The Latest From the Not-So-Great White North

It's been quite a winter already up here in the North Country.
This was a month ago.

And now we are on storm number, oh I don't know, 568? And it's only December?

I see a loooong winter ahead.

Here's a shot of what came through here yesterday:

There's a road under that snow.

It took the snowplow driver 5 tries to ram his way through that drift.

Needless to say, we were snowed in. The snow plows were pulled off the highways Saturday because of the 30-40mph winds and blowing snow.

Here's my hubby using our way-to-often-used snow blower to clear off the driveway.

Have I mentioned that I have never (kinda on purpose) never learned how to use this? Yes. I am smart.

Yesterday we hunkered down in the house. Hubby worked on building some shelves for his shop and I took a nice warm bath and did some baking.


I made Swiss Cheese Mustard Bread (the rectangle loaves) and Italian Bread. Yum. Yum. Yum. I wish I would have thought about more baking when I was at the grocery store on Friday and I would have bought more ingredients.

Before the storm came at its strongest, we went to a concert Friday night. We bought season tickets for the Opera House (just a big old theater) in town. We were highly skeptical of Friday's performance because it was a Country Music performer. The hubby and I? NOT fans of country. We promised each other that if our ears were hurting by intermission, we'd leave.

Well, we actually, sort-of, kind-of liked it. Despite the fact that we only sorta recognized one song in the whole first half of the concert. The second half was Christmas music.

Hoping I get out and about tomorrow, but with a low of -15 tonight and a high of 7 tomorrow, maybe staying inside in the warmth sounds better....