Two months ago we booked our travel from Toronto to Ottawa for Christmas. At the time it seemed that it was less expensive and would actually take less time to go by rail to Ottawa than fly – with all the security and timelines required for air travel. Little did we know on the day…
Tag: winter
It will get cold next week
Listening to the radio on our way to church this morning and they were talking about how the pine beetle infestation was being dealt with by Alberta’s cold weather… 97% of bugs are killed by the cold. Now mind you we’re driving in minus 20 with snow falling and the roads covered in ice and…
And so it snows
The change in our weather was sudden and dramatic. I cut the last of the Gerber daisies off the plant the night before it turned cold and started snowing. And then it snowed for four days. Who would have expected such a dramatic turn? And yet it is November and it is Alberta. While this…
