Well, the night was blowing and cold and filled with lots of snow. Tyler and Scott both moved our vehicles out to the road allowance last night so we would have a hope of getting anywhere this morning. We woke up at 8:30 and decided it was time to determine whether anyone was going anywhere. Tyler made a call to his Dad to learn that he had been out - left at about 6:30 and then got stuck on Highway 567 since it hadn't been plowed, and finally made it back home around 8am. All Rockyview Schools are closed today so Lucy doesn't have school - but she wasn't going to go anyway because of her vaccination appointment. The trouble was, things out here look like something akin to "The Day After Tomorrow" but as soon as you hit the city, the snow is melting on the roads and everything is fine...so calling in for a snow day sounds kind of lame. Well, we decided to cancel the vaccinations today - even if that means weeks before we can get them back in again - because Tyler and I did not want to have to carry three children out through the snow to make it to our van that was park outside the property. Tyler still ventured in as he had a performance review this morning and had to teach at 11. Here are a few shots of our yard from the comfort of our home.
There were few places I could actually take a picture from because most of our windows are covered with ice. The black dot in the distance is Tyler, literally crawling through snow drifts to get to our van, using two shovels as walking sticks to help him along his way.
He said that Cochrane was beautiful and sunny, but once you got to the top of the Cochrane hill, there was only one lane of traffic being directed by the police because so many vehicles had gotten stuck. To top it off, we don't have hot water - again. This time, our pipes are fine, but because we have such hard water, it builds up on the elements in our hot water tank and eventually need to be replaced because they just don't work anymore. So now I'm in the process of boiling water on the stove to put in the tub so I can get cleaned up a bit. This is like "Little House on the Frozen Prairie!"
Well, the night was blowing and cold and filled with lots of snow. Tyler and Scott both moved our vehicles out to the road allowance last night so we would have a hope of getting anywhere this morning. We woke up at 8:30 and decided it was time to determine whether anyone was going anywhere. Tyler made a call to his Dad to learn that he had been out - left at about 6:30 and then got stuck on Highway 567 since it hadn't been plowed, and finally made it back home around 8am. All Rockyview Schools are closed today so Lucy doesn't have school - but she wasn't going to go anyway because of her vaccination appointment. The trouble was, things out here look like something akin to "The Day After Tomorrow" but as soon as you hit the city, the snow is melting on the roads and everything is fine...so calling in for a snow day sounds kind of lame. Well, we decided to cancel the vaccinations today - even if that means weeks before we can get them back in again - because Tyler and I did not want to have to carry three children out through the snow to make it to our van that was park outside the property. Tyler still ventured in as he had a performance review this morning and had to teach at 11. Here are a few shots of our yard from the comfort of our home. 
There were few places I could actually take a picture from because most of our windows are covered with ice. The black dot in the distance is Tyler, literally crawling through snow drifts to get to our van, using two shovels as walking sticks to help him along his way. 
He said that Cochrane was beautiful and sunny, but once you got to the top of the Cochrane hill, there was only one lane of traffic being directed by the police because so many vehicles had gotten stuck. To top it off, we don't have hot water - again. This time, our pipes are fine, but because we have such hard water, it builds up on the elements in our hot water tank and eventually need to be replaced because they just don't work anymore. So now I'm in the process of boiling water on the stove to put in the tub so I can get cleaned up a bit. This is like "Little House on the Frozen Prairie!"
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Wow! Almost makes me want to move up there.
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