I really do hope this snow dump will begin melting soon.  Of course, to do that it would have to stop snowing!  We’ve a good foot (or more) of snow on the ground and Drew was out shoveling yesterday.  You’d never know he bothered as the patch of snow that’s drifted down or blown in has replaced most of the work he’d done.

When we moved to Edm in 2003, it was snowing.  It continued to snow at least once a month right up until the first week  of July.  I remember being completely shocked until Drew reminded me that we’d moved both west and north.  About 600 kms north of where we’d lived previously.

There are some wonderful things about living in a northerly city – considering the many  territories and cities above us, I categorize Edm as northerly instead of northern – but the continuous winter is not one of them.  Spring tends to arrive very suddenly, trees budding one morning and full leaves arriving short days after.  The evil humoured ones among us would already argue it’s been and gone seeing as it was hovering between +15 and +20C a few short days ago.  The crocuses have been and gone and my tulips were – before the snow dump – coming along nicely.

To deal with the evil’s of snow I’ve decided to call a snow day and not drive to work today.  Granted, I’m just taking an extra vacation day so I can study for my exams later this week.  It seemed a good idea at the time.

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