Well Winter has returned in the Great White North.
Drove sixty mile up to Brainerd yesterday in a snow storm, the kind where visibility is limited to a quarter mile or less at times.
Saw one car in the ditch after the wire/posts stopped it from going into the other lane on the way up and another upside down in the ditch on the way home at night.
From Rice, Mn, South on the way home the road was icy.
By the time we hit the suburbs of St. Cloud, the inner lane was mostly covered with iced snow.
I still scooted along at a goodly pace as traffic was low both ways most of the time.
We went to Sharon's Niece's place for a Valentines steak dinner.
Got off to a bit late start, as the cable telephone/internet went bad and hooking up the new modem became pain in the arse as the office still had the old one listed as being used so I could not log in.
At that the system is being changed so they changed out-door box guts because they were told to.
First guy arrived at One Thirty P.M. and , now three, guys were still dickering around when we left at Four TwentyFive P.M . in a snow storm.
All things considered it was still a enjoyable Valentines Day.
I went home and back Sat.-Sunday and stopped at the Red Rooster Grocery store in Dassels , Mn; one of the VERY rare old school, very small town super markets, at least by 1960 store size standards, that is still around.
Found a dozen very nice, in perfect bloom stage, Red Roses for 19 dollars.
Still looking very nice, even after when we went down-town Monday and came back to find one of the boys, probably named Sammy, insisted on try to drink water out of the vase and knocked them on the floor.
Fortunately they were on a coffee table and I had put them in one of Ma's old school heavy glass vases.
It has been a very good week , and now I will go outside and shovel snow for only the third time all winter.
Happy Flag Day of Canada
