The week that was...

I toddled off to work on Tuesday to be greeted by children, excited by the prospect of snow. You've got to love the conversations:

"My Dad said it's gonna snow." "No, MY Dad said it's gonna snow." "MY Dad, said it isn't gonna snow, they don't know what they're talking about." LOL.

I wonder if they realised just how widespread the snow was? With the first few bigger shakes they were suprised to find out that 'everyone' felt them - they thought they were only feeling them at their house. Of course their experiences of this has changed as they've felt them out shopping, at kindergarten and all sorts of other places, but their experiences of snow are quite limited. Some of them won't remember the snow last year...

Anyway I headed to work Wednesday morning as it was snowing, only to get there and then get the text from head office to say we were closed for the day. I happily found things to do (work on my work laptop for a start), and take the dogs for a run before too much snow set in. Lyall got sent home from work about eleven and headed into Donna's house to do some sanding. A few hours later we lost power. Apart from the obvious stuff we use power for our water pump and our waste system. Not too much of a biggie as we can bucket water out of a water tank. However Lyall had been sanding. He came in to see if we'd tripped a switch, only to find out the power cut was a little wider than that. He then had to try and clean himself off, of gib dust...with a little bowl of water...in the cold...LOL.

We threw on the gas camp cooker and whipped up some canned food for dinner and then spent a couple of hours playing games by torch light before hitting the sack at the ripe old hour of seven thirty. Covered in extra blankets, with the dogs covered in extra blankets too. Of course if you are going to lose power, it's a really good idea to do it on the coldest night on record. If your going to do something, do it properly LOL! (We got power on at around one thirty the next day - it was minus six point seven when we got out of bed Brrrrrr!)

While snow may be wet, cold and a pain in the proverbial, (especially when you have stock that have to be fed, so you have to go out in it), it is also something of such amazing beauty. Often we would just stand and stare in wonder at the sight of it falling and watching the changing landscape.



These two love it...



As the snow fell...(Wednesday)



The next day (Thursday)

And an action shot!



This was my layout for last weeks entry in the SP stars challenge.



I have really struggled to do something for this weeks challenge, however it's done and dusted and I've sent it in...

Have a great week people!