I am noticing a pattern here!  When we went to help Hubby's Sis move we got a massive snow storm.  Well here it is and it is Son's day to move!  We are off to aid and it has snowed and is still snowing!  Last week it was a nasty storm, ice and winds and the ground was a mess with heavy, wet, frozen snow.   This snow is so beautiful!  It is light and fluffy and you can see the large snow flakes.  The snow is about half a foot deep and the top layer is crystal flakes!  They are reflecting the light and adding light down through the fluffy layers, so lovely!  I do love my snow.

My daughter is still living out in one of our coldest places in Canada and she, like her brothers and sisters,  rarely complain about any thing. But she wrote on fb about not liking the minus 49 they have had, she'd like to keep her fingers!   Poor Girl!  I can't even imagine that!   We have had up to minus 30 but add 20 more points down from that?? Poor, poor Girl!

Well son is not moving in, but rather preparing the place.  It needs a lot!  The hardwood floors need to be sanded, the ceilings and walls prepped for painting, the many, many appliances need to be removed to outside.  He has apparently started on ripping out the kitchen, fun.   I do so wish people could space these moves a wee bit more!

I am so excited though!  They are moving back to our town!  And for them it will mean no more two hour commuting.  They each traveled in different directions to get to their work, so the very first time in 7 years of marriage they will not have far to go.  Really!  Have they really been married 7 years! Good grief! How time flies!   They have faced so much as a young couple. Jake's temporary  lack of health was a long, hard 5 years.  So off I go to aid and abet!  Heeheee, the mind is so willing, come on body!  Got to shovel all these driveways first as Hubby is not up to par so I gotta beat him to it!  Best vibes and wishes!

Well, I have stopped wandering by my stove giving it suspicious glances.  I kept my eye on it the first week in our home.  I am not actually sure what I expected it to do but I more felt like it was an unwelcome guest.  Now it is family I guess! LOL!!!  I discovered in writing to our dear Pauline that I am weird.  Well weirder than I thought I was !  Terrible thing to find out about ones self !!!!

I think I felt a loyalty to my stove, the one that blew. I really did feel we should repair it but common sense said nope.   Even though the dead piece was about 20 dollars, you had to by the whole control making the repair  350 for a generic board and 500 for the actual piece that would be right.   I knew that oven and burners!  It was one of the very few things we have bought new.

I was very nervous about driving into Toronto to pick up the stove I had bartered down a wee bit with unknown people.  It seemed odd to buy what they no longer wanted and hand over several hundred  for it. What if it needed repair?  Why were they getting rid of it?  I knew if it worked well it was an upper model and should fulfill our needs.

As soon as the people were meet,  I had no worries.  The chit chat was done, the money handed over and the stove loaded.   We had meet a lovely couple who were in the midst of truly renovating.  We carted the stove home and in...the in was not easy.   I use to be able to lift and have some power but stomach muscles cut and re-cut and they do not work as well at all !  With the stove finally in place I cleaned it all, had to be spotless!  Then the big moment came when we turned on all the burners and tried it all out.

She actually has a few features mine did not that we use like crazy!  She can stay.  She has passed the tests and she seems loyal ! LOL!!!!

Ah come on!!!!!  I am old.  By any standard I am old.  My body knows I am but my head refuses to agree.  Darn head, no you are old and it needs to be accepted.  But head rages and says nope, nope, NO WAY!  Ah darn.  I have had so much happen to me that caused my body to age faster.   No fault of it's own but many were just unfortunate things that happened.   But brain rages on so in one day I toted many, many moving boxes.  Hubby's Sister is moving. Hubby's sister wanted her bedroom painted before the large furniture went in.  So I painted half a huge room.  I went to the old house and packed every box I could lay my hands on.  I did over 30 boxes. This meant endless climbs to cupboard tops!   I cleared, with Hubby, our drive and our neighbours of a foot of very heavy snow.  I did my sil's drive with her but she is unable to do much, so that was tough as it was so cold and I had no gloves or warm coat.  I usually don't like warm coats but the wind was howling and it was minus 14 and I had a fleece only.

Winter has come.  I find having the fire going such a creature comfort.  I love the smell and knowing that we harvested the wood from down fall.  A fire is such a primitive thing.  When you think of it, I wonder what those first fires were like?  Did the natives here in Canada bring the art of fire with them in far travels?  Was the power of fire captured from a lightning strike here in the north?  All cultures seemed to have found and also develop their own use of this powerful  tool. I think there must have been such comfort in the family gathering about a fire and I can see our native peoples, they would have had furs drawn about them.  The babes and children would have been in the teepees under layers of furs, fast asleep. The adults would be taking in the last heat before joining the young ones in the teepee for a nights sleep.  I know the stars would have been extra clear and bright in the night sky.   I wonder if they were well fed?  Where they satisfied with the days hunt?  Was the camp set for several weeks or were they on the move fallowing the south migrating herds?  I can not believe how tough it must have been for our first peoples.  Last night it was minus 25 and we had fire, furnace and all the food we could want ready to cook at a push of a button. 

Ah, here it tis Friday!  And Friday the 13 th !  And we have our very first snow blizzard!  Ya and also poo !  I am so glad to see the snow but this is day two in moving Hubby's sister..... arrrgggg and the roads are a mess.

But we will venture out in a bit and move and carry and pack.  Yesterday went well with the house closing and getting in the new appliances.  Wow!!!!  That was exciting, seeing these new, with ever imaginable option,  appliances!  I did not know they came like these ones!  Wooooo, crazy!

The house is stunning, dark hardwood, granite, just a bright and beautiful new home.  I hope they will be happy for a long, long time there.  Today I will help Hubby as he has been called on to install new feeds to the panel, plumb for the crazy new frig and dishwasher and install a new garberator, he will be busy !  Most of the electrical work will be over head which is tough on Hubby.  So we are collecting up drills and volt meters and all the stuff you need to do all these trade jobs.  Oooppp and stud finder for hanging new cabinets for them, have to remember that!  I found out that in new homes you no longer get toilet paper holders or towel racks.   Seems they are deemed personal taste items,  OK !  Well explain how you do not get plugs for your tub?  There are two tubs and no plugs, too personal I think LOL!!!!I

I am amazed at what goes by the way side in this upscale home.  The entry closets are small, the kitchen cupboards soar to the extra high ceilings but how do you reach? And they avoided extra outlets any where!  There is an beautiful skylight 30 feet up it goes and I am thinking ...how do you dust it?  Way up there is a stunning window and here I am thinking if a spider takes to this warm sunny spot the web will really wreck the look and he will be totally safe that high up! LOL.