Baby, It's Cold Outside!!!
Happy New Year!!!
Just dropping by to wish all our lovely friends and relations all the joys of the season . . . and trusting your wallets are not too diminished, or your waistbands too expanded, by the excesses of last week!
I did try to send some Christmas cheer before the big event, but the computer refused to let even a thought leave the warmth of our house, lest it freeze to death in the minus 35 (plus wind-chill) temperatures and waist deep snow drifts. Cold does not even begin to cover it. As we speak Bert is sporting his trapper hat and thermals in a valiant attempt to clear the drive (yet again) - adding to the 3ft piles we already have at the sides - before the next dump of snow, which is on its way.
Driving has become an extreme sport . . . 400 accidents in one day in Calgary before Christmas, almost added to by me when my brakes froze on a downhill approach to a red light!! Scary, scary stuff.
Dylan is loving the white stuff . . .frozen paws aside . . .
On a more positive note the sky is blue, the kids are out skating on the lake (fantastic view of them from the house), the mountains are stunning and life in a snow-globe is very, very pretty!!
We'll be raising a glass to you all tonight, and hoping that the New Year will bring you peace, health and happiness . . . lots of laughter, and small credit card bills :)
All our love and every warm wish from the land of ice and snow.
Nicki, Bert and the tribe xxxxxx
