Record Cold Snap

Jack: it will probably just be a pussy willow wind before it hits N.B. :)

340duster: Yup, it sure was a cold ***** of a morning. Good old Alberta spring time.

Brad: If you see him down there, slap him up side of the noggin' for me.

Wheels: This $hit is probably headed straight for Winterpeg. Duck!! :)

Mike: I have something that will freeze the buds off those trees before you can say lickety-split. :) Gore is probably in the Dominican or Trinidad looking for more global warming. You can slap him up side of the head for me too Mike.

I had to get the neighbour to come over yesterday morning with his big 4 wheel drive tractor to plow the snow out of my driveway. We've had about 19" of snow in the past week, and from Friday morning until about 9:00PM Sunday night, there was a 50 to 60 MPH Norwester blowing that snow right across all 250 yards of my driveway. I managed to get out with the Jeep on Sunday about 2:00 in the afternoon, after hi-centering and digging her out three times. I made 3 trips back and forth the drive to get a good set of tracks to follow, and everything looked pretty good. I got back from town an hour and a half later and you couldn't even see the tracks I'd made. The old Jeep made it about 60 yards before I beached her on top of that snow like an old whale. Snow was so deep I couldn't get the door open. :) Dukes of Hazard out the window went my fat old ***. Shoveled and dug for half an hour, but to no avail. All four tires were up off the ground and I couldn't dig her back down. By daylight yesterday morning she was just one big snow drift from the windshield down. Didn't think she'd start at -30C, but she fired right up. I had to dig out 2' of snow to get down to the trailer hitch so we could pull the old girl out with the tractor. Even then the neighbour had to hit the tow rope hard twice before she came off the snow. I love global warming. :) :)

O.K. enough bitchin'. Calander says spring will be here in 2 weeks. I can wait that long I guess. :)