discovered that the snowblower was very low on gas, and desperately needed an oil change. Thank Goodness he took care of that, or we would be in big trouble today.

We're planning on heading over to Gail's for a "Open House" at noon today--if we can get the driveway cleared. I think I'm more worried about the driveway and street at that end. At least we are just off a main road, and as an ambulance route, it gets cleared very quickly. As well, we have a city councellor living on the block. We've sure lucked out that way over the years. When we were on McMeans we had some sort of big wig on the block and our street and lane were cleared before anyone else. And then on Woodside we had a fellow with a loader who contracted with the city, and would clear the street on his way out to work.

Anyway, I hope everyone had a great Christmas. I think we'll be sticking pretty close to home over the next few days. Dianne had invited me out to spend tomorrow with her in Steinbach, but I will probably put that off until next week, when the roads have been cleared.