A fight between spring and Winter

This week, there has been an obvious fight between spring and winter. We have seen alot of snow and even more rain in the last seven days...here is a short view of the week in weather.

We started out this week with getting a bunch of snow last Sunday. I woke up and was surprised to find it snowing like crazy. We were looking forward to church because it was a commissioning service for some or our youth that were going to the Dominican Republic for a week on a mission trip. When Wil got up we looked at how deep the snow was and the fact that the plows hadn't been out and the fact that it had changed to freezing rain and decided we had better not go. Not 5 minutes later we got a call from the church saying the service had been cancelled. So we decided on having a pajama day. But mid way through Wil and I went out to clear some snow. It was very heavy with rain and Wil fought with the snow blower while I shoveled. The nice thing was that it was fairly warm. Thursday, we woke up to more snow and the buses were cancelled due to icy conditions so the girls stayed home from school. By the time I left for work it was switching to rain but we had enough snow that I was preparing to use the snow blower for the first time when I got home but by the time I got home to do it...the snow was so soaked with rain that I knew the snow blower wouldn't move it so I just worked on shoveling.

During my shoveling I saw this little black thing on the snow and went to investigate and found a woolly worm trying to wiggle its way across the snow.

We have a steel roof so the snow tends to build and then slide off all at once. So by the time I got home from work...the snow had slid off the roof and I had 2-3 foot drifts of snow all around the house and oh, my gosh, it was heavy snow. But I got an area for the dogs cleared and both porches and a path for the girls to walk to the bus and I was done. It was still raining and it was really warm. I was out with no coat and was just fine. I think that is the first time that I shoveled snow in the rain. Then it just continued to rain through Thursday and most of Friday.  Again, very warm which is super refreshing.  It is nice not to be shivering and to go out without a coat is awesome!  How do I know it was an enormous about of rain?  Ummmm, well we have a new lake near our backyard, well some of it is in our backyard. 

Now who won?  Spring or winter?  Well as of right now...winter because it is snowing again.  But it is good to see the war begin and I look forward to Spring conquering winter soon.

In preparation for spring, I went to a Victorian Basket class at our local garden center.  I had heard about this class when I went to the holiday urn class and couldn't wait to check it out.  Basically, we went and got a full class on how to build and take care of hanging baskets and just great plant advice.  Then you build your own basket.  Then you leave it at the greenhouse for the next several months while they babysit, tend, and care for it.  Around the end of April I will go back and pick up my baskets and they will be lush, beautiful, blooming baskets.  How fun is that.  We can visit our baskets to watch how they grow so I am going to try to take pics occasionally to show how they develop and what the final product is.  It was fun and I learned so much.

Well, we survived the first week at work with the new computer system.  Dr. Turner and Joan (the other nurse that works the other days) asked if I would come in and work on Monday to assist with the first day.  Luckily the office next to us were in training on Monday and Tuesday so we took over their computer and I say and entered in all of our appointments and did computer trouble shooting all day.  Luckily we had booked light in anticipation of the chaos and I am so thankful we did because we had all sorts of issues.  Printers not set up correctly, passwords not working, settings not right.  But over all it wasn't as bad as it could have been and it didn't take long for everyone to realize that if they had a question to come as me because if I didn't know..I could figure it out or troubleshoot it.  Then I turned into tech support for the rest of the week.  I could go into detail but it was such a tiring week that I don't want to relive it.  I am glad it is behind us and we can go on.  The system is a nice system and is very user friendly and the possibilities of the program are huge.  I had alot of fun playing around and seeing what it could do.  I worked all 4 days..and with working 4 days last week, I was so far behind.  So Friday was all about catching up and paperwork.

Wil was gone all week.  He had a trip to BC scheduled for his current job.  He left Monday morning early and had 4 days of meetings and was pretty tired by Thursday evening but on Friday morning he went to the ship that he is going to be sailing on and talked to some people about his upcoming posting.  The rumours he is hearing right now is that he will either be going to Libya or Japan.  That was before the earthquake so alot can change in the next month.  We will keep you posted.  He got in around 2:30 am Saturday morning so he is a bit jet lagged and tired.  The next 41 days will go by very quickly as we try to get everything in order before he leaves.

This next week will go by quickly.  The girls are on March break so we will see what fun we can get into.  I think we will head into New York on Friday for a bit of US shopping.  We'll see what else we can come up with to occupy their time.  I work on Tuesday and Wednesday as usual. 

That's all for now!  Until next time, I leave you with a funny bumper sticker.  OK, well it is funny to me!  Thanks Jean!