Snow Day

Woke up to about 6 inches of snow on the ground, with blowing snow coming down, not that we were surprised that is what the weatherman said would happen. We just hoped the prediction would be wrong!!! The dogs love the snow, romping, jumping and eating it as we took them on their morning walk. We were not as enthusiastic as the dogs, with temps below the freezing point and a brisk wind from the west, the walk was shorter than usual. We do enjoy watching the dogs play, but we were not dressed for a dawdling, playful, investigative walk, the snow was wet and stuck to the dogs so they were covered with little snowballs when we got back inside. We towelled them off as best we could which of course they don’t appreciate and I got a Sham Wow to put on my lap, covered it with a large towel, knowing the first thing they want to do is sit on my lap and the snowballs would melt! Oh yeah, I got wet anyway, and it took about 4 hours for the dogs to totally dry off, ah just in time for another outing, you just have to love their excitement over playing in the snow! We dug out warmer jackets and gloves for our walk this time, have not had to wear them since leaving Alberta last fall! Peter, the owner of the park came (just after lunch) to inform us that he would have to turn the water off for a couple of days as the predicted lows were to be in the 20’s F (-7c) and the water pipes in the park would freeze, so Woody had the pleasant job of filling our water tank, we always carry some water but not enough for 2 or more days, at least the fill valve is on the lee side of the fifth, but he came in looking like a snowman, the wet snow sticking to his clothes and beard! I am just happy he does these chores without grumbling, to him it just one of the things that goes along with the RV lifestyle. We spent time working on our projects, Woody working with leather, me working on the computer trying to figure out why it refuses to perform back ups and has lost all the restore points, I ended up after doing all the checks and running all the clean up tools getting out the recovery discs, finally got the back ups working again. In the meantime, Woody needed more leather so I checked the Yellow Pages online and found a leather shop, such luck; Sheridan has a leather shop that sells leather supplies. After cleaning the snow off the truck with a broom, we don’t carry a snow brush anymore, off he went, returning a while later with a nice chunk of leather and another pattern to practice, that will keep busy for awhile. He also picked up some groceries and a black tank valve; he is going to install a second valve as every time he connects or disconnects the sewer hose it runs a little sewer onto the ground that is nasty! Hopeful the weather is a little better tomorrow!