“Ham and Eggs…a day’s work for a chicken,
a lifetime committment for a pig”


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“Ham and Eggs…a day’s work for a chicken,
a lifetime committment for a pig”


Here’s a picture of the back of our woodshed. The way the snow curls down like that looks so cool.
We were astounded our first winter here – our house has quite a steep roof, necessary up here in order to shed the snow. But we hadn’t heard anything quite like it before! Scared the wits out of me the first time it happened, it sounded like an airplane engine. Even now, although I am used to it, it still startles me.
And if we look out the window in time, we can see huge sheets of snow falling to the ground. It scares da Wolf too and he has learned to not lay around close to the house.

One day, after enough warm weather, the roof above the living room finally let go. Da Wolf was in the house with me, and all of a sudden he looked at me. A couple seconds later, I heard the rumbling.
It is really really loud, and da Wolf doesn’t like it, it makes him run to Mama.
I brought him out on the porch to show him the chunks of ice and snow. I was smiling saying “It’s OK bud, it’s all good!”
Until, I looked over the side of the porch and realized the whole stem and transponder for my internet satellite was sticking out of the snow.
Check this out. The snow and ice coming off the roof had so much force behind it that it neatly severed the arm clean across! A good reason to stay away from buildings that have snow on their roof. I would hate to think what could have happened if a person or da Wolf had been standing too close to the house.
You can hear the snow getting ready to slide off, IF you are inside the house. If you’re outside however, you won’t hear it starting to let go. So remember, if you have a lot of snow on your roof, don’t walk too close to the house on those warm sunny Winter afternoons!
We are very slowly starting to feel better. Yesterday Graham was feeling well enough to get on the tractor and clear the driveway of snow. We had another 6 inches or so of fresh snow fall yesterday. We’re still just laying low and trying to feel better – whatever type of cold this is, it is taking a long time to get rid of.
I can’t do a Wordless Wednesday today. Not unless I put up pictures of overflowing wastebaskets full of Kleenex! And who wants to see that? Not me, and I would think you wouldn’t want to either.
We’ve both been sick for over a week now. The odd time I have thought, “I have to put up a blog post” but that thought gets quickly replaced with “Oh, my farkin head”.
So, bear with us ok? We’ll be back to normal soon, I sure hope. We’ve had to postpone a trip to the Coast – we wanted to get down there to see family and friends. My oldest son is going to school on Vancouver Island for a while and we wanted to see him and spend some time together.
Maybe next week.
In the meantime, we’ll lay low and spend the day in our jammies.
"I have contemplated a well-hoed ridge of potatoes on that bush farm with as much delight as in years long past I had experienced in examining a fine painting."
Susanna Moodie, Roughing It in the Bush, 1852
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